This weekend I came across a couple of interesting new installations. The first was Ux Hax and Romy Nayar’s Escenas at MetaLES, and the second Bryn Oh’s, The Gathering, on the Immersiva sim. Titled Escena 3 – El Miedo (The Fear), it’s there from 28 November to 11 December, and is subtitled: “The exception does […]
Well, moving images do appear to be my current passion! A machinima filmed at Glass and Light Breakwave by Frankx Lefavre on LEA6 in Second Life. In the machinima, movement through and within the space is cut to a sparse, neo-classical piece by Kai Engel. As with my previous piece, Peatonville Bay, it glides rather […]
Early morning mist hangs – Peatonville Bay from Tizzy Canucci on Vimeo. In the last post, I wrote about the two ends of Second Life, representation and escaping the material constraints of the real world. And having covered one end, I come across a sim that exemplifies the other. Peatonville Bay is currently open for […]
Em hotep from Tizzy Canucci on Vimeo. An exercise in glitch and overlay. For me, Second Life has two main creative positions, both of which are equally valid. The first models the real world, representing it in realistic, or stylised, ways. The second goes out to achieve things that are not possible with the material […]
In the flush of youth, mortality seems so far away, irrelevant even. Technology is like that too. We dig into programs seeing what they will do for us now, without really thinking what they might be like in a dozen years time. If that future was imaginable, it would probably have already been in the […]
Ebony Glendevon, the curator at The Zeigler at Somerton has been trying to get an exhibition out of me for a while. But with being so busy in real life, including to getting to grips with the moving image, it’s taken some time. Besides which, I have my doubts about inworld exhibitions. And I couldn’t […]
It was not an auspicious arrival. There’s a griefing attack going on, and I glimpse chairs through the mess; both are over-used tropes in Second Life. I file abuse reports to Linden Lab while Ziki Questi, who happens to be nearby, calls on Storm Septimus, the creator, to come over and sort out the replicating […]
What if Henry VIII had stopped the execution of Anne Boleyn? The story starts from there, and is based on the research of Sandra Vasoli who has found records that she believes shows that Henry VIII deeply regretted his actions. Tahiti Rae has built the sim that unfolds the story on LEA8: Love, Henry. There […]
‘In the courtyard of an ancient villa, set amidst a surreal landscape, a band of musicians performs for onlookers and visitors.’ (The description of Strings provided in the sim) The set pieces in Cica Ghost’s new work, Strings, are delightful, with some lovely detail. The landscape is very typically Cica Ghost with flat almost paved […]
