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 […]
This last month has been so busy, with two film festivals, and with starting a printmaking residency at Edinburgh Printmakers. My last post looked at Supernova in Denver. This one is about the Foresight FilmFestival, which was held at Urania Berlin at the end of September. The video art (machinima) they selected was Future City, […]
This has been an incredible year with some major successes, tempered with some severe set-backs. But what matters is that I’m still here, and the successes outweigh the losses! The latest amazing ‘up’ is another selection for an international exhibition, this time for Future City. Following Supernova in Denver, it’s Foresight Filmfestival in Berlin. It […]
It took a longer time to think this latest video, Art Tartaruga, through for two reasons. One I can’t just was over was a significant actual world injury which restricted my computer use for nearly three months. It is bliss to get back both physically and creatively. But the other was a more usual one […]
Good news… my submission to Supernova Digital Animation Festival has been accepted! Very pleased, for several reasons this year. The video is Repeat Hikari, which also was shown as a part of an academic conference last year. I have previously written a blog post about Repeat Hikari, The Art of Looping and Repeating, and I […]
I’m delighted that my interview for Women CineMakers has now been published in their Special Edition on Independent Cinema, Documentary, Dance Video, Experimental cinema and Video art (Women CineMakers vol. 11). The interview starts on page 52. The magazine also features the work of Glasz DeCuir, who also works in (or out of) Second Life. […]
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 […]
