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 […]
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, […]
It was my 60th birthday as the plane approached Denver. Seeing the sun setting on the skyline of the Rockies is something I will always remember. But that wasn’t the only special thing. I was here for the Supernova Digital Animation Festival a couple of days later. And after the trials of this year, that […]
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 […]
Having Repeat Hikari selected for Supernova Digital Animation Festival again thrilled me plenty. But I now know which category, and that is a real extra. I am one of the 15 Artists selected for the ‘prestigious’ 2019 Competition program, chosen from the many submissions collected through FilmFreeway. A clip is in the sampler above, starting […]
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 […]
