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i like you - 9 digital photos
我今天抽了一个小时时间为我的化身chara oh写了一些小介绍。欢迎中文优秀的人士帮我翻译一下，也帮我把i like you的说明翻译一下。谢谢。不是我不会翻译我自己写的烂英文，是我真的没有时间。最近2周都会特别忙。作为交换，我可以以后帮你翻译一些中文的东西（但必须是你写的中文清楚易懂）。因为i'm so sick of 一些搞艺术的青年们来msn找我帮他们翻译一些根本只有他们自己懂的晦涩文字。对不起，我真的不懂你在写什么。而且我可以告诉你们，就算我的好友文学博士pooo看到你们那种东西一定也爱莫能助。
文字如下：
［ English ］
All the pictures in this flickr album are real snapshots I ( I = my
avatar "Chara Oh" ) took during my exploration in Second Life virtual
community.
Coming from a design and computing background, been influenced by
contemporary artist like Bill Viola and Jeff Wall, directors like
Michelangelo Antonioni and Jean-Luc Godard, fashion photographers like
Wolfgang Tillmans and Juergen Teller, I am interested in how new
mediums of media art and films taking the roles to express social
issues. I started Second Life on April 28, 2007. From the first moment
I entered in, I decided that I want to documenting everything I see in
Second Life. The most interesting phenomenon exists in this first
person virtual environment is the notion of "self-identity". Since we
can be whoever we want to be, do whatever we want to do, the boundary
of real "ME" became vague. However from an other point of view, "ME"
became so distinct due to the complete virtual freedom. Then, where
does true reality exist?
For French philospher Rene Descartes, consciousness and being were
proof of each other and relationship between evidence and proof, based
on deductive reasoning, subsquently developed into the rational
theoretical methods upon which modern Western philosophy and science
are grounded. On one level SEEING IS BELIEVING, but on another we know
that our perception is a steady process of accretion of konwledge and
the interpretation of information. The eye is never innocent.
I believe Second Life can be a potential place for me to seek a
resolution of a range of social, philosophical problems and related
aesthetic issues.
［ 中文 翻译者李俊炜］
本相册的所有照片都是本人(本人即我的虚拟替身"chara oh")在second life虚拟社会的真实经历(experience)通过快照所纪录下来的。
基于一些设计与计算方面的背景，并且受到了象当代艺术家Bill Viola(比尔.维奥拉)及Jeff Wall(杰夫.沃尔),导演Michelangelo Antonioni(安东尼奥尼.米开朗琪罗)及Jean-Luc Godard(戈达尔，简·卢西)，时装摄影师Wolfgang Tillmans 及 Juergen Teller等的影响，我对于电子媒体艺术和电影等大众传媒如何反映当前的社会问题十分感兴趣。
由2007.4.28日我第一次开始second life 的生活起，我便决定要纪录下我在second life 的所见所闻。在这个虚拟世界里，人们对于自我认同的概念是我最感兴趣的现象。由于我们可以成为我们想成为的任何人，做我们想做的任何事，真实的“我”变得模糊；而从另一方面来说，由于虚拟世界的自由，“我”变得空前的清晰。那么，何处才是更真实的存在？
法国哲学家Rene Descartes(笛卡尔)，以现代西方哲学体系与科学为基础进行演绎推理,随后（subsequently）发展出的关系(relation)理论认为,个人的自我意识与存在必须通过与别人的相互关系所证实。从一个层次来说，看到即认为真实的，但另外，我们知道我们的理解能力随着知识的增长与信息的丰富而稳步增加，此时，眼睛不再单纯无知。
因此，我相信second life将成为我探讨社会、哲学与审美观问题的地方。
All texts by Chara Oh
Contact: charaoh [at] gmail.com
