Residency at Caerleon

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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.

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Evo Szuyuan machinima at ARENA

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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.

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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.

Volavola at Second Times

An article about Volavola appeared at Japans Major Second Life blog, The Second Times.
http://www.secondtimes.net/news/world/20090115_volavola.html

Volavola at Cafe Babel

Marco Riciputi joined us at the set of Volavola and wrote the article Second Life and cinema: awaiting Hollywood for cafebabel.com

Volavola draft trailers

Berardo Carboni and Simone Bellonio just finished two fast draft trailers for the movie Fly me / Volavola.

The fast energetic Hudson Mohawke version and the slower, more dramatic, Donizetti version.

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.