NMC Campus Observer

Final Brick in the Wall V-2

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 21, 2008 10:33am

If you have not caught the summer performances of the CARP’s (Cybernetic Art Research Project) production of The Wall V-2 (Second Life performance of Pink Floyd’s The Wall), this is your last chance to catch the show. Playing for the last few weeks at NMC Campus West, the show has been performed 28 times to more than 2000 avatars.

The LAST-EVER presentations of this unique, groundbreaking and immensely popular SL show will be this week; Friday August 22 and Sunday August 24, both shows at at 2:00 PM SLT/PDT. Access to the venue is via:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Campus%20West/127/47/612/

Interest is high, so please arrive early! Arriving early will also allow the Texture Pre-Loaders to send all the data to your cache before the show starts. This is a live artistic performance by a team of SL/RL artists, using the very best and sophisticated of SL’s technology to bring you a unique interpretation and vision of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’.

The CARP Wall Team:

• Creative Director: Debbie Trilling (UK)
• Producer: Velazquez Bonetto (Germany)
• Wall Design: Elfod Nemeth (UK)
• Animated Puppets: Duggy Bing (US)
• Animations: Caravaggio Bonetto (Austria)
• Original Music: Junivers Stockholm (Sweden) & Josina Burgess (Holland)
• Stills Photography: Adec Alexandria (UK)
• Dancing & Joyfulness: Klute Copploa (France), Southern Riptide (US)

with valuable contributions from:

• Scio Kamanchi (US)
• Gypsy Paz (US)
• Lyddyn Tzara (US)
• Celeste Moonlight (US)
• DJ Jenns (UK)
• George W Bush (US, yes that George Bush!)

and, of course, Pink Floyd’s incredible album ‘The Wall’.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Please note that facelights and all other prim lighting are strictly prohibited from the venue. Please detach all such prim lighting systems before arriving. If you are unsure, please use ‘Advanced | Rendering | Info Displays | Light’ to check. This will cause all sources of prim lighting in your vicinity to be surrounded by a yellow bounding box. Please be aware that facelights and other sources of prim lighting will not only ruin the show for the wearer, but also for everybody else within up to 20 meters of the wearer.

Please enable ‘Nearby Local Lights’, particles to a minimum of 4096 (but preferably to 8192), sun to midnight, turn volume to HIGH!

For press release photographs or any further information, please IM Debbie Trilling

Useful links:
Selection of performance photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7759984@N05/
Cybernetic Art Research Project: http://diabolus.ning.com/
Recent CARP ventures: http://www.gallery-diabolus.com/CARP/carp-04.pdf
Debbie Trilling wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Debbie_Trilling
Debbie Trilling SL profile: http://world.secondlife.com/resident/4e07f6d1-4598-4351-84fa-826ccb723ea8
Velazquez Bonetto SL profile: http://world.secondlife.com/resident/e762560e-0314-4388-b8bf-02610283cc16

Story filed under: Campus Headlines
Tags: art, performance, thewall
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