Disembodiment: Glyph Graves Performs with Kinect in Second Life

Artist Glyph Graves has pushed the boundaries between virtual and physical realities once again.  He programmed and scripted his own hack for the Kinect to map and move his real life physical body and movements onto virtual objects in Second Life.  Glyph's earlier piece, "Faceted Existence," (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5N1X5Cs30) used 2500 spherical primes to indicate his face, which loomed large above avatars in the virtual landscape, and was revolutionary as the first use of Kinect to make art that others could see, as opposed to only controlling an avatar with the alternative controller. 

"Disembodiment," the new performance piece that Glyph debuted at the Linden Endowment for the Arts exhibition, InterACT! on Sunday, December 4, 2011, extends his previous experimentation to represent not only his face, but now a body represented by spheres. Here he discusses how and why here in the interview with Lori Landay: http://lindenarts.blogspot.com/2011/12/disembodiment-interview-with-glyph.html

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Film & Animation

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• Kinect
• Glyph
• Graves
• Second Life
• SL
• virtual world
• mixed reality
• animation
• digital
• art
• machinima
• Performance
• LEA
• Linden Endowment for the Arts