Digitally produced in Second Life, Sabre & Mace is a real company that offers a unique service created for the online environment of Second Life. The service provides virtual characters the opportunity to experience death as a way to permanently close their user account. The project examines the notion of feeling sentimental toward a virtual character and examines the link between sentimentality and tangibility.
Our research showed that a great deal of second life residents have multiple avatars. One player with whom spoke had 14. He said that he used a many of them as platforms for different sides of his real life personality, and for others he invented entirely new fantasy personalities. However he admitted that some of his created avatars had fallen by the wayside and he no longer used them. It is this type of forgotten and redundant Avatar that this project focuses upon.
Produced in colaboration with Tony Mullin
