Ars Electronica 2011

The this year´s Ars Electronica Festival took place from August 30th to September 6th in Linz, Austria, with its title "Origin - how it all begins" - and as you can imagine, Pinkpink has been seeing an incredible number of Media Art. Since she visited twice the presentation of MIT´s doppellab hold by Joseph Paradiso and Gershon Dublon at the "Deep Space", where high-definition visuals in jumbo 16x9-meter format are to enjoy, she´d like to face a Second Life-3D-project... :P - the cross reality thing "doppellab" is weird also in that case, that the virtual environment is not built, but generated by an engine getting the datas of the building through sensors attached in real to the MIT´s headquarter in Massachusetts.





In the frame of the displayed activities of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, which has played a leading role in media art for more than 30 years, there was another installation by Hiroo Iwata, which showed up a possibility for crossing our worlds. "Torus Treadmill" is a construction, which enables you to walk on a mechanic floor through a virtual projection.



Pinkpink also found a work which was balm for her weakness for 3D-printing: "Print your own souvenir". BlablaLab from Spain realized to scan the visitor and a miniature-statuette becomes printed three-dimensionally from a volumetric reconstruction of the person. For that work BlablaLab won the Honorary Mention price of Hybrid Art at Ars Electronica 2011.






















In the category "Computer Animations and Film" "The Chase" by Faulkner & Smith won an Honourable Mention Price too; she is tickled pink about a work like that; screen-captured game-sequences included!



And because of the weakness of CYLAND for the Theremin in general "The Art of Body Mass" by Herbert Gnauer & Team wants to be named. As you still can see in that very dark video-docu it is to play with the whole body and visualizations by Doron Goldfarb become generated in real time.



Last but not least Pinkpink accidentally met italian media art teachers from the University of Milano, who are familiar with SL and Gazira Babeli... and we talked about Stelarc...and she hopes to meet them inworld...she defintitely had a great and inspiring time and in a way she does feel strenghened: there is a future for us avatars!

CYLANDISTS

at Transmediale 2011: cyland.ru - what a fun...and chance encounters...and for sure several inspiring conversations...but commonly Pinkpink only found one, but interesting link
to the virtual worlds:










































and decided to create herself another one and has therefore many thanks to Open Design City, a hacker space in Berlin with a representation at Transmediale 2011, who operated there with a PINK-coloured ABS - so it was impossible for her not to ask for an ashtray :P - watch a short prove!

HOUSEBUGS WANTED!!

for CYBERFEST 2010 which will take place in St. Petersburg and SL upcoming November!



CYBERFEST 2010 will be dedicated to the understanding of the domestic life and the everyday practice in the digital civilization.
There is a constant flow of new things appearing to serve the customers – more complex and advanced household appliances, utensils, furnitures, tools, clothes, communication channels, hygiene products and so on. On the one hand, everyday life improves, on the other – technical progress formulates new challenges to the human being. There are changes in speed, limits of intimacy, possibilities of communication, and above all – in fundamental notions of real and imaginary, live and not live.
To take part in Cyberfest 2010 we call for works of media artists, which give a meaning to changes in psychological parameters of everyday life of a modern man, surrounded by digital gadgets.
Read more about at www.cylandfest.com and for inworld-entries please contact Pinkpink!

June, 23rd

As there is to celebrate the 7th birthday of Second Life the opening will be reveled today, but the last 2 days talks took already place - and I want to remark Philip Rosedale´s opening words, the founder of SL; read or listen to his speech over here - and take a look at the festival´s schedule and the teleports over here - and: cu there!

Raglan Shire Artwalk 2010

Raglan Shire is hosting its 5th ArtWalk May 9-30, 2010.
It´s a 3-week long, multi-sim art festival. Reproductions of RL artwork and SL artwork including photography and sculpture will be shown and events will take place. Over 100 artists are exhibiting over 3 sims, Pinkpink included. :P
Join at
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heron%20Shire/126/113/22

Cyberfest-addition

As there were a lot of artists invited to Cyberfest 2009, of course some cool conversations took place! At the Frants Gallery Space, when Pinkpink arranged an SL scene and people were allowed to try it out on their own, she met Carol Parkinson, director of Harvestworks, together with Hans Tammen she was presenting a sound installation named "Echolocation". Carol was very excited about SL, and said that they want to start their own project inworld. Hope so! Also Denny Daniel, who is running some funny projects, watch out his Museum of interesting things, checked out SL very carefully, threw away some not locked walls in Cyland, told what he already did...and asked a lot about what he can do more! And Raphaele Shirley, who was there to present [PAM] - perpetual art machine - she had a lot of compliments for Pinkpink´s creations and carefully listed them. Thank her so much! And DJ Spooky also! He liked the idea to implement his work Kino Pravda in SL, and therefore gave us a DVD for a better output. It was a pity that the "Electric Alien" scene inworld could not have been shown to the real life public during the live-performance by Andrey Bartenev, which was streamed inworld - there were, lets say, some difficulties - to learn about! - but a documentation-video will follow. Please stay tuned! And find videos about Cyberfest already at www.cyland.ru and read what Brian Droitcour wrote about it at rhizome.org!

Cyberfest documentations

by Denny Daniel!
watch it over there!

CYBERFEST OPENING in both worlds!

Poster hanged up at MechTiki Space, on click it serves you now with the schedule of the entire festival!

Fulminant Opening Party on Nov. 20th 7am SLT with a realtime stream from the real life festival´s Opening at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and vice versa, a performance by Mechatiki Productions and supercollider-live-sound by 5tefan Negulesco. Pinkpink will show all the fun and art we have inworld to real-life-visitors, and we have also prepared a little square where group-members are allowed to rezz their (little) art - or newbies to try out their first prim. Visit Cyberfest! Use it!

On Nov. 21st 9am SLT CylandSL will be presented to an interested public at the Frants Gallery Space - we will have djing, ashtray-riding and fishtinis as usual... party atmosphere! join us and rezz your art! It will also be arranged an inworld tour to remarkable art-projects and places.

On Nov. 24th 9am SLT "Electric Alien", a mixed reality event with a performance by Andrey Bartenev in real and an Alien-setting inworld realized by Mechatiki Productions and Pinkpink Sorbet will blow your mind. Please come and be part of the art!

On Nov. 25th 7am SLT Realtime streamed event with DJ Spooky at the Hermitage Theater, who will remix "Kino Glaz/Kino Pravda", a Russian newsreel from the 1920ies.

Sponaneously realized realtime streams from parts of the festival will be announced in the group "Cyland - Media Art Lab"...and during the festival it will be possible from time to time for RL visitors to communicate as Nosy Absent with inworld residents and backwards.

Please see the webite for detailled program:
http://www.cylandfest.com/en/

Join! Hope you will.

Gazira Babeli

newest mixed realities show - HAMMERING THE VOID opened on Friday, May 29 between 10am and noon SLT in Berlin and in Second Life. dam-berlin.de
I have been there in sl, see the flickr pics! ...in the end the vernissage got destroyed, flying pictures, turning down walls...fun!