lunedì 23 febbraio 2009
giovedì 19 febbraio 2009
ARENA: Nicolas Sack


Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of
mercoledì 18 febbraio 2009
lunedì 16 febbraio 2009
domenica 15 febbraio 2009
Arena. Second Life artist's experience . FUTUROMA. notte Futurista a Roma. 20.02.2009 ore 19:00 – 24:30. Performing Media. point - Tempio di Adriano
Uqbar.media art culture in collaborazione con Musei in Comune 2.0
presenta :
Arena. Second Life artist's experience
FUTUROMA 20.02.2009 ore 19:00 – 24:30.
Performing Media. point - Piazza di Pietra. Tempio di Adriano
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Una visione della recente produzione artistica e creativa in Second life.
Iimmersività ed interazione caratterizzeranno lo spazio suggestivo del tempio di Adriano durante la notte futurista del 20 febbraio (ore 19:00 – 24:30, piazza di Pietra).
50 artisti esporranno la loro opera nel Museo del metaverso e nella sede di Experience Italy in Second Life, estendendo la propria esibizione sino nel cuore di Roma, nell’allestimento curato da Paolo Valente (savb.eu)
Sarà possibile immergersi nello spazio virtuale di “Futurismo Manifesto 100×100”, e partecipare alla performance FUTURfashion di abiti futuristi indossati dagli avatar, una iniziativa di Musei in Comune 2.0 curata da Marina Bellini.
Foto: MillaMilla Noel – arco Rosca
Proiezioni: Frollini,s Cine Video Service
Post produzione: Alessandro Tartaglia
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Call for artists: summary of the first meeting with Marco Minghetti (09/02/2009)
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Marco Minghetti said:
In few words, this is the state of art.
In the October 2008, I've published a romance, "Le Aziende In-Visibili" (The In-Visible Corporation), inspired by the famous Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" . Le Aziende In-Visibili is a collective narrative reflection about the contemporary life in an age of enormous socio-technical trasformations. In this context the Corporation became metaphor of the nowadays human condition (as the Cities in the Calvino's Masterpiece). The romance is illustrated by 190 images by the great artist Luigi Serafini.
Le Aziende In-Visibili is written by me and The Living Mutants Society, that collects 99 personalities of excellence in fields of art, economy, entertainment, as Alessandro Zaccuri, Walter Veltroni, Paolo Savona, Enrico Bertolino, Aldo Bonomi, Valeria Rossi, Alessio Bertallot, Gianpietro Vigorelli, Gloria Bellicchi, Francesco Morace, Armando Massarenti, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Giulio Sapelli, all well known in Italy. Besides:
· The images by Luigi Serafini enrich the visionary spirit of the work, guiding the imagination toward surreal landscapes, as the typical SL ones;
· The work is the last product of a cultural movement born 15 years ago, The Humanistic Management, (http://www.humanisticmanagement.it), in which have worked artists like Milo Manara e The Nobel Prize Wislawa Szymborska (you could find in attachment a brief story of the movement in English);
· The romance has already found a first "translation" in the NOVA 100 blog-network (http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/), created by Sole 24 Ore, the most important European economical newspaper
· We have also created a Group in Facebook.
In this frame born the Web Opera Project. The graphic of the book in fact reminds a Companies Intranet, a sort of Tableau de Bord that supports the management decision with a lot (un)useful information, data, graphs and so on. In the wider side of each page of the romance you find the text of the narrative, in the thinner a "In-Visible Scorecard" that offers some indicator for its interpretation: the progressive number of each Episode, an I Ching Hexagram connected with the Episode, in the Boaz or Jakin version, a link with the original Calvino's text, and so on. Besides you can find the soundtrack that defines the mood of the Episode. In short you have all the elements for a screenplay: on this basis, born the idea of a Web Opera, on which some Sl artists have already begun to work: 128 videoclips, one for each episodes of the romance, 3 minutes length.
A Wiki-Opera that could be a "Manifesto" of all the artists that, in the respect of their own differences, accept to work together around the same ideas.
Unluckily for the moment we have only the Italian text of the romance but I hope that at the end of this month to have the translation of some episodes to offer to international artists that want to participate. For the moment I send you an unofficial pdf of the book that contains the Italian text (in a not definitive version) and a lot of Serafini's imagines.
Allegati a questo post:
1) Marco Minghetti history
2) pdf del Romanzo Collettivo "le Aziende In-Visibili"
001-432_Invisibili.pdf
history minghetti until 2008.doc
CALL FOR ARTISTS 2
The next meeting with Marco Minghetti will be Tuesday, February 17, at Uqbar Museo del Metaverso
Slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/106/93/96
venerdì 13 febbraio 2009
ARENA: Evo Szuyuan



giovedì 5 febbraio 2009
Call for artists. Le Aziende In-Visibili – Romanzo a colori. cross-creative extension

uqbar. media art culture collabora alla redazione dell’esperimento cross mediale che Marco Minghetti, giornalista e scrittore, sta portando avanti con il progetto “Le Aziende In-Visibili”.
Lunedi 09 febbraio alle ore 10 PM CET - 01 PM SLT ad uqbar in second life http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/106/93/96 presso il museo del metaverso, Minghetti incontra creativi ed artisti per una presentazione del suo lavoro, una chiamata collettiva alla redazione di alcuni capitoli della sua opera attraverso immagini, video e altre produzioni artistiche e creative.
L’incontro potrà essere anche seguito in streaming qui
http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/124/38
info :
http://uqbar-mediaartculture.ning.com/profiles/blogs/call-for-artists-le-aziende
http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/2009/02/call-for-sl-artists-una-web-opera-ispirata-a-le-aziende-invisibili.html
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1105884327745&mbox_pos=0#/event.php?eid=48833596278
uqbar. media art culture, collaborate to the writing of the cross mediale experiment that Marco Minghetti, italian journalist and writer, is realizing with the project “Le Aziende In-Visibili”.
09 mondays February at the 10 PM CET - 01 PM SLT in to uqbar in second life http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/106/93/96 at the museo del metaverso, Minghetti meet creatives and artists for a presentation of his project, a collective call to the writing of some chapters them of this work, through images, artistic and creative video and other productions.
The meeting could be also followed in streaming here ....
http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/124/38
mercoledì 4 febbraio 2009
ARENA: Bingo Onomatopoiea



uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale
Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of
Bingo Onomatopoiea aka Andreas Mueller
Wednesday, February 04 - Friday, February 06, 2009
(11 PM CET - 02 PM SLT)
ARENA EX.IT slurl: (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/93/71/67)
Bio
Andreas Mueller / Bingo Onomatopoeia, Regensburg, Germany
Andreas Mueller, member of the media-art group Pomodoro Bolzano, started exploring the sonic universe with a tape recorder as early as during elemantary-school, when he tried out things from a book on tape-experiments from the school's library. During his teenage years in the eighties, while playing in noisy bands, he started publishing experimental tracks through the international tape-trader scene. Despite some detours into other fields of performing arts (mainly painting) his main focus has stayed on audio-art. His latest works were contributions for Das kleine Fieldrecording Festival in Regensburg and Berlin, Ljudrum in Eskilstuuna/Sweden and several Placards, mainly under the name Transponderfish. With his avatar Bingo Onomatopoeia he researches the creative potential of the virtual reality in Second Life: by networking, collaborating with other artists, building instruments for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and by performing with these.
domenica 1 febbraio 2009
"Let Love Live" (L3) by DC Spensley AKA DanCoyote Antonelli
You all are warmly invited to the ZeroG SkyDancers production entitled "Let Love Live" (L3) by DC Spensley AKA DanCoyote Antonelli in Second Life.
This is the fourth full redesign of the SkyDancer show since the troupe's founding in May of 2006 and features an all new musical score by ZeroOne Paz, all new choreography performed by the SkyDancers: Anhinga Chaika, Tatiana Kurri, Angelique Menoptra, Lina Lageos, Buffy Beale, Pielady Smalls, Talula Bancroft and Wytchwhisper Sadofsky, all new cascade costumes by DC Spensley and Josina Burgess and a 3 kilometer (3000 meter) stage set with DanCoyote collaborating with some of the top makers in Second Life like, Technical Director (code poet) ZenMondo Wormser, Architect Scope Cleaver, and artists Glyph Graves, Strawberry Holiday, Selavy Oh and Sabine Stonebender!
The ZeroG SkyDancers are real people who log into Second Life from all over the world to perform for audiences in real time. The L3 program consists of in-flight choreography that tells a story about the young love denied. The life cycle of these zero gravity beings it represented with abstract color and shape. The SkyDancers act out spacial relationships to each other in the simplest of terms. This abstraction strips away ideological expectations and universalizes a simple story of love denied by tradition and ignorance and restored by new insight and reconciliation.
Seating is limited! Please reserve a seat early.
Showtimes will be 2 days a week on Thursdays at 8PM SLT and Sunday mornings at 10AM SLT.
Please contact Lina Lageos for ticket information.
Please come 20 minutes early to be seated and to have time to configure your settings to get the most out of the performance.
-------------- press release below -----------------------------------
For Immediate Release
DC Spensley Presents ZeroG SkyDancers IV - Virtual Flight Choreography
Pioneering Performing Arts Soar in the Metaverse - Again - Under the Direction of DanCoyote Antonelli
January 29, 2009, (Second Life) - Avatar DanCoyote Antonelli is accustomed to setting the bar in virtual art and performance. Even in virtual worlds he is considered avant guarde. The real man controlling that avatar, DC Spensley, has been wowing virtual audiences since 2006 with art installations that would not be possible in material space but perhaps the most coveted ticket in all of Second Life is one to a performance by his ZeroG SkyDancers. On January 29, 2009, the premiere of the highly anticipated, fourth, completely redesigned production of ZeroG SkyDancers will debut.
Second Life's history making, critically acclaimed world performance group, the ZeroG SkyDancers is a new form of ensemble performance that uses the airspace of this virtual world, resulting in a cross between water ballet and aerial acrobatics, in ways that would not be possible in the physical world. Wearing spectacular, flowing costumes called cascades - that are many times larger than their avatars - the SkyDancers move through space, and become part of the stage themselves. Altering and evolving, their flight triggers audio samples, which provide a unique layer to the original musical score commissioned for the production.
The fourth production "Let Love Live", hosted by the New Media Consortium (NMC), will introduce an unprecedented 3000 meter (3km) reactive-interactive stage set that is repeatedly and dramatically transformed over the hour long performance as seating flies through gravity defying monoliths of breathtaking beauty. The ZeroG SkyDancers III will formally debut at 8PM Pacific Standard Time, Thursday, January 29, 2009 in the virtual world of Second Life. Seating is limited, but the show will run twice a week during the first 90 days of 2009, to accommodate the most guests possible. Suggested ticket donation is $15 US ($4500 Lindens) a piece. For ticket information, please contact Lina Lageos in Second Life or DC Spensley at dc@spensley.com.
Guests that are not yet residents in Second Life will need to complete a 5 minute registration process with Second Life, http://www.secondlife.com , in order to access the ZeroG SkyDancers lV performance. A basic account is absolutely free, includes unlimited access to Second Life's tools, events and communities. Spensley recommends that audience members spend a minimum of 15 minutes learning the basic skills of the Second Life world prior to attending the performance. "Familiarizing yourself with basic navigation of Second Life will add even more enjoyment to the show," said Spensley.
Video of a ZeroG SkyDancers performance is available at http://www.dancoyote.com/?page_id=85 and has received more than 10 thousand hits. "It's difficult to convey the dramatic and immersive effects of the Second Life virtual world in a 2-D web environment, however the video does convey the overall concept of the performance," said Spensley.
About DanCoyote Antonelli
The avatar DanCoyote was created as the proxy for David “DC” Spensley in the virtual world of Second Life. The name DanCoyote is derived from Cervantes’ Don Quixote and in honor of a coyote that Joseph Beuys lived with for a time at the René Block Gallery in New York during his 1974 action, “I like America and America Likes Me”.
About the New Media Consortium (NMC)
The NMC is an international consortium of more than 250 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies - and the largest educational body in Second Life - dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression.
About Second Life and Linden Lab
Second Life is a 3D online world with a rapidly growing population from 100 countries around the globe, in which the Residents themselves create and build the world, which includes homes, vehicles, nightclubs, stores, landscapes, clothing and games. The Second Life Grid is a sophisticated development platform created by Linden Lab, a company founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale, to create a revolutionary new form of shared 3D experience. The former CTO of RealNetworks, Rosedale pioneered the development of many of today's streaming media technologies, including RealVideo. In April 2003, noted software pioneer Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation, was named Chairman. In 2006, Philip Rosedale and Linden Lab received WIRED's Rave Award for Innovation in Business. Based in San Francisco, Linden Lab employs a senior team bringing together deep expertise in physics, 3D graphics and networking.
Registration and an account are necessary to access Second Life, but require very little time and effort. A basic account is absolutely free, and includes unlimited access to Second Life's tools, events and communities. It is recommended that a minimum of 15 minutes be allocated to learn basic skills prior to attending the performance. Additional preparation would only enhance the experience.
System Requirements
Your computer must meet specific requirements, or you may not be able to successfully participate in Second Life. Learn more about those requirements here: http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php
Contact for tickets or more information
DC Spensley
Producer/Director
dc@spensley.com
sabato 31 gennaio 2009
ARENA: Cienega Soon


ARENA EX.IT slurl: (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/93/71/67)
BIO:
Cienega Soon arrived in Second Life® 12/2/2006. logs in from southern California USA
www.cienegasoon.com
Cienega’s RL artwork runs through many mediums; Oil and acrylics, sculpting with metal and wood on a large scale. Soft Leather and feather work mixed with glass, and her stained glass work.
Cienega's reason for not bringing her RL work to the grid, is her view of the differences of each environment. She sees a special beauty in Second Life® and believes it should be celebrated in its environment without her RL stuff hanging around in an unnatural view.
Art to Cien is alive everywhere she creates it, an expression of her need to sing with her hand and eyes.
Cienega Soon's Second Life® became exciting after she discovered the snapshot feature at the bottom of the screen in June of 2007. Experimenting with her newly purchased PScs2 program launched her Second Life® career.
Opening her first Gallery in Valeriya, August 2007.
NOW, Two New** Galleries on a new Sim: Juicy by Cienega Soon
**Cienega Soon Gallery @
**Juicy ~A dark castle gallery**Juicy Gallery ~to gather brand new SL artists getting their work seen
www.cienegasoon.com
Her high quality prints, canvasas and custom cards are avaliable at her ImageKind online Gallery. link available in her website
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**Accomplishments:
KoinUp Winter Photo Hunt session December 15th, 20083rd place "Flurrries"
Orange Island Photo Sessions Co-Hosted with KoinupNovember 14th, 2008
http://www.orange-island.com/?p=1110
Exhibiting artist at the RL exhibition Rinascimento Virtuale (Virtual Renaissance) which will open at the Museum of Natural History in Florence, Italy. October 21, 2008-January 7, 2009
**Uqbar Media Art Culture 'ARENA'October 21, 2008 through January 21, 2009The biggest exhibition of art that has come true in Second LIfe®carried out in contemporary with the exhibition of Florence in the spirit of the Museum del Metaverso. The works will be exposed to the attention ofcritics, curators, collectors and lovers of art**Cienega Soon 'ARENA' EX.IT sim January 30, 31st 2008 - February 2, 2009
Burning Life 2008 Exhibit: Oil PigsOIL PIGS @ Burning Life 2008Designed & Created by:Cienega SoonGigmonger StineSound effects Creator: Lorin Tone
http://cienegasoon.blogspot.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/cienega_soon/2863003369/in/set-72157607561579057/http://www.nowpublic.com/world/burning-life-2008
Speaker at the Photo Institute, August 14, 2008Second Life's premiere school for studying photography
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vehicle/72/211/22
Mentor for Koinup "Mentors Project"
An Exhibiting Artist for SL5B "Darkness" June 23rd - July 7th 2008Her SL5B exhibit "Darkness" was a walk through her darker side with emotions and places to see as light is invited to play across the edges of things crying to be seen and understood in a unique setting.
Guest judge for the "Photomania Contest" held at the City of The Arts on Hyacinth Island, hosted by Kritz Etzel, June 2008.
Placed top 20 finalist of over 400 entries in the Stiletto Moody "Picture Your Moods" photo contestMay 3, 2008
Winner of the Koinup® Exotic Contest, March 18, 2008 http://www.koinup.com/contest/exotic/ http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/03/new-world-tab-4.html
Winner of the Slartist IDOL contest earlier this year, February 2008
http://www.slookinglass.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=124
Avatrait Presents Cienega Soon for the month of December 2006. she is now one of Avatrait's galleried Artists in their RL gallery just outside of Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.slookinglass.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=82
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ARENA exhibit
Saying emotion and feelings with art is like music. There is a flow of sound through out my work. A little on the dark side, but still light enough to find a connection.
Rancor is my most important piece so far. I have a need to convey the pain of betrayal.
The over reaction of jealousy and the feeling of retaliation.Here Rancor is a reminder that hate and un-forgiveness causes scars in both directions. The one holding the hate, and the one receiving it.
Walk through Rancor ... there is a small moment of a break through when you walk into love.
If you carry any un-forgiveness I hope you can see a bit better. Just release it and feel free for a moment.
I hope you enjoy my carnival of displays and the pieces I have included. You will find many for L$50.
Thank you for coming
Cienega Soon
giovedì 29 gennaio 2009
Il Museo del Metaverso visto da Sarima Giha
Sarima Giha aka Maria Luisa Grimani ha fatto un bellissimo regalo a me e agli artisti del Metaverso: ha dedicato al Museo del Metaverso un post, nel suo blog Il fogliomondo di Sarima , corredandolo di belle foto e di particolari delle opere esposte.
Maria Luisa Grimani è una donna delicata e gentile, una di quelle persone, che appena le conosci non vorresti farle andare più via dalla tua cerchia di amicizie.
Non è facile incontrare persone così genuine: lei è curiosa, allegra, attenta e "leggera".
La sua leggerezza mi affascina, perchè è pari alla semplicità apparente della installazione che ha presentato ad Arena, una leggerezza e una semplicità che nascondono un pensiero profondo ed un percorso complesso, fatto di incontri, studio, esperienze e ricerche, sia in campo artistico che culturale.
Maria Luisa, così come Sarima, sono una donna ed un avatar raffinati, di testa e di cuore.
mercoledì 28 gennaio 2009
ARENA: Sowa Mai


uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale
Vi invitano alla performance di /Invite you at the performance of
Stephen Beveridge aka Sowa Mai
Wednesday, January 28 - Friday, January 30, 2009
(11 PM CET - 02 PM SLT)
ARENA MdM slurl (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uqbar/47/222/722)
# No Man Is An Island
Aequitas is a non-profit multinational conglomerate of dada intellectuals involved with the exploration of biological impulses and their effect on modern psyche through the medium of anti-conceptual physics and minor abstractions.
The intent is not to make a clear statement, but to overwork and overwhelm with endless details and muddled effects thereby confusing the viewer in to believing they are witnessing something beyond their grasp and therefore true, fine art.
-- Banrion Constantine and Sowa Mai
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, #17).
-- 17th-century English poet John Donne
If people allowed themselves to experience the pain of others -- they would not be able to inflict it: no bombs, no murders, no tortures, no attacks of any kind.
If people allowed themselves to remember that the bell of judgment, like Donne's bell of death, tolls for them, and that their guilt would cause them to pay the price of their vengeance and hatred, of the pettiness of their projections -- there would be only peace and no judgment of others.
If people recognized that air, water, and nuclear pollution symbolize caring only for the satisfaction of their greed to the blatant disregard of others, and that such selfishness but hurts them -- they would cease to pollute in an instant.
For who would rape minerally rich lands, wresting in righteous wrath treasures that were not theirs, knowing it was their own treasure of love they were losing?
For who would willingly choose the murderous thought system of specialness, inflicting pain and suffering upon another, knowing it was their own death they were plotting?
Finally, which government would willingly choose the murderous thought system of imperialism, inflicting pain and suffering upon others, knowing it was their own riches they were plundering?
-- Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
A Journey to One through two.
An awakening from a dream of death.
Please keep arms and legs inside at all times.
There exists
in the wall of fear
A keystone clear
A message spoken
only you can hear
Aequitas thanks:
Carleon
Franz Kafka
Glyph Graves
John Donne
luce Laval
Innula Zenovka
Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/South%20Pacific%20VIII/233/233/23
Remnant Ashbourne
Davy Maltz
Neil Young
ArchTx Edo
Roxelo Babenco
Arco Rosca
But in the darkness he can now perceive a radiance that streams inextinguishably from the DOOR OF THE LAW. Now his life is drawing to a close. Before he dies, all that he has experienced during the whole time of his sojourn condenses in his mind into one question, which he has never put to the doorkeeper.… “Everyone strives to attain the Law,…how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?” The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: “No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.”
-- Franz Kafka
"ARENA" Event - Hosting the largest art exhibition ever staged in Second Life, held in coordination with Virtual Renaissance, the exhibition to be held in Florence at the Museum of Natural History in the Festival of Creativity .
domenica 25 gennaio 2009
Alan Sondheim: Debris Field
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