Supernova Digital Animation Festival announced this year their ‘kicker line’ (to use a poetry term) would be ‘World on Fire’. In my usual way, I initially thought of pushing back along the lines of I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire, as Benjamin, Durham, Seiler and Marcus put it. The most well known […]
CapCat Ragu‘s exhibition, Isolation, at Ribong Gallery in Second Life, is the subject of this post. However, it’s prompted a lot of thought about how arts, humanities and the sciences are related, and in particular in the time of Covid-19. Several years ago, I read the introduction of Brian Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual as […]
There is talk about video conferencing replacing meetings and educational lectures in universities. I think this makes too many assumptions, especially as things stand. Being obliged to use Zoom while also finishing a PhD based in virtual worlds, in which I considered how different online spaces interrelate, has made me think through why. It comes […]
I wondered about this video… it’s so much more ordinary seeming than usual. Does it fit on Vimeo? Flickr maybe, as that’s more about personal records? Which is not so much a judgment about quality, but about whether it would be the right place. But here it is in the usual place on Vimeo. Yes, […]
My second video work this year. After a lost 2019 year through injury, I made a resolution to get to making more of this kind of work, alongside my printmaking. Again, 2020 has not run quite to plan, but here’s a dose of colour and noise for grey times. This was also for the second […]
My video art making took a real hit last year, first with a shoulder injury and then with being without my computer for some time (There will be something soon!). But I went to places and events I’ll probably never have the chance too again. And it was also the chance to do a lot […]
Getting video to stream into Second Life effectively has always been an elusive dream. However, a new experimental approach is being tried at Blue Orange. It will start this Saturday, February 1st at 2pm SL time. Hopefully, everything will go well. I was invited to produce some work for it, and there is a long […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.Charles Dickens So that was 2019 for me. The worst […]
This year continues its dramatic moments with a trip to Montreal in just a week’s time. I’ll be presenting at the Histoire du Jeu symposium, led by the Université du Québec à Montréal. The title of the symposium is Beyond games: Tinkering and Creative Appropriation of Video Games – something too close to what I […]
And so Furillen returns to Second Life. Built by Serene Footman it is one of the classic spaces, in its orginality, the detail that was added over time and its sparse aesthetics. But it also became a social space – a place that people visited because of the feel of the place, something that is […]
