Category: Media Arts
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My Cyber Whales Are Migrating
NEOSVR is likely going down soon, fallen victim to some bitcoin piracy scheme, among other complications. For a while it looked like the installations I have created in NEOS VR could be at risk. Among those installations are the Poetrix interface that was developed using a quantum computer and uses machine learning to write original…
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Webinar on Working with Emerging Technologies
On Wednesday April 23 at 7 PM EST, I’ll be presenting at a free webinar on working with emerging technologies–all are welcome. This workshop is hosted by the Canadian Author’s Association in partnership with SF Canada. Here are the details: Hacking the Future – Working with Emerging Technologies JE Solo has been working with emerging…
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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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Exhibit of The Songstress
I’ll be demonstrating my NPC environment on Thursday, December 23 from 6 to 8 PM EST. When I say “NPC Environment” I mean that the whole space is the Non-Player Character, so the space itself is the “consciousness”, (not just a standalone character). The Songstress creates original poetry using quantum computers, machine learning, and magic!…
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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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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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Women From The Future
This week I am working with Roles 4 Women on the presentation of Women From The Future. I’m premiering a brand new one woman piece called She, Robot – the story of a time traveling Robot Comedienne.It was great to be working with Jody Richardson again – we collaborated on the script development via the…
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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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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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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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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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TrixXxie Releases
TrixXxie are gearing up to release our first EP alongside a new YouTube Channel by Roles 4 Women. The EP was recorded and engineered by Colleen Power and produced by Roles 4 Women and The Black Bag Media Collective. Here’s a link to a pre-release track – Double Murder Suicide Special release show features TrixXxie,…
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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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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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