Bryn Oh

Bryn Oh is an oil painter living in Toronto, Canada but also does virtual art based in Second Life.
Although Second Life never really appealed to me simply because of the fact that I'm a gaming gamer who needs goals and objectives and things to shoot and people to kill and all that jazz, Bryn Oh actually has some very interesting and unique stuff posted up on Second Life that made me respect the game a little bit more.

Much of what I thought of Second Life involved mostly you and your avatar running around in a brightly lit place talking to people. And every now and then you find people who put up statues they made virtually and stuff. However with Bryn Oh it seems much more different, much more separate and isolated from the rest of Second Life. For the most part in the videos or "machinimas" I've seen Bryn Oh just stands there with the avatar and lets the camera just go into the map and explore. Much of Bryn Oh's stuff is very mysterious yet almost peaceful. From some of Bryn Oh's artwork, the environment is dark, with stars or fireflies all over the place. Most of it conveys that twilight time of night, when its very late or very early yet its actually bright out because of the stars or the moon.

A talented Second Life artist, Bryn Oh wrote a book called The Rabbicorn story which incorporates much of Bryn Oh's artwork into the story that was written, which is "The melancholy story of a robots search for love and belonging". Bryn Oh's blog is simple in her explanation: "I am a professional oil painter who has come into second life to create new media art ideas that don't work as well in the oil painting medium." In her videos she also likes to add poetry related to the piece, in one she talks about the life of a mayfly.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/03/bryn-oh-avatar-gets-government-grant.html
Among the videos its known that in much of her work, such as Immersiva she likes to include hidden poems, music boxes and other such items.