Tag: World of Warcraft

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
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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October 21, 2011
/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
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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January 27, 2009
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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February 25, 2008