Soup Radio January 2011 Schedule

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

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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).

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Field Trip: Patti Smith and Michael Stipe celebrate Jean Genet's 100th birthday at MoMA

The movies–among other games–teach the natural, a natural made up completely of artifices ...

-- Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers

On Sunday, December 19, MoMA visitors were treated to a “walk-in performance” by artist and musician Patti Smith, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of prominent and challenging French writer and political activist Jean Genet. The performance, in MoMA’s Marron Atrium, could not have been better. (more at MoMA Inside/Out)

Jean Genet

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®.

Garrett Lynch: There, Now

Garrett Lynch's There, Now at ArtNation on Push

27 September 2010

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Penumbra Carter's 'Nihilist'

Penumbra Carter's Nihilist

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to try to use the same aesthetics as painting which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing, and most important, insisted on attention to metaphor. Since film is not painting–and not simply because one moves and the other doesn't–I wanted to explore their connections and differences–stretching the formal interests to questions of editing, pacing, studying the formal properties of time intervals, repetitions, variations on a theme, and so on.


-- Peter Greenaway, quoted in Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

It is one of the most important formal qualities of film that every object that is reproduced appears simultaneously in two entirely different frames of reference, namely the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, and that as one identical object it fulfills two different functions in the two contexts.


-- Rudolf Arnheim Film as Art

Field Trip: Kit Webster Revisited: Enigmatica II

Kit Webster's ENIGMATICA II at Illusion/Illusion exhibition, McClelland Gallery 11 July – 19 September 2010

Continued experimentation into new forms of synesthetic sculpture. -- Kit Webster

Roy Ascott's LPDT2

The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas–for my body does not have the same ideas I do.


-- Roland Barthes The Pleasure of the Text
Tr. Richard Miller

22 August 2010 (Preview)

Virtual Art filmed in Second Life® at Angewandte
Best viewed full-screen

LPDT2: Roy Ascott
Programming and Architecture: Selavy Oh
Architecture and Terrain: MosMax Hax (Max Moswitzer)
Avatars and Soundscape: Alpha Auer, Alpho Fullstop and alpha.tribe (Elif Ayiter)
Avatar Animations: Frigg Ragu (Heidi Dahlsveen)

i-DAT: University of Plymouth, UK
Simulator Host: University of Applied Fine Arts, Vienna

LPDT2 is being projected to Real Life throughout September 2010 in Incheon, South Korea during the Incheon International Digital Art Festival (INDAF) 2010 in Tomorrow City, Songdo.

Avatar appearances by Alex Arashi, Allegory Ordinary, Arahan Claveau, Category Silent, Erdbeermund Schnute, Eupalinos Ugajin, Fau Ferdinand, Hegemon Maximus, Mab MacMoragh, MosMax Hax, Sca Shilova, Selavy Oh, Solo Mornington, somerset Verne

'LPDT2 : The Second Life of La Plissure du Texte' is the Second Life® incarnation of Roy Ascott's groundbreaking new media art work La Plissure du Texte ('The Pleating of the Text'), created in 1983 and exhibited at the Musee de l'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The title of the project, 'La Plissure du Texte: A Planetary Fairy Tale,' alludes to Roland Barthes's book 'Le Plaiser du Texte', a famous discourse on authorship, semantic layering, and the creative role of the reader as the writer of the text. As was also the case in its first incarnation 'distributed authorship', a term coined by Ascott, has been the primary subject of investigation of LPDT2.

Read more here- text by Alpha Auer (Elif Ayiter)

Second Life® visitors teleport here

Second Life® 2.x viewer custom sky settings for this installation can be downloaded here

References:

LPDT2

Selavy Oh

Garrett Lynch

INDAF

more INDAF


Selavy Oh inside Roy Ascott's LPDT2  

Nettrice Beattie's Alternate Futures

Alternate Futures by Nettrice Beattie

17 August 2010

Alternate Futures: Afrofuturist Multiverses & Beyond

IBM A (now closed)

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Opening Today, Garrett Lynch on Soup Push 'There, Now'

Image: Garrett Lynch


Image: Garrett Lynch

. . . in a world which lives by the truth of its simulation, that is by abstracting reality and virtualizing it until the map stands for the territory, there seems to be no reason to re-abstract the abstracted, for it would be an act without logic. It is here that artists, by being compelled to point out the opposites, arrive at new ways of showing the sublime (Doreet LeVitte Harten)

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 1PM SLT

You are invited to the opening of "There, Now" by Garrett Lynch:

__________ There, Now by Garrett Lynch __________


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NOTE: The installation uses numerous media streams, please make sure you have audio and video enabled, turn your audio up high and be patient for the content to load.

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There, Now, a mixed reality installation by Garrett Lynch, continues work on ideas of space/place initiated as part of the on going series of interventions at I AM Columbia:

Intervention #1
Intervention #2

On entering the installation at Push the visitor is presented with what resembles a vista of another space, a combined place that employs live imagery from four continents together with rudimentary Second Life primitives and dynamic effects such as simulated water and particles.

Similar to Intervention #2, the installation is a way and means of seeing out of the 'virtual' space that is Second Life however this time it is our global physical environment we see which has been cut and pasted together. Distance, time and place as experienced in 'real' life are folded together. On closer inspection however the installation is revealed to be designed to be seen from a single viewpoint. 'Real' mountains, forests and skies become flats on the 'virtual' stage of Second Life, moving around them reveals their true shape, their featureless sides and back and the props that supposedly support their ('virtual') physical weight.

More than a Second Life space, blacked off from the environment of Second Life within its own construction, it is almost completely isolated from the 'virtual' world yet acknowledges and underlines its falsehood. The space is visually analogous to pictorial representations of space within our culture. It is a representation layered within the representation of Second Life. Not 'real' and yet no longer just 'virtual', it mixes these together to create a third space, a meta metaverse that adds another layer to our experience of reality.

Only by entering this representational space within a representational space can we remove/distance ourselves from the first and look at it objectively.

Many thanks to all at Soup and Lovers Lane Studios for their support and kindly hosting this work.

Webcam locations within the installation are arranged as follows:

1) The sky over Shizuoka Prefecture in front of Mt.Fuji, Japan
2) The Grand Canyon, Arizona, America
3) The Rockies, Banff, Canada
4) The Black Forest, Todtmoos in Germany
5) The plains in front of Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Africa
6) The Pyramid of Cheops, Giza, Egypt

(Text by Garrett Lynch)



Viewer 2 is required to experience shared media in this installation.


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