GoGo’s AI Crime Challenge
I took Gogo’s AI Mugshot challenge! IDK why she looks so hot and I look deranged???
#KnickersOTD
How will your friends & loved ones locate you in an emergency if they don’t know what color your knickers are!? Start using the essential #KnickersOTD hashtag today!
#4: Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
In Artist Challenge #4, your mission is to use Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa as the inspiration for a portrait of your own avatar ecstasy.
#3: Izima Kaoru: Landscapes with a Corpse
Artist Challenge #3: Izima Kaoru: Landscapes with a Corpse. Contemplate your own demise. Put on something great from your favorite designer. Photograph it.
#2: Marina Abramovic: Role Exchange
Inspired by Marina Abramovic’s 1975 performance Role Exchange, I invite avatars to trade places for a night. Wear another skin. Live another life.
Challenge #1: Avatar in a Box
Challenge: Avatar in a Box. Inspired by photographer Hugh Kretschmer’s “Special Delivery,” your challenge this week is to arrange your avatar in a box.
U is for “Unexpected Data Object”
[I am an] Unexpected Data Object. I want to lick your brains. I want to taste your thoughts.
T is for “Tera”
Hazelaartje, Ironyca, Ravanel, Skygirl & Vanessa go on a field trip to the MMORPG of Tera Rising.
R is for “Rabalder” (Dance Anywhere)
Avatar Alphabet: R is for Rabalder! Legendary dancers Rabalder & Monerda lead the VBCO dancers at Trafalgar Square, London, as part of Beth Fein’s annual “Dance Anywhere” global celebration of dancing.
Q is for “Quack”
Avatar Alphabet: Q is for Quack! In this culture clash of the meta-Quack Stephen Colbert meets Lawrence Lessig meets virtual ducks in a Creative Commons of farm animals and media culture.
P is for “Peggy Sue”
Avatar Alphabet: P is for Peggy Sue! 9 identical Peggy Sue’s dressed in Kai Heideman’s explosion of pink, dance in Daruma Picnic’s sound sculpture.
O is for “Offset” (camera)
I visited Virtual Turkey and took the opportunity to compare SL’s default front & rear cameras with more “on the ground” camera offset settings.
N is for “Net / Work”
Avatar Alphabet: N is for Net Work. Collaborative performance with light & space artist Betty Tureaud at Xue Faith & Trill Zapatero’s Gallery Xue / Kandahar.
M is for “Minecraft” (explicit lyrics)
With my tour guide Wendz Tempest, I finally venture into the great frontier of Minecraft. Lots of running around. Lots of getting killed. TG4 “respawn”!
L is for “Little Black Dress”
Avatar Alphabet: L is for Little Black Dress. Okay, I’m neither Hannah Montana, nor that other girl. But maybe just a little bit like her, after you’ve done enough “K is for Kids” sometimes you just have to cut loose with a little “L is for Little Black Dress”
K is for “Kids!” (being one again)
Avatar Alphabet: K is for “Kids!” Vanessa Blaylock relives her avatar childhood, and in this universe, she wins the Peep race!
J is for “Joe Rigby” (Avaya Live)
Everybody’s twitter friend @JoeRigby1339 has been tweeting out cool Avaya Live installations for IDK how long now. Today I visited his art gallery. I spent a few minutes with those sublime Dutch boys Vincent and Johannes. And some other nice people.
I is for “Ice Skating!”
Avatar Alphabet: I is for Ice Skating! Come, strap on your skates one more time and celebrate the joy of of a blade on ice!
H is for “Hair”
Avatar Alphabet: H is for Hair. The truth is the 2003 avatar “system hair” is so ugly that everybody just shaves their heads and wears wigs. We’re a race of bald avatars, but damn, we have the greatest wigs in the world!
G is for “Gallery Weekend Berlin”
A group of virtual world explorers experience the realXtend platform and the installation of Gallery Weekend Berlin.
E is for “Ethereal Plane”
Quiet meditation in the amniotic-like waters of the lagoon sometimes offers access to the ethereal plane.
D is for “Drum Circle” (in Deep Space)
In day 4 of the Avatar Alphabet we visit the Drum Circle at Izzy’s Gym for a little drumming and dancing and spiritual revitalization.
C is for “Catsuit” (and Cleavage!)
26 Alphabet-days of Avatar Life: 3 April: “C is for Catsuit (and Cleavage!)” Today Vanessa puts on a shiny latex catsuit and goes dancing in New Moscow!
Haiku Speedbuild #2
This week we're at the just announced LEA11 (Linden Endowment for the Arts) project Alice in Cornelland. Haiku Speedbuild is lucky to be the first...
Searching For Cyanide Seelowe
Xue circumnavigates the virtual interwaters in search of traces of Virtual Artists’ Alliance’s charismatic founder Cyanide Seelowe.