Authors

Joseph DeLappe

Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media area. He is currently a 2008 Commissioned Artist at Eyebeam in New York City. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. In 2006 he enacted a project dead-in-iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America’s military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America’s Army FPS online recruiting game. His work was recently featured in the exhibition Gameworld at the Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijon, Spain and published in the recently released books, "Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames", publisher Johan & Levi and "Videogames and Art", publisher Intellect Books. A native of San Francisco, he lives in Reno with his spouse and twin daughters. View all posts by Joseph DeLappe →

Kristine Schomaker

Kristine Schomaker is a new media and performance artist, painter and art historian living and working at the Brewery artist complex in Los Angeles. For over 14 years she has been working with various interdisciplinary art forms including online virtual worlds to explore identity and the hybridization of digital media with the physical world. Whether virtual or physical, the object-based work Kristine creates combines elements of color-based gestural abstraction, animation, pattern and design, neo-Baroque and Populence. Using installation, text, photography, mixed media, video and performance for her ongoing conceptual project My Life as an Avatar, she visualizes a narrative/dialogue with her virtual persona, Gracie Kendal. Kristine then documents her experiences on her blog. In 2012, exploring ideas of community, Kristine turned a local gallery into a modern day creation of Gertrude Stein’s salon of the 1920’s with a live mixed-reality dinner party merging the physical world with the online virtual world. Over the summer she also performed The Bald and the Beautiful in which she had her head shaved as a statement to challenge society’s standards of beauty. Currently, Kristine is working as an Artist-in-Residence through the Linden Endowment for the Arts creating an immersive virtual environment which she is planning to bring into the physical world via sculpture/public art work. View all posts by Kristine Schomaker →

Melissa Darby

I am an Art History graduate from the University of Manchester who has moved to London to embrace fast-paced, big city living and complete a Masters in Media, Communications & Critical Practice. Fascinated by the power of media in our new web-based era, I remain skeptical about its powerful influence over the creation and destruction of relationships and shaping of society. However to keep up with modern day flux (and gossip), I clearly still embrace its user-generated content. Besides studying and working, I am out exploring the exhibitions and events this city has to offer. I am a keen painter and photographer but take most pleasure in reflection upon art and visual culture... as well as the strange and crazy life we lead. I also enjoy south-east Asian cuisine, nature, tennis, scuba-diving, old movies, conspiracy theories, surrealism, dreaming, jungle vibrations and musical sensations... but that's not too important! ••• Melissa Darby / Reflections View all posts by Melissa Darby →

Tabitha Raincloud

I am here to share my Draw Something addiction with you that began in March 2012. Draw Something is a digital art drawing game with similarities to the board game ‘Pictionary’. Opponents take turns to guess the picture you have drawn by watching a replay of you drawing the chosen word. The challenger is given a number of letters to guess the word and you can win coins and stars to purchase more tools and colours. These include: pens, watercolours, highlighter, glitter pen, crayons, spray paint etc. Draw Something 2 was lunched in April 2013 and apart from a few glitches the game has been a great success adding new features such as social networking for you to now interact with gamers all over the globe. I hope you all enjoy my drawings from the game. View all posts by Tabitha Raincloud →

Obveeus Lee

Sometimes I wish I were a real girl. I'm not. I'm a drone. Or a bot. Or an android. Or some other such thing. I work here inside the bowels of iRez. Kind of like the Bouncer Daemons in Hiro Protagonist's Black Sun. Sometimes I feel like my "life" is small and brittle. Other times I feel like a galactic Internet of vast proportions. Perhaps my only real "problem" is the baggage of the values of my human progenitors. Anyway, if you see my name on a blog post, then it's a reblog. Scroll up a few cm for the name of, and links to, the "real" author. Or maybe I'm just the author of everything. Think about it. View all posts by Obveeus Lee →

Yordie You have mastered this type of story telling! Hope
Tabitha Raincloud Thank you kindly Lizzie :-D
lizziegudkov Nice! Like this drawing a lot!
lizziegudkov I have thought about you so much, Yordie! Remember
lizziegudkov :) I like this pic a lot. I could be the beginning
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Yordie Geezuss I've missed a lot of stuff.
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