I Rez Therefore I Am

EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE, 5 May – Meandra has asked VR residents to answer 20 questions, about life in virtual worlds, so here goes mine… MEANDRA: 1. Since when and how did you become a SL member? VANEEESA: I was invited by Esparanza Freese to create a performance work for a VR art exhibition her graduate [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

In the glorious free speech year of 2010 Rose was moderated out of SL7B and VBCO was moderated out of Burn2. Probably a lot of other artists were moderated out of a lot of other things. Here at iRez, I have never moderated a comment out. We’ve had very little in the way of harsh [...]

On Saturday, 1 January 2011 the performance art organization Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company became VBCO/Multiverse VBCO/Multiverse is offering a full slate of 2011 performance artworks on numerous virtual world grids, each exploring identity, individuality, uniqueness, instantiation, embodiment, and persona, here on the myriad shores of the new worlds of the 21st century… VBCO/Multiverse will open [...]

Previz: DO YOU WANNA DATE MY AVATAR!? This piece considers how we choose who to spend time with and how in the process we shape personality and even visual appearance. I ascended from Second Life on 16 October 2010. Since I don’t live there anymore, yet have a “fully loaded” avatar, it seems like such [...]

For twelve days, from Friday 15 November to Tuesday 26 November 2002, Marina Abramovic performed The House with the Ocean View at the Sean Kelley Gallery in New York City… For nine days, from Saturday 16 October to Sunday 24 October 2010, VB/CO will perform our adaptation of The House with the Ocean View at [...]

In the world of your choice, snap a photo of yourself having a morning cup of coffee (wearing pajamas, standing at the sink, and gazing out the kitchen window is a nice way to go, but not required) and submit it to the group “Morning Coffee Challenge on flickr

Nienke Klunder is one of those California born, Netherlands living, artists (ha ha ha). Like my idol Nikki S. Lee, Klunder uses self portraiture to explore identity. Like Lee she works on subtle, and not so subtle, transformations of her appearance to explore identity. Unlike Lee’s “ethnographic self-portraiture,” Klunder’s work is studio-based and so connects [...]

http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/the-gracie-kendal-project/ Some people might say that Kris Schomaker is obsessed with her avatar, I think that Gracie Kendal is obsessed with her typist. And an art critic I know once told me that if you’re really serious about your work, you’ve sorta got to hate almost everybody else’s work. I hate a lot of art [...]

What would you have if you put George Bush’s brain in David Beckham’s body? Or Paris Hilton’s brain in Serena Williams’ body? If you happen to be a person of the male gender, bodies could be a big deal for you. But to be a woman… is it even possible to count how many libraries [...]

Hello Seasprite! You mentioned some TV show… I’ve never seen it… but I should tell you what I’m less interested in: Voice Chat, Web Cam, RL Pix, all those elements that encroach on the RL/SL border. A lot of peeps seem to feel that unless you give them a little bit of RL, that you [...]