Thursday, 14 June 2007
foal - furioso
I'm experimenting a litle with video in Second Life. Video can be shown on all surfaces. Here the same video is shown on the background and on all the forms the foal is made of. Sound is partly from the video shown ... in the video, and from a website about the wolverine.
The video shown on the objects is the video in the previous post HERE.
Monday, 4 June 2007
Friday, 1 June 2007
From Wirxli Flimflams Perfomances at Gallery urEN lUREN May 25
An incredible number of people/avatars came to the opening of my Gallery urEN lUREN last friday, May 25th! But now, Wirxli , who had two performances on the opening, is an art superstar, so of course people wanted to come. If you wasn't one of the lucky people who saw his performances, here you have a chance to get a litle of the feel that day form these documentaries I have made. The videos are about 4 minutes each, without sound, but the performances went on for 2 hours, with the sim crashing and heavy lag problems included.
Unfortunally, the second perfomance was not finished because Lisa Dapto from Melboure, Austalia, had so much trouble keeping herself in-world, that we had to call it off, but taking it up later, to finish it.
The results of the performances are now a part of the exhibition at Trollhaugen. You can also see the videos there.
So here is:
nOObject #1 - part 1 (first try)
nOObject #1 - part 2
Some pictures of the performance, in case you don't have time to watch the videos:
The pictures are only of nOObject #1.
See Wirxli's own long blogpost on the event here: http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/05/noobjectivity-1.html
where he explaines the idea behind his performance. About nOObject #2 - Ageplay relations - A family Affair... here: http://fwwixliwirxli.blogspot.com/2007/05/noobjectivity-ageplay-relations-family.html
This link leads you to FWwixli Swindlehurst', Wirxli's adoptive daughter's site. She is the chainsmoking girl who is hopping in vid nr 2 over here..
Enjoy!
Unfortunally, the second perfomance was not finished because Lisa Dapto from Melboure, Austalia, had so much trouble keeping herself in-world, that we had to call it off, but taking it up later, to finish it.
The results of the performances are now a part of the exhibition at Trollhaugen. You can also see the videos there.
So here is:
nOObject #1 - part 1 (first try)
nOObject #1 - part 2
Some pictures of the performance, in case you don't have time to watch the videos:
The pictures are only of nOObject #1.
See Wirxli's own long blogpost on the event here: http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/05/noobjectivity-1.html
where he explaines the idea behind his performance. About nOObject #2 - Ageplay relations - A family Affair... here: http://fwwixliwirxli.blogspot.com/2007/05/noobjectivity-ageplay-relations-family.html
This link leads you to FWwixli Swindlehurst', Wirxli's adoptive daughter's site. She is the chainsmoking girl who is hopping in vid nr 2 over here..
Enjoy!
Thursday, 24 May 2007
Grand Opening of Gallery urEN lUREN at Trollhaugen, Second Life
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)
To the gallery: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trollhaugen/147/219/26
( 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.
Hope to see you there!
To the gallery: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trollhaugen/147/219/26
Plurabelle Posthorn aka Nina Svenne
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Wirxli Flimflam at Trollhaugen May 25
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.
Curator: Plurabelle Posthorn
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trollhaugen/147/219/26
Featuring these in-world critics as Flimflam's special guests:
Dr. Lisa Dapto (Dr. Lisa Dethridge) - lisa.dethridge@rmit.edu.au
Dr. Pastichan Yifu (Dr. Patrick Foon Chan) - patrick.chan@ems.rmit.edu.au
BIOS:
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 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.
Curator: Plurabelle Posthorn
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trollhaugen/147/219/26
Featuring these in-world critics as Flimflam's special guests:
Dr. Lisa Dapto (Dr. Lisa Dethridge) - lisa.dethridge@rmit.edu.au
Dr. Pastichan Yifu (Dr. Patrick Foon Chan) - patrick.chan@ems.rmit.edu.au
BIOS:
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.
Monday, 21 May 2007
The Spirit Fens Art Festival, May 19
Written by Plurabelle Posthorn
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: THAT'S THE AUDIECNE AWARE
AuroraSkye Ashton shouts: congrats!!!!! :)
Xavier Mohr shouts: Congrats Sonia!
Suzuka Yongho shouts: Bonzai!
Tayzia Abattoir: Grats :)
Davina Glitter: whoohoo
Sonia Stardust: thank you!
Angel Enoch: yay
(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"
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 |  Sonia |
Enniv Zarf shouts: THAT'S THE AUDIECNE AWARE
AuroraSkye Ashton shouts: congrats!!!!! :)
Xavier Mohr shouts: Congrats Sonia!
Suzuka Yongho shouts: Bonzai!
Tayzia Abattoir: Grats :)
Davina Glitter: whoohoo
Sonia Stardust: thank you!
Angel Enoch: yay
| 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"
Monday, 16 April 2007
Gazira Babeli at Exhibit A
Written by Plurabelle Posthorn
This article is also posted at the Virtual Artist Alliance blog.
Monday 16th of April Gazira Babelis exhibition [Collateral Damage] opened at the Odyssey Island at the Exhibit A Gallery, in Second Life. It's a retrospective show, but there are also many brand new pieces made for this exhibition.
On the occation of this exhibition (of one of the best SL-artist according to Plurabelle Posthorn), there has been written a long and good article: Gaz', Queen of the Desert by Domenico Quaranta, where you'll find a lot of information, viewpoints of Gaziras art projects and some good links for further reading. You'll find the press release for the exhibition HERE.
Below, a beautiful creature with blue wings is being deformed by one of Gaziras Avatar on Canvas, a series of three Francis Bacon paintings appropriations, where the main figure has been replaced by a three-dimensional scripted chair. I've always wished my neck was a bit longer.
Below: This is Nudes descending a staircase, also a new piece. Just recently Tasrill Sieyes made an avatar looking like Marcel Duchamps Nude descending a staircase. Gazira lets canvases with nudes fall of the wall and arrange themselves randomly as they fall down a staircase. Some of the paintings are SL nudes, and as far as I could see, it looks like Cicciolina has got a Second Life too.
Once a nude is kicked down from the wall, a new one rezzes. It's like a nightmare. Nudes, nudes, nudes. They are deposited and finally disappears, but there will always be new nudes. A never-ending stream of nudes descending staircases.
Cd_grey goo , picture above. Gaziras black full bright hat on a pedestal. Notecard tells you to click on it. You do and the whole gallery is filled with question marks or bananas (the banana created by Andy Warhol for the cover of The Velvet Underground’s first LP) or Super Marios.
Here comes a piece also using Andy Warhols art with a special Second Life twist to it...
Soupcans trying to eat you, or trying to can you as Second soup. The issue of food. Food in Second Life is absurd. To eat or drink or smoke is totally without meaning. But soup we are. (Why is it so hard to do something original? Why all this reenacting of real life. Are we afraid of letting it go? Afraid of loosing contact with this thing called real life? It's like some sort of Second Life religion; believing that another life is possible, after this one is logged off. )
The "Don't say: New Media" piece...
A black cloud with form of a drop or is it a quotation mark on the floor. Hoovering text: Dont say: new media. Of couse you say: new media. Everybody say new media, new media, they write new media, say new media. I never say new media. How does it feel to say new media?
You: new media
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Don't Say NEW MEDIA!
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry!
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry!
You: Sorry!
(I'm never going to say it again. Exception: I'll say it to Gaziras "Don't say: New Media" piece...)
This article is also posted at the Virtual Artist Alliance blog.
Monday 16th of April Gazira Babelis exhibition [Collateral Damage] opened at the Odyssey Island at the Exhibit A Gallery, in Second Life. It's a retrospective show, but there are also many brand new pieces made for this exhibition.
On the occation of this exhibition (of one of the best SL-artist according to Plurabelle Posthorn), there has been written a long and good article: Gaz', Queen of the Desert by Domenico Quaranta, where you'll find a lot of information, viewpoints of Gaziras art projects and some good links for further reading. You'll find the press release for the exhibition HERE.
 | Two pieces made for this exhibition are called U are here. They are exactly what my humanist friends asked for a couple of weeks ago: Doc: Now if you could just touch the paintings and travel into their world... sort of a Third Life in Second Life. Here you can touch the sculptures and be transported into it. It's raining in the desert. It's because the umbrella is there. |
From Domenico Quarantas article:
Created on occasion of the exhibition [Collateral Damage], U Are Here (April 2007) consists in two sculptures which violate the pact of trust implicit in the practice of teleporting. Or rather, they represent an overly-literal application of the latter. The sculptures are two simple models on pedestals: the first represents a desert with some archeological ruins, the other a room with a window we can peep into to see what’s inside: a banal-looking office with a clock, a desk and a computer. By clicking on the models we are transported into the setting in question: an arid, apparently infinite desert, or a closed room with no way out. Have we been shrunk or just taken hostage inside a “real” version of the setting represented by the two sculptures?
-excerpt from "Gaz', Queen of the Desert" by Domenico Quaranta
Below, a beautiful creature with blue wings is being deformed by one of Gaziras Avatar on Canvas, a series of three Francis Bacon paintings appropriations, where the main figure has been replaced by a three-dimensional scripted chair. I've always wished my neck was a bit longer.
Below: This is Nudes descending a staircase, also a new piece. Just recently Tasrill Sieyes made an avatar looking like Marcel Duchamps Nude descending a staircase. Gazira lets canvases with nudes fall of the wall and arrange themselves randomly as they fall down a staircase. Some of the paintings are SL nudes, and as far as I could see, it looks like Cicciolina has got a Second Life too.
Once a nude is kicked down from the wall, a new one rezzes. It's like a nightmare. Nudes, nudes, nudes. They are deposited and finally disappears, but there will always be new nudes. A never-ending stream of nudes descending staircases.
Cd_grey goo , picture above. Gaziras black full bright hat on a pedestal. Notecard tells you to click on it. You do and the whole gallery is filled with question marks or bananas (the banana created by Andy Warhol for the cover of The Velvet Underground’s first LP) or Super Marios.
In October 2006 a minor apocalypse hit a beach in Second Life, burying it under a flood of skipping Super Marios. In technical jargon this is called “grey goo”, an expression used in nanotechnology and science fiction to describe a hypothetical apocalyptic scenario in which self-replicating robots consume all living matter on the earth. Although the cataclysm did generate a certain level of anxiety, Gazira appears to be more interested in setting off a mental short circuit than a genuine system collapse. This was why she populated the three-dimensional, baroque world of Second Life with the definitive icon of the 8-bit era.The exhibition is loaded with art and pop cultural references. Gazira is working very much with appropriations. Quaranta's article is also full of references. Namedropping? (I had my head cut of once, for namedropping. I'm still a litle sore. ) Whether it could be called namedropping in this case I can't tell for sure. If it is, is it bad? Well, I love all the reference stuff in Gaziras work. It's fun, humorous, raw.
-excerpt from "Gaz', Queen of the Desert" by Domenico Quaranta
Here comes a piece also using Andy Warhols art with a special Second Life twist to it...
 |
-: You love Pop Art - Pop Art hates you! :-Second Soup, performed in May 2006 (and recorded on video), sees Gazira tackling a giant can of Campbell’s soup, another pop art icon. The artist is looking at it on a poster, when all of a sudden the can leaves its paper domain and grabs hold of her. From that moment on she just can’t get rid of it. Gazira jumps, flies and runs, but the can always catches up with her. Pop art as an irksome deity, a cumbersome legacy that we just can’t seem to shed? |
The "Don't say: New Media" piece...
A black cloud with form of a drop or is it a quotation mark on the floor. Hoovering text: Dont say: new media. Of couse you say: new media. Everybody say new media, new media, they write new media, say new media. I never say new media. How does it feel to say new media?
You: new media
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Don't Say NEW MEDIA!
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry!
: Plurabelle Posthorn.. Say Sorry!
You: Sorry!
(I'm never going to say it again. Exception: I'll say it to Gaziras "Don't say: New Media" piece...)
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| Buy Gaz' 4 one Linden! The full outfit that makes the Gazira Babeli avatar (minus her skin) for sale: 1L$! So if you go to a slingo, work as a window washer, or rides the steam train at the Caledon SIM, and you think you recognize this characteristic figure dressed in black with dark glasses and a flexi top hat as Gazira Babeli, it's probably not her. Not after 16th of April 2007. It could be me, it could be anybody. It might very well be me, because I felt very comfortable in the Gazira outfit, this lovely female body shape all in black. |
 Now, this exhibition is full of adventure and lots of inspiration for other SL artists I would think. Many of Gaziras scripts can be found on her website free for us to try out in our own art experiments. Just some words about: |
Come Together (April 2007). Picture above. If you click on one of the pose balls you will start to dance or make other movements up on the pedestal. Hopefully someone will join you and you will get very intimate, even luckier; you may experience a treesome, a fivesome... No, of course this is not about sex, it's about sculpture. You have to make the sculpture yourself, like in the Avatar on canvas, you are becoming art or a part of Gaziras art work. Come Together for a random composite sculpture. There will be no art without you. (Could also be a reference for the SL group tool called Come Together...) |
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 | Some avatars are developing their physical relationship on other terms, like Wirxli here and his adoptive avatar daughter Fwwixli. |
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