Category: Virtual Worlds

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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October 21, 2011
Night Gardening

Night Gardening by lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks 2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival People and avatars from around the world garden simultaneously in the virtual world of Second Life and in a quiet backyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Starring Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand, Patrick Lichty, Mike Kean, Anne Pickard and many avatars.…
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September 3, 2010
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
The Death of An Avatar

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hcFTFOseI&w=560&h=315] On Valentines Day, 2010, the artist known as Wirxli Flimflam publicly took his own avatar’s life over his unrequited love for the artist known as SaveMe Oh. This machinima documents the sad event. To find out more see Wirlxi Flimflam’s Memorial Blog: http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com And SaveMe Oh’s Blog: http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com
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April 3, 2010
Eat the Feeling

Ronald McDonald and his Little Buddy prepare for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. “Eat the Feeling” is a short machinima video created for the React 2010 Exhibit by Liz Solo and Erik Hoff Rzepka. React 2010 is a web and gallery exhibit curated by the Alternator Center for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, B.C. – “engaging artists…
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February 26, 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
Live Home Alien Birth

These photos are from the performance of “Live Home Alien Birth” that took place at the Alternator Centre for the Contemporary Arts in Kelowna B.C. in April 2009. The performance included appearances by Second Front and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. More documentation from this project coming soon. These photos by the amazing Bibbe Hansen of…
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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
Fau and I

I have been playing in Photoshop again, quite fascinated now with manipulating images from Second Life. Am looking into making prints in the coming months. Here are some experimental images taken while hanging out last night with Fau Ferdinand. I find the inner structures of the avatar body very interesting.
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January 31, 2009