BabelSwarm - virtual art in Second Life

On the 20 April 2008 Radio National show 'ArtWorks' the developers of BabelSwarm were interviewed, and the interview can be listened to streamed from a link to the blogspot url above (the BabelSwarm interview starts about 19:15 into the program.)

BabelSwarm was developed by three guys who won an artist in residence grant from the Australia Council to develop a virtual artwork in Second Life, with a real life interface. The real life aspect of it was shown recently at the Lismore Regional Gallery, with the virtual work on Second Life.

There was a funny aspect to the success of BabelSwarm in that the Second Life administration services thought that it was trying to take-down Second Life because of its success - it was consuming more and more computer resources at Second Life - it thought that BabelSwarm was the equivalent of a computer virus!

Here's the great quote from the developers regarding that perceived threat by Second Life's adminstration: '[BabelSwarm] couldn't tell the difference between a malicious attack and art'!

Gosh, sort of sounds like the previous federal government, doesn't it?

The BabelSwarm island is at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ACVA/119/180/295/
Clever guys!