AOM at 2013 Odyssey Festival

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse perform a live concert to open the 2013 Odyssey Performance Art Festival. New Mayan-inspired mask instruments designed by Norman Lowrey were shared with Second Life audience, and and all were taken on a seamless sound trip as only AOM can deliver. With additional instrumental mixes conceived and/or built by AOM members…

Odyssey Festival Schedule

The 2012 Odyssey Performance Art Festival presents The End of the World and After Party December 21 and 22, 2012 live on the Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator in Second Life and at participating meat spaces: Museum Sorgdrager, Ameland, the Netherlands Black Bag Media Collective Studio, St. John’s, Newfoundland Open Space, Victoria, Canada FRIDAY…

2012 Odyssey Performance Art Festival

The 2012 Odyssey Performance Art Festival (The End of the World Festival)happens December 21st and 22nd live on Odysseywith participating Meat Spaces in St. John’s Newfoundland, Victoria Canada and Ameland, the Netherlands. December 21st – The End of the WorldDecember 22nd – The End of the World After Party Featuring performances from Second Front, Stelarc,…

CyPosium!!

On 12 Octo­ber 2012, a cyber­for­mance sym­po­sium will be hosted by UpStage, the Water­wheel Tap and inde­pen­dent cyber­form­ers, where cyber­form­ers will dis­cuss their online per­for­mances with other artists, researchers and inter­ested par­tic­i­pants. Ques­tions we would like to tackle in CyPo­sium include: What dif­fer­ent kind of events hap­pened? What did they make pos­si­ble? What was spe­cial about the…

Archeological Dig

Sugar Mountain has come down. It was time, the mountain was taking up space and not really providing a viable work or presentation area. So last week I put on my terraforming hat down she came. Before I got to work flattening the land it occurred to me that I would likely find all kinds…

Dido’s Lament at the Odyssey Festival

A newly posted video from a performance by Man Michinaga from one of Odyssey’s Performance Art Festivals. Man Michinaga/Patrick Lichty, as Cicciolina, appeared clothed in the cloak of Prometheus and the arrows of St. Sebastien. He then filled the bed with hearts, signs of love, teddy bears, then set the whole thing on fire and…

Techno Dream and Nightmare Choir

The Black Bag Media Collective in collaboration with the Sound Symposium  and the Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator present: TECHNO DREAM AND NIGHTMARE CHOIR a Feisty, participatory Community Art intervention about networked technology. OPEN INVITATION from the Black Bag Media Collective and artist in residence Tina Pearson Send us your Dreams (Send us your…

Immersed with AOM

Immersed with AOM – A Benefit for Odyssey   Odyssey is very happy to announce the final performance in our 2012 Fundraising Series – very generously donated by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and including the offer of AOM instruments in exchange for donations!! Read on for details (from AOM Homepage):     Saturday, March 24…

Senses Places

Coming up! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 – 3 AM SLT Senses Places – mixed reality participatory performance a collaboration by Isabel Valverde (IHSIS, PT) Todd Cochrane (WelTec, NZ) Ana Moura (IST, PT) Clara Gomes (UNL, PT) Yumi Sagara (Independent Butoh artist, JP) Jun Makime (Independent Butoh artist, JP) Kae Ishimoto (Independent Butoh artist, JP) Yukihiko Yoshida…

The Mask: a synchronicity

Today on Odyssey Jo Ellsmere presented her much acclaimed “The Mask: a synchronicity” as part of our 2012 fundraising series. Kai Steamer and lizsolo Mathilde joined Jo Ellsmere in the performance. The Mask: a synchronicity is a multi-media performance utilizing movement, music and prose to express the theme of Carmen Auletta’s poem, “The Mask.”