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SL-Bots: Automated and Autonomous Performance Art in Second Life

SL-Bots: Automated and Autonomous Performance Art in Second Life

Jeremy Owen Turner, Michael Nixon, Jim Bizzocchi
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781466683846|ISBN10: 1466683848|EISBN13: 9781466683853
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch012
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Turner, Jeremy Owen, et al. "SL-Bots: Automated and Autonomous Performance Art in Second Life." New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, edited by Denise Doyle, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 263-289. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch012

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Turner, J. O., Nixon, M., & Bizzocchi, J. (2015). SL-Bots: Automated and Autonomous Performance Art in Second Life. In D. Doyle (Ed.), New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds (pp. 263-289). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch012

Chicago

Turner, Jeremy Owen, Michael Nixon, and Jim Bizzocchi. "SL-Bots: Automated and Autonomous Performance Art in Second Life." In New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, edited by Denise Doyle, 263-289. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter explores the history, state-of-the art, and interactive aesthetic potential of “SL-Bots”. SL-Bots are avatars (i.e. “agents”) that are designed and controlled using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Second Life. Many of these SL-Bots were originally created in Second Life for purposes such as: rudimentary chatinventory management and copying, asset curation, embodied customer service, generic responsive environments, scripted objects, or as proxy-audience members (aka “campers”). However, virtual performance and installation artists – including two of the chapter's authors [ca. 2011-present] - have created their own SL-Bots for aesthetic purposes. This chapter suggests ways in which SL-Bots are gradually being extended beyond their conventional applications as avatar-placeholders. This book chapter concludes with the speculation that future virtual agents (including next generation SL-Bots) might one day transcend their teleological aesthetic purpose as mere automated-objects by evolving into more complex autonomous aesthetic personas.

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