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The real and the virtual interact as digital artwork on a monumental scale provides a stunning virtual landscape while real-world jazz gigs, broadcast live from a small London club, are injected into the cyberspace.
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ARTISTS
DanCoyote Antonelli (aka David "DC" Spensley). An alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and current graduate student at Silicon Valley's CADRE Laboratory, DC Spensley is Co-founder of quasi art movements like The Gomi School and Critical Mass and Hyperformalism. DC's art career covers some thirty-years. He is a writer, director, cinematographer, composer, performance artist, and sculptor and most recently has appeared as the avatar DanCoyote Antonelli in the virtual reality simulation Second Life. Spensley has exhibited internationally at venues like Ars Electronica at Linz Austria, ZeroOne/ISEA conference at the San Jose Museum of Art, the Bumbershoots Festival under the auspices of Frye Art Museum of Seattle, and the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival.
DanCoyote (a pun on Cervante's Don Quixote) exhibits art based on situated technology and reactive architecture. He is responsible for the only zero gravity dance troupe. Spensley/DanCoyote's ZeroG SkyDancers perform in Second Life and are often projected into real world venues, spanning the divide between continuums. The SkyDancers perform a cross between water ballet and aerial acrobatics and have been said to invoke a sense of wonder and pageant similar to Cirque du Soleil.Further info about Spensley’s work -
http://www.dancoyote.comOberon Onmura. Oberon has been making art in Second Life for almost two years. In that time, his unique approach to using opposing forces on physical objects has attracted the attention of blog sites, SL galleries and publications.
His recent Beacon, a 100-meter tower that constructs and then destroys itself, was selected for inclusion in a national exhibition of virtual and corporeal art - the @ exhibition - in association with the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, California (February, 2009). He was also recently selected as one of 12 artists to collaborate in Art Khaos, an international month-long sculptural performance piece organized by the PiRats Arts Network in Paris.
Oberon is a frequent contributor to the Brooklyn is Watching project in association with Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg. His current sim-sized project, The Tunguska Event, can be seen at the Project Z Gallery on the Cetus sim.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmuraJuria Yoshikawa (aka Lance Shields). After two decades of creative pursuits - ranging from conceptual art, installation, poetry, performance, computer art, animation, photography and digital design - Juria Yoshikawa arrived in Second Life (SL) in the winter of 2007 looking for a new artistic spark. Rather than bringing in real life artwork, Juria is compelled to use mainly the elements that make up SL itself. A typical Juria Yoshikawa virtual artwork mixes kinetic objects, animated texture, ambient noise, and AV animations. She inevitably chooses scales larger than conventional gallery work because she is interested in people experiencing the work in a physical way - flying through them, riding on them and socializing within the art. To Juria virtual art is about freeing oneself up to create in ways she finds impossible in real life.
Juria Yoshikawa is Lance Shields in real life and is a Tokyo based multimedia artist and creative director. He has spent many years making digital art, installation art and performance. Sculpture and installation are where he started his creative career but he became progressively more involved in the digital and interactive. Lance says “I see SL as a return back to my artistic roots yet at the same time it combines my newer interests in the phenomenology in the virtual world or as phenomenology is defined as the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view”. In his commercial life, Lance is a social media strategist at a global company that embraces social networking, blogging and Second Life.
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