Woods of Arcady
From Rhizome Artbase
2010
Description
Woods of Arcady is a video featuring scenes captured from the artist's explorations in the virtual environment, Second Life, set to a computer-generated recitation of "The Song of the Happy Shepherd," a poem by William Butler Yeats.
2021
"The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy;" – with this line begins Rafman's Woods of Arcady. The work juxtaposes a computer generated recitation of Yeat's poem The Song of the Happy Shepherd, along side video of scenes captured from the artist's explorations of the virtual environment of Second Life. The simultaneously fantastic and vapid virtual landscapes documented by the artist are at home with Yeat's imagery "Where are now the warring kings? An idle word is now their glory."
5 March 2012
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5 March 2012
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