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Motorato Ware, Lynn’s lead virtuality architect in Second Life, has completed the curation of The Dante Hotel Regenerated, which re-documents the Life Squared project undertaken by Lynn in conjunction with the Stanford Humanities Lab. This new exhibit, located on Kriti Island in Second Life, has been created for Kritical Works in SL II at ISEA2009: The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which will take place from August 23-September 1, 2009 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Avatar at work: curating the Regenerated Dante

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An exhibition employee examines the interactive video installation America's Finest.

Now on display at Bilderschlachten (Image Battles) at Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrueck, Germany, America’s Finest (1993-5) utilizes an M-16 rifle and manipulated optics to question the identity of agressor and victim and the role played by images of war in the psyche of the observer.

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