When you re-create yourself in a virtual world then you create another life. If you have been an early mover then you may have joined Second Life during its hype (2005-2009). If you have been a late mover then you are now in one of the 100 metaverses that have been created since. Maybe you are on Instagram and you create and share images that you call art. Instagram is part of Meta and “THE META” became a term everyone knows but no one sees “The Meta” the same way. Kunst Blau is an early mover. He entered Second Life in the year 1992 as Cybereddie, because he created the German Cyberspace, trademarked the term, claimed the domain Cyberspace.de. The High court of the Free State of Saxony ruled in his favor. You say that in the year 1992 was no Second Life? You are wrong. When you start to go on the trip to the foundation of virtual life you will find Wahtye, you will find Erva.Re, you will find Kunst Blau. Read Begegnungen mit HWF, there is his story [in German and in English as Backlinks to HWF].
Now Kunst Blau is IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED, is VISUALIZING THE BIBLE, is an early mover into a universal WEBMETAVERSUM. He works for himself, he does not seek the glory. Glory for an artist comes after death, never before. An artist has to look beyond the frontier and Kunst Blau does. He develops the Afterlife, but that would be a different story. It would be the story of The Gods of Informatics.
Kunst Blau (the Blue Ghost) with Code Monkey (his friend Daniel Jung) in the installation IN SEARCH. The installation shows in Second Life and in the Opensimulator Metaversum pieces of Kunst Blau’s image prompt art. Kunst Blau created in total 42 images for the Novel IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED, written by Kisma Reidling. He took phrases from the novel and turned them to art.
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REINER SCHNEEBERGER 