“Through the Looking Glass” Art Exhibition Opening in Six Countries and Second Life
“Botgirl and Monk” One of my works in the show.
The “mixed reality” portion of the multi-artist art exhibition I first wrote about back in March 2009 is finally opening April 7 in galleries in Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, the USA and Second Life. Through the Looking Glass will feature the work of more than twenty artists [...]
Brief Proof-of Concept Mixing External Animation into SL Machinima With New Media Sharing Feature
This is my first tentative proof-of-concept playing around with the idea of integrating external video in an inworld Second Life machinima. It uses the new Media Sharing functionality that enables the flexible and interactive display of media directly on a prim.
For this test, I stood in front of a large prim displaying my “skull [...]
Mixed Reality International Art Exhibition Will Focus on Ambiguity of Identity
(shot of planning meeting yesterday)
After almost a year of conceptual incubation, we’re finally breaking (virtual) ground on the mixed-reality “Ambiguity of Identity’ Exhibition in preparation for an April 7th opening. The multi-artist show will be housed in a new “Museum of Transworld Identity” which will cover an entire Second Life Sim. The exhibition will be [...]
Starting Work on Exhibit for Museum of Virtual Art in Second Life
The Second Life 365 Days Project continues to prove itself as an inspirational practice. Today, I whipped together this Sunday afternoon video continuing experimentation with exposing the interface and the computer.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7765514&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Getting Back to the Ventriloquism Thread – Art and Artist
After slight detour, I’m back on ventriloquism and virtual identity path, reading The Origin of the Work of Art by Martin Heidegger. Please note that the circle you see in this image was created entirely within your mind.
The Dance of Art, Escape and Awakening Between Worlds
If you spend enough time in a virtual world your perception will eventually shift and become imbued with a sense of reality. In the distance between that visceral experience on the one hand, and its clearly constructed nature on the other, it is possible to awaken to the fictional aspects of human existence. My question [...]
How are a Bunny and a Duck like a Fat Old Human and a Hot Young Avatar
I started working a few months ago on what I thought was a brilliant idea for a video that would be unveiled at the upcoming Ambiguity of Identity show at New Caerleon. It was going to be a morph between humans and avatars, showing extreme changes in age, gender, etc. I prowled the Creative [...]
Art, Avatar and Self
(Continues The Emergence and Development of Virtual Identity)
The essential questions of existence, where sentience comes from and where it goes after death, are unknown. That said, even though the full nature of our innermost essence is shrouded in mystery, we can hack pretty far into the internal and external forces that create and shape our [...]
The Emergence and Development of Virtual Identity – Introduction
from “Botgirl vs. Human 01″
Like a lobster who does not feel itself being boiled in the slowly rising temperature of a cooking pot, few humans deeply experience the dramatic shifts in their sense of self as they age over time. Of course, most adults would agree upon reflection that they are in fact very different [...]
Killing Art
Chestnut Rau and Soror Nishi wrote interesting posts recently on the relative place and relationship of art, artist, narrative and viewer. I think “art” is killed or at least mortally wounded by being tied down and fixed to a single dimension. Trying to set constrained and rule-based definitions serves reason, but chokes the life out [...]
Virtual Art Initiative Launching Groundbreaking Exhibition Series
The The Virtual Art Initiative is an organization of artists, writers, musicians, and scholars who are using the immersive and interactive digital media of such virtual worlds as Second Life to develop new forms of artistic content. I’m happy to announce my participation in an eight month project it’s sponsoring to explore the fundamental [...]
A Very Good Drug
The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. Marshall McLuhan
Wow. The Book of Probes entered my brain like a hit of acid. It’s an anthology of “the most prescient aphorisms” from Marshall McLuhan’s life’s work.
Turning the pages has [...]
Art and Ego
I feel best when my creative expression is a private dance between me and my emerging work. The intimacy of the process and the authenticity of the eventual work is diminished when my attention is drawn to an imagined audience. Twyla Tharp shares a few thoughts on the topic in this brief video clip.
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Identity Circus Closes This Sunday
This week is your last chance to experience Botgirl’s Identity Circus. I’ll be removing all of the exhibits Sunday night at 8:00 PM, including the one-of-a-kind Avatar Transformer created by Zada Zenovka.
Here’s the teleport.
Exhibit Opening: Stop Making Sense and Dream
Stop Making Sense and Dream opens this Sunday, October 19, at 11am in Second Life. It’s a multi-artist collaborative exhibition exploring the nonsensical nature of dreams. I’m really psyched about a mountain-like sculpture Pixel Sideways and Trinity Halberstadt created for the show, based on my Digital Utopians sketch (pictured here.) Visitors will be able [...]
Cuddling with Jacek: Testing animations for art installation
Although my inner clock keeps ticking louder and faster, I am making good progress checking off to-do items for Sunday’s show. One of the exhibits I’m most looking forward to will give atendees a chance to cuddle with my chatbot. Sharing a romantic animation with an attractive yet empty avatar is a great way [...]
Please welcome my new collaborator Sabrinaa Nightfire
I am very lucky to have some incredible talent helping me prepare for the upcoming art exhibition that will be premiering on Sept. 20 in New Caerleon. I’ll be gushing a bit about all of them between now and then. Tonight, I want to appreciate Sabrinaa Nightfire who is building the structure that will [...]
Sex, Love, Art and Slavery
Rheta and Codie at Bloggers Ball and Slave Auction
Oh, what a weekend! Where to start? Okay…
Rheta Shan contributes land to start new Visual Arts CenterAbout a month ago, Rheta Shan, winner of Dusan Writer’s UI Design Contest, posted an offer to donate her mainland plots for charitable or artistic use. Since I had been [...]
Botgirl art exhibition slated for Sep. 20 on New Caerleon (corrected location)
I got Facebook email out of the blue the other day from Gary Zabel (RL)/ Georg Janick (SL), main founder of Second Life artist colony Caerleon Isle and experimental university sim New Caerleon. He asked if I’d be interested in doing a guest exhibition. It seems that one of their focuses is online [...]
Avatar self-portraiture on Flickr: Art or Onanisim?
What’s up with the incredibly prolific avatar self-portraiture evidenced on flickr? Here are a few categories I’ve noted:
The shiny new parent/lover/toy syndrome: I have a pair of childless human friends who got married and bought a small dog. I must have received links to a hundred or more images for the first couple of [...]
