virus. circus. breath.

On August 1st, as part of the Everywhere Performance Art Festival, Odyssey hosts:

virus.circus.breath

Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade and Elle Mehrmand / Echolalia Azalee

Time and SLURL TBA soon.

virus.circus is an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics, soft sensors and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces. The performances explore possible queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria.

For your protection and the protection of others, you may be asked to wear a surgical mask.

The Lofts Are Open

The new Odyssey Artist in Residence Lofts are now officially open and we celebrated throughout the day on Wednesday June 15th. Visitors dropped by the new studio spaces built by Chi5 Shenzhou and met some of the new Artists in Residence - Sca Shilova, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, nora Furlough, Ze Moo, Xisuthra Lomu, Ze Moo, SaveMe Oh, Masami Kuramoto, Chi5 Shenzhou, DanCoyote Antonelli with lizsolo Mathilde and Fau Ferdinand as onsite technical support.

An impromptu play by Fau Ferdinand, Pyewacket Kazyanenko and lizsolo Mathilde started off the event.

SaveMe Oh took to the stage and announced her candidacy as president of Second Life. Read Saveme Oh's Manifesto.

The Lofts Residencies provide artists with a workspace and prims to work with as well as access to a common area for holding events, experimenting and having conversations. This first residency runs from June 15 to October 15, 2010.

VB and Co on Odyssey

Odyssey is pleased to present:

V A N E E E S A B L A Y L O C K / C O M P A N Y

performance artists

=== VB16- AU PAIR NEXT DOOR ===

Friday 16 April 2010 Noon SLT – Saturday 17 April 2pm SLT

http://slurl.com/secondlife/East%20of%20Odyssey/49/161/367

One year ago this month, VB/CO was launched with our performance of VB01 - GIRL NEXT DOOR. We thought we'd celebrate this first birthday by throwing a spectacular ball for the avatar we believe to be the most often chosen by new residents, Girl Next Door.

But, like a modern-day virtual-Cinderella, our Girl doesn't just get to attend the fabulous ball in her honor - oh no - hardly!! She's got a lot of cleaning to do before she gets to dance!

For 24 hours before the ball, the Au Pair Next Door will wash YOUR clothes!

From Noon SLT on Friday 16 April to noon on Saturday 17 April, YOU are invited to come to the gallery wearing transferable clothes. The Au Pair Next Door will give you a laundry basket to put your clothes in, yes this will leave you naked, but she'll wash as fast as she can, and she'll even give you a towel to wear while you wait. The Au Pair Next Door will take your clothes, wash, dry, and iron them, and return them to you nice and warm and smelling clean and fresh.

We’ll be able to accommodate all fabrics, so in addition to machine washing we will dry clean your fine garments, hand-wash your delicates, and we'll hand-wash your latex in a very mild soap and air dry it.

Then from Noon-2pm SLT the Au Pair Next Door will "dance" at the ball in her honor! The Noon "dance" will be performed by as many avatars as would like to be on stage. 16-24... perhaps more...

A fabulous After-Party will take place at 2pm SLT, through the Manhole Cover to a Magical Realm!

All events will be held under the giant 50-meter VB/CO Dome at Odyssey, lined with images from VB/CO’s first year.

When you arrive at Odyssey, set your environment to midnite, grab a parachute from the dispenser, and enjoy the ride down to the VB/CO Dome.

See you there!

http://vaneeesa.blogspot.com/

"Remap Berlin" Closing Event

Marco Manray Cadioli's Remap Berlin closed on Odyssey Exhibit C on February 27th with an Open House.

The artist was in attendance and many visitors came by throughout the afternoon. Remap Berlin goes on to a new exhibit inside the virtual world of Twinity.

ABOUT REMAP BERLIN By Marco Cadioli aka Marco Manray

Synopsis - “Remap Berlin” spreads a thin geographical virus in Google Earth and deals with different levels of reality. The project introduces a series of b&w photographs shot in Twinity, a mirror world that reproduces a realistic 3D replica of Berlin. The photos shot in Twinity, are then

geo-localized in Google maps, re-mapped from virtual to real and positioned in the exact point where they have been shot in the mirror world. Once uploaded in the photo sharing community Panoramio, the pictures are mixed up with other ones shot in the same geographical point from real life users. Many of these pictures have been selected by Google and can now be found as “Popular photos in Google Earth”: his became a little geographical virus, parts of our memories of the real world. The photographs are cityscapes, shot by Marco Manray roaming around the still empty streets of Berlin in the beta version.

This piece is the new step of Cadioli’s journey around the metaverse - after war games, Second Life and the chinese virtual world HIPIHI - and reflects on the way in which we are shaping the metaverse, and on the cultural impact of this development on the way we experience collective places.The exploration reaches the city edges, where streets end on the boundary line between land and sky - temporary borders of an expanding universe. Remap Berlin was presented for the first time on Odyssey art and performance simulator in Second Life on July 2009. Google hasn’t discovered the fake yet."

from Marco Manray Cadioli's Website

Visitors:

SLaddict Screening on Ody

Screening of SLaddict

SLaddict - a new film from d-oo-b (Eifachfilm Vacirca) - screened on Odyssey East on Wednesday February 3rd at 2PM SLT and 6 PM SLT. The filmmaker was in attendance. SLaddict is a film about the good and bad sides of excess in Second Life. It was the starting point for some very stimulating, sometimes heated, conversations among the audience on the subjects of addiction, mass media perception of online spaces as well as the sharing of personal stories related to the themes of the piece.

You can see the film here:

Filmmaker, Eifachfilm Vacirca, with audience:

technésexual

On February 20, 2010 Adzel Slade/Micha Cardenas and ecolalia Azalee/Elle Mehrmand presented technésexual - a hybrid reality performance - simultaneously at East of Odyssey and at the LACE's (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) GUTTED event, curated by Dino Dinco. This video documents the Second Life component with sound coming from Real Life via SL's voice interface.

About technésexual
(from www.transreal.org)
"In technésexual the performers commit playful erotic acts in physical and virtual space simultaneously, using devices to amplify the sound of their heartbeats for the two audiences. An electrocardiogram was used to monitor the heart rate with an Arduino/Freeduino, playing a recording of the heartbeat at the correct rate using Puredata. Temperature sensors modulate the audio based on touch. DIY biometrics are used to bridge realities with audio, finding ways of exploring the space between realities.

technésexual opens discussion on the multitude of sexualities outside of the restrictive LGBT formulation and homo/hetero categories, which are rooted in binary gender assumptions. The mixing of realities in this project can be seen as paralleling our own experiences mixing genders and sexualities, queering new media. Virtual worlds such as Second Life facilitate the development of new identities, allowing for unimagined relations and relationships. technésexual looks closely at these new relationships, how they affect our everyday lives and horizons of possibility."
See also:
http://www.transreal.org
http://bang.calit2.net/elle

The Death of an Avatar

On Valentines Day, 2010, the avatar known as Wirxli Flimflam publicly took his own avatar life over his unrequited love for the artist known as SaveMe Oh. This machinima documents the sad event. To find out more see Wirlxi Flimflam's Memorial Blog:
http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com
And SaveMe Oh's Blog:
http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com