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Created by John Craig Freeman (a.k.a. JC Fremont in Second Life), a university professor from Emerson College in Massachusetts in 2006. The Imaging Place project was an extension of Freeman's real life artwork, which originally created as a user-navigated, interactive computer program that combines panoramic photography, digital video, and three-dimensional technologies in the form of installations at art museums, galleries, and other museums.
The Imaging Place in Second Life is an attempt to translate that work into a virtual world and is located at various sims throughout Second Life, on land donated by the owners. To experience the work, visitors walk on transparent pathways or bridges to access platforms hovering above. The platforms include satellite photographs of the place which the work is translating into virtual realy and is accompanied by an audio track with voices of people telling stories about the place being presented.
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