Coming on Saturday February 19th at 12 NOON SLT – the premiere of Peripheral Vision – About what is out of focus. An exhibit by Fau Ferdinand and Penumbra Carter. Join us Exhibit A on Odyssey for the opening event. The artists will be in attendance. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/29/47/24 AI and I by Fau Ferdinand In different…
Category: virtual reality
Whale Watching in VR
JE Solo has been working extensively in NEOS VR over the last few years. Their the under world installation that features Artificially Intelligent twin whales who sing. These underwater creatures compose their own unique songs in real time based on their interpretations of an original composition by JE Solo. This project is part of the…
North in NEOS VR
This year, Odyssey artists have been intrepidly exploring new frontiers in VR and beyond. Most recently, artists are making breakthroughs in the social VR world of NEOS VR. Norman Lowrey/North Zipper, of Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, and a long-standing Odyssey artist, has brought his singing masks into NEOS VR – to mesmerizing effect! To get a…
DC Spensley’s “Boxland” at Art Basel
One of our resident Second Life artists, DanCoyote Antonelli aka DC Spensley has created a piece for the company MetaVRse that will be showing at the next Art Basel. It’s an architecture called Boxland, that has multiple applications, including as a site for the presentation of different ideas, like artwork and installation. Click this link…
Documentation of CICN1 & CICN2 on Odyssey
The following videos document Jeremy Owen Turner’s creations, CICN1 and CICN2, recently exhibited on Odyssey in NEOS VR. In the first video Jeremy is interviewed by fellow artist JE Solo, about their Meta Creation in NEOS VR collaboration. In the second video, artists drop by Jeremy’s sim to visit with his artworks. CICN1 and CICN2…
METACREATION in NEOS VR Exhibit
The Odyssey sims in NEOS VR are proud to present the results of this year’s research and creation project – Meta-Creation in NEOS VR. Exhibitions of the artist’s work are coming up this week! Dr. Jeremy Turner will present his intelligent NPCs – named CICN 1 and CICN 2 – on December 28th and December…
Odyssey in NEOS VR
Odyssey has been branching out over the last couple of years and exploring the newest VR worlds. Our current concentration is on the virtual world of NEOS VR. We have multiple sims running in NEOS, both as studio and exhibition spaces. Our latest project is supporting the development and presentation of the new installation, Meta…
Social VR World Breakdown
BBMC and Odyssey-based artists have been examining new 3D social VR spaces and assessing their potential as sites for performance and presentation. Exploring these new 3D worlds is part of a year-long project called VR Forward. There are 2D VR based artists who have found ways to seamlessly translate their practice into 3D VR, (such…
Farewell, MacGRID, with thanks
Requiem for MacGrid by Alan Sondheim Gone now, whole worlds disappeared… http://www.alansondheim.org/macgridsection.png http://www.alansondheim.org/dedtime.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/BABABA.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/havock.mp4 Thanks to David Smith, Ian Murray, many many others Some notes, from all forms, all times, thinking the MacGrid – There were anomalies Large-scale installations visual data representation – empathetic identifications – the mocap work social experimentation – four…
NEOS VR
(Reposted from The BBMC’s blog) The BBMC has been exploring multiple VR environments over the last four months as a part of our Canada Council for the Arts funded Odyssey VR Project. Collective members are looking for VR platforms that will support workflows for creative projects and that will offer realistic possibilities for presentation in…