Category: Virtual Worlds
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AOM coming to St. John’s
Here is a set of photos of Humming Pera/Tina Pearson, Maxxo Klaar, Frieda Korda and I setting up on Odyssey for the upcoming Avatar Orchestra Metaverse performance at this year’s Sound Symposium. The performance is a hybrid-reality concert that bridged the gap between real and the virtual space. The performance features original Avatar Orchestra compositions, including…
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UpsideDown World
Lately I have been exploring different processes in the creation of hybrid reality work, experimenting with how I can merge real life theatre, film, animation, dance, movement and/or choreography with virtual performances and events. At the end of a year of exploration I was surprised to find that I am most at home with the…
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Super Art League at Low Lives: Occupy!
Here is a machinima I recently made in DC Universe Online documenting the Super Art League! as we occupy the Metropolis Mercantile Bank in DCU as part of the 2012 Low Lives: Occupy! event. March 3, 2012. In this video: Jeremy Turner/Idea Cyclone, Erik Rzepka/zisuthra szepka, Joseph Delappe/NamJunePaikman, Liz Solo/Slizello, Ben Poynter/Doctor Atramentos, Ben Unterman/The Underliner, Patrick…
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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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Super Art League!
The Super Art League is a group of performance artist superheroes in DC Universe Online. The league is comprised of established and emerging virtual worlds/video-game performance artists from around the world – including members of the performance art group in Second Life known as Second Front. Active members include: Idea Cyclone (Jeremy Owen Turner, Canada),…
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Hybrid Performance with AOM
Performing Pauline Oliveros/Free Noyse’s “Hello Vancouver” with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and Real Life players. This performance was part of a series of demonstrations at the New Music Network in Montreal. See: http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#paradigms http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#stretched
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From InWorld
Here are a couple of screen shots from InWorld – my recent one woman theatre performance piece about a recluse gamer searching the metaverse for her avatar lover, missing in real life wartime. Here Lucy Darling enters the Vortex Pinnacle temple in World of Warcraft. Lucy achieves Level 85! This is a shot from Lucy’s…
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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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Occupy Wall Street Bus
Recently, in solidarity with OWS, I met up with associates in Blue Mars Lite to find and occupy Wall Street virtually. The event was organized by my friends Jeremy O. Turner and Jacquelene Drinkall. Blue Mars Lite uses Google Street View as its interface. So your avatar can walk around the streets of the world.…
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UpsideDown World (Pearls for Pigs)
Upside Down World (Pearls for Pigs) is a hybrid reality performance piece for one live performer and two avatars. Video of the the live performance space is streamed into Second Life as the virtual performance space is projected onto the floor. Here are a series of photos by Justin Hall from the premiere performance at…
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InWorld opens this Weekend!
Roles 4 Women Theatre Company is proud to present the first show of its inaugural season – Liz Solo‘s multi-reality performance piece “InWorld”, live at the LSPU Hall Second Space,Thursday November 24 to Sunday November 27 at 8:30 PM. A stand up comedienne has given up “the life” and taken to gaming full time. She now lives alone with her…
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Fire
Digging through my archives and coming across early photos. Here I burn…
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Slut Walk in WoW
The Third Faction recently returned from Turkey 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 our workshops we…
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