{"id":1343,"date":"2007-07-09T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-07-15T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T18:44:15","slug":"art-institute-goes-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Art Institute Goes Virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineuniversities-weblog.com\/50226711\/the_art_institute_online_opens_second_life_campus.php\">Online Universities website comes word (Link)<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aionline.edu\/\">The Art Institute Online<\/a> has established a presence inside Second Life. No surprise here. But also no surprise is that so many <em>other<\/em> art schools have <em>failed<\/em> to establish a presence. This is especially odd considering the recruiting possibilities in a virtual space where there is so much emphasis on content creation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI was wondering about this recently when I noticed an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/virb.com\/artcenter\">Art Center<\/a>&#8221; inside SL; part of the Brian Eno &#8220;77 Million Paintings&#8221; event. That Art Center is not, apparently, <em>the<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/\">Art Center<\/a> with which so many Industrial Designers are familiar. Nothing wrong with that. It&#8217;s an obvious enough name. But how long before we see other people with perhaps different motivations snapping up &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccscad.edu\/\">Center for Creative Studies<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rca.ac.uk\/\">Royal College of Art<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cranbrookart.edu\/\">Cranbrook<\/a>&#8221;  and other real life art school names?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a Second Life &#8220;Savannah College of Art and Design&#8221; which appears to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scad.edu\/\">extension of the real school<\/a>. There&#8217;s also an &#8220;Otis College of Art and Design&#8221; group in Second Life. Maybe it&#8217;s tied to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otis.edu\/fileadmin\/homepage\/index.html\">real life entity<\/a>, and maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m liking Center for Creative Studies, myself. Nicely generic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Online Universities website comes word (Link) that The Art Institute Online has established a presence inside Second Life. No surprise here. But also no surprise is that so many other art schools have failed to establish a presence. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}