Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
The “art gallery rush”
In some other posts (if you want to see them take a look at the Second Life® Art category of my blog) i talked and even joked about the growth of art galleries inworld.
This time this won’t be an “opinion post” just the show of some facts that i found really interesting. First you can see the graphic in this post (is not up-to-date, is based on information of Sep 2008).
The lastest updated information (Oct, 20th 2008) says they are registered 428 Art Galleries, 88 Photography Galleries and 37 Erotic Galleries, that means 553 total galleries inworld. Anyway, the source for this information is a public Live Database created by Sasun Steinbeck (she is doing a great work with it). Last time i checked the database there was 609 galleries.
Anyway that 609 galleries are only the ones in Sasun’s database, so we can consider there are some more running right now outside the database inworld. Of course i can’t give a right number about it, but i think they won’t be much more, that database is really complete. Maybe we can consider a number between 700 or 800 galleries inworld.
Source of all information and graphic: Art Galleries of Second Life by Sasun Steinberg
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about 1 year ago
Umm data only shows what it was perceived by anyone lately, is there an art boom in SL? I still dont have an oppinion whether is a good or a bad thing.
about 1 year ago
It can seem like there are way too many art openings and sl Flickr is too huge and all, but when you consider that this is a worldwide project, it doesn’t seem large at all. How many galleries does each major city in the world have? I think it’s greta that SL has made the art world more democratic, and that after another year, we will find out which galleries are the most interesting and worth visiting.
about 1 year ago
Well, not trying to say all that is bad, is quite interesting maybe now is the time for Art in Second Life.
At the same time i think we are living some like a “rush”, like the boom of art galleries, soon it will get more estable.
Anyway, the ratio Art galleries-residents (i mean “estimated real” residents, not total accounts) is higher than in cities like San Francisco.
about 1 year ago
maybe we need a new word for the overwhelmingness of the amount of art in SL…
about 1 year ago
Here’s an interesting development. If you look at the latest version of my graph (scroll down a bit in this post: http://sl-artgalleries.blogspot.com/2008/11/crashinews-interview.html) there has been a slow but steady 4 week decline in the number of open galleries in my list. This is a bit worrisome. It may be just a normal fluctuation, though I know for sure there are quite a few galleries closing due to the OpenSpace debacle. Some of them are simply in the process of relocating and may cause that line to tip back up in the near future. Or is this the end of the long term growth of art in SL? Or the beginning of an artist migration out of SL, as some influential people in the art world are strongly encouraging people to do? Only time will tell.
about 1 year ago
Thanks, Sasun, as said you are doing a great work with this database and all that information.
Of course the Openspaces issue is affecting Art Galleries in SL… maybe is the most affected “business”. Anyway i think we will see hard economy fluctuations due that issue but we will need some months to see the results and the solution.