All the Web’s A Stage

Rachel Wolff writes about the new modified performance art, an online world populated by computer-generated beings called 'avatars' via Second Life, a network-based virtual world where anyone with a little tech savvy can download a program and create an 'avatar' whose interactions with other 'avatars' have much of the excitement, discomfort, and unpredictability of real-world encounters + the impact + other viewpoints @ http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2443