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How to start singing live in Second Life (with Audio)

2013/03/01 Written by Dance , Mixed Reality , Performance Art , Second Life

Welcome back me! You might be wondering: “Who the heck are you and why are you in my inbox?” Well, I don’t blame you, it’s been over over 2 months since I wrote an article for iRez. I want to share a whole bunch about what I’ve been doing that’s been keeping me away, but [...]

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ScreenCap from Kristine Schomaker / Gracie Kendal thesis video

Persuasion

2012/08/17 Written by Performance Art

Kat just wrote a great post about body identity and stereotypes amongst avatars in SL. It’s funny. I have been thinking a lot about this lately. My work is all about body image, self esteem and how the media unconsciously manipulates us into thinking we want to be thin and model beautiful so we may [...]

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pixel Paiked out (part ii)

2012/07/29 Written by Performance Art

Here I would like to return to Paik’s meeting with Charlotte Moorman. One of the chapters in the Tate/Paik catalogue deals with Charlotte Moorman and her role in Paik’s work… The essay is, by Joan Rothfuss –  ‘The Ballad of Nam June and Charlotte’: A Revisionist History   Below is an edited version of the [...]

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pixel Paiked out (part i)

2012/07/29 Written by Performance Art

In the most visual-cortexical-stimulating way possible (without resorting to chemical abuse)  …but I did chill to Zen for Film… OK… when Vaneeesa suggested I ‘do a little blog post for I Rez on the Nam June Paik show’  last year,  I first hesitated… and thought well I should at least try… so here at last [...]

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Brian Feldman Follows Me!

2012/05/27 Written by Performance Art

WASHINGTON DC, 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 [...]

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Athena Reich

2012/04/06 Written by Performance Art

NEW YORK CITY, 6 April — Singer, songwriter, actress, TV Personality, Lady Gaga impersonator, and arts educator Athena Reich gets us up to speed on Performance Art with a marvelous video series she created a while back for Expert Village. • Athena Reich website • Athena Reich YouTube channel • Expert Village Performance Art videos [...]

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Nancy Popp

2012/03/03 Written by CAA , Performance Art

LOS ANGELES, February 25 — CAA: final event, final day: Performing Space. CHAIR: • Nancy Popp, Independent Artist PRESENTERS: • Sara Daleiden, Otis College of Art & Design • Matt Driggs and Janet Owen, Owen Driggs • Marie Shurkus, Pomona College • Alex Villar, independent artist As the image captions describe, Popp, Daleiden, Driggs, Owen, [...]

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Sheryl Oring

2012/02/24 Written by CAA , Performance Art

LOS ANGELES, February 23 – Sheryl Oring is a typist. I really like typists. Honestly, in my line of work, a typist is sort of your best friend. I say “in my line of work,” I guess I mean, “in my way of being,” since I’m an NCP. No, not an NPC, an NCP. What [...]

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Good Grief

2011/03/14 Written by Performance Art

Mila Kunis was not impressed when her presenting partner Justin Timberlake declared at the 2011 Academy Awards, “I’m Banksy.” Apparently even the man who “brought sexy back”… not cool enough to be the world’s greatest living artist…. What do Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and for that matter, Mark Zuckerberg, have in common? They changed the world… without [...]

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Stelarc

2010/10/14 Written by Performance Art

Legendary performance artist / navigator of the undiscovered country of the human body Stelarc dropped by SL on Saturday. He performed at the Virtual Stelarc Initiative at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) http://slurl.com/secondlife/RMIT%20Creative%20Media/45/37/31 http://v2.stelarc.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelarc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMIT_University http://www.rmit.edu.au/ I was actually unaware of the Virtual Stelarc Initiative (probably too busy being pissed off at [...]

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Valentine’s Performance Art

2010/02/14 Written by Performance Art

Artist Brian Feldman said his Friday performance-art piece, Brian Feldman Marries Anybody, was intended to show how two complete strangers of opposite sexes can marry in Florida, while a loving same-sex couple does not enjoy the same right, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.

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In Bed with Eva & Franco Mattes

2009/11/24 Written by Performance Art

Eva & Franco Mattes made one of their pilgramages to SL last week. They installed giant appliances at The Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator and performed Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, as part of Performa09, Second Life, New York

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