I Rez Therefore I Am

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So this previz isn’t exactly about Helmut Newton’s photograph Big Nude III, Paris 1980, or even about Newton himself, not exactly. I was looking at a book of Helmut Newton photographs, many from the 1980’s, and I found myself wondering which of his subjects were now dead. And Newton, himself, is of course, now dead. [...]

VB31 – Demo Days was the brain child of Queen of Demo, Agnes Sharple. Then our gallerist Xue Faith had the inspired idea to invite kinetic / light artist Sledge Roffo to install a half dozen works at Gallery Xue / Palestine as a sort of landscape for our Demo performance. The compelling resonance between [...]

My daughter Xue is turning 20. This past half year has thankfully been a rather harmonious time for us, still I didn’t know if turning a milestone in her life into a performance artwork would be such a good idea. To my surprise, she asked me if we could do something. Xue’s aunt Trill mentioned [...]

Aero Bigboots produced Ze Moo’s Rezday Party 2011… and then fell off the face of the virtual earth for much of 2011… but she resurfaced on Wednesday to wish Ze another happy rezday and attend his 2012 party. Although she left her pom-poms at home, Aero did wear her SLCS cheerleader uniform, and… she scared [...]

Previz #55 / VB31 – Demo Days Saturday 21 January 2012 10am – Noon SLT 6pm – 8pm GMT Gallery Xue / Palestine http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Freedom%20Palestine/85/132/22 Our own Agnes Sharple has invented an event she calls “Demo Days.” Whenever we decorate or design our avatar… our physical “avatar” in the dressing room of a clothing shop… or [...]

VB29 – Natatorium Saturday 17 December 2011 • 10am – Noon SLT • 6 – 8pm GMT Gallery Xue / London http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/122/8/24 LONDON, England, 28 July 2012 — World records begin tumbling today in the quest for Olympic Gold at Zaha Hadid’s sweeping London Aquatics Centre. LONDON CITY, Virtual London, 17 December 2011 — In [...]

Isomorphic (1862) – being of identical or similar form, shape, or structure. In abstract algebra, an isomorphism (isos “equal” + morphe “shape”) is a kind of mapping between objects that shows a relationship between two properties or operations. If there exists an isomorphism between two structures, the two structures are said to be isomorphic. In [...]

Not so long ago, barely an instant in geologic time, Kate Moss and “heroin chic” were as unattractive as it got. The Anna Nicole Smith’s of the day were celebrated as the pinnacle of female beauty. In VB26 – Average, we considered the average avatar using data collected and analyzed by Strawberry Singh and Vaki [...]

“Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?” – George Carlin