Machinima Vérité

Wagner James Au aka Hamlet Au interviewed me about the making of the 4Jetpacks4 video and posted it on New World Notes.
Since he was on the original tour, and starring in the video, I'm very happy he likes the result! "As an involuntary actor in the machinima, I'm slightly biased, but I think her final product is spectacular and unique, BioShock meets Fritz Lang." he says.. wow!!!
(For the record, I usually don't sneak up on people, and was actually asked to film)

4Jetpacks4

Just finished the video documentation of 4Jetpacks4, an interactive story telling performance lead by Bryn Oh.

In this performance a group of avatars was brought on a tour of a research facility. An unfortunate event results in the arrival of a tornado. The group must flee back to retrieve a jetpack in order to escape.

The video shows beautiful art by Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves and Nonnatus Korhonen, who also play the scientists. It also features a most amazing tornado by Tryptofaa Sands. The visitors are SLebrities Alpha Auer, Bettina Tizzy, Chimera Cosmos, Hamlet Au, Larry Pixel, Max Newbold and Tayzia Abattoir.

The piece was performed at the Caerleon Sim in Second Life, and curated by Georg Janick, for the Virtual Art Initiative, and the video will be exhibited in the will in the Harbor Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in April 2010.

More info at the Creative Machinery website.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse at NRK television

Here is the archived stream of spekter interviewing Leif Inge aka Gumnosophistai Nurmi featuring Avatar Orchestra Metaverse containing some seconds of Orchestral Investigation #9 :-)

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/480658

AOM starting at around 39:00

From Creative Machinery

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse on Norwegian television

Norwegian broadcaster NRK has interviewed Avatar Orchestra Metaverse member Gumnosophistai Nurmi about Second Life for it's "spekter" program. Spekter is a background information program, and its todays is about internet and how the new networking uses like Facebook Twitter and Second Life affect our lives.
If all goes well, we will see Gumno and hopefully a fragment of the machinima Orchestral Investigation #9 as the last item of the show.

The spekter show will be broadcast tonight at 20:10 CET at NRK 2.
http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/spekter/

Residency at Caerleon

From Creative Machinery

I am very glad to have a residency at the Virtual Art Initiative. I have a huge space at the Caerleon sims to work on a video installation or whatever I want.

Also I'm involved in the creation of machinima documenting an 8 month project of collaborative exploration of the fundamental dimensions that make the art of virtual worlds a unique aesthetic medium. Each of these dimensions - immersion, interaction, ambiguity of identity, environmental fluidity, artificial agency, and globally networked collaboration - is being explored in a collaboration of artists under the direction of a project leader lasting approximately six weeks.
The collaborations are being thoroughly documented in images, text, and machinima film, and will generate work that will be exhibited in the "real world" Harbor Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in April 2010.

The first dimension - immersion - is currently being explored by Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves and Nonnatus Korhonen, in the project Immersiva, an immersive interactive story telling performance.

From Creative Machinery

Evo Szuyuan machinima at ARENA

From Creative Machinery

From february 13, 2009 at 12am PST to February 15, 2009 at 12am PST I have a video exhibition at ARENA, organized by uqbar. media art culture and Rinascimento Virtuale.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/47/222/722

On 4 screens in the shape of a 50 x 50 x 30 meter box I will show 4 videos I worked on in 2008: seeing spOts, being dOts, Orchestral Investigation #9, 17 Unsong Songs, and the draft trailer for Fly me / Volavola.

From Creative Machinery

From Creative Machinery

Article on Volavola at digicult and more

Marco Riciputi wrote another nice article about Volavola / Fly me - the movie after interviewing me for the 41st issue of digimag, the italian e-magazine on digital culture.

Overall the draft trailers for the movie have been received very well, and people around the world are genuine curious to see the final result! The project was posted on the Korean Virtual World news blog TOV virtual, the Russian blog experiment.ru, The Second Life Thailand fan site, Warhol Stars, New World Notes, and more.
There is also an interview with Berardo Carboni on Show Farm, and the trailers are now in the official Second Life machinima showcase.