construct on Magoo

I think in general when people say "I know," they don't know, they believe. I believe that art is the only form of activity in which man as man shows himself to be a true individual. Only in art is he capable of going beyond the animal state, because art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time and space. To live is to believe; that's my belief, at any rate.

-- Marcel Duchamp, interviewed by James Johnson Sweeney for NBC at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1956 (more)

'construct' by Selavy Oh, is now on Magoo (Teleport)

More on construct by Selavy Oh here

construct discussed on Arahan Claveau's Soup Radio here


video by Mab MacMoragh: rough draft for a final version of Selavy Oh's 'construct variations' to be finished later this year

Soup Radio: May 2011 Programming

Image: Carol's Classroom

Via Arahan Claveau:

Soup Radio new schedule begins Saturday May 7th 2011 (12pm PDT, 3pm EDT, 8pm BST)

Amy Freelunch has a conversation with art critic (and husband) Jeff Edwards, regarding the difficulties and rewards of organising artists and academics online.

Arahan Claveau talks to artist Selavy Oh about new work 'Construct' which opened on May 1st at the HUMlab sim in Second Life. Selavy talks about his experiences creating the project and how it will integrate with visitors in the physical gallery space in Sweden.

Raul Crimson and Treat Kanto discuss the new exhibition 'Walking Canvas' at SOMA in Second Life. They also talk about the reduced support for artistic initiatives by Linden Lab, the general lack of diversity on the Grid, and how Second Life has become closer to real life through this process.

Penumbra Carter returns next month.

Visit Soup Radio Blog for listening choices and information

May 2011 Show Notes

Soup Radio January 2011 Schedule

Image:Soup Radio Blog

Soup Radio's new schedule begins on Saturday, January 1st 2011
(12pm PDT, 3pm EDT, 8pm GMT).

Soup Radio Blog

Arahan and Khamudy discuss what 2011 has in store for Second Life, the New Year resolutions people have been making regarding their online activities, the ongoing difficulties of funding for virtual arts and humanities projects, the arrival of Rod Humble from Electronic Arts as the new CEO of Second Life, the teengrid merger, the end of licensed Frank Lloyd Wright content in SL and the amusing developments of Xbox Kinect hacks.

Amy Freelunch talks about the real-life art market, and ways for artists to use the internet and crowd-sourcing to support their work. She also talks about a few different art sites and what works about them and what doesn't.

Penumbra Carter is joined by guest Chantal Harvey. Chantal talks about her past, present and future machinima and the role music has played in their production. Also discussed are their experiences with the 48 Hour Film Project and Chantal's participation within the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA).

Soup Radio is an independent non-profit non-commercial collaborative sound art project.

Soup Radio December 2010

Today: Arahan Claveau presents new December 2010 programming Soup Radio (click for info)

Soup Radio November

Mab's been sleeping a lot lately in between juggling projects, so some important blog balls have been dropped amongst the dust bunnies! Argh!

Arahan Claveau's fantastic Soup Radio returned with an all new programming lineup for November earlier this month, featuring shows by Arahan (Steve Millar) with Khamudy Mannonen, Jane Vippond, and Allan Stanley Taylor; Amy Freelunch; and Penumbra Carter with Molly Cybertar- see Soup Radio blog for full details and listen inworld at Soup sims (Eryri and Magoo), or in your media player.

November 2010 Show Notes

Soup Radio blog

Soup Radio stream

Thanks to New World Notes for blogging Soup Radio!

Grazie Roxelo for streaming Soup Radio at Museo del Metaverso on OpenSim world Craft!

Soup Radio launches Saturday 9 October 12PM SLT

Soup and Lovers Lane Studios are excited to see the launch of Arahan Claveau's Soup Radio!

See Soup Radio Blog for details

Tune in with your media player (iTunes, VLC, Winamp etc.) via this link:

http://87.117.202.31:8206/listen.pls

or listen at the ::: Soup ::: Eryri and ArtNation Push sims in Second Life®.

And now for something completely different*

*with apologies to Monty Python

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New Terms of Service? What do they mean to artists? Does anyone really know? No. Does anyone have a clue? Yes.

The new Second Life TOS (Terms of Service), to be effective 30 April 2010, were discussed at length by Robert Bloomfield and Joshua Fairfield (legal expert and virtual world analyst) on the 100th episode of Metanomics (14 April 2010). If you have any creative investment and future plans at all in Second Life®, it's well worth the time it takes to listen to them talk on the archived stream (about an hour). Snapshots and machinima are addressed roughly 1/3 of the way through (about 17:00 into the video) and on page 5 of the transcript.

Watch video: link

View transcript: link

Roland Legrand succinctly summarizes the show on MixedRealities: link

"The internet is not a typewriter and you will be a licensee rather than an owner."

Arahan Claveau has posted the new TOS in its entirety here: link

The Official Second Life® Blog does not seem to address the new TOS, but it can be found on their corporate page here, along with links to other policies and guidelines: link

Update: Mab couldn't find it but Ina Centaur has provided the location where M Linden summarizes the new TOS in the Community Blog, with links to the FAQ and the Discussion Thread (warning- it's like a sausage factory): link

(crossposted)

SLon: Closing Gala DJ set by Arahan Claveau

SLon des Refusés Closing Gala (2009) by SteveMillar

Listen and dance . . .

Set List (link)

Pink Narcissus (a blog by Arahan Claveau) (link)

Final Five: Selavy Oh's The Final Show

To see this slideshow full-screen click here (link)

The Final Five artists in the Best of Brooklyn is Watching Year 1 Festival created new work using virtual copies of the original Jack the Pelican Presents gallery built by Dekka Raymaker. Finalist Selavy Oh chose to riff on the gallery itself much as a twenty-first century music composer might. The space was treated as theme and multiplied, with variation and the element of chance brought in to play by inviting friends to show new works of their own. Visitors shape their experience by exploring and interacting with the labyrinthine virtual galleries that disappear and reappear, some empty, some full, thereby becoming a part of and completing the art. The only way to fully experience Selavy Oh's The Final Show is to actively engage with it.


The Final Show machinima by Penumbra Carter

From the notecard by Selavy Oh:

In a virtual world, the notion of space has a different meaning. While a real gallery is limited by the size of the available space, a virtual gallery is limited by the number objects that can be shown.

A virtual gallery is not just a single space, but can be many parallel spaces. The gallery spaces can be exchanged, concatenated, they can be modified, they are only context but not requirement.

You may walk into the virtual gallery and see one exhibition, you turn around, and walk into the same gallery again to see something completely different.

Consequently, this exhibition features work by several of the artists whose work was chosen to be among the 30 best artworks of year 1 of Brooklyn Is Watching, but were not selected by the judges for the Final Five.


The Location

East of Odyssey (slurl)


The Artists:

Arahan Claveau– "Adrift"
Dekka Raymaker– "Artbortion"
comet Morigi– "*~comet Morigi Bio 090804"
Oberon Onmura– "Fight for Order"
Misprint Thursday– "Suspended Hang-Ups"

Curation and Space:

Selavy Oh

Update: Read MonCherrie Afterthought's parsing of Selavy's overtones and pitch on the Brooklyn is Watching blog (link)

SLon: Teleport SLurls to individual artists

Find more photos like this on Watashi Wa Iru

Slideshow by Arahan Claveau (link)

1. Ally Aeon Recur (slurl)

2. Arm Strom "Under water" (Footprints, ice, wasp and "fur objects") (slurl)

3. Azdel Slade Becoming Dragon (slurl)

4. Banrion Constantine Climbing Up (slurl)

5. Betty Tureaud Pot of Gold (slurl)

6. Butterflysmasher Dana Various Works (slurl)

7. Cheen Pitney Crossfire (slurl)

8. Cinco Pizzicato Macys Day Mishap (slurl)

9. Corcosman Voom Self Portrait in Red (slurl)

10. Dekka Raymaker Equilibrium Disturbed II Look What I Made (slurl)

11. elros Tuominen teardrops in the rain (slurl)

12. Ford Heberle Sycophant/Parvenu (slurl)

13. four Yip Magritte Therapist - Take a Seat (slurl)

14. Hollow Prim henry (slurl)

15. Jay Newt avatar as art (slurl)

16. Klink Epsilon Vermilion: Betrayal, Anger and Sorrow (slurl)

17. Man Michinaga 8 bits or less zoetrope (slurl)

18. Monet Destiny Object (slurl)

19. nessuno Myoo Dolce Attesa (Sweet Pending) (slurl)

20. Penumbra Carter Submission (slurl)

21. Robin Moore Tree Box All at ONCE, The girl on the sWING, "A tribute to my music teacher" (slurl)

22. Scotsgraymouser Janus Fortress of Solitude for Lynn2 (slurl)

23. Shellina Winkler second star to the right, big bang2, luminescence (slurl)

24. Shirley Marquez Shut Up and Let Me Go! (slurl)

25. Socks Clawtooth Egobox (slurl)

26. soror Nishi The Moonlight Tree (slurl)

27. Sowa Mai Ghost Story (slurl)

28. Strawberry Holiday Bog Tree (slurl)

29. Sunn Thunders Boundary Conditions (slurl)

30. Tsui Yamabushi Brooklyn is Wanking (slurl)

31. Tuna Oddfellow Odd Ball (slurl)

Arahan Claveau's Brooklyn is Watching Best of Festival Slideshow

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Slideshow via Arahan Claveau at Pink Narcissus (link)