Category: Live Performance

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
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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February 9, 2014
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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February 9, 2014
The Black Bags Album Release

One of my bands – The Black Bags – released a full length recording in 2013 and we still have a few copies left (but they are going fast and there are only a limited number of copies). The Album was nominated for six MusicNL Awards! The remaining few Black Bags’ CDs and fancy french vinyl records…
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February 8, 2014
Rites

It was a pleasure to be a part of a four way collaborative team with some of my all time favourite people – Krista Vincent, Lynn Panting, Nicole Rousseau and I collaborated last fall on the presentation of the Orla Ensemble’s inter-disciplinary piece “Rites”. I worked as designer of the machinima sets and technical consultant…
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February 8, 2014
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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June 9, 2013
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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July 3, 2012
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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June 7, 2012
Super Art League at Low Lives: Occupy!

Here is a machinima I recently made in DC Universe Online documenting the Super Art League! as we occupy the Metropolis Mercantile Bank in DCU as part of the 2012 Low Lives: Occupy! event. March 3, 2012. In this video: Jeremy Turner/Idea Cyclone, Erik Rzepka/zisuthra szepka, Joseph Delappe/NamJunePaikman, Liz Solo/Slizello, Ben Poynter/Doctor Atramentos, Ben Unterman/The Underliner, Patrick…
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June 7, 2012
Super Art League!

The Super Art League is a group of performance artist superheroes in DC Universe Online. The league is comprised of established and emerging virtual worlds/video-game performance artists from around the world – including members of the performance art group in Second Life known as Second Front. Active members include: Idea Cyclone (Jeremy Owen Turner, Canada),…
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March 6, 2012
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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March 6, 2012
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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March 6, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Bus

Recently, in solidarity with OWS, I met up with associates in Blue Mars Lite to find and occupy Wall Street virtually. The event was organized by my friends Jeremy O. Turner and Jacquelene Drinkall. Blue Mars Lite uses Google Street View as its interface. So your avatar can walk around the streets of the world.…
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March 6, 2012