Category: Hybrid Reality
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15 Minutes of Fame
Here is some machinima documentation of Second Front‘s performance piece – “15 Minutes of Fame”. With Patrick Lichty, Fau Ferdinand, Scott Killdal, Doug Jarvis, Bibbe Hansen and Liz Solo. machinima by Liz Solo [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifShIRfI1g]
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Techno Dream and Nightmare Choir
TECHNO-DREAM AND NIGHTMARE CHOIR – a consideration by Frank Barry A futuristically primitive live/streaming performance presented by the BLACK BAG MEDIA COLLECTIVE headed by Liz Solo and Tina Pearson and including members of the BBMC, ethno-musicologists from Memorial University and other artists via SECOND LIFE and live stream from Germany, the USA and beyond —…
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Aurora Virtualis
Aurora Virtualis: The Virtual Light of Liz Solo an essay by Patrick Lichty image by Rhonda Pelley In many cultures there are sayings that are related to confidence between friends – between this and that, you and me, bark and tree, etc. – that I see in a completely different context from what is normally…
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AOM coming to St. John’s
Here is a set of photos of Humming Pera/Tina Pearson, Maxxo Klaar, Frieda Korda and I setting up on Odyssey for the upcoming Avatar Orchestra Metaverse performance at this year’s Sound Symposium. The performance is a hybrid-reality concert that bridged the gap between real and the virtual space. The performance features original Avatar Orchestra compositions, including…
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UpsideDown World
Lately I have been exploring different processes in the creation of hybrid reality work, experimenting with how I can merge real life theatre, film, animation, dance, movement and/or choreography with virtual performances and events. At the end of a year of exploration I was surprised to find that I am most at home with the…
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Hybrid Performance with AOM
Performing Pauline Oliveros/Free Noyse’s “Hello Vancouver” with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and Real Life players. This performance was part of a series of demonstrations at the New Music Network in Montreal. See: http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#paradigms http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#stretched
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From InWorld
Here are a couple of screen shots from InWorld – my recent one woman theatre performance piece about a recluse gamer searching the metaverse for her avatar lover, missing in real life wartime. Here Lucy Darling enters the Vortex Pinnacle temple in World of Warcraft. Lucy achieves Level 85! This is a shot from Lucy’s…
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UpsideDown World (Pearls for Pigs)
Upside Down World (Pearls for Pigs) is a hybrid reality performance piece for one live performer and two avatars. Video of the the live performance space is streamed into Second Life as the virtual performance space is projected onto the floor. Here are a series of photos by Justin Hall from the premiere performance at…
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Slut Walk in WoW
The Third Faction recently returned from Turkey where we presented a series of workshops as part of the ISEA Istanbul conference. Our project “Demand Player Sovereignty” is a civil disobedience workshop focussing on creating interventions in the online MMORPG World of Warcraft and extending these virtual actions into the geophysical “real world”. During our workshops we…
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Night Gardening
Night Gardening by lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks 2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival People and avatars from around the world garden simultaneously in the virtual world of Second Life and in a quiet backyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Starring Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand, Patrick Lichty, Mike Kean, Anne Pickard and many avatars.…
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SL Retrospective – “Nature”
My retrospective Nature – a look back at my three years of working in virtual space – opened on December 11, 2009 on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator. The show is a combination of installation, photo documentation, sound and video work and it runs until March 2010 on Odyssey in Second Life.
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Second Front perform at Eyebeam/Release “Avvie Road”
The Second Front Performance Art Collective have just released our second DVD of machinima from our latest performance work. We celebrated with a performance at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. Pictured above – Lizsolo inside the Crypt as Tut’s Mummy Zombie with Fau Ferdinand and Tran Spire also as mummies. The next picture is…
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/hug Instructional Video
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-iEUU5B4E&w=560&h=315] It has been my pleasure over the last months to be collaborating with Ars Virtua members and others on the Third Faction /hug Project. This video was created for the gallery presentation /hug opened last month at the Laguna Art Museum. This installation, a part of the show WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon –…
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