One of the things I like to do is blurring the lines between what is called ‘digital’ and what went before. ‘The digital’ is no longer new, nor is it some special space separated off from ‘real life’. Everything we do now has digital or digitised content. While new technologies enable different ways of doing […]
In Amelie Marcoud’s installation Hikari* stacked televisions displayed repeated images in endless loops. My latest machinima, Repeat Hikari, took the looping repetition and hesitations of the installation, and reworked them with the hesitations and jumps of video editing. Apart from being a deliberate choice, short loops reflect to the technical limitations of Second Life. Looping […]
At the current installation on the Delicatessen art sim, Meilo Minotaur asks visitors to Tell Me a Story. All the characters on the island have corresponding avatars one can pick up by the entry point. They do not have names. The scenes are separate. So how are they linked? This is the starting point. In my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Série Noire is the latest exhibition at Nitroglobus, and features the art of Tutsy NAvArAthnA, an artist who works more often with the moving image than the still. Nitroglobus is an expansive gallery setting, and as always, the pictures have an imposing presence and sense of scale as you walk through it. Tutsy’s artwork is […]
This is Rose Borchovski’s installation now at torno Kohime Foundation – the opening night was last night (17th April), where the photograph was taken. It’s the story of Beth and her grandchild Lot, who are forced to leave their home because of a war. The war came to them in stages, starting with rulings about […]
