Category: Virtual Worlds

Senses Places at Open Sim Conference

Here are some images from a performance/demonstration with Senses Places in a mixed reality participatory performance environment. The event took place earlier this week at the 2016 Open Sim Conference.. Senses Places is a project by Isabel C. Valverde and collaborators. I have had the great opportunity to be a part of this project for…
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December 16, 2016
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
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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December 17, 2015
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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October 7, 2014
Dance Me Documentation

I just received the documentation photos and video from of my performance “Dance me” (aka Submerged) from the latest Festival of New Dance. I am so happy with the way they came out! Thank you to Jared Reid, the photographer, and Neighbourhood Dance Works for providing artists with such excellent documentation! A selection of photos from…
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February 11, 2014
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
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
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 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
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