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!

ODYSSEY Performance Art Festival 2011

took place the last two weeks: odysseysimulator.blogspot.com
I could not make it to the half of the events, but what I have experienced, definitely blew my mind. Attending artists handled and showed almost everything thats possible by now on a very high level; besides live-presence, multi-tasking and cooperations livestreams and wii-remote control connections and participatory elements were included. In the end of the very last show, performed by Ze Moo called "The Future of Social Mass Media", Pinkpink died for her first time - it was really brutal, she bought a panzer for 1 L$ and weapons but.


during "Screen me" by Saveme Oh


Short cut about The Future of Social Mass Media by Ze Moo


Great and comprehensible video documentation by Pyewacket Kazyanenko about the performance "Interdimensional Call" by Kai Steamer

Several things

were going on...like in june the Machinima Festival 2011 took place in Amsterdam, great ones were screened like "Opium" by Pyewacket Kazyanenko:



and Second Life celebrated its 8th birthday - well, its still a child ;) and Pinkpink emigrated to OSGRID...and besides she is proud that she was asked to put her installation "Antsy Chamber" at The Port, a famous and great sim to explore.


at The Port

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!

SL Odditorium

Although the BURN2 Festival will start tomorrow, we focus now totally on CYBERFEST :P and preparations are going on. For this year Pinkpink arranges a virtual group-show at Cyland SL Odditorium, which will take place synchronously to the festival in real life and deals with the same motto: "Housebugs".
Glad to tell that some of the greatest artists on the grid accepted Cyland´s invitation to take part at Cyberfest, and hopefully they all will be online at the times of the real-life presentations...stay tuned!

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!

Sad to say

that The Greenies will leave back to their homeplanet and close their sim on june, 23rd. Join the festival until then over there and read more about at rezzable.com. What a pity.