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.

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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/

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LE COUCOU / THE CUCKOO - Marc Blieux aka Marc Moana



More details here:
http://aire-ville-spatiale.org/coucou-cuckoo
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Beware, cuckoos can appear at any time.

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. 

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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

"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

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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.

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.

"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!

Click here to teleport direct 

 

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

Architectural Jazz Jam Session

 

Architectural Jazz Jam -  January 2010 on Architecture Island. 48 hour design jam session focused on the seed theme 'Amalgamate' (to mix or merge as to make a combination blend; unite' combine). 

Jazz organised by Keystone Bouchard and full details on his ARCHVIRTUAL site.

It was a privilege to take part in this international collaboration of artists and contribute a spikey little riff.

Participants included: Annabelle Fanshaw, Archie Stonesheild, arklo Galicia, Camby, Chrome Underwood, DiJodi Dubratt, Keystone Bouchard, Laurel Leavitt, Maya Paris, Theory Shaw, Tiger Duesenburg, Werner Kurosawa.

This project was dedicated to the memory of Kurt Rehder, who passed away very suddenly on December 28, 2010. Kurt helped organize the Ctrl Shift 07 competition in Second Life, which explored the potential for design collaboration in virtual environments.

Sirens at Pirats - 23rd Nov-18th Dec

Sirens opens tonight at the Pirats Omega Gallery, 1.30pm SLT/9.30pm GMT.

Interactive sound installation.

Stand in the ocean and sing with us.

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Group show with Miso Susanowa,  Mikati Slade, Merlino Mayo, Maryva Mayo, Mathieul Bravin, Fahn Falta, June Clavenham, Artman Diavolo, Tehos Quar, Giovanni Cerise, Jean Coeur and Max Bobair

Many thanks to Zil Jewell for new studio space to work on this piece at Santa Barbara City College sim and Merlina and Newbab of Pirats Art network for inviting me to exhibit.

"Piezo" at BURN2 October 16-24

Every year in Second Life an extraordinary event takes place. The Burning Man Festival comes to the virtual playa and builders of all kinds produce amazing creations.

The theme of this year's festival is "Metropolis- Civilisation in the Desert".

Three weeks ago I was grinning from ear to ear and in a bit of a whirl after being invited to create a piece for one of the 6 large art plots at the Burn. I had energy sources on the brain after a friend asked...."well what's on your mind at the moment? "...and the answer was "lightbulbs". I'd seen an article about streetlights in Toulouse powered by pedestrians and went from there to discover more and more examples of people-powered regenerative energy that blew me away.

So my question became

WHAT IF..... there were a metropolis where

walking on the pavement powered the streetlights,
the roads gathered power from passing traffic,
cellphones were powered by conversation,
the energy of dancers provided enough electricity to run the lightshow at gigs,
your shoes turned your own energy output into electricity....

Sounds like sci-fi?  Check out the links at the bottom of this page.

Inspired by these ideas, i created "Piezo", an interactive, animated, sound and particle-generating 3D visualisation of all that potential people-power. (I should probably say...I'm no scientist!)

This is how "Piezo" works:

Take the teleport below to the virtual playa, make it midnight and turn up your sound.
Then click the sign when you arrive to get your Free Piezo-Power-wearables.
CLICK on your clothes to power them up.
There are 3 levels, with Piezo Fireballs, Flowerballs and Seedballs.
Click EVERYWHERE!
See and hear what happens as your energy is harnessed.

BURN2 opens on Saturday 16th October at Noon SLT.  There are 6 sims filled with great builds. (5 other large art plots with installations by Bryn Oh, Soror Nishi, Madcow Cosmos + Lorin Tone, AM Radio and Corvaire Wind. There's huge array of creative theme camps and smaller art plots PLUS The Hot Stilt Bitches of Burning Life have been at it again and have produced an amazing Flying Circus!)

**BURN2 sims will be open for another week after the 24th***

TELEPORT to "Piezo" directly from here 


Many thanks to everyone at BURN2 for inviting me, to all the volunteer staff who work so incredibly hard to make this such a great event and to super-scripter Simon Kline for his help in creating Piezo.

Thank you all and Burn on!

**Burn2 is an official Regional Burn for the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.

The Piezo-information that got me fired up:

1-"Kohei Hayamizu has a bold vision for the future: a city that is in itself an electric power station. A place where all roads, bridges and sidewalks generate electricity from the vibrations produced by the cars and people that move over them" :

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/lets_generate_electricity_by_walking/

2- Piezoelectricity : simply put, certain materials produce electricity when squeezed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric

3 -Tiny generators that harvest the kinetic energy going on around us in our daily lives

http://inhabitat.com/2010/03/24/mini-generators-use-vibrations-from-traffic-movement-to-create-electricity/

4- Cellphones powered by conversation:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39155886/ns/technology_and_science-science/

5-Pedestrian power

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/pavement-power-toulouse-streets

6- Power-generating  SHOES

http://inhabitat.com/2010/04/27/shoe-generator-harvests-power-from-walking/

7-Piezoelectric road:

http://green.autoblog.com/2008/12/12/power-generating-piezoelectric-road-will-be-tested-next-month-in/

8- Wearable energy systems:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/piezo-rubber-creates-potential-for-wearable-energy-system.ars

9- I couldn't leave out my old friend , bike-power. See the Magnificent Revolution "Projects" tab for pedal-powered sound systems and cinema

http://www.magnificentrevolution.org/

10- I was also very taken with this Californian gym that has the cardio-machines hooked up to power the lights!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDU72PD3vIs