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Participatory Theatre / ARG about Video Game Influences in Society

Posted in Media and Popular Culture, tagged , , , , , on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Zen Zen Zo is a physical theatre company based in Queensland and there’s already a huge buzz about how they incorporate participation from the audience into their theatre. Next year’s performance is Sub-Con Warrior 2.0. The screenshot above explains it all. I love the concept and am definitely hoping I can find space to [...]

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The Extratextuals: the Mediation of Media

Posted in Digital Media Researchers, Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Fascinating new blog find (via Christy) – the Extratextuals, a group blog defined as the following:
This is a blog about the media. However, with other blogs on television, film, and the media in general, we wanted to carve out a specific niche. So our blog will focus primarily on the extratextuals that surround the media. [...]

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My Digital Fiction Presentation for Futures in Literacy Conference

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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The Show Must Go On: Vaudeville hits SL

Posted in Second Life, tagged on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I attended Second Life’s famed Vaudeville production The Show Must Go On, which was held as an opening in world event to coincide with the opening of the SLCC (Second Life Community Convention) being held in Chicago right now. It was fun to be there with some NMC friends and join into the [...]

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Robbie Dingo’s “Watch the World” machinima

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , , , , on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wow!  Robbie Dingo created the most amazing 3D version of Van Gogh’s painting, and it is shown in this time lapse machinima.  Robbie’s blog post about here.

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dLux Media Second Life Art Tours (aka the Magic Pony Ride!)

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , on July 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »

What fun! I managed to get to some of the special dLux Media rl/sl mixed realities event today that I blogged about here. This is me on my magic pony ride tour of SL art hot spots. In a very clever pop culture / high culture hybridisation, the tour incorporated visits to [...]

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Resonating with Second Life Wind: A wonderful sound installation

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to Prok for showing me this amazing sound installation in Second Life during the week. Here’s the description from the artist:
“Resonating-With-secondlifeWind” by Edo Autopoiesis.
Resonating-With-secondlifeWind is a permanent, large scale, generative sound-installation in Second Life.
One might not immediately be aware of it but everywhere in Second Life there is wind, constantly changing and twisting [...]

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Nudes Descending- Interactive SL Art

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , , , on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Gaza does it again – you might remember Gaza Stripped, an article from Slatenight magazine (now sadly on hiatus for the time being), where Gaza, pictured below, discussed her philosophy about real/virtual/pop art.

Nude Descending is another play on an artistic icon, in which falling nude art pieces topple down a staircase, and if you want [...]

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Mixed Reality SL/RL Media Arts Event

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, tagged , on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As part of the d/Art/07 festival being run by dLux Media Arts there will be a mixed reality event showcasing the Arts in Second Life. Here are the details:

Saturday, July 14, 2007 [...]

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Christy Dena on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was fortunate enough to listen to Christy Dena today presenting a truly stimulating lecture on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts.  Her point of departure was a quote from Henry Jenkins about transmedia storytelling, which she interrogated by tracing the history of cross-media art forms, from pre-internet media such as Twin Peaks to new forms [...]

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Evocative Spaces and Aesthetic Grabs (My YouTube Talk)

Posted in Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Click the image to go to the slides for my talk at the NMC’s Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video
A complete list of all videos mentioned in the talk are included “under the fold”.

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Animated Music: Pipe Dreams

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Fashion and Identity

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a fabulous line early on in The Devil Wears Prada:
“Fashion is not about utility. An accessory is merely a piece of iconography used to express individual identity.”
 I’ve been thinking of analysing this film (along with the TV series “Desperate Housewives”) to add to some workI did in 2005 – “Discourses of Desire in Sex [...]

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Viral Video Marketing: Barenaked Ladies

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Clever clever clever!!!!! This latest music video from the Barenaked Ladies features a whole bunch of popular youtubers:
The Youtube celebrities whose voices/performances you know and love have come together to perform Barenaked Ladies’ “Sound of Your Voice” from the album “Barenaked Ladies Are Me”. Sound of Your Voice Stars:

Where The Hell Is [...]

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More Arts on YouTube

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

 One man draws some of his youtube subscribers:

The beatboxing flautist:

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Art Unfolding

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , on February 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

One of my long term research participants, Jandalf, pointed me to this art for charity site: The Million Masterpiece. What I love about this is that it does a replay of Jandalf’s art in progress. Have a look! I think it’s always amazing to see the process of a piece of artwork [...]

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