The Smarter Earth Institute has established ArtMuse as a means to announce and promote art, museum, musical and other cultural cultural events within Second Life and other virtual worlds.

Within Second Life, ArtMuse is instantiated as a Subscribe-O-Matic ungroup, allowing subscribers to receive notices without having to use a precious SecondLife group. The way "unGroups" work is that a person wishing to join an "unGroup" simply touches an in-world kiosk (see below). A second touch at any location allows users to "unsubscribe". ArtMuse "UnGroup" members receive messages as IMs, and may subscribe to an RSS feed if they wish. Like an ordinary group, items are sent to members (via in-world servers). In other words, "unGroups" look to users like regular SL groups but don't take up valuable SL groups for the user and don't suffer from all the spam and group chatter that tends to happen on SL groups.

ArtMuse is operated in-world by Hermit Barber. People wishing to send material to ArtMuse should post the message on the Submissions board and send a prim containing any attachments for the members to Hermit Barber (GE,RU,DE,US,FR,NL,ZA), Meshed Gears (UK,FR,NL,ZA,DE,Latin), Elizabeth Tinsley (US), Tayzia Abattoir (US), BeeBee Brouwer (US), ggg Solomon (DE,FR,ES,US), doranice Pastorelli (FR), TaeYong Starbrook (US), or Sinine Klaar (EE,RU,US,FR).

Galleries and Web Pages

ArtMuse now offers Galleries and Web Pages to its subscribers and contributors. When signing-up please use the exact same name (including capitalization) as you use in Second Life as we are working on greatly increasing the linkage between the web site and second life over time and this will require your name to be identical to function correctly. We recommend that you choose a different password as use of the same password would be a breach of the SL TOS.

Current Kiosk Locations

	ArtMuse	Womens Center (161,202,23)
	ArtMuse	Venture Square (187,108,34)
	ArtMuse	SmarterEarth (251,32,34)
	ArtMuse	Skidz Isle (122,126,19)
	ArtMuse	Oneiros (107,129,63)
	ArtMuse	Odyssey (132,236,56)
	ArtMuse	Manua (19,252,29)
	ArtMuse	Lilac Island (51,38,23)
	ArtMuse	Ginsberg (181,139,43)
	ArtMuse	FairChang Village (201,139,22)
	ArtMuse	Camazotz (221,104,109)
	ArtMuse	Artropolis (131,45,25)