Friday, 29 July 2011

SynchroniCity - Aire Ville Spatiale



The Second phase of the SynchroniCity project at Aire Ville Spatiale opens on July 29th at 1pm SLT

SYNCHRONICITY AVATAR COLLABORATIF - initiated by Marc Blieux aka Marc Moana

a collaborative project based around the avatar, a kind of "exquisite corpse" in 3 dimensions. Each participant has access to the previous artist's creation and can modify it and add new elements. For full details of the process, click here.

Click here to visit

The first two artists are:

SAC [001]  Maya Paris http://aire-ville-spatiale.org/blog/avatar/sac-001-maya-paris/
 
















SAC [002]  typote Beck http://aire-ville-spatiale.org/blog/avatar/sac-002-typote-beck/
















SYNCHRONICITY WEB - Oberon Onmura


Oberon Onmura_SynchroniCity from Marc Moana on Vimeo.


http://aire-ville-spatiale.org/synchronicity-web/

click here to visit

LE COUCOU / THE CUCKOO - Marc Blieux aka Marc Moana



More details here:
http://aire-ville-spatiale.org/coucou-cuckoo
Click here to visit 

Beware, cuckoos can appear at any time.

Friday, 24 June 2011

LightRoot at Caerleon Light and Gravity show




LightRoot - a balancing act, is part of the "Light and Gravity" exhibition at Caerleon Isle, June 25 - 2-4 PM SLT 2011 (website for the show here)

Art and machinima - Maya Paris
Music for the machinima - March Macbain

Interactive- Look up, turn on your local sound and click. 

click here to visit

Light and Gravity Exhibition opens simultaneously in Boston and on the Caerleon Isle sim. Sunseeker Miklos (Jason Pramas), Georg Janick (Gary Zabel) and Alizarin Goldflake (Martha Jane Bradford) will be speaking at the LIVE presentation at the Art Institute in Boston, MA.

Artists: Oberon Onmura, Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves, Luce Laval, Maya Paris, Alizarin Goldflake, Igor Ballyhoo, Shellina Winkler, Ub Yifu, Pixels Sideways, Lollito Larkham, Merlino Mayo, Georg Janick, Aequitas (Sowa Mai)

Curated by PIxels Sideways and Sunseeker Myklos

Many thanks to Oberon and oona Eiren for being part of the filming and Zil Jewell of SBCC for virtual studio space

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

"Mind the Gap" and "Second Pool" at Split Screen



"MIND THE GAP"

As the world's media prepare to swivel their lenses away from the  serious issues of the day, and focus them on an anachronistic royal-showbiz wedding.......

**LONG LIVE THE MAGNIFICENT COMMON WEED**

Open at Dividni Shostakovich's Split Screen Installation Space  with Oberon Onmura's  "Second Pool", from 25th March to 30th April 2011.

http://dividni.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-pool-with-maya-paris-and-oberon.html

** Click here to visit

Mind the Gap is an interactive installation, so please read the "how-to" notecard in the sign when you get there and be sure to WEAR your Dandelion Crown.

A big thank you to Dividni Shostakovich for inviting us to show at Split Screen. It's been fantastic to work alongside Oberon in a way that led us to develop some common themes.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Veparella's International Women's Day Event







Performance-Art mash-up created by everyone who came. Baba-Broomsticks, flying robots, maverick hippos and giant organs. Huge thanks to you all, your incredible creativity made it a night to remember.

Eupalinos Eugajin, typote Beck, Penumbra Carter, March Macbain, Misprint Thursday, L1Aura Loire, Arrow Inglewood, Thirza Ember, Moti Moody, Kikas Babenco, Marmaduke Arado, Artcrash Exonar, Werner Kurosawa, Douglas Story, Dekka Raymaker, Annabelle Fanshawe, Dividni Shostakovich, any1 Gynoid, Brigit Ranger, Zil Jewell, 6669 Setzer, Oberon Onmura , Kimbo Scribe,Alisse Hax and Clothaire Hax are all in there somewhere under the masks and menagerie.

Thanks again to Zil Jewell of SBCC for hosting.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

"Veparella" : a Fairytale Caper


VEPARELLA : Scissor-wielding superhero created in freak sewing accident invites you to join her in a fairytale caper.

SNIP
SNIP 
SNIP
Open all hours, come whenever you like!


 
What to do when you arrive:

1- Click the basket of bones and WEAR everything inside

You will become part of the band of Veparellas. Your superpower? You can RUN with scissors.

**The Veparella Superheroine Belt contains everything you need

To activate it: type any of the following words into Local Chat as you climb up

baba
zizz
snip
spin
mirror

2- TURN ON your MEDIA STREAM  to hear the VEPARELLA MUSIC - composed (and played) for this installation  by the amazingly talented March Macbain

3- TURN OFF your AO - (there are animations in this piece)

4- Make it SUNSET

4- To get around :
Follow the trail of Apples then
LOOK for the Tiny Rose-Bush pictures, they are DOORS: click once to OPEN them, click again to go through them.

5- Left- Click EVERYWHERE, ( hit the jumping thunderapple, have a kip in the bed, see if the shoes fit, hit the apple to shin up the hair and spin spin spin, try out a throne for size and beware of the  secret-stash apple)

Enjoy!

HUGE thanks to :March Macbain, for composing the Veparella music
Zil Jewell for studio space at Santa Barbara City College sims. It's been a pleasure to work here
Sage Duncan of Kansas University, where i started building Veparella at the Impermanence sim in May 2010
Newbab Zsigmond of Pirats for kindly hosting the Veparella music

A big thank you also to

Pandora Wrigglesworth, creator of the "Anywhere Doors" used in this build

Additional animations and sculptmaps by:
manmoth nishi, Ulrika Zugzwang, mikeD Streeter,Lara Pixelmaid
Car99los Shan,Xoph Adamczyk, Arcadia Morales, Aseraser Core, Jubjub Forder

And to my exceptional friends for run-throughs, advice and general being-there: Yohann Emoto, L1Aura Loire, Misprint Thursday, Oberon Onmura and Arrow Inglewood