Category: Machinima

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
IOTA e-Publication

the wide sky is a web art piece commissioned by the IOTA Institute and launched.last fall. In a post-apocalyptic world a digital archeologist avatar attempts to dig up memories from a past time. https://www.iotainstitute.com/thewidesky IOTA are ending the year with an e-pub release on webart – essays by writers Johanna Drucker, Adrienne Crossman and Isabelle…
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December 14, 2018
The Wide Sky – Launch

The wide sky – an archive – by Liz Solo Full Website launch Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Following the successful Second Life launch of ‘the wide sky’, Liz Solo’s Archive’s Virtual Installation and Museum Exhibit currently housed on the Odyssey Simulator in Virtual Space, IOTA: DATA is pleased to launch the Archive website, home to…
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September 27, 2017
Pokemon-A-Go-Go

It’s great to be a part of a collective. I have the best luck in that regard and can boast about being a member of several amazing artist collectives – three of which came together to produce and present this latest machinima. Pokemon-A-Go-Go was created by Second Front – an online collective of media artists…
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December 14, 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
WoW Peace Work

Today I logged into WoW with my Slizella avatar for the first time in a long while. Slizella is a member of the Peace Corps Guild in World of Warcraft. The Peace Corp advance through the game levels without doing any violence. It takes cunning to navigate the world without killing or being killed. I…
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February 11, 2014
Third Faction at ISEA

The Third Faction were in Istanbul, Turkey in September 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…
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March 6, 2012
Newfoundland Joy Award!

While at ISEA in Istanbul this year I got some great news – I am the proud recipient of the 2011 Newfoundland Joy Award for my upcoming hybrid video project “the machine” – merging video, 16 mm film and machinima. Woohoo! The award comes with in-kind support from NIFCO, The Atlantic Studio Cooperative, John…
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March 6, 2012
The Death of An Avatar

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hcFTFOseI&w=560&h=315] On Valentines Day, 2010, the artist known as Wirxli Flimflam publicly took his own avatar’s life over his unrequited love for the artist known as SaveMe Oh. This machinima documents the sad event. To find out more see Wirlxi Flimflam’s Memorial Blog: http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com And SaveMe Oh’s Blog: http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com
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April 3, 2010
Eat the Feeling

Ronald McDonald and his Little Buddy prepare for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. “Eat the Feeling” is a short machinima video created for the React 2010 Exhibit by Liz Solo and Erik Hoff Rzepka. React 2010 is a web and gallery exhibit curated by the Alternator Center for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, B.C. – “engaging artists…
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February 26, 2010
/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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July 11, 2009
My Little Blue Fairy

The following images are from the upcoming “Machine I Am” release. This little blue fairy – my main avvie in SL – plays an important role. Here she is dancing at the Last Art Center in a scene from the piece.
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January 28, 2009
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

I have been having a great time working with the online orchestra – Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. Members participate from all over North America, Europe and beyond. We perform frequently – compositions created by members of the collective. We play the compositions on virtual instruments also designed by artists of the collective. I have been working…
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January 27, 2009