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.

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.

Machinima Exhibition at QUT

From Creative Machinery

9 of my videos will be part of a machinima exhibition at the Queensland University of Technology.

"QUT presents a unique exhibition devoted entirely to machinima.
The exhibition features an historical timeline of machinima works with over 60 examples on display; from the first clunky DIY video game films created using games like Quake and Doom in the mid-90s, to contemporary film and artworks by internationally acclaimed artists like Friedrich Kirschner."

The exhibition will take place from 20 July to 7 August 2010 at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Orchestral Investigation #9 @ Stuttgarter Filmwinter

From Creative Machinery

Orchestral Investigation #9 will be showed in the exhibition of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter.

This 23rd edition of the Filmwinter will take place from Januari 21th, 2010 to Januari 24th, 2010 in Stuttgart.
The Media Exhibition is at H7 Raumaufzeit.

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.

Orchestral Investigation #9, and seeing spOts, being dOts in Brazil

2 of my machinima are (or were) shown at Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(My portugese is kinda rusty, and I see different dates on different sites)

From Creative Machinery

For the exhibition "GamePlay", Isabelle Arvers curated the machinima program "Mostra Machinimas". For this program she selected seeing spOts, being dOts (Vendo Marcas, Sendo Pontos), a collaboration with Juria Yoshikawa and Nnoiz Papp, and Orchestral Investigation #9 (Investigações Orquestrais #9), a collaboration with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.

The entire machinima programme is listed here: http://www.itaucultural.org.br/index.cfm?cd_pagina=2716&cd_noticia=6635

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.

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

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17 Unsong Songs Machinima

And here is the machinima documentary of the major solo installation 17 Unsong Songs by Adam Ramona at East of Odyssey, Second Life.

The video played as a loop of 17 minutes and 17 seconds at the the Premier of Queensland's National New Media Award Exhibition at the Premier of Queensland's National New Media Award Exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art(GoMA).

More info at the Creative Machinery website.

17 Unsong Songs Machinima at the Queensland National New Media Award Exhibition

From Creative Machinery

The 17 Unsong Songs video is being displayed at the Premier of Queensland's National New Media Award Exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art(GoMA) from 1 November 2008 – 8 February 2009.

The video is there related to the work of Adam Nash who has been nominated for the award!

Volavola / Fly Me at Rinascimento Virtuale

From Creative Machinery

Volavola / Fly Me is being presented at the Exhibition Rinascimento Virtuale, curated by Mario Gerosa from October 21, 2008 till january 7, 2009 at The Museum of Natural History at the University of Florence.

more info at http://www.yourwaytoflorence.com/virtual-renaissance-art-in-second-life-exhibition-florence.htm

Orchestral Investigation #9 at the netfilmmakers stand

From Creative Machinery

netfilmmakers will attend alt_cph - Platform for Nordic non-profit art spaces.
At the stand Netfilmmakers will present:
'remote impressionist art' by carlos katastrofsky as teaser for the upcoming Netfilmmakers exhibition in december (to be announced).
'glemsel.net' by Mogens Jacobsen,
'Reverse Game' and 'Levels of Learning' by Brennan Young,
'Search' and 'Find' by Hrafnkell Sigurdsson
And two machinimas:
'N00sphere Playground' by Sachiko Hayashi and 'Orchestral Investigation #9' by Brigit Lichtenegger / Evo Szuyuan and Leif Inge / Gumnosophistai Nurmi

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!

Video exhibition at Lars New Art Space

Opening reception 10 july, 12 AM PDT / 21:00 CET at Lars New Art Space
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Otherwhen/7/194/21

On display is a selection of 5 different machinima by Evo Szuyuan that were made over the last year.
To give a better sense of how they were made, and what they are about, a set from each movie is recreated for each movie when it starts playing (by clicking the screen).
Take a seat and watch the movies, or walk around and explore some of the art works, props and informational items in the space.

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

Check on Arrival at Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival

The online demo of Check on Arrival is displayed at the Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival 2008 from 30 april to 4 may 2008.

Caterwaul at Huret & Spector Gallery (Boston), Turbulence.org, and Ars Virtua (Second Life).

Caterwaul is displayed at Mixed Realities - An International Networked Art Exhibition and Symposium from February 7 - April 15, 2008.
As this is a Mixed Reality event, things will be happening at Huret & Spector Gallery, 10 Boylston Place, 6th Floor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, turbulence.org, and in Second Life at Ars Virtua.

Reception in Ars Virtua on Thursday Feb 7 from 2pm-4pm SLT.