Presenter and Featured Artist with 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival

"Boston is Watching" at Boston Public Library

"Cyber-Flavor-Mashup" at CounterpART Gallery

 

"Myth, Machines, Metaverse" at CounterpART Gallery

 

 

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Synthetic Masquerade
Exhibit: Nov. 6-26, 2008 @ SomArts Main Gallery
A multimedia exhibit exploring and celebrating the digital persona known as “the avatar”

As technology becomes more prevalent in our everyday lives, much of its impact on how it affects us psychologically goes mostly unnoticed. One of the few ways technology allows us to mold how we perceive ourselves (and how we want to be perceived) is expressed through the creation of an avatar for either a game, virtual world or website chat.

Current studies show that by the year 2010, seven out of ten people worldwide will have control of an avatar.

The works included in this exhibit will show the public many different ways artists perceive an avatar and no doubt many of the works will be a creative reflection of deep personal desires and fears along with concepts of beauty and ugliness.

The word “Avatar” originally came to mean "an embodiment, a bodily manifestation of the Divine. Since 1985, it has come to mean “a computer representation of a user.” Since the 1992 novel SnowCrash, the term Avatar was used to describe the virtual simulation of the human form in the Metaverse, a virtual-reality version of the Internet.

Some avatars are animated, consisting of a sequence of multiple images played repeatedly. Other avatar systems exist where a pixelized representation of a person or creature is used, which can then be customized to the user's wishes. Flat GIF based avatars are readily found in most chat room based websites.

A live broadcast of the virtual SomArts building will be projected on one of the gallery walls showing a simultaneous exhibit happening in the virtual world of Second Life.

In addition, A viewable webcast of the RL opening will be available for artists worldwide.

Curated by Capn Kurka: capnkurka@live.com

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SAN JOSE ICA AND CRATER BAY AREA COMES TO ARTROPOLIS! 
May 30 - August 2, 2008
Sunday, July 20 at 3 pm slt.
Opening Reception and Juried Art Contest
Live Music with Cylindrian Rutabaga inspired by the MOON

In the digital world of Second Life™, the artists of Artopolis are once again blurring the line between reality and virtuality in a mutimedia show and contest. In conjunction with the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), artists Nora Ligorano, Marshall Reese (Ligorano/Reese), and Jeffrey Lipsky aka Filthy Fluno, have worked together to create an innovating and intriguing event that can be viewed worldwide, or live at the ICA.

Real life participants were asked to create artworks on the subject of the moon, using either traditional or digital media. Similarly the participants in Second Life™ were asked to submit something to be digitally displayed along side digitalized copies of the real world submissions. The media present varies from photography, to traditional media, to digital works and three dimensional digital sculptures. As well as a variety of works, visitors will be asked to turn on their video players to watch Quicktime™ presentations of the live event.

The closing day of the juried contest will be held on July 20th in Second Life™ with a live performer, Cylindrian Rutabaga, streaming her music directly into the virtual world via the internet. Some of the artists and submissions to make of in world are:

FIRST PLACE: Esch Snoats' "Atro Moon"; a large photo on the side of the mountain across the lake from Elros' Moon Tree.

SECOND PLACE:

Elros Tuominen's "Moon Tree 03" ; on the left side of the site near the docks.

 

THIRD PLACE;

Kolor Fall's "Object"; a black and white rotating moon above the center of the lake.

 

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Crap Mariner's "Matzah CLock Tower"; on the blue moon submerged in the middle of the lake.

Esch Snoats' "Small Scale Castle"; on the blue moon submerged in the middle of the lake.

Scarp Godenot's "Kolored Loolapointer"; on the right side of all the pictures floating in the air above the center of the lake.

Artistide Despres' "Moon Ship Photo"; on an easel at the center platform on top of the lakes surface.

Ceres Dreamscape's "Moon Nightlight"; sitting next to the easels at the platform on top of the lakes surface.

Assorted photos of Fuschia Nightfire, FIlthy Fluno, Kolor Fall, and Artistide Despres sit around the central platform as well as dozens of artworks by San Jose artists which are floating above the moon and central platform. (However the real world submissions are not part of the in world competition).

This exciting event is a great advancement in the growing field of digital art, and with it's vast accessibility around the globe, the artists of Artopolis have created a step in a new direction for the art world, and those interested in the art world. The judging will take place July 20th at 3pm Second Life™ time (or Pacific Standard Time) however it will remain intact until August 2nd, 2008.

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