Seeing Spots, Being Dots (Dance of Mayhem Plus Homogeneity)

This is a performance that took place in SL and was shown live in Berlin on Feb. 15, 2009:



Seeing Spots, Being Dots (Dance of Mayhem Plus Homogeneity)

Best quality video here.

Visual Art - Juria Yoshikawa (Lance Shields)
Sound - Nnoiz Papp (Tobias Becker)
Videography - Evo Szuyuan (Brigit Lichtenegger)

Juria Yoshikawa: Kinetic environment and participatory performance
Nnoiz Papp: Musical composition and musical performance
Olga Wunderlich: Curator in rl and sl

In SL: 02/15/2008, part of the CARP3 Show, Diabolus Art Space
In RL: 02/15/2008, a part of the Directors Lounge Festival in Berlin, Scala in Friedrichstr

Let us suppose that we’re all just a temporary mishmash of dots on a screen. All of our energy, personality and uniqueness is just a collection of bouncing color dots creating seemingly meaningful patterns we call a virtual world. Zoom in and you are a sea of dots with no form. Zoom back and you’re just a spot on the map.

In celebration of all of our dottiness and spottiness, virtual installation artist Juria Yoshikawa joined up with composer-artist Nnoiz Papp to perform “Seeing Spots, Being Dots” at Diabolus Island as part of the art show CARP3. The performance was simultaneously shown at at the Scala in Friedrichstr. 112A as a part of the Directors Lounge Festival in Berlin.

Participation welcome:
The “dance” was open to all attendees of the virtual event. People received a dot costume and large kinetic sculptures to wear to take part in this improvised performance.

Memespelunk Revival Studio

Location in SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWDEV%20ITEC%20ISLE/29/129/35/

Residency/exhibit runs from April to May 2009.

Welcome to an adhoc attempt to recapture the fun and color of Memespelunk, the original studio sim of myself Juria Yoshikawa in 2007-2008. Thanks to the kindness of Kennesaw State University, I will be able to experiment with the virtual art medium and share it with the thriving SL art community. Feel free to wander around the sim exploring new and past artwork. I recommend viewing with your sun on midnight and with your sound on.

Metagumbo Filmscape

Metagumbo Filmscape from Juria Yoshikawa on Vimeo.

Some experimental audiovisual art at BiW and a chaotic interplay of sights and sounds. I used a variety of media from old art photos, words, reverse-played music, and megaprims roaming the sim. The text is based on a quote by Marshall Mcluhan. I suppose the work was meant as reaction to the many small, self-contained artworks on the BiW sim and I felt the need to comment by breaking down perspective and a sense of direction within the sim (ie. more sl, less rl connotations of ground and sky.)

Here are some stills of the work:

Drips and Drops

Drips and Drops from Juria Yoshikawa on Vimeo.

Drips and Drops is an abstract fantasy space full of gigiantic swirlies, happy bubbles and my sons eerie cello noises. This is about joy, plain and simple. I originally built this installation in December 2007 and recently rerezzed it Brooklyn is Watching on March 2009. More photos up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancesh/sets/72157603551616394/

Up in sl for a week at 150 meters above Brooklyn is Watching in SL.
slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/72/140/27

A Mess of Artwork (Week #52)

150 meters above Brooklyn is Watching in SL.
slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/72/140/27


Unlike the previous two weeks at BiW which seem focused on collective themes like rainbow stripes or window/walls, it's been a random week where I created various artworks scattered throughout the sim among other artists random works. Nonetheless, it's been a lot of fun.

The first piece in this set is called Intersection at BiW and is made up of thin black megaprims that randomly glide across the floor of sim with a brush-like texture animated in each to make them appear to strech and contract.

The second piece is a "art is anything you can get away with" and based on a quote by Marshall McLuhan. The piece is a combination of animated textures and distorted words in the surface of the water of the channel close to the entrance gate of BiW. The motion of the piece has a strange feeling of being alive and feels a bit "alien planet" to my eye.

The third piece is an older work Drips & Drops rerezzed at 150m above the sim. I've enjoyed bringing this piece back to life.

A Window Into Your Mind

An installation in direct response to podcast #50 at Brooklyn is Watching in Second Life. This piece considers the meaning of "otherness" of rl art critics looking at sl art work from the outside and uses samples from the podcast to show the underlying tones of the speakers.
location: slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/72/140/27

Here's the #50 podcast I was responding to:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://www.brooklyniswatching.com/podcast/biw50.mp3

Also the #51 the following where different artists-critics respond to this piece:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://www.brooklyniswatching.com/podcast/biw51.mp3

Big Rainbow Ichibot Retaliators

Improv art in response to Ichibot Nishi's rainbow turf at BiW. I'm the one in the striped costume and who made the huge animated replicas of myself posing in different gestures.

location: slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/72/140/27

looks best in sunset mode