Tag: Liz Solo

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
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
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
Rites

It was a pleasure to be a part of a four way collaborative team with some of my all time favourite people – Krista Vincent, Lynn Panting, Nicole Rousseau and I collaborated last fall on the presentation of the Orla Ensemble’s inter-disciplinary piece “Rites”. I worked as designer of the machinima sets and technical consultant…
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February 8, 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
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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July 3, 2012
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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June 7, 2012
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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June 7, 2012
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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March 6, 2012
Newfoundland Joy Award!

While at ISEA in Istanbul this year I got some great news – I am the proud recipient of the 2011 Newfoundland Joy Award for my upcoming hybrid video project “the machine” – merging video, 16 mm film and machinima. Woohoo! The award comes with in-kind support from NIFCO, The Atlantic Studio Cooperative, John…
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March 6, 2012
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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February 17, 2012
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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November 19, 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