Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator has housed a remarkable array of artists who are pushing the edges of art and identity in the virtual world Second Life. The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse began at Odyssey in 2007, and is rehearsing there now in preparation for its July 2013 performance at the first annual Deep Listening Art…

Machinima documentation from Alan Sondheim’s “Mathesis” – with Sandy Baldwin. Performed live at the 2012 Odyssey Performance Art Festival (The End of the World Festival) at the Odyssey Simulator in Second Life and at the Black Bag Media Collective Studio, St. John’s, NL. To see stills from the performance and to download the IM text…

Alan Sondheim/Alan Dojoji with Sandy Baldwin present “Mathesis” at the 2012 Odyssey Festival. To download a pdf of the unedited chat please click this link: mathesisdialogue

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.”