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Bryn Oh's blog is a morass of information that would be very useful if one were to try and find information about other artist. She, for Bryn Oh is a she, as I discovered not from her site, but from one of the analysis' of her work that I have managed to find, is extremely unconcerned about leaving behind information about herself.

I'm afraid that I won't be of much use at this point, but here are some points with which I can hopefully answer your questions about the relevance of our artist. I think that, Initially, what is so hard to access in looking at this "art" is the fact that what you are looking at is a screen shot. In this manner, it is no different than a regular painting, other than the fact that it is obviously fake, of fairly low image quality,and has no context.

Generally when we see art, unless it is modern art which in my humble opinion is kind of a crap shoot, We are given the image itself, the title, and the name of some extraordinarily famous artist that we may or may not have heard of. These things help people gain some kind of understanding about what it is that they are supposed to be looking for, and what the artist is trying to represent. In addition, there is also usually the presence of insane amounts of talent that allow artists to take lifeless sheets of white canvas and turn it into something that moves us. Generally this "movement" occurs by some stimulation of the imagination that makes us see or think of some aspect of the world a little differently.

A screen shot of Bryn Oh's work does none of these things for us. When we googled her work, we were confronted with strange pseudo-organic yet eerily robotic humanoid... things... We had no title, a name we didn't know, and no preconceptions with which to base our perceptions off of. Basically, it was wholly inaccessible to us, as it was so far beyond our understanding that there was little that we could do to translate what we were seeing into something meaningful, something that our imaginations could grasp and do something with...

I noticed that I've been using "we" a lot, since I don't really know any of you guys well enough to know what you were thinking, I'll stop now xP.

The above rant about imagination, being moved, and perception is how I felt anyway. I'm very into this idea of video games as art, but I still felt lost, confused, and ultimately bored by what I saw as some interestingly shaped, but ultimately meaningless robotic doohickies.

The above Study of Oh's Work link is very handy. From what little I've seen of oh's work at "New Caerleon", a sort of online artist colony of which Bryn is a participant, her art isn't purely visual. The virtual world of second life is a completely different medium than that of a piece of canvas. Canvas allows only for our sight to be stimulated. Second life allows for our vision, hearing, and ,with the amount of texturing that Bryn Oh uses, sense of touch to be taken in, and then tested and twisted by second life's artists' ballant disregard for physics.

Many of the subjects of her art are strange cybernetic creatures, yet it seems that Bryn Oh has challenged herself to find a way to breathe life into these creations.