Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink

WINNER OF THE MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists SPECIAL AWARD FOR BREAKING BARRIERS

The best virtual art is a new kind of new media, using the particular properties of the virtual world to make metaphors manifest.

Virtual art can be seen as experimentation with what could become augmented reality, when the equipment for creating and experiencing it are more accessible to everyone.

When we break free from the constraints of the physical, we call attention to new contrasts; we may make distance evaporate, but does that mean we create closeness? If the experience of telepresence is to know that I am experiencing something where I know I am not, and teleaction is to affect change where I am physically not, what kind of aesthetic will have to emerge when our subjectivity is so connected to the perception that there is no distance between myself and what I see?

FOR WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT OF NARRATION, SEE:
http://ll2ndlife.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-barriers-transformation.html

Transformation
A mixed reality film by
Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire

Machinima filmed at UWA Winthrop in Second Life

Artworks:
Swallowed Up by the Crowd, Fuschia Nightfire
Digital Glove, Misprint Thursday
The Matter of Ideas, Gleman Jun
Here Comes the Sun, Sledge Roffo
One and Four Timeboards, L1Aura Loire

Time Journey, Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWN0ELs0jk

Live footage filmed by
Richard Cownie, Andrew Paonessa, Lori Landay

Edited by Lori Landay

Music generated by Lori Landay with Otomata

For more information about Joseph Kosuth's piece, One and Three Chairs,
see the MoMA website:http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81435

For my essay "Virtual KinoEye: Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life," in The Journal of eMedia Studies, see http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/4/art...

Original content: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 2011

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• virtual art
• virtual worlds
• augmented reality
• animation
• machinima
• experimental
• mixed reality
• short
• art
• contemporary art
• new media
• Second Life
• SL
• UWA
• art criticism
• arts education
• theory
• Short Film

[jayjayzifanwe]

wow! how did you escape from there ? ;)

[ProfLL]

@jayjayzifanwe I am stuck in there! Send help! ;)

[DoveDragonflyz]

Very nice ..thank you!  WONDERFUL Friend Dove

[majenh]

Interesting way to show virtual art--good dialogue description.

[Glemanjun]

omg! pixels sometimes do jokes. ahahhaha

[BleuOleander]

a peak under the hood! great job L1 :)

[parfaitcres]

I remember the other one you did, Click, and that was an excellent introduction to virtual art being made and experienced on the SL virtual world platform. This is a great extension of that, an intermediate step into art criticism and theory, and also connecting to art outside of Second Life. I like the way you brought in Walter Benjamin with good images. And then the video goes into the imaginary space of your previous movie--very clever. What's next? More advanced pieces like this, I hope.

[penumbracarter]

Nicely done L1:)

[LalaLarix]

Funny, interesting and useful.

[TutsyNavarathna]

Virtual art remains a mystery to many. Well done to show just how it can exist.

Bravo

[textcavation]

This is just great, Lori. ;) and VERY useful critically.

[NicoleXMoonwall]

Love it