Archive for the ‘second life’ tag
If you were role-playing Clement Greenberg in Second Life… Jeremy Owen Turner Interviews Domenico Quaranta
Jeremy Owen Turner is new media artist and curator based in Vancouver, Canada. He has been an online performance artist since 1996 and has performed in virtual worlds since 2001. Known as “Wirxli Flimflam” in Second Life, Turner has co-founded the group Second Front (est. 2006). He interviewed me for his MA thesis on avatar design.
Patrick Lichty: The Cartoonist Manifesto
The Cartoonist Manifesto: Performance Art for the Fin de Millennium.
For the past three or four years, there have been a number of artists, interveners, performers, (or whatever you want to call them), who are performing in virtual worlds. Second Life, World of Warcraft, Active Worlds, OpenSim – all these places are merely meaningless names that stand for the fact that there is a portion of the world that is embracing a “New Flesh” of pixels and nothingness. There are communities of “bodies without organs” writhing in a Tron-like fog of shapes and colors in imaginary spaces. But still, here we are – revisiting performance art, Happenings, interventions and the like, dragging the shadows of Dada, the Surrealists, Fluxus, the Situationists, Abramovic, Anderson, Barney, Burden, Export, Gilbert and George, Wiebel, and all the rest into the Virtual on our backs. It is again, like the seminal scene of Tron, where the hacker Flynn’s flesh is ripped apart by the laser of virtualization and pulled into the computer world, upgraded with new, luminous bodies. Read the rest of this entry »
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, 2009. Synthetic Performance (extract). More performances’ documentation on Eva and Franco Mattes’ Youtube account.
Acting as Aliens – Ex Post
Below you can find some links (reviews, documentation, etc.) regarding the show Gazira Babeli – Acting as Aliens (Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana) and the related seminar.
About the seminar:
- Images by Frieda Korda, Roxelo Babenco, Helfe Ihnen on Flickr.
- An ongoing discussion on the Odyssey Ning.
- A video by Helfe Ihnen on Youtube.
About the show:
- Gazira Babeli‘s archive page
- A video interview on VEST.SI (Italian, sub Slovenian)
- A TV feature on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 47.06)
- The opening performance on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 04.45)
- “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”. A review by Flaminio Gualdoni.
- “Aliena e maga l’artista di oggi“. A review by Agnese Trocchi in Stile.it, 27.10.09.
- “Umetnost v virtualnosti“. A review by Ida Hiršenfelder, published in Dnevnik, 04.11.09.
- Some pics of the performance from the natives’ point of view on the Second Front blog.
- And some raw footage by me on my Youtube account:
Can We Understand Avatars, or One Another, for That Matter?
On Tuesday, the legendary Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana will host Acting as Aliens, a new exhibition by Gazira Babeli. The core of the exhibition will be a performance, revolving around the issue of communication between people and avatars, homo sapiens and homo virtualis. This text by Patrick Lichty, Gazira’s friend, comrade and collaborator, is a smart take on the upcoming performance.
