Volavola screening in Casino Luxembourg

From Creative Machinery

From 29 January to 1st May 2011 Casino Luxembourg is hosting an exhibition of Human Atopic Space presented in the “Aquarium” and the basement. The members of Human Atopic Space are highlighting artists at the centre of an exhibition where virtual realities are either at the heart of the creative process or are vectors of a reflection which engages them.

The exhibition AFK (Away From Keyboard)is curated by Margherita Balzerani. As a part of the exhibition Vola Vola will be screened thursday 21 April 2011 at 7 p.m.

Tilted Website

From Creative Machinery

On Saturday November 20th, there will be a national protest against dramatic cuts on cultural budgets in the Netherlands. We join the campaign by cutting on our our website.

Have a look at http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/online-schreeuwen-om-cultuur

4Jetpacks4 video at World Expo Shanghai

From Creative Machinery

I'm very honored that during the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai 4Jetpacks4 can be seen at the Madrid Pavillion as part of the Air Tree Exhibition.

The Air Tree, designed by Urban Ecosystems
is a self sufficient pavillion, where visitors can relax and enjoy performances or shows projected on the walls, in a nice cool breeze.

The show projected in Shanghai is curated by Cristina Garcia-Lasuen (aka Aino Baar), who initiated OPEN THIS END, a nonprofit cultural organization that classifies, develops and exhibits contents generated with new technologies.

The program consists in three exhibitions that present the theoretical classification of the three types and stages of the present video art:
Real (think projection in Real Space, for example the work of Rafael Lozano hemmer)
Virtual (cgi, for example Joaquin Baldwin
Machinima (movies recorded with game engines, like Evo Szuyuan :-) )

Up until now more then 2 million people have visited the Madrid pavillion, making it the most visited pavillion of the World Expo.

Many thanks and congratulations to Cristina / Aino !

Festivals in the Ile-de-France

Dominique Moulon revisits the years festivals in the Ile-de-France in this article on newmediaart.eu.

One of the festivals that is highlighted in his article is Atopic, that featured the avant premiere of Volavola.

Orchestral Investigation #9, and seeing spOts, being dOts @ GAMERZ 05

From Creative Machinery

Orchestral Investigation #9 and seeing spOts, being dOts will be shown at festival GAMERZ 05, in the ARCADE program curated by Isabelle Arvers.

This 5th edition of GAMERZ international multimedia festival will take place from November 26th, 2009 to December 4th, 2009 in Aix-en-Provence.

Atopic Festival

From Creative Machinery

The Atopic festival will be held from 27 october to 4 november at La Cite des Sciences in Paris. It is an art festival dedicated to virtual reality art, and the first machinima festival in France.

I'm very happy that seeing spOts, being dOts will be screened in the "Creative" section.

Also november the 2nd Volavola will have it's premiere at the festival on the IMAX screen of La Geode.

Volavola Preview and Making-of Special @ art.clouds 2009

From Creative Machinery

I will be doing a presentation about the "The Making of Volavola" at the media festival art.clouds 2009 [ghosts in the machine] in Regensburg Germany.

The festival will run from 8 to 17 october, at several locations in Regensburg, and features movies, lectures, performances, workshops and more.

15 October at 20:00 I will talk about how Volavola was made, and show a preview of the movie at the Akademiesalon, Andreasstr. 28.

Please visit the art.clouds 2009 [ghosts in the machine] blog for more information about the festival, and the Volavola / Fly me post for details about my presentation.

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

art.xxXtenxion report

Now back from a wonderful week at art.xxXtenxion in beautiful Regensburg.
During this time I did 2 machinima workshops, 2 cinema programmes, attended a lecture from Stephan Doessinger about bastard spaces, and did the live camera for the Second Life projection screen during the MixxXxed Reality - Extended Night.

During the first day of the workshop I did a general introduction to the topic of machinima, and explained different approaches ('getting in there' versus 'pre-produced'), how it relates to regular RL filming and animation, techniques (camera, animation, lipsync etc.), the pros and cons, and my view on the future of machinima. All this was illustrated by demonstrating software and showing some of the footage we shot for Volavola in the week before I went to Regensburg.
During the second day we got dirty, by actually making a machinima!

A very interested group of people showed up for the cinema programmes.
The first programme showed machinima documentation of different art forms that exist in Second Life. This programme was a bit harder to understand for people unaquainted with virtual worlds. Different people like different things, but I dare to say that most visitors were blown away by Osprey Therians video of a performance by Second Front at Dorkbot SL / Dorkbot Paris called Haledol Dreams of the Minotaure.

Some more people showed up for the second program, that showed off a variety of machinima made in Second Life. With this selection I aimed to show that the creators imagination is the only limit, that any movie genre can be succesfully made, that machinima have surpassed the underground gamer community, that being 'turned off by Second Life esthetics' is history, and most of all to inspire and entertain!
It was a great success and people clapped after every movie, and I got many enthousiastic reactions and thank yous for showing this selection!

The art.xxXtension event had a great finale with the mixed reality night!
Wonderful performances by Biagio Francia, Gecko, Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, Komuso Tokugawa and Dirschl & Starzinger.

To finalize all this, here is my favorite photographic residue, made by Bingo Onomatopoeia of the RL members of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse that were in Regensburg, and their SL avatars. (many more members played from all over the world).




A big thank you to everybody who was there and especially the people from Pomodoro Bolzano who organized the entire event!

Machinima Love

I'm very happy and honored to be artist in residence at arts2media in Regensburg! Right now we're in the middle of art.xxXtenxion 2008, Mixed Reality + Bastard Spaces.

I'll be doing a machinima workshop July 23 + 24 from 14:30 to 17:00 at Medienwerkstatt arts2media, Andreasstr. 28, Regensburg.

Next to the workshop I'm proud to be showing 2 machinima programmes at Kino Wintergarten.
In the first programme Machinima Art Movies a selection of art documentaries will be shown that highlight some of the most interesting works of art as well a shine a light on the richness and versatily of the Art World as it exists in Second Life.
The second programme The Art of Machinima will show an inspiring selection of short movies of some of the best young filmmakers, including comedy, videoclips, art house, and mystery. It will be clear why machinima is breaking out of the underground community of gamers, and has become more widely recognized by mainstream audiences, as well as the established film production companies.

Please visit the art.xxxtenxion blog for the full programme.

Many thanks to Gazira Babeli, Lainy Voom, Chouchou, Robbie Dingo, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Mejo Kuu, Berardo Carboni, Moebius Overdrive & Allen Kerensky, Jason Smith, Arahan Claveau, Osprey Therian, and Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga.

Above all thanks to the wonderful people of Pomodoro Bolzano!

Avatar Puppeteers

Pictures by Fau Ferdinand and Bea Fontani

After a chaotic, but very interesting and inspirational dorkbot session, a new Second life group is born, called Avatar Puppeteers. This group is devoted to further development and usage of Avatar Puppeteering and bringing more expression to avatars, and also to new input devices connecting to this technology in line of HandsFree3D.
Here is a full report of the session. The chat-log is edited, for readability, and keeping the attention on the topic, but the most asked questions were "when can we play with it", "is this only a proposal", and "how can we help". So soon I will make a download of a puppeteering viewer available on the Creative Machinery website and add some instructions on usage, and summery of what works now, and what doesn't. With a fine group of performance artists, machinimatographers, software and hardware developers, scripters and documentation fetishists, I'm convinced great things are going to happen :-)
Many thanks to JJ Ventrella and Philippe Bossut for their wonderful work, and willingness to share it!

Dorkbot Session Announcement

The upcoming Dorkbot session will take place 6 July 1:00 pm PDT / 22:00 CET at the Odyssey Simulator!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/85/153/45/

This dorkbot session will be of interest to developers, performers, machinimators, animators, photographers, and just about anybody with an interest to bring more expression to avatars and more direct ways to interface with our embodied selves.



JJ Ventrella (a.k.a. Ventrella Linden) will present the avatar puppeteering project. A project motivated to bring more expression to the avatar, by enabling a more fluid and direct way to manipulate the ‘physical avatar’. This is a Linden Lab project that unfortunetely was ‘put to sleep’ as Linden Lab decided to focus on the stability of Second Life and internal opinions differed over how compelling the feature really is.
Last month however, Linden Lab released the client source code of this project, to allow other people to build on it (and convince them otherwise).




Philippe Bossut, will present Handsfree3D, a project that enables to interface with virtual worlds via 3D camera motion tracking. Philippe Bossut has developed several demos to demonstrate how one can navigate and execute all sorts of tasks without the need for a mouse and keyboard, and over the last month he has been working on connecting his code with the puppeteering feature.

Please visit the Dorkbot SL blog for full information on the event, the projects and the presenters

5 days off

These are busy times, with many things going on at the same time, so I'm a little late posting the Mixed Reality performance of Avatar Orchestra Metaverse at the opening of the festival at Montevideo (for which Creative Machinery Evo Szuyuan / Brigit Lichtenegger did live Second Life camera work), but the festival is still going on and I encourage everybody to go!!

Crosswire – in search of the synesthetic effect
Optofonica presents:
From 03-07-2008 until 26-07-2008
Aernoudt Jacobs (BE), Sagi Groner (IL/NL), Kaffe Matthews (UK), Telcosystems (NL) and TeZ + Janis Ponisch (IT/DE).
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/agenda/detail_agenda.php?id=264&archief

Orange Machinima Week

Orange island is presenting the machinima week, "a hefty series of classes, discussions and screenings featuring some of Second Life’s most talented filmmakers and machinima specialists."

Wednesday 16 april Creative Machinery Evo Szuyuan will be discussing "Machinima as an Artform" with Lainy Voom and Berardo Carboni.

Orange Island
12.00 pm – 1.30 pm SLT : Machinima as an Artform / speakers: Lainy Voom, Evo Szuyuan (Odyssey, NL), Berardo Carboni (Volavola, Italy)

Do check out the Orange Island Blog for the detailed Program!

Dorkbot Session Announcement

The upcoming Dorkbot session is a collaboration between Dorkbot SL and Dorkbot Paris, and will take shape as a Mixed Reality Event, in Paris and Second Life.
The Dorkbot Session will take place 21 March 12:30 pm PDT / 20:30 CET and start in Second Life at the Odyssey Simulator!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/85/153/45/
In Paris it will be at La Cantine Numerique.
151 rue Montmartre, dans le Passage des Panoramas, 75002 Paris
Métro Grands Boulevards

From Paris Maxime Marion will be presenting the records project, and Nicolas Barrial from extralab will present La Cantine Virtuelle (La Cantine in Second Life). From Second Life Berardo Carboni will present the Volavola project, and Second Front will perform Minotaure Haledol Dreams.

Live Video streaming service donated by http://d-oo-b.cc (Secondlife avatar Eifachfilm Vacirca)

For more detailed information visit the Dorkbot SL Blog.