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日前，人民城寨内(RMB CITY 1)的人民工厂在如火如荼的建设中

我们花费大量时间精力和西方builders在探讨中国现代化时期的建筑美学问题，因一不小心，城市就变成西方视点里的《功夫熊猫》或者《花木兰》了

而持续不懈的探讨终初见一点成效，但此乃城市一角而已，整个城市的建设却是一场旷日持久的战役啊

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Join us in RMB City （Aug 2008）

RMB City is an online-based virtual art community (in Second Life) and public platform for creativity initiated by artist Cao Fei (Second Life name: China Tracy). The project explores the creative relationship between real and virtual space, and is a reflection of China's urban and cultural explosion. RMB City Team is ]]> ]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:08:08 +0800
Second world, more dreams!

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Our guest Hamlet Au and his wife Jen come for the opening together

Tzay Beck and Avatrian burned the fireworks for the opening night

From the other side, the people join in the opening from Real Life London
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奠基仪式没几天功夫，目前，RMB City在SL的大地图上已经清晰可见其基本地形，由原来4块岛屿合拼为一个大岛屿。

RMB City: Preview Center，悬浮在RMB City 4区域的上空的观看台，从本月25日Preview Center将开放给观众参观城市的建造过程。

透过观看台，可俯瞰整个城市。承建队伍Avatrian的工作人员不停在此加班加点，我们经常上去监工。

目前部分大体积的建筑在建造过程中。]]> ]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:00:22 +0800
7月14日，北京时间上午11点，RMB CITY的奠基仪式在second life中进行。

筹备近一年的RMB CITY项目终于动土了！城建队伍是位于美国加洲的Avatrian
相信在秋天，RMB CITY将会完工，并全面开放给在线观众。
在7月25日Serpentine Gallery(London)展览期间，将会开放RMB City Promotion Center给公众在线观看城市的建造过程。]]> ]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:33:02 +0800

China Tracy and her team spent more than 1 year to realize the "RMB city" project. In past one year, after so many negotiation/meetings/planning... today, the lands of the RMB City finally appears in Second Life! This four lands we call: RMB City ]]> ]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:48:11 +0800
Cao Fei: RMB City
Beijing-based artist Cao Fei is creating RMB City, an online art community in the virtual world of Second Life. Institutions and collectors are invited to buy buildings in RMB City and programme events and activities in them. The project is an experiment exploring the creative relationship between real and ]]> ]]> Mon, 19 May 2008 15:52:17 +0800 ]]> ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:18:45 +0800
After Virtual Worlds conference 2008, Wagner James Au(SL: Hamlet Au) check out RMB City show in Chelsea

(left) Zhang Anding (SL: Zafka Ziemia) also participate in this Virtual conference in behalf of HiPiHi. This his first time to visit NYC.

RMB City: Second Life In An Avant Garde Art Gallery
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MUSEUM AND GALLERY LISTINGS By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Published: March 21, 2008
TEXT: KAREN ROSENBERG
‘RMB CITY’Cao Fei, a young artist based in Beijing, has become something of a celebrity in ]]> ]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:08:52 +0800
Cao Fei: RMB CITY
February 29th - April 5th, 2008
Location: Lombard-Freid Project
Address: 531 West 26th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY
www.lombard-freid.com

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Keep reading: The AvaStar (A pop magazine of Second Life) Issue 63, 29th Feb, 2008]]> ]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:02 +0800

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Coming Soon...

【 RMB CITY 】
Cao Fei a.k.a China Tracy Adventures in Second Life

【 人民城寨 】
曹斐/中国.翠西漫游“第二人生”奇境

✻ Vitamin Creative Space出版

❐ In World 在线

❐ Inventory 资料库

❐ －Profile 身份
Cyber Citizen: China Tracy

❐ －Search 探究
Second Life: Uncertain Reality, Uncertain Virtuality

❐ －View 视图
Here Comes Vitual Reality: A Neo Existential Manifesto
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"Is this your city?" asked the young man. The angel answered: "It's yours."—The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino.

Two specters are hovering over a city of lightness—virtual specters. In the name of the Holy War against them, everything from the old world united—human beings, landscape, ]]> ]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:27:41 +0800
刚出炉的工地帽。这是第二人生“人民城寨”计划在建城期间在第一人生的象征品。当然，真实的帽子戴不进虚拟，虚拟里面也不需要真实的帽子。但我们还是需要一个现实的媒介来说明虚拟的事情，比如这顶帽子。其实，在两个世界中，它都是不可相互证明的，不可用的，恰恰这样它模糊了现实与虚拟的某种关系，关于对“建造”的某种指涉。

或许，我会戴着这顶帽子坐在电脑面前在第二人生里面用我的数字化身去指挥建造；或者我戴着这顶帽子走在真实世界的街道上，思考关于虚拟之城的建筑问题。如果说卡尔维诺的小说《看不见的城市》里展开的是“一种时而含蓄时而清晰的关于现代城市的讨论”，那么虚拟之城在现实里面的不可见展开的是“一种时而颠狂时而悲观的关于对未来虚拟城市的想象”。互为“别处”的大陆，“别处”在相互世界中都是不存在的
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At the moment, I got some great responses from SL, Inc: Rezzable.com, Bettina Tizzy (NPIRL), CameronSabroso Montgolfier, Brad Kligerman(mysimulacrum), Gumnosophistai Nurmi, Juliet Chambers, Lily Tan, Peter Murphy...

Thank you for all the responses about RMB CITY, I will look into all information from yours, and will meet you soon in SL:)
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I'm looking for good builders and scripters, and if the project gets funding, some contract fees will probably be negotiable,
Please IM China Tracy or send email to sl.chinatracy@gmail.com

目前我正在网络上寻找在“人民城寨”的第二人生建筑师、高级程序员数名，有兴趣者可IM China Tracy或者写邮件到：sl.chinatracy@gmail.com 最好能将你的第二人生作品的图片链接或以附件方式发到我邮件地址。

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by Hamlet Au

In China, RMB is the abbreviation of "renminbi", literally, "people's money", and the name of the currency you use in that country. In Second Life, "RMB City" is the ]]> ]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:34:53 +0800
RMB CITY full page advertising on Artforum Magazine Dec Issue

RMB CITY project. Art Positions P14. Container Area, Miami Beach]]> ]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:02:07 +0800
Secondlife video present in Real life Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

you can see through the mirror installation from outside, but only can see illimitable images when you get in

illimitable ]]> ]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:07:12 +0800 Made in China: Presenting Second Life in Beijing from his nwn.blogs.com. It's a great review about his first trip in China:)

We met from Real Life San Francisco then Second Life then Real Life Beijing Airport in Aug, and now SecondLife again.
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China Tracy and her full Moon, let me share its light for you all. Tomorrow, the moon will be full, and Love also.

A full Moon in SecondLife. Moon in SecondLife always full, that's our fantasy about Moon, about Life.

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When I in Lyon, got a messages from Hamlet: "I finally finished my SL book, so now have more time to play in SL, let me know when you come into SL and I'll take a pic of you at RMB city!" So, when I arrived Beijing, we decided to meet tonight, my RL time 1am, he is SL time 10am, of course he live in San Francisco, it's better for him, but ok for a night girl me:)
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RMB City
A Second Life City Planning by China Tracy
The 10 Istabul Biennale
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Curator: Hou Hanru (U.S.)
http://www.iksv.org/bienal10/index.html
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我和助手方正这几天都在SL Creative Commons总部布展，方正目前在荷兰留学，但她继续通过网络参与这个项目的SL开发。尽管“全球化”是一个很陈旧的概念，但的确在SL，我们就会一直在一起：）Landmard马上公布！欢迎大家来参观～

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感谢Creative Commons NGO总部大力协助。当初在Hamlet Au的引荐下，我认识了SL CC的负责人Genevieve Junot, 交流了一段时间后，他们喜欢我的project, 然后提供我他们部分虚拟土地以此支持我参加伊斯坦布尔双年展RMB CITY项目part 1:虚拟工地计划，使用期为2个月。哈哈，这已经非常慷慨了：）

Genevieve Junot, 我们在RL没见过面，应该说是擦肩而过，其实我们在克罗地亚那次CC大会上几百人合影时我们都在一个照片里，当时就是没认识上，后来我们说起来才知道。hamlet说她是中美混血，很年轻

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