Category: Virtual Worlds
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My Little Blue Fairy
The following images are from the upcoming “Machine I Am” release. This little blue fairy – my main avvie in SL – plays an important role. Here she is dancing at the Last Art Center in a scene from the piece.
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Methods for Contacting the Dead
Here are some images I created for a group show curated last summer by the amazing Jo Cook. The show took place at Lucky’s Gallery in Vancouver. These images document the many divination techniques I used in virtual space in efforts to make contact with the dead. The video piece below, “neila ni” was also…
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Avatar Body
I have been working in Photoshop with images captured in Second Life and am in the process of creating a full series themed around the Avatar Body. Here are a few early experiments.
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Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
I have been having a great time working with the online orchestra – Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. Members participate from all over North America, Europe and beyond. We perform frequently – compositions created by members of the collective. We play the compositions on virtual instruments also designed by artists of the collective. I have been working…
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WoW Science Conference
I’m back at blogging. I have been so immersed in this project all year that I had to drop the blog for awhile. But now it is time to document and start preparing for the release of “Machine I Am” – a standalone video piece that merges real and virtual spaces by pushing machinima, online…
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The Mighty Sliz, of the Horde, is born!
The Mighty Sliz has come into being, born online last night in the Demon Soul realm of the World of Warcraft. I am a Troll Mage. My first order of business was to up my stats and get familiar with the interface. I spent a few hours at this and must say I found WoW…
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Amazing in Amsterdam
Below is my first machinima piece, made about a year ago, an experimental video called Amazing, music by Lizband. It is currently being presented in Amsterdam in an installation context as a part of this PlanetArt Project. For those in the area the exhibition is happening 24/7 t/m 28 feb 2008 at PLANETART – ViolaVirus,…
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First Blog Post
Welcome to my Project blog – created to document my adventures in Machinima, virtual-space based and integrated performance. I am currently experimenting in the virtual environments of Second Life and the RPG World of Warcraft. I am also tooling with video game environments, especially S-NES. I am developing a new video work that will merge…
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