Created for the Sleep as Art Residency at Ars Electronica (Shulea Cheang et al) – Featuring Krysania Eramos (Yunji Johanning) Fau Ferdinand (Yael Gilks) Man Michinaga (Patrick Lichty) Bibbe OH (Bibbe Hansen) Lizsolo Mathilde (Liz Solo). Warhol’s Factory couch by Bebe Begonia. Second Front are lot of people: Produced by Patrick Lichty Concept by SHuLea…
IWD Performances
Odyssey teamed up with Roles 4 Women to present the first annual International Women’s Day Performance Series. Thank you to all the audiences who came out to support and experience new work by five of Odyssey’s resident creators – Humming Pera/Tina Pearson, Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks, Bibbe Oh/Bibbe Hansen and Nebulosus Severine. We also…
The Women of Second Front
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6EdoDhM60&w=560&h=315] This video contains a selection of machinima videos by the women artists of the performance art collective The Second Front. These videos span over ten years of pioneering performance art in virtual space. On this reel: Haledol Dreams of the Minotaur, Losin’ It, Therapy, Red Dog For Fred Herko, The Second Front Method,…
Women’s Day on Odyssey
Odyssey are proud to team up with Roles 4 Women‘s to host an International Women’s Day event on our sim. Thursday March 8th we will be hosting performance by Nebulosus Severine, Bibbe Hansen, Yael Gilk/Fau Ferdinand, Tina Pearson/Humming Pera and Liz Solo. We will also be presenting an ongoing screening on the sim featuring machinimas…
Senses Places at Corporealidades Pós-humanas
Senses Places – the collective founded and led by Portugal’s Interdisciplinary artist Isabel Valverde – presented a program of work at this year’s Corporealidades Pós-humanas in Salvador, Brazil. Collaborators joined Isabel online at the Senses Places studio on Odyssey. Performers and audiences participated from Brazil via different portals including live streams and Second Life. Senses…
“the wide sky” open on Odyssey
Liz Solo’s new installation opened this weekend on Odyssey. Her new website with a machinima series and “memory archive” launched today. Here is a link to the installation on Odyssey: SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/46/82/1680 The website is live here: www.thewidesky.ca Here are a few images from the opening launch followed by a press release from IOTA. Humming…
Avatar Salad
The Second Front are working on Exhibit A this week preparing a new performance/machinima for the University of Wichita’s upcoming “At A Distance” exhibition. Stay tuned for more news and documentation from “Virtual Proposition for Alison Knowles #1 – Make an Avatar Salad”, based on an Alison Knowles event score/performance called “Proposition #2 – Make…
Senses Places at Odyssey/Open Sim Conference
Odyssey is proud to provide a home to Senses Places – a dance based mixed reality project by Isabel Valverde and collaborators. The project runs a mixed reality participatory environment on the Odyssey Simulator in Second Life and this week presented performances and demonstrations at the 2016 Open Sim Community Conference. Here are some images…
Pokemon-A-Go-Go
The Second Front have been busy on Odyssey these last weeks shooting machinima for their latest piece – Pokemon-A-Go-Go. The video has been released today and we share it with you here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNkTy82lWE] About Pokémon-A-Go-Go What happens when the Pokémon turn? Years of torment and domination have led to an uprising. While humans have…
Al Hansen’s “Car Bibbe”
Today Bibbe Hansen restaged the Al Hansen happening “Car Bibbe” at Howl Arts in New York City. To mark the event we have released a machinima of The Second Front performance of “Car Bibbe” that took place on Odyssey earlier this year. The performance stars The Second Front (Patrick Lichty, Bibbe Hansen, Scott Killdal, Liz Solo, Doug Jarvis, Yael Gilks) with special…