Category: Media Arts

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
the machine – machinima shoot

Fau and I are working today on Odyssey to create the last machinima sequences for my upcoming release “the machine”. Here are a few close ups of the Fairy and WYSIWYG (played by Fau) on one of our virtual sets (designed by Fau).
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July 30, 2013
the machine

I have just started to work on the edit for the machine – my next release. the machine is a multi-media piece that merges film, video and machinima to create a post apocalyptic fairy tale set in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I had the opportunity to work with a fantastic crew during the shoot and learned…
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June 7, 2012
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
Your Discarded Guitar

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChN5DHyppwg&fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1] i wrote this song on your discarded guitar you left it standing in the corner and when i play it i get to thinking on where we both are and how it all turned so tortured and sweet clementine is in the window she doesn’t know her days are numbered close up the…
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September 3, 2010
Chromatose

Steve Abbott and I had a great time co-hosting this year’s Chromatose Animation Festival – a presentation of the Black Bag Media Collective. Here we are pictured above in a photo by Nauris Nikans admiring one of the videos as it plays in on our monitor. The Chromatose Anymation Festival takes it name from an…
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June 10, 2010
Expression is Not a Crime

Super 8 film shot as part of a Nickel Film Festival/St. John’s International Jazz Festival collaborative project. Filmmakers were challenged to shoot a piece in-camera, with no edits and have it scored by a partner musician. I shot film to reflect my thoughts on the fancy new anti graff writing by-laws brought in by St.…
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May 12, 2010
REACT 2010

There is a gallery opening today for the REACT 2010 project at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, B.C. Curated by Jennifer Pickering, Jason Baerg and Arthur Schwimmer. “We are engaging artists and the global community in a creative cultural conversation about the values surrounding the Olympics.” I am very happy to have…
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February 15, 2010
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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December 5, 2009
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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October 10, 2009
/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
Kelowna Rocks

This wicked photo is by Kelowna based photographer (and great guy) Paul Lewenden. (Paul was also indispensable during the technical set-up of the Alternator installation – see next post) So this is Liz Solo playing for bunny and Silverado Socrates with horsehead – in a limo, of course. My trip to Kelowna was totally great.…
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June 25, 2009
Birth

More on the avatar body. My avatar has been pregnant. Several times. She has given birth to many creatures but in these images she is nursing her tiny avatar baby on Odyssey Island in Second Life. This theme of birth is both a part of the Machine I Am Project as well as being explored…
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January 31, 2009