Category: Hybrid Reality

Storytelling From VR

I’m in the thick of the creation process for my latest project, Storytelling From VR–a series of media pieces and online events that feature my fiction writing. I’ve merged two elements of my work life–writing fiction and Virtual Reality–to create this multi-layered project. I’ve been working in multiple VR spaces at once–Second Life, NEOS VR,…
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September 30, 2022
My Quantum Virtual Poet Was Born This Week

Over the last many months I’ve been working with teams of programmers to create another unique virtual artist (See Whale Watching in VR for documentation of my first virtual artist beings). This time I have created a virtual Poet NPC (Non-Player Character) inside of NEOS VR who think using a combination of technologies, including a…
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November 24, 2021
She,Robot

She, Robot is a one woman, one act performance piece that I recently created for Women From The Future – a project initiated and produced by Roles 4 Women and funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Black Bag Media Collective. The show premiered as one of four new works at the…
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November 13, 2018
hybrid:fusion

Coming up in August – I will be experimenting with different dimensions as I travel to the future in my latest performance piece – hybrid:fusion. Join me in my studio on August 25 and 26 at 8 PM as I explore inter-dimensional portals on a quest to reconcile the present with the future. Watch live…
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July 12, 2018
Rehearsing on Odyssey

Been working this week on my latest piece The Asteroid with much assistance from my collaborator Yael Gilks (aka Fau Ferdinand.). I have multiple presentations of the piece coming up (plus a new machinima) and it’s been a delicate balance negotiating different streams and getting all the sets and props and animations in place and…
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January 29, 2018
The Asteroid

The Asteroid is a new performance piece examining themes and ideas around the relationship between technology, isolation and desire. The Asteroid saw its first presentation in December at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. This was part of a live streamed performance art event curated and presented by 7a*md8, aka the Toronto Performance Art Collective .…
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January 22, 2018
Senses Places at Open Sim Conference

Here are some images from a performance/demonstration with Senses Places in a mixed reality participatory performance environment. The event took place earlier this week at the 2016 Open Sim Conference.. Senses Places is a project by Isabel C. Valverde and collaborators. I have had the great opportunity to be a part of this project for…
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December 16, 2016
My Avatar Does Abramovic

Recently I spent some time researching Marina Abramovics’s The Abramovic Method. This research was in preparation for the performance of The Abramovic Trilogy by The Second Front. Taking a cue from the video “The Abramovic Method Practiced By Lady Gaga” my avatar went online and tried the method out for herself. The Abramovic Trilogy is a networked performance created by The…
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July 25, 2016
Virtually Yours

Last weekend I spent four days in residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. AGP is a gem of a place, offering residencies year round in a super chill setting by the beaches on Toronto Island. Awesome people, very supportive environment – I highly recommend this resource centre to any artist needing a little…
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March 23, 2016
Performance Images

Streaming performance at the BBMC Studio with Mike Kean, interacting with Isabel Valverde and dancers at the HiDance festival in Rome: A few shots by Jared Reid from a perfromance at the Festival of New Dance, St. John’s: A screen capture shot from “Take Me” at the Off Label Festival in Victoria at Open Space…
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December 17, 2015
in the Studio

the next time you are inworld drop by my studio on the Odyssey Simulator in Second Life and walk around my ongoing installation from the book of my mother/the book of my father. Visit the location of my machinima “a place for you”, presented as a hybrid installation at the Black Bag Media Collective Studio…
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October 7, 2014
Dance Me Documentation

I just received the documentation photos and video from of my performance “Dance me” (aka Submerged) from the latest Festival of New Dance. I am so happy with the way they came out! Thank you to Jared Reid, the photographer, and Neighbourhood Dance Works for providing artists with such excellent documentation! A selection of photos from…
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February 11, 2014
Senses Places in the Studio

Here is a set of images from the most recent presentation of Senses Places – live at the Metaverse Cultural Series, the Odyssey Simulator and at remote locations participating via live web stream. These pictures were taken from my studio perspective as me and partner Mike Kean participated by streaming the studio into Odyssey in…
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February 11, 2014
Ladonian Noble Wedding Project

In a recent interview I was asked how I got started working in virtual worlds. It got me to thinking about one of the very first projects I worked on that incorporated multiple locations and first played with the idea of virtual reality. The year was 2003 and the project, a collaboration with Jeremy Owen…
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February 9, 2014