I Rez Therefore I Am

Reblogged from beyondthepalebooks: By Michelle Allen, Anna Avalos, Hanna Jang, Andrea Lozano, and Morgan Waite-Bjornberg laterallearning.com Randa Abdel-Fattah, an Australian born in Sydney and raised in Melbourne, is half Palestinian and half Egyptian. She was brought up Muslim and takes great pride in her beliefs. She attended a Catholic primary school and an Islamic secondary [...]

Reblogged from Ironyca Stood in the Fire: This is what I’ve been doing in the past month of inactivity here on the blog: If this guy seems familiar to you, it’s because I tried to recreate Carl Fredricksen from “Up”. I know this is not stunning work, it’s my first time working with 3ds Max, [...]

Reblogged from John Craig Freeman: “Occupying Virtual Space: AR(t)” With the proliferation of smartphones and free public apps such as Junaio and Layar, channels of virtual space paralleling real locations have become a new architectural space in which to create, exhibit, and distribute art. Though uncurated and uncontrolled, this virtual landscape draws on the aura [...]

Reblogged from The Practical Art World: You have an art exhibition coming up. Great! Depending on the venue, the staff might take care of the press release for you. Excellent! But, if you find yourself in an exhibition with no promotional machine at work already, you need to make sure that your show gets the [...]

Reblogged from I Stack Rocks: visited the reservation today, went by bike. wanted to make something with more ordered faces, ended up making the top hollow; wanted to build a fire in it, but low and behold, I had forgotten my lighter! oh well. perhaps if it remains standing I will visit it in a [...]

Reblogged from Patrick Lichty's Art, Research, and Polemics: After a couple nights iwth my Second Front partner Bibbe Hansen, we had talked about all manner of things liek the Occupy NYC events, the Fluxus anniversaries, and Geoff Hendricks’ 80th birthday.  From that, she mused about his signature handstand in Second Life, but 80 times.  Well, [...]

Reblogged from Whiskey Shots: I’ve worn the same skin in Second Life for years. Not just the same brand, but the same skin. Maybe I should buy a new skin. I like my avatar to look like me. I know, color me weird. My shape is based on my real world shape and I looked [...]

THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, Spring 2012 – OMG Is it springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, or what!? Look what Connie Arida published from Sydney today! Look what Laura Montilla published from Spain on Saturday! What’s that? Sydney is in the Southern, not Northern, Hemisphere and therefore it’s Autumn, not Spring there? Well, IDK buzzkill, I guess [...]

Reblogged from Go Guilty Pleasures!: I’m sure I can’t be the only one this has happened to. Have you ever, belly full of MSG sesame chicken, dumplings and egg rolls, gone to open that waxy looking folded cookie, and then seen… Avoid compulsively making things worse. I took that as a clear sign to put [...]

Reblogged from Possimiste: I woke up today and asked myself if everything that happened last week was real or not, because I have sometimes had dreams…like this… As about 2 months ago I got a beautiful letter with snowflakes from Slovakia…in which I was invited to perform there. Though I had only 5 singles out [...]

REBLOG, 4 April – The meteoric rise of iPhone App Girls Around Me to, well, deletion… has been the buzz of the blogosphere this week. But have many well meaning bloggers gotten the analysis of this techno-cultural issue completely wrong? Many posts have decried the invasion of privacy, even though the app only mashed up [...]

Reblogged from wandering apricot: Do you recognize the impossibly fuzzy dancer in this photo that I took? It is none other than the incomparable Yuan Yuan Tan of the San Francisco Ballet. A fellow balletomane and I attended a pre-performance talk at the Green Room before the evening performance of Romeo & Juliet. Sarah Van [...]

Reblogged from : Rez Day Meandra Paedra FallSnapshot by Raisa Nadezda On the 22th of March 2011 I was dragged into Second Life by a friend from that other life. I remember my first thoughts after having registered and becoming an avatar. Overwhelming complicated world and I will never be able to manage this properly. [...]

STOLEN PROPERTY VAULT, YOUR VIRTUAL TOWN, 16 March — Italian contemporary art critic and curator Domenico Quaranta has a recent post on Artpulse, “Eva & Franco Mattes: Attribution Art?” wherein he interviews the many “victims” of the Mattes art thefts. I’ve stolen from the Mattes myself, and I have to admit, I do love the [...]

Reblogged from : Lois Fuller in The Butterfly by Theodore Riviere 1896 Loie Fuller dancing in front of the Sphinx by Harry Ellis 1914 Doris Humphrey in a Hoop Dance by Wayne Albee 1924 Mid Morning Coffee Break by Martin Munkacsi in Berlin 1933 Ginger Rogers by Horst 1935 Self Portrait by photographer George Platt [...]