Juria Yoshikawa
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Juria Yoshikawa is a Second Life creation artist who typically creates immersive installations. In Second Life, she appears as a female avatar. The real life person behind the Juria Yoshikawa avatar is Lance Shields, a Tokyo-based multimedia artist and designer. He has another avatar, also an artist, named Andres Watanabe. He maintains a blog about his Second Life artwork, Memespelunk. Juria Yoshikawa also documents art installations on Flickr.
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SL Virtual Art
Yoshikawa's artwork tends to be massive and temporary immersive pieces which avatars may walk or fly through, or simply be surrounded by the artistic experience. Her work is typically kinetic, using a variety of SL scripts which move the textures of the often large pieces, as well as the pieces themselves.
Juria Yoshikawa recieved second place for the "Best Artist in the Creation Arts" category in the Best of SL Art 2007.
Installations
Yoshikawa's large art installations are often hosted by others. Refer to Memespelunk for SLurls to see current installations.
Group Shows
Juria Yoshikawa was one of several artists exhibiting at Virtual Art Space Diabolus (benvolio).
Other artists in the show were: MANAX, Noizz Papp, Caravaggio Bonetto, Velazquez Bonetto, and Josina Burgess. The show opened in November, 2007.
External links
- YouTube machinima by evolutie of "BLINK" - Two rooms and an Island, an installation by Juria Yoshikawa and AldoManutio Abruzzo
Press
- Not Possible in Real Life blog
- Virtual Artist Alliance blog, Dale Innis interview of Juria Yoshikawa
- Wirxli FlimFlam's blog article about Juria Yoshikawa's 4 Installation
