Friday 25th of May I will open the first exhibition at my gallery Gallery urEN lUREN at Trollhaugen. 2pm SL-tid. So it will also be the official opening of the gallery itself. Everybody is welcome! ( get a Second Life account HERE)
As the poster says I show some own my own artwork, invited guests and friends from rl (real life) and SL (Second Life), and some of the artworks in my art collection (I've started as an art collector too!).
"nOObjectivity #1" - A critical nOObject series #1 by Wirxli Flimflam. At the opening Wirxli Flimflam aka Jeremy Turner is going to do an art performance with two guests Lisa Dapto and Pastichan Yifu. The performance will start 2pm and go on til about 4pm. More info can be found in the previous post HERE.
This friday will be the official opening of my Second Life gallery Gallery urEN lUREN at Trollhaugen. The famous avatar performance artist Wirxli Flimflam will do a performance during the opening. Here is his info on the event:
FRIDAY, May 25, 2007: 2-4 PM SL time...
"nOObjectivity #1" - A critical nOObject series #1 by Wirxli Flimflam.
1) Wirxli Flimflam (Jeremy Owen Turner) is a performance artist and the co-founder of the pioneering performance art group in Second Life called, Second Front - http://slfront.blogspot.com
Flimflam is also the Director of Avatar Development for the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art in Vancouver, Canada.http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com
2) Lisa Dethridge has taught at New York University, the American Film Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); the Australian Film, TV and Radio School (AFTRS) and University of Melbourne. She has a PhD, in Media Ecology from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. (hons.) in Fine Arts and Lit. from Melbourne University. Twenty years’ experience researching and writing for film, television, theatre, radio, print and telecoms in Australia and the United States. Research interests – • Virtual spaces, especially Second Life • How artists may work usefully with virtual and artificial reality • Machine and screen metaphors for the projection of self • The game engine as metaphor for virtual community • The history of cybernetics and systems theory • Aerospace and military communication systems
Lisa has conducted research across the spectrum of electronic communications and media. She has worked as a research analyst for the United Nations Secretariat in New York, for NASA (US National Aerospace and Aeronautics Agency) in Houston and for Telstra and Telecom Australia. Most recently she has designed scripts for Multi-User Virtual Environment Second Life for clients including Telstra Big Pond and ABC Television. She has produced and developed script and story material for major and independent studios and networks including Fox, Warner, Working Title, MTV, CBS, NBC, Ted Turner CNN, Granada, SBS, Dempa Japan, Conde Nast; the Australian Film Commission, the Film Finance Corporation, ABC Australia, Artist Services, 3RR Radio, TV New Zealand and Chapel-off-Chapel Theatre, Melbourne. Lisa has written for many news and lifestyle magazines including regular columns on film, architecture and travel for Vogue Magazine, Australia. She is the author of Writing Your Screenplay, published by Allen and Unwin and of stage play The War Against Short Trousers (Chapel-off-Chapel, Melbourne, 2003.)As a performance artist, she has exhibited at the Sydney Biennale and the La Trobe Uni. Sculpture Trienniale. She also worked with electronic band “The Artificial Organs” who released the album “Momento Mori” 1983. Writing Your Screenplay published by Allen & Unwin, 1 July 2003http://www.allenandunwin.com/shopping/product.asp?ISBN=1741140838
3) Patrick Chan has just completed his PhD at Melbourne's RMIT University in Australia. Chan's dissertation examined the production of South-East Asian post-colonial spatiality and subjectivity in relation to theoretical writing and design practices through the School of Architecture and Design at Melbourne’s RMIT University. His current research continues to look at how theoretical writing can become part of the design process and is not merely as a tool for reflection. This entails looking at different ways in which designers and design theorists may treat the composition of theoretical texts.
The Spirit Fens Art Festival in Second Life was a part of Artomatic 2007, Artomatic being a multimedia art festival in Washington DC featuring more than 600 area artists and performers. "The free five-week event, to be held April 13–May 20, will feature nearly 90,000 square feet of paintings, sculptures, photography and other creative work." More about the rl Artomatic HERE. The Spirit Fens Art Festival was hosted by Morning Dagger (aka Jack Whitsitt) at the SintixErr Gallery, Enniv Zarf and PK Works: Krystal Epic - A Whole New Kind of Experience (See Cyanide Seelowe's review of Enniv Zarf's PK Works: Listening to Art - A Journey through Krystal Epic), Xavier Mohr and SL Reports, Frageurs Hock and MH Motors.
Now, some weeks ago they annouced a competition: a Scripted Practical Sculpture competition, 20 prims max. A litle later a competitions for 2D art was also annouced. Three prizes in each category: Grand Prize of L$10,000 decided by the Jury, Audience Prize of L$10,000 decided by the voters,a combination of SL audience and RL audience from the Artomatic Festival in Washington DC, One Runner-up prize of L$2000. At 4pm all the competition entries were up, and people tped in. Enniv Zarf opened the show, and what a great opening: AOM! The Avatar Orchestra Metavers! I finally got to hear them in a live concert. In the middle of the picture here is the instrument build by Bingo Onomatopoeia. See Wirxli Flimflams (one of the performers) report on the event HERE. The Avatar Orchestra Metavers own blog HERE. You can hear earlier recordings of the to pieces they played this evening here: Miulew Takahe(bjørn eriksson)'s Rue Blache and Bingo Onomatopoeia's "Wee.No.Kresh" (click on the links). Here's my fan video from the concert:
After this marvelous concert, it was time to look closely at all the fine entries for the competions, talking to the other artist, oh, I forgot to tell! I had three entries for the competition myself (so I had to be there...), and listening to the live music that was streamed from Washington DC. A couple of hours later it was time for the awards.
Enniv Zarf shouts: WINNING THE TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF L$10000 Enniv Zarf shouts: IS THE MAKER OF ORNAGLYPH62 BY SONIA STARDUST Sonia Stardust: Yay! thank you! elros Tuominen: Congrats Sonia :))))) AuroraSkye Ashton shouts: Bravo Enniv Zarf: THAT'S THE AUDIENCE AWARD Azadine Umarov: bravo
Enniv Zarf shouts: THE WINNER OF THE JURY PRIZE OF THE SPIRIT FENS 2D REAL LIFE NON-FRACTAL ART COMPETITION Enniv Zarf shouts: WINNING THE TOTAL OF L$10,000....YES...THAT'S 10K Enniv Zarf shouts: GOES TO..... Enniv Zarf shouts: SOULFUL PRAYER BY AURORASKYE ASHTON Veritas Variscan: oooooh Davina Glitter: clap
Auroraskye in her lovely dress.
Enniv Zarf shouts: ANYWYAS...RUNNER UP TO THE AUDIENCE AWARD WINNING L$2000 Enniv Zarf shouts: IS ELROS TUOMINEN FOR HIS DANCING FLOWER elros. You can see his dancing flower in the background
(It was so fun, but also terrifying. I never win anything, I said to myself. Why is that? What's wrong with me?)
Enniv Zarf shouts: THE WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE AWARD WINNING A TOTAL OF L$10,000 IS...... AuroraSkye Ashton: I want to hide behind a chair AuroraSkye Ashton: lmao elros Tuominen: thanks to you all..... Enniv Zarf shouts: .... Tayzia Abattoir: rofl Ariella Masala: congrats elros *grins* elros Tuominen: thnx Ariella :) Enniv Zarf shouts: OMAYD GONTYUK FOR HIS WORK ZORABOT Sonia Stardust: yay!!!!! Angel Enoch: Hurrah!!! elros Tuominen: Congrats!!!! :))))))) (I havn't got a picture of him or his amazing animated poetic sculpture...)
Enniv Zarf shouts: THE RUNNERUP TO THE JURY AWARD FOR THE FIRST EVER SPIRIT FENS SCRIPTED PRACTICAL SCULTPURE COMPETITION WINNING A TOTAL OF L$2000 IS .... Luker Esparza feels the thick tension in the air Veritas Variscan: LOL Luker Esparza: lol Xavier Mohr: lol Veritas Variscan: /drumroll Enniv Zarf shouts: INA CANTUR'S WORK, OSTIUM (I voted for her. It is a lock. You've got to solve a puzzle to have a landmark. Very much like you have in videogames.)
Enniv Zarf shouts: FOR THE FINAL JURY PRIZE OF L$10,000 Luker Esparza cheers loudly! Veritas Variscan: Congratulations , Ina! elros Tuominen: congrats Ina :)) AuroraSkye Ashton: Congrats Ina Xavier Mohr: yay Enniv Zarf shouts: FOR THE FIRST EVER SPIRIT FENS SCRIPTED PRACTICAL SCULPTURE COMPETITION GOES TO....... Enniv Zarf shouts: AND THE WINNER OF THE L$10,000 PRIZE MONEY IS Luker Esparza plays the drum roll elros Tuominen: :) Veritas Variscan provides drumroll Azadine Umarov: hooray!!! Enniv Zarf shouts: I AM A BIRD NOW --- BY PLURABELLE POSTHORN......CONGRATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
??????????! Me! I won! My "I am a bird now - Sound Trampoline"
