Virtual art in SL is about freeing oneself up to create in ways impossible in real life. This is documentation of my on-going virtual projects in SL.
Speak Your Mind
Every artist needs to hear feedback from people about her work to see different perspectives on the work. I encourage you to leave comments, ideas and questions on the blog.
Amethyst Rumination Cube is a condensed, mixed sensory piece I cooked up a while ago but never found the opportunity to share. Now, at the new BiW at the KU sim, I've dug it out and brought back to life as a space to meditate, socialize quietly, be inside and outside at the same moment.
See a slide show of more photos taken of this piece on Flickr here.
This work was an offshoot from another installation and machinima I made called Gnossienne Groggy Deep. View the video here: vimeo.com/1953611
Best viewed with sun on midnight and sound on. Follow the landmark to tp directly into the center of the Cube.
For the Real Un-Real show for Netfilmmakers in Copenhagen on August 23rd, I was asked to provide an artist CV. To put it together, it was interesting looking through 2 and half years worth of virtual art exhibitions. Have a look...
Netfilmmakers are hosting their 17th edition of new media artists and art talks Real-Un-Real around SL machinima and I was fortunate to be invited by curator and new media artist Sachiko Hayashi to be one of the 3 artists who will exhibit a machinima on the site and give an artist talk in Copenhagen on 8/23/2009. The other artists that I feel lucky to exhibit along side are long time net artist and author Alan Sondheim and the celebrated SL artist Gazira Babel. Alan and I will be present for art talks on 8/23.
"Real-Un-Real" exhibit in the words of the curator : “The purpose of this edition is to present “machinima,” a new genre which has been on its emergence as an established art medium. The three works presented here are created with avatars, and all the artists are well active in the virtual world Second Life that has attracted much attention from artists of various fields (architecture, music, visual, performance, etc). While the selected works take advantage of possibilities with virtual world imagery in various ways, the common denominator for this selection has been their focus on alternative narrative quality not confined to filmic story-telling.”
The "alternative narrative quality not confined to filmic storytelling" led Sachiko to choose my machinima and art piece Broken Rainbow Cloudy Night. This machinina can be seen on my Vimeo page here. I'm looking forward to sharing my work and exchanging ideas with Alan, Sachiko and local Danish new media art enthusiasts while in Copenhagen. I will also be posting on the Netfilmmakers blog soon next to Alan's post. I will also post more on my blog during the event in the coming weeks.
Netfilmmakers’ 17.edition: "Real-Un-Real: Imagery from the Virtual"
Curator: Sachiko Hayashi
Presents works by: - Alan Sondheim - Gazira Babel - Juria Yoshikawa (SL) / Lance Shields (RL)
Launch and artist talk: Date: August 23rd 2009. Time: 13:00-16:00 Place: Medical Museion, Bredgade 62, DK-1260 Copenhagen K
About Netfilmmakers Netfilmmakers.dk is a non-commercial net gallery and netart and netvideo which exhibits a new edition every 3 months and is curated by guest curators - Danish and international. Every edition addresses a new theme which explores content and form to explore the net as a space of art. It is partially supported by the Danish Arts Council.
At Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn the RL opening of the BIW BEST OF YEAR ONE FEST occurred with crowds of enthusiastic viewers as seen in this photo. I find the Paparazzi quality of this photo amusing and telling that the work at Brooklyn is Watching is really turning heads. Part of this is owed to organizer/founder Jay Van Buren (pictured on left) and much to the 30 artists chosen in the 1st years best. I am happy to be a part of this crowd of talented artists. Encore!
In "Are You OK?" as part of the Brooklyn is Watching "Best of Year One Festival", I was invited to create a virtual environment for avatars to perform in and which would then become a mixed reality installation at the Jack the Pelican Presents gallery in Brooklyn NY. The av interactions with the immersive art would be projected in the rl gallery for rl visitors to experience the art from an av's perspective. Also creating work in SL is my good friend Oberon Onmura who invited me to join the event. I adapted my own work "The Wild West of My Watercolor Set" to make a winding walkthrough to allow an av (and the gallery visitors) to experience the work from different perspectives and levels of immersion.
Directed by Bianca Ahmadi and Juan Rubio Jeff Ertz : Live Sound Virtual Art: Oberon Onmura and Juria Yoshikawa
A good sl friend of mine Velazquez Bonetto in Germany who runs a virtual art space and event called CARP put together this e-book of my work that spans two years. It's a really nice favor he's done for me and makes for a great record. Thanks Vela!
