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Nicolas Schöffer’s Tower at IMAGINE FESTIVAL – (CARP)

09 Oct 2010 4 Comments

by Merlino Mayo in Uncategorized Tags: any1 Gynoid, Ariel Brearly, Artemisia Mathy, ARTISTIDE DESPRES, avantgarde Frequency, Bliss Violet, BRYN OH, carp, Cliff Schecter and Tom Schaller, ConstructiVist Solo, Cotton Thorne, Cybernetics, Cypress Rosewood, Cysp 1, CYSP1, DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI, Delia Lake, Dr Andrew Wallace, Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer, Eléonore Schöffer, Eliza Wierwight, Fran6 Parkin, GLYPH GRAVES, Grace Mcdunnough, Hexis Moody, Igor Ballyhoo, imagine festival, IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, Isenhand Nightfire, Jana Kyomoon, Jedda Zenovka, Jenny Valerian, John Lennon, JOSINA BURGESS, Junivers Stockholm, Lance Rembrandt, Lynsey Fleury, Medora Chevalier, merlino mayo, Misprint Thursday, Monarchy Republic, MS Hawker, Naftali Torok, Nany Kayo, Nicolas Schöffer, Paulette Felisimo, Sabrinaa Nightfire, SHELLINA WINKLER, Soror Nishi, Starlash Sweetwater, Sunshine Vayandar, Tower of light, Trill Zapatero, Ub Yifu, VELAZQUEZ BONETTO, Velazquez Bonetto & Josina Burgess, WERNER KUROSAWA, Widget Whiteberry, WilliamThewise Goodman, www.ImaginePeace.Com, ynsey Fleury, YOKO ONO

Into the Imagine Festival 2010 today: 1 – 3PM Imagine the Architecture of the Future

http://imaginepeacetower.com/

(the Imagine Festival 2010 calendar of events)

Today: CARP exbition and concert

Click here for more info – Nicolas Schöffer’s tower

Contact: Velazquez Bonetto & Josina Burgess

LM: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/124/128/1000

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/80/126/970

The Nicolas Schöffer’s Tower at CARP

Nicolas Schöffer

Father of Cybernetic Art, a architect, visionair and artist, famous for his enlightened way of thinking and his architectural “cybernetic art” of moving and turning modules and mobiles using light and mirrors to create new forms of all kinds. In his time the 50-60-ties he was creating a totally new form of Art that he called “Cybernetic” and his work is displayed in many musea over the world. There are even several musea carrying his name and showing his art.

One of his biggest creations was his Tower of Light, what he designed for the city of Paris where it had to stand in a special surrounding where you could see it from far away.

Mirrors and lights were used to create the illusion, specially at night, to make the tower was like floating in the air.
Inside the tower all kind of exhibitions, theatres, cinema’s, restaurants and shops would entertain the visitors, rotating floors would give spectaculair vieuws and on certain times a lightshow would make the tower a performence of its own
Schöffer made a blueprint of his tower, did build maquettes, painted it and drew it many times. Just he was too visionary, the tower could not be build, there was no technique good enought to build the machines to controle all, so his tower remained but only on paper.

Schöffers widow Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer kept his heritage and is still working to keep Schöffers work alive and vivid in many openings and many exhibitions about his work. Also on SL where she made herself a avatar and visited a exhibition in world.

This we she learned to know Velazquez Bonetto and CARP.
The contact remained and she liked the work of CARP and its creators very much and also learned what Velazquez was capable of…

Eleonore wrote a letter to Velazquez Bonetto and this is what she wrote:
“Agota told me that you could be interested in building the TLC on SL. It is a marvellous idea. I thought about it a long time ago. It would be fantastic if it could be done for the 100th anniversary of N.S. birth, and 20th anniversary of his death. 2012.
If you decide to do it, and I agree to the principle, (the modalities would have to be clearly precised together) their previous work could be of some help, and a meeting with you and them should be arranged as a second step. The first one being your trip to Paris, contact me, visit the atelier, and try together to put a wonderful dream… into reality.
So, you have to tell me if you can come to Paris one of these days, and when. Propose to me different dates, so that I can find one fitting with my work.
I am very VERY happy with your idea. No one could be able to realize it properly exept you. I already thank you.”

Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer

So Velazquez Bonetto and Caravaggio Bonetto went to Paris RL, spend several days in the atelier and home of Schöffer with Eleonore explaining. Then he got the blueprints and made many pictures, went back home and started building the Tower.

AND ITS READY NOW………to see and experient in SL… to walk in and look around. its build on scale 1:1 that is a bit different then what we are used to in SL where we all build “bigger” because our avatars a bigger and taller as well. This is because we look from behind our avatar and not through the eyes of the avatar. Still the tower is a amazing piece of work, it will be a performence at itsself, Velazquez did build in a programm and controllers that let all the lights and particles perform in a lightshow automaticly or on command.
Seats with the audience will fly around with build in camera’s that offer spectacular views, because the tower is to big to see in all. Elevater seats bring you to the floors you chose, the exhibitions with cybernetic art show you what that is about. great artists did create specially for the tower all kinds of interactive, and scripted sculptures. Josina Burgess created immersive particles, lots of cybernetic sculptures and both they invited

Dancoyote Antonelli

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/63/125/969

Igor Ballyhoo

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/129/124/1238

Velazquez Bonetto

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/122/130/1322

Josina Burgess

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/112/122/993

Artistide Despres

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/127/126/1093

Glyph Graves

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/103/124/1000

Werner Kurosawa

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/127/167/969

Merlino Mayo

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/129/126/1274

Bryn Oh

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/142/126/986

shellina Winkler

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/128/125/1145

Nicolas Schoffer’s Tower at CARP
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/111/108/970

Nicolas Schoffer “Show Surfaces” at The Lucien Herve Gallery “depo”
http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%2011/40/133/25

to add cybernetic works on the floors.
Special performences and small shows are there for your entertainment.
Its the dream of Schöffer, his tower to be build, and even better: its build in the virtual world, something he never would have thought would really become true! and Velazquez Bonetto did build it.

Cybernetics “is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of control and regulatory systems, circular, casual and feedback mechanisms, self-organization and system dynamics. «Cybernetics – derives from the Greek «kybernetes» meaning «steersman»; our word «governor» comes from the Latin version of the same word. The term cybernetics was first used by Norbert Wiener around 1948. In 1948 his book «Cybernetics» was subtitled «communication and control in animal and machine.» The term today refers to systems of communication and control in complex electronic devices like computers, which have very definite similarities with the processes of communication and control in the human nervous system.”

CYBER ART The First Sculpture was “CYSP 1″

here you can see it with a young Nicolas Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

THE IMAGINE FESTIVAL 2010

The program: http://imaginefestival.wordpress.com/if-programme-2010-2/

from imaginefestival.wordpress.

The Partecipants at the Imagine Festival 2010

Participating sims:

Woodstock, Extropia, Africa Live, Benvolio, Four Bridges, Garden for Change, Virtually Speaking, Native Lands, Zinnia, UTSA, KUWOL, Etopia

Talks & presentations :

Dr Andrew Wallace, Artemisia Mathy, Cotton Thorne, Trill Zapatero, Jenny Valerian, Delia Lake, Nany Kayo, Cliff Schecter and Tom Schaller, WilliamThewise Goodman

Music :

Naftali Torok, avantgarde Frequency, Grace Mcdunnough, junivers Stockholm, Hexis Moody, Cypress Rosewood, Fran6 Parkin, Jana Kyomoon, Lance Rembrandt

Artists ( 2D & 3D art works ) :

Glyph Graves, Artistide Despres, Igor Ballyhoo, Bryn Oh, Eliza Wierwight, Sorror Nishi, Ub Yifu, Shellina Winkler, Ariel Brearly, Jedda Zenovka, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Misprint Thursday, Bliss Violet, Starlash Sweetwater, Paulette Felisimo, Trill Zapatero, Dancoyote Antonelli, Velazquez Bonetto, Josina Burgess, Werner Kurosawa, Merlino Mayo.

Event arrangers :

lynsey Fleury, Isenhand Nightfire, Artemisia Mathy, Velazquez Bonetto & Josina Burgess, Cotton Thorne, Trill Zapatero, Jenny Valerian, Delia Lake, Nany Kayo, Jana Kyomoon, ConstructiVist Solo, Widget Whiteberry, MS Hawker, WilliamThewise Goodman

Festival management team :

Medora Chevalier, junivers Stockholm, Lynsey Fleury, Paulette Felisimo, any1 Gynoid, Sunshine Vayandar, Monarchy Republic

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Museo del Metaverso at Viareggio ART Project into the Musei Civici Villa Paolina Bonaparte

28 May 2010 Leave a Comment

by Merlino Mayo in My Works Tags: ABDULLAH YAZIMOT, AKIM ALONZO, ALOISIO CONGREJO, ANTROPO MORTLOCK, ARTISTIDE DESPRES, ARTISTS, ASIAN LEDNEV, at, BEACH, BRYN OH, CHRISTOWER DAE, DACO MONDAY, DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI, DELFINA1982 CUTTITA, EIFACHFILM VACIRCA, FOUR YIP, FRANSY LISLE, FRIEDA KORDA, GLEMAN JUN, GLYPH GRAVES, JONATHAN KAZAN, JOSINA BURGESS, KICCA IGALY, LINEAE, LOLLITO LARKHAM, LOOP LUO, LUCE LAVAL, LUCIAN IWISH, MARCO MANRAY, MARYVA MAYO, MASSIMO BLINKER, MAXXO KLAAR, MdM, MENCIUS WATTS, merlino mayo, MILLAMILLA NOEL, NICOLA REINERMAN, NUR MOO, permanent, PIATTAFORMA OPENGARDEN, REDMOON BALUT, ROSE BORCHOVSKI, RUMEGUSC ALTAMURA, SANTI AMAT, SARIMA GIHA, SAVEME OH, SCA SHILOVA, SELAVY OH, SHELLINA WINKLER, show, SOLKIDE AUER, TAGGERT ALSOP, the, VELAZQUEZ BONETTO, WERNER KUROSAWA, YAIA NISHI

28-5 till 13-6-2010

Museo del Metaverso at Viareggio ART Project into the Musei Civici Villa Paolina Bonaparte.

My Art installation for the Museo del Metaverso was “LINEAE” and it was into the inauguration of the New MdM and with the show at Viareggio, with many artists from Second Life and Real Life.

SLurl to see the installation LINEAE at MdM:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/94/128/431

http://www.museodelmetaverso.it/

ARTISTS at the MdM permanent show

1° Piano

FRIEDA KORDA (tre box ad angolo)

NUR MOO

FOUR YIP

MILLAMILLA NOEL (due box uno di fronte all’altro)

MASSIMO BLINKER

SAVEME OH

SANTI AMAT (due box uno di fronte all’altro)

SARIMA GIHA (due box uno di fronte all’altro: La Città Blog e i Landscape per l’allestimento di Velazquez Bonetto)

2° Piano

3° Piano

SOLKIDE AUER E SHELLINA WINKLER

PIATTAFORMA 1

FRIEDA KORDA E MAXXO KLAAR (URDOLL)

PIATTAFORMA 2

VELAZQUEZ BONETTO

NICOLA REINERMAN

YAIA NISHI

JONATHAN KAZAN

PIATTAFORMA OPENGARDEN (ALLESTIMENTO BY ARCO ROSCA)

SELAVY OH

DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI

MILLAMILLA NOEL

MARCO MANRAY

WERNER KUROSAWA (sfera che avvolge tutta l’installazione OPENGARDEN)

LUCE LAVAL

MENCIUS WATTS & TAGGERT ALSOP (Flickr Gettr II)

BEACH

GLYPH GRAVES (Tendrils)

ASIAN LEDNEV (La torre di Asian)

LUCIAN IWISH (Scale)

ABDULLAH YAZIMOT

Through the Virtual Looking Glass – Bellum – The Battle

07 Apr 2010 1 Comment

by Merlino Mayo in Biography and Works, My Works Tags: ADAM RAMONA, Aequitas, Al Hofmann, Alizarin Goldflake, AM Radio, Amsterdam, art, artiste digital, artiste numérique, ARTISTIDE DESPRES, Australia, Banrion Constantine, Bark Aabye, Bellum, benvolio, Binary Quandry, Blue Tsuki, BobE Schism, Boston, Botgirl Questi, Brazil, BRYN OH, Cadel Aboubakar, Calimera Lane, Caravaggio Bonetto, carp, Casper Frederiksen, Chantal Harvey, Cinega Soon, ColeMarie Soleil, Cypress Rosewood, dam Ramona, DANCOYOTE ANTONELLI, Dari Undercroft, David Ribet, Debbie Trilling, Dekka Raymaker, Deruub Pastorelli, Efrantirise Morane, Elfod Nemeth, Exhibition, Feathers Boa, Filthy Fluno, français, France, FreeWee Ling, Fuschia Nightfire, Gallery, Gary Zabel, Georg Janick, Germany, GLEMAN JUN, Global, GLYPH GRAVES, graphiste français, graphiste française, Gwen Carillon, Holland, IBM Exhibition Space & Sandbox, Ice Caverns Gallery, Igor Ballyhoo, Igor Ballyoo, Italian digital artists, Jacque Kerouac, Jacque Quijote, Janne Janus, Jeffrey Lipsky, JOSINA BURGESS, Junivers Stockholm, Klute Coppola, Kolor Fall, Ling Serenity, LOLLITO LARKHAM, Lyric Lundquist, machinima, Mary Linley, MARYVA MAYO, Medora Chevalier, Melina M, Merlina Rokocoko, merlino mayo, Mescaline Tamma, METAVERSE ART FESTIVAL, MILLAMILLA NOEL, Mirrors of a Soul, Mixed, Moya Janus, Museum of Virtual Art, Musicians, Nazz Lane, Nice, Nnoiz Papp, Nonnatus Korhonen, Oberon Onmura, Olza Koenkamp, Patrick Moya, peintre américain, peintre français, Persia Bravin, Pete Jiminy, Peter Mc lane, Photographers, Pirats, Pixels Sideway, Pixels Sideways, Pixie Rain, Pyewacket Kazyenko, Reality, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Sanam Sewell, SARIMA GIHA, Sennaspirit Coronet, SHELLINA WINKLER, SOLKIDE AUER, Southern Riptide, Sowa Mai, Steff Para, Ted Evans, Tehos, Tehos Quar, The Battle, The Big House, Therese Carfango, Through the Virtual Looking Glass, Tim Deschanel, Toxic Menges, Tshirtkikill Straaf, Tyrehl Byk, Ub Yifu, USA, UWA, VELAZQUEZ BONETTO, Virtual Worlds, Vive Voom, WALL actors, WERNER KUROSAWA, Wizard Gynoid., Wotthe Dickins, www.virtual-art-initiative.org/TTVLG, www.virtual-looking-glass.org, Zhora Maynard, Ziplon

07/04/2010
Into the big event of Global Mixed Reality Exhibition of the Art of Virtual Worlds called “Through the Virtual Looking Glass”. CARP is one of six exhibitions being held in six countries: France (Nice), Holland (Amsterdam), Germany, Brazil, Australia, and the USA (Boston)

Through the Virtual Looking Glass CARP

Into the Benvolio Sim for CARP-Diabolus I built a Spheric Cinema made of hundreds panels, for machinima show event, and an Art Installation called “The Battle” beside the reconstruction of RL event Gallery in Holland.

My work was “Bellum” – (The Battle) at CARP

‘Bellum’ The Battle – by Merlino Mayo (upper view)

More detailed links to better explain the “Through the Virtual Looking Glass” and the whole big project, with programs, names, ect. .. .

http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/TTVLG/Home.html

http://www.virtual-looking-glass.org/p-13-introduction.html

Bryn Oh blog

http://brynoh.blogspot.com/2010/04/through-virtual-looking-glass.html

http://blip.tv/file/1996324

http://blip.tv/file/3458700

Boston

Pirats – Exposition Internationale / International exhibition @ MUSEAAV

Reportage TV

Pirats Art network in partnership with CARP, Caerleon and UWA is pleased to invite you to the first international exhibition of mixed reality “Through The Looking Glass Virtual” in Nice (France), at MUSEAAV and simultaneously in MUSEAAV Virtuel installed in the region Bourbon Pirats of Second Life.
This event will take place Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 18:00 FR / 9:00 am SLT. It will be broadcast live at the MUSEAAV in Nice and in Second Life.
This exhibition will receive until May 7, 2010, at the MUSEAAV and in Second Life work of:
- Cadel, peintre française, (Cadel Aboubakar sur SL)
- Casper Frederiksen, artiste digital danois, (Binary Quandry sur SL)
- David Ribet, peintre français, (Dari Undercroft sur SL)
- Jeffrey Lipsky, peintre américain (Filthy Fluno sur SL)
- Melina M, graphiste française, (Ling Serenity sur SL)
- Patrick Moya, peintre français, (Moya Janus sur Second Life)
- Peter Mc lane, artiste numérique français (pipit Ziplon sur SL)
- Shellina Winkler & Solkide Auer (Italian digital artists)
- Steff Para, graphiste français (Tshirtkikill Straaf sur SL)
- Tehos, peintre français, (Tehos Quar sur SL)

To get to the event:
MUSEAAV : 16 Bis Place Garibaldi – Nice – France
MUSEAAV Virtuel : Region Bourbon Pirats – Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bourbon+Pirats/123/173/22/

CARP – METAVERSE ART FESTIVAL

- CARP – METAVERSE ART FESTIVAL -
“What is possible on the Metaverse”
51 participants!

PROGRAMM:

2010. 04. 03. saturday
2 PM SLT - Opening Metaverse ART Festival. AL HOFFMAN in Living Architecture- Cinetic Virtual time-space Artwork made by an international team.

2010. 04. 04. sunday
2 PM SLT- Video festival metaverse snapshot and picture manipulation machinima, video caleidoscope. See over 60 different machinima of the finest filmmakers and photographers in SL.

3 PM SLT Camera Obscura Sarima Giha

2010. 04. 05. monday
2 PM SLT - Virtual space objects, installations (geometry, sculpty, static textures) virtual architecture -
SOLKIDE AUER with the work “BELVEDERE”
SLURL

4 PM SLT: TYREHL BYK Particles Show

2010. 04. 06. tuesday
1 PM SLT - Literature, Epic, Drama, Poetry costume and avatar design ww.collaborative virtual time-space artworks.
“THE METAVERSE ART BOOK”

2 PM SLT: collaborative audiovisual improvisation “VJAZZ”) Al Hofmann

2010. 04. 07. wednesday
12 SLT THROUGH THE VIRTUAL LOOKING GLASS and GaleriAle opening

2 PM SLT – Inland sound objects, soundtrack creations

4 PM SLT; THYREHL BYK Particle show

2010. 04. 08. thursday
2 PM SLT - particle show Debbie Trilling /Calimera Lane

2010. 04. 09. friday
2 PM SLT Virtual theatre THE WALL!

2010. 04. 10. saturday
1 PM SLT: JUNIVERS STOCKHOLM Concert/Lightshow
Janne Janus/ particle and light effects,
Medora Chevalier/choreography

2010. 04. 11. sunday
2 PM SLT: CYPRESS ROSEWOOD Concert in the Metaverse Concet Hall

2010. 04. 12. monday
2PM SLT: Opening DanCoyote Antonelli

3 PM SLT: TYREHL BYK Particle Show

2010. 04. 13. tuesday
1 PM SLT AL HOFMANN Concert in the Metaverse Concet Hall

2010. 04. 14. wednesday
1 PM SLT - WERNER KUROSAWA. – Virtual Art Large Scale Conceptual Complex

2010. 04. 15. thursday
2 PM SLT: NNOIZ PAPP Concert in the Metaverse Concet Hall

2010. 04. 16. friday
2 PM SLT closing event THE WALL- BIG Afterparty

Participating Artists and Creators:
Creators:

Calimera Lane
Caravaggio Bonetto
Cypress Rosewood
DanCoyote Antonelli
Debbie Trilling
Deruub Pastorelli
Igor Ballyoo
Janne Janus
Josina Burgess
Medora Chevalier
Merlina Rokocoko
MillaMIlla Noel
Solkide Auer
Shellina Winkler
Tyrehl Byk
Merlino Mayo
Nazz Lane
Velazquez Bonetto
Werner Kurosawa
Sarima Giha

Musicians:

Al Hofmann
Cypress Rosewood
Junivers Stockholm
Nnoiz Papp

WALL actors:

Debbie Trilling
MillaMilla Noel
Efrantirise Morane
Elfod Nemeth
Klute Coppola
Velazquez Bonetto
Junivers Stockholm
Josina Burgess
Southern Riptide

Video/Machinima:

Bark Aabye
BobE Schism
Bryn Oh
ColeMarie Soleil
Chantal Harvey
Debbie Trilling
Lyric Lundquist
Mescaline Tamma
Pixie Rain
Toxic Menges
Vive Voom

Photographers:

Therese Carfango
Cinega Soon
Sennaspirit Coronet
MillaMilla Noel
Sanam Sewell
Tim Deschanel
Thess Writer

Enter opens at 3pm SLT on Wednesday, April 7. 2010

Participating Artists Include (in no particular order):

Glyph Graves
Oberon Onmura
Igor Ballyhoo
Blue Tsuki
Maryva Mayo
Fuschia Nightfire
Dekka Raymaker
Zhora Maynard
Sabrinaa Nightfire
Gleman Jun
Gwen Carillon

Musical entertainment will be provided by the amazingly talented MommaLuv Skytower. The first hour of the opening will be broadcast live as a part of the rl/sl show hosted by the Virtual Art Inititave.

http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/index.html

The first hour of the opening will be broadcast live as a part of the rl/sl show hosted by the Virtual Art Inititave.
Live in Boston at The Harbor Gallery at the University of Massachusetts and throughout Second Life and other VR grids, Through The Virtual Looking Glass features the art of many of Second Life’s most accomplished artists.
Come out and experience Enter. It is a spectacular show.

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Virtual Art Initiative (an associate member organization of the nonprofit company, Media Working Group, Inc.)

http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/index.html

Director: Georg Janick (Dr. Gary Zabel)

Alizarin Goldflake (Martha Jane Bradford)

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Through The Virtual Looking Glass
(rev1)

Welcome to the largest mixed reality art exhibition of all time-one that crosses time and space and fuses Real Life and Second Life art together.

Opens: Wednesday April 7th until April 30th
12:00pm SLT / 3:00pm EST
SL Virtual Harbor & The Harbor Gallery @ UMass in Boston

Pperhaps the most ambitious mixed reality event ever devised, ‘Through the Virtual Looking Glass ‘is a brand new exhibition of the world’s leading virtual artists. Showing intricate artworks simultaneously from the ‘Harbor Gallery’ at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and also at renowned galleries across France, Holland, Australia, German, and Brazil.

This exhibit features work from several Second Life and Open Source artists and has a dedicated exhibition space in world at:

slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Isle/231/64/25

LIVE SHOW PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE – OPENING DAY – APRIL 7

ARTIST TIME EST(BOSTON) TIME SLT

LOLLITO LARKHAM 3:30pm 12:30pm
Lollito will talk about his work, using Blender, etc.

AEQUITAS / SOWA & BAN 4:00pm 1:00pm
Sowa and Ban will talk about voice project

GLYPH GRAVES 5:30PM 2:30PM
Glyph will debut his new full sim installation

SABRINAA NIGHTFIRE 6:00pm 3:00pm
Sabrinaa will host the opening of ENTER a multi-artist themed show

The Real Life exhibition will display virtual art by using computers, high quality digital frames, a digital projector, live video and audio streaming, and specially made digital interface devices accessing works in virtual worlds. It will also show prints, paintings, and sculptures based on art made in virtual worlds, some with embedded mechanical and electronic components.

Many of the artists whose work will be shown have established art careers, having exhibited in such venues as the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the DeCordova Museum in the United States as well as numerous well-known galleries and museums throughout Europe.

The final day will see a celebration event held RL at the Harbor Gallery and will stream live music into SL via the POP ART LAB sim.

Professor Gary Zabel (Georg Janick in Second Life) says of the event: “Two things inspired me to initiate ‘Through the Virtual Looking Glass.’ First I wanted to explore ways to break down the barriers that separate the real and virtual worlds by introducing virtual art to real world audiences. So much powerful art created in SL and other virtual worlds has been limited to rather small in-world audiences. We need to break it free of the confines of the virtual ghetto. The portal between the real and virtual worlds should allow art and audiences to pass through in both directions. Second I wanted to use the powerful networking capacities of SL to promote global artistic collaboration by developing a series of coordinated real world international art exhibitions. In addition to the Boston exhibition opening April 7, TTVLG exhibitions will be taking place over the next few months in France, Germany, Holland, Brazil, and Australia, each organized by leading figures in the world of virtual art. We have also developed a HUD that will allow SL residents to experience many of the artworks that are being exhibited in the real world galleries as well as participate in related musical and literary events. The organizers of TTVLG hope that these ‘crossover’ experiences will throw a spotlight on the power of virtual art to connect people across countries as well as worlds.”

Featured artists include: Adam Ramona, Aequitas , Alizarin Goldflake, AM Radio, Artistide Despres, Botgirl Questi, Bryn Oh, Feathers Boa, FreeWee Ling, Georg Janick, Glyph Graves, Igor Ballyhoo, Jacque Quijote, Kolor Fall, Lollito Larkham, Luce Laval, Nonnatus Korhonen , Misprint Thursday , Olza Koenkamp, Pete Jiminy, Pixels Sideway, Pyewacket Kazyenko, Sabrinaa Nightfire,Thoth Jantzen, Ub Yifu, Wizard Gynoid.

Additional inworld exhbition venues:
Pirats (France)
CARP/Diabolus (Holland)
UWA (University of Western Australia)
Ice Caverns Gallery (Brazil)
Museum of Virtual Art / New Caerleon ((US)
IBM Exhibition Space & Sandbox (US)
The Big House/Caerleon Art Collective (US)

Credits & Further Information:
Event Organizer-Professor Gary Zabel: gary.zabel@umb.edu aka Georg Janick in SL
SL Inworld Organization: Pixels Sideways
Poster Art: Pete Jiminy
Website: Feathers Boa
TTVLG Tour Hud: Artistide Despres & Pixels Sideways
TTVLG Kiosk: Pixels Sideways (with help from Wotthe Dickins)
TTVLG T-Shirts: Pixels Sideways (with help from Banrion Constantine)
Virtual Harbor Gallery site: Pixels Sideways & Sowa Mai
“Enter” Curated by Sabrinaa Nightfire

SL Press Enquiries- Persia Bravin (persia.bravin@yahoo.com)

Website for Boston exhibition: www.virtual-art-initiative.org/TTVLG
Website for international exhibitions: www.virtual-looking-glass.org

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IMPORTANT INFO – PLEASE READ

Through The Virtual Looking Glass LM/TP TOUR HUD
April 7, 2008 Ver. 002 – REV1 4.10.2010 REV2 4.12.2010

The TTVLG LM/TP TOUR HUD will make it super easy for you to move around the Second Life grid to access the exhibits.

Some definitions that may be helpful if you are new to Second Life

HUD = Head’s Up Display and in SL typically attaches to your screen and allows you to operate objects or stores nifty useful things like Landmarks.

Landmarks = These are destination points that allow you to “teleport” from one location to another.

Slurls = These are web based url destination points in Second Life — you can copy and paste a slurl into your chat and click on it and get a Landmark destination point or can copy and paste into your web browser and access interactive map with destination location.

Teleport = This is how you move from sim to sim in Second Life and can move short distances too as long as you have access to destination points via Landmarks or Slurls

Scripts = These are programming codes that make objects do stuff like rotate or give out landmarks, etc. If a sim or area of a sim has their land permissions set to No Scripts, avatars entering the sim/area will not be able to run scripted objects or HUDS that are attached to their avatar or screen.

Lag = this occurs when SL servers processors get hammered with incresaed activity such as complex scripts running on a sim along with scripted objects worn on avatars as well as the presence of many avatars on a sim. When Lag occurs, scripted objects like TTVLG kiosk buttons or the TTVLG LM/TP TOUR HUD may not respond right away. Be patient as the scripted object will eventually respond.

HOW TO USE THE HUD AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

TO GET STARTED:

** You probably have already received the TTVLG LM/TP TOUR HUD but in case not, grab one and please read below how to install and operate.

The HUDS are available in the large boxes outside the gallery and via the kiosks at the art locations.

** If a sim is experincing Lag, the TTVLG kiosks and boxes may take longer to deliver objects, notecards and the HUD.

Once you’ve received your HUD, locate the LM/TP TOUR HUD in your inventory — the HUD is called:
! Through The Virtual Looking Glass LM/TP TOUR HUD

Two ways you can attach the HUD to your screen
1) Left Double click on the name
2) Right click on the name and a drop down menu will appear — at the bottom you will see “Wear” – - left click on “Wear”

The LM/TP TOUR HUD will attach to the upper right hand corner of your screen.

Touch the “Through The Virtual Looking Glass” Title to open and close the “drop down” menu. You may need to touch the HUD twice to open drop down menu. Touching the HUD again will retract the menu — touching the HUD toggles it on / off (menu visible, menu not visible).

Touch the name/destinattion you would like to visit. A blue menu will ask if you wand to keep the Landmark — select keep.

A Landmark window will appear, select Teleport and off you go!

The Landmarks will be stored in your inventory so yoiu can revist the locations.

*** AREAS WHERE LM/TP TOUR HUD WILL NOT WORK:
Because some sims/exhibits have NO SCRIPTS turned on, the scripts inside the LM/TP TOUR HUD will not work. We have noted these exhibits by coloring the bacground panels RED on the LM/TP TOUR HUD.

Below you’ll find the lm’s slurls to all the exhibitions which you can click on via this notecard of slide into yoru inventory and click on it from there to tp to next location.

The locations marked with *** have NO SCRIPTS turned on their land options. Your HUD will not work at these locations. Select the next location in the list below to continue the tour.

THROUGH THE VIRTUAL LOOKING GLASS / VIRTUAL HARBOR GALLERY

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Isle/230/65/25

LOLLITO LARKHAM

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Art%20Collective2/96/1
42/29

AEQUITAS

*** GLYPH GRAVES (No scripts allowed)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Utopia02/174/24/23

SABRINAA NIGHTFIRE

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Erato%20of%20Caerleon/125/231/26

FEATHERS BOA

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esterhal/249/250/851

BRYN OH