Category: Virtual Worlds
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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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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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My Quantum Virtual Poet Was Born This Week
Over the last many months I’ve been working with teams of programmers to create another unique virtual artist (See Whale Watching in VR for documentation of my first virtual artist beings). This time I have created a virtual Poet NPC (Non-Player Character) inside of NEOS VR who think using a combination of technologies, including a…
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Summon the wild
As part of the ongoing project – Quantum Computing in NEOS VR – I am working with machine learning on a writing project. I trained a machine learning program to read my lyrics and then instructed it to write new lyrics in the style of Liz (JE) Solo. Here are a few of the results…
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under world exhibit
These videos document my most recent installation and performance, under world. The piece features Artificially Intelligent NPCs (Non Player Characters) – twin cyber whales who live in a virtual world in the online platform of NEOS VR. These underwater creatures compose their own unique songs in real time based on their interpretations of one of…
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under world
I’ve been performing many audio experiments as part of the Meta Creation in NEOS VR project, produced by the BBMC. The goal of the project is to create a Non-Player Character, or NPC, inside of the social VR world NEOS VR, that is enhanced by machine learning software and is able to compose its own…
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Metacreation in NEOS VR
These are screen grabs from inside NEOS VR where I’m working on a new project. Meta Creation in NEOS VR is a BBMC collaboration between myself and my long-time colleague, Dr. Jeremy Turner in Vancouver. We are working with multiple layers of scripting and specialized programs to create unique NPCs (Non-Player Characters) that “live” in…
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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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hybrid:fusion
Coming up in August – I will be experimenting with different dimensions as I travel to the future in my latest performance piece – hybrid:fusion. Join me in my studio on August 25 and 26 at 8 PM as I explore inter-dimensional portals on a quest to reconcile the present with the future. Watch live…
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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 Asteroid
The Asteroid is a new performance piece examining themes and ideas around the relationship between technology, isolation and desire. The Asteroid saw its first presentation in December at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. This was part of a live streamed performance art event curated and presented by 7a*md8, aka the Toronto Performance Art Collective .…
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Second Front on Third Space
The Second Front joined Randall Packer’s Third Space Network on Saturday October 28 for a lively discussion on our twelve years of working together in online performance. It was a trip down memory lane as Randall led the discussion with some excellent and well researched questions. The event was open to the public and there…
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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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