Articles from 'Arts'
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 19, 2008 03:11pm
For well over a year, NMC Campus has been delighted to be the home for performances by the ZeroG Skydancers and they are showing us their thanks by providing a special performance just for NMC folks!
This will happen March 25 at 5:30PM PT. To get on the list, jut send an IM to Larry Pixel- the first 35 to so will get seats. They will go quickly, so sign up and show your support for the ZeroG troupe as ... more » »
Ninmah Ash (aka Rachel Smith) :
Feb 19, 2008 12:47pm
The February 18 Teachers Buzz session took place underwater... and in a prehistoric world... and in hell... and in heaven. All those places were created by students in Michael Wright's (Mrags Writer in Second Life) Concepts and Issues in New Media course at Otis College of Art and Design. Each environment was created by one class working as a team, and each team had just 13 hours to complete the project. The results are spectacular.
Housed on Otis Island ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 24, 2008 11:38pm
Last Sunday was a private launch for the re-opening of the Kirsti Aho Art Museum on NMC Campus. The Aho Museum aspires to showcase the finest examples of art that can be found in Second Life. The resources of the museum include the museum and the gardens surrounding it on the NMC Campus as well as the satellite museums, performance spaces, and exterior galleries on the island of Ars Simulacra.
The museum is named after Kirsti Aho, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 21, 2008 03:27pm
Thanks to an invite from Fleep Tuque, I and seven other educators got a tour and rich experience with PARSEC-- an installation? an immersive game? an interactive art piece? it is all very hard to define in words. PARSEC is a project created by Dizzy Banjo, Eshi Otawara and Chase Marellan... we thank Eshi greatly for allowing us to interrupt her to give us a tour.
On entering PARSEC (a giant seeming infiinite white dome), each of seven avatars dons a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 17, 2008 11:53pm
Going back to our first days in Second Life, the NMC Campus has been a place dedicated to showcasing some of the best of original SL art, and this continues with an exciting new exhibit located on NMC Campus 9.
This is a 3d immersion installation based on two paintings by Strawberry Holiday called "Certainty" and "Reality." When combined, they're called "On Their Journeys."
Strawberry Holiday, speaking about "On Their Journeys" says:
The beginning represents reality in a lot of ways for ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 7, 2008 08:03am
Last night was the premiere of the latest performance of DanCoyote Antonelli's ZeroG Skydancers- now in their third season in Second Life, the show has evolved even far beyond what was ground breaking territory with the new show called "Second Spring".
Second Spring is a completely live story performance-- the SkyDancers perform in-flight choreography without the benefit of animations or gestures of any kind following cues given in real time on a private IM channel from DanCoyote. He ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 2, 2008 04:31pm
New Media Consortium Presents
ZeroG SkyDancers III - Virtual Flight Choreography
Pioneering Performing Arts Soar in the Metaverse - Again - Under the Direction of DanCoyote Antonelli
Avatar DanCoyote Antonelli is accustomed to breaking new ground. Even in virtual worlds he is considered avant guarde. The real man controlling that avatar, DC Spensley, has been wowing virtual audiences since 2006 with art installations that would not be possible in real life, but perhaps the most coveted ticket in all ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 16, 2007 10:31pm
With so many blogs to write in, photos to post, and places to be in Second Life, we humbly aplogize for not sharing a video from way back in.. August 2007. As you ought to have memorized, this was the NMC's first every online conference hosted completely in Second Life- the NMC Symposium on Creativity in SL.
While we have a good pile of tagged media and stories on the main NMC web site, we goofed and completely forgot to ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 11, 2007 04:47pm
You are invited to attend a student poster exhibition hosted by Professor Michael Connors (RuArt Semaphore) and students in Art 356, Digital Print Production Techniques, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The posters are already in place, but plan to show up in avatar person December 18th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm PST (check for local time).
The posters are in one of the studios of the NMC Performing Arts Center (previously known as "Learning"), NMC Arts (143,97,25). Follow the signs to
exhibition.
The exhibition is part ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 14, 2007 09:19am
Just popping up yesterday on the web video circuits, bouncing around by email notices, are references to another beautiful machinima by Robbie Dingo, The Mask. From opening credits:
War-paint. Camouflage. Concealment. Act of self-expression or of belonging to a group. Representation, reflection, or pretense? For protection sometimes; actually often. A curtain, a screen, a veil behind which to hide. A shield, disguise or figment. Often fanciful though - ones persona, like war-paint. Masks and avatars. Behind each, a person, with hopes ... more » »
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