I Rez Therefore I Am

ORLANDO, 26 May – Performance artist Brian Feldman is following me. Only me. Well, only me for a day anyway. In his current work Feldman has cut through all the chaos of following hundreds or thousands of people on Twitter and for the month of May, he follows just 1 person for each day of [...]

SAN DIEGO, 1996 – Eight years earlier the University of California, San Diego had altered the trajectory of my life when I studied here with Allan Kaprow in 1987 & 1988, now UCSD was altering my trajectory again as I spent some time in the summer of 1996 here with Miller Puckette. I’d already spent [...]

BEIJING / TOKYO, 26 May – Just when you thought you knew all the virtual worlds in the world, iRez sources revealed today that both China and Japan have their own, Sex and Gambling Free, Second Life-Like Virtual Worlds! While everyone at the iRez translation desk was apparently asleep today, it appears that both services [...]

HONG KONG, 1989 – Terri Ray, Liz Tarnov, and I being goofballs out at some really old house out in the New Territories. I just can’t seem to remember why the hell we were out there and I certainly can’t imagine what possessed us to get naked in somebody else’s house and take moronic pictures. [...]

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1977 – Summertime on The Vineyard. I was never actually this young, was I? No one was ever actually this young, were they? Playing with Fiona and the dogs. We had no idea how magical these days were. Or how rare. I had no idea they wouldn’t just go on forever. I think [...]

W5GFKJBRBUQ2 FREE FORUMS.ORG, 24 May – May is Newbie Blogger Initiaitve month and a whole collection of new and veteran MMO bloggers have been sharing tips, feedback, and inspiration in the NBI Forums. Newbies in virtual worlds, or blogs, are exciting because they can bring new ideas and fresh perspectives, but they’re also “at risk” [...]

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1989 – Oh gawd, this thing. Sophomore year. Saturday sushi-nite silliness. A group of us monumentally cool, young dancer/choreographers had been out dancing for hours and we were starving and found this sushi place and they had all this plastic sample food on display, including these plastic eggs on top of [...]

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 – My grad school roommate Stacey Giachino and I in a couple of our “performance works.” Stacey was from Washington state, and I was from Washington DC, opposite ends of the North American continent, and somehow we found ourselves roommates in a grad school a continent, and a vast Atlantic, away. These [...]

BALTIMORE, 8 May – William Walters may have died in the 19th century, but today the museum that presents the encyclopedic collection of Walters and his son Henry Walters made a bold leap into the 21st century with the uploading of more than 19,000 images of artworks, along with associated information, to the Wikimedia Commons [...]

TEL AVIV, 2010 – My sister Fiona, her boyfriend Karl, and Karl’s son Oskar on the beach at Tel Aviv. Karl’s an electronics developer, invented a keyboard synthesizer back in the day, and is still making musical electronics. He seems to travel to Israel for product meetings a lot, sometimes Fiona goes with him. THE [...]

  LONDON, 11 May – 26 months after being awarded the landmark 2012 Olympic commission, sculptor Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond have today opened their monumental steel tower, the ArcelorMittal Orbit. A surprisingly abject work the tower opulently celebrates its refusal to be a triumphal tower. The structure feels like Kapoor, it feels [...]

THE BLACK SUN, 12 May – In the physical world, you help the old neighbor carry their groceries in, you play with the other kids down the street, you carpool to school or work. You attend the school down the street. You worship at the church down the street. you gossip with your neighbors. You [...]

  LOS ANGELES, 3 May – 18 years after Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues, Funny or Die today released a plea by Andrea Savage, Kate Beckinsale and Judy Greer: Republicans, Get In My Vagina! Ensler’s pivotal work explored many ideas of gender, identity, and empowerment, among them, simply taking the word “vagina” out of [...]

NASHVILLE, 12 June – formed in 2006 and releasing their Big Machine Records debut single Amen in 2011, today American country band Eden’s Edge releases their debut album Eden’s Edge, also on Big Machine Records. Eden’s Edge is Hannah Blaylock (lead vocals), Dean Berner (vocals, guitar, Dobro) and Cherrill Green (vocals, mandolin, banjo, guitar). I [...]

KASSEL, 2007 – My sister Fiona and her boyfriend Karl at documenta XII. With documenta XIII opening in a month, on 9 June, I was thinking about the legendary event and found this snap of Fiona & Karl at the last documenta 5 years ago. I Rez’ intrepid bookbinder and fashionista Trilby Minotaur is heading [...]