I Rez Therefore I Am

BERLIN, 28 April – Silent since the demise of Blue Mars, the VBCO Travel & Safari Co. launched a field trip to the temporary virtual world of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012 today. 10 started out on the journey and 4 were delivered to the promised land. 4 died quickly at the hands of MacOS 10.5.8 [...]

NEW YORK – CHICAGO – SAN FRANCISCO – ACROSS ANY TABLE, 25 April – If art and life are tapestries, richly woven matrices of people and experiences, then from what far-flung sources come the fibers of these weavings? Is a monochrome better than a cacophony? Is the richness of our art, our lives, our culture, [...]

NEW YORK CITY, 17 March – In the roller coaster of life, soaring ascents are often followed by plunging descents, and so it was today for Vaneeesa Blaylock whose bombastic performance last week of Net / Work was today counterpointed by a simple act of contrition, a day of silent meditation in hopes of making [...]

KANDAHAR, 10 March – Today’s performance of Betty Tureaud and Vaneeesa Blaylock’s collaborative work, Net / Work, was the first time these two long-time virtual artists have worked together. Here we have gathered some of the posters associated with the performance.

KANDAHAR, 10 March — Light and space artist Betty Tureaud and performance artist Vaneeesa Blaylock collaborated for the first time today on Net / Work a massive installation of Wagnerian ambition. In dramatic contrast to Gallery Xue / London’s closet-sized 165 square-meter facility, the Gallery Xue / Kandahar mountain site occupies over 6 hectares of [...]

MILAN, 10 April – Automattic’s manager of VIP Global Services, Sara Rosso announced the 2nd annual WorldWide WordPress 5k run/walk today. Held between Monday 23 April and Sunday 29 April, this “real” run/walk event will be “virtual” in that it is not intended as a physical crowd all moving down a single street, but a [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, 11 April – In this Previz we imagine multiverse traveler Ironyca along with performance / new media artists / hacktivists Eva & Franco Mattes wearing lycra unitards or latex catsuits. Kind of a dance thing, kind of a BDSM thing. But definitely artists doing an identity art thing. With costumes. Wow! The idea for the Strange [...]

TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 30 March – Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company and Gallery Xue / London City will join in Dance Anywhere’s 6 continent dance moment at Noon PDT / 20:00 BST. Global event details are available now on the Dance Anywhere website and further details of the VB/CO participation will be available here in the next [...]

KANDAHAR, 10 March – Long time VB/CO participants like Pennyroyal Calamity in her 25th appearance, haute couture legends like Lia Johin in her return to the runway, and newcomers like DJ Haraway making only her second appearance all joined in today as light and space artist Betty Tureaud and performance artist Vaneeesa Blaylock collaborated for [...]

KANDAHAR, 10 March – Legendary haute couture model Lia Johin appeared in VB34 – Net/Work today wearing, for the first time in years, the Kai Heideman designed “Lia” suit. Although Heideman named the suit after Johin, and his shop, Powers of Creation, exhibits poster art of her wearing it in every color, she hadn’t, before [...]

PALESTINE, 2 March – On a slender, meter-wide ledge outside the Egypt Club, Xue Faith and 15 friends and relatives stood in the cool evening air, gazed off into the nearly 20km visibility, and contemplated the last hour of Xue’s teenage years. Then at the stroke of midnight, we went inside the warmer and less [...]

TUMBLR, INC. 14 March — I hurt a friend this week. It wasn’t my intention, but it very much was my result. Give or take a couple depending on how you count, this is the sixth person I’ve hurt in the 3 years of my virtual life. The first 4 were all 2+ years ago, [...]

KANDAHAR, 11 March – with the success of yesterday’s bombastic collaboration with Betty Tureaud, VB34 – Net / Work, I find myself, unexpectedly asking, if Jeff Jarvis’ book Public Parts and Mary Kelly’s Postpartum Document collided at a busy Midtown Manhattan intersection, would the resulting mashup be Public Documents? Although I was lucky enough to [...]

LINDEN ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, 5 March – during my 365day trek thru the LEA archipelago I’ve been struck by the LEA29 “Land Rush” sims’ “fish farm” like quality of large shallow marshes with thin ribbons of roads surrounding them. I suddenly realized it’s a giant PacMan course and called a spontaneous LEA PacMan Flashmob [...]

PALESTINE, 2 March – for the last hour of Xue Faith’s teenage life, from 11:01pm GMT to 12:01am, a dozen souls stood on the narrow ledge of Club Egypt’s second-story facade atop Gallery Xue / Palestine. As the day rolled over to 2 March and Xue turned 20, the party moved inside Club Egypt for [...]