10 questions to Katherine Isbister & Rainey Straus
The SimGallery Project
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Pretty obvious first question: what about the Sims Gallery, how the whole thing started?
Raingirl: The SimGallery project was a seed of an idea that Katherine and I hatched after attending a lecture and film presentation on Machinama [Machinima].
Machinama is a genre of filmmaking in which filmmakers are using real-time 3d game engines to render their works. We thought it would be cool to be able to spoof Matthew Barney and Vanessa Beecroft type spectacles and the Sims seemed to be a good starting point to play with those ideas.
Drk: The Sims Online (TSO) came to mind, because I'd explored it a bit as part of a class I teach, and knew that it offered a
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