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Introduction
Occupying virtual space inevitably requires an adjusting and reforming of the structures of space, movement and time. Virtual worlds can allow a user to transcend barriers and borders that are less flexible outside of the virtual realm. Whether the barriers are political, physical or psychological, the attraction for the user of Second Life lies in the opportunities that these kinds of transcendence offer.
My works hinge on the notion of self-portraiture, as I am essentially dealing with the online incarnations of myself. I am particularly interested in considering the word avatar as a vehicle, synonymous with the notion of multiple selves; performative, promotional, fantasy, representational.
My works are representative of the kind of disconnection experienced when the user is no longer directly controlling their avatar and the programme creates a new kind of pseudo-autonomy for the simulated, extended self. Slowly and delicately, looping and repeating, suspended and animated, they never progress nor regress; the state of suspended animation.
Project Overview
During the first semester my work focuses around my exploration of virtual space. I am interested in what it means to embody virtual spaces and how these kind of spaces have come to shape our lives. This blog will document my explorations of Second Life and other social networks, my research, ideas and artworks that begin to deal with these concepts. My understandings and ideas about the writing of William Merrin and N.Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway and Anthony Vidler among the work of artists such as AES+F, Micha Cardenas, Pipilotti Rist and many more will appear here.
While researching I have engaged in many different forms of networking and some of the work I complete will also be displayed on a Facebook group page I have created, O.S.N.A.A -Online Social Networking Addicts Anonymous.
Second semester I am working toward my completion of my project for SITE in Nov. I'll continue to update the blog with thoughts, ideas, pictures, video, frustrations....
Essentially I'm now beginning my final installation project. This will incorporate several video and object works that come together as a body of work for assessment. I'm thinking of a working title of 'Suspended Animation: Between Myself and an Other' (OR Another)....Still an exploration of my online self, understanding online experience as conflicted, uncanny, uneasy, indescribable, affective, communicative, surreal.
About Me
- Shelley Brigit
- Year Four BFA Electronic Arts
Labels
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(1)
Animation
(8)
Artbox
(3)
Artist
(7)
Assessment
(1)
Avatar
(11)
Building
(1)
Calendar
(2)
Calendars
(2)
Cao Fei
(1)
Capture
(2)
Diagram
(1)
Drawing
(3)
Embodiment
(1)
Exporting
(1)
Images
(5)
Inspiration
(5)
Installation
(13)
Loop
(2)
Measured Sketch up
(2)
Monitors
(2)
Mouse Pads
(3)
Mugs
(2)
Objects
(6)
Performance
(3)
Photo Album
(6)
Planning
(1)
Portfolio
(1)
Presentation
(2)
Professional Practice
(4)
Projection
(4)
Proposal
(2)
Research
(8)
Sample
(2)
Second Life
(10)
Seminar
(1)
Simulation
(5)
Suspended
(4)
Tai Chi
(1)
Video
(7)
Virtuality
(1)
Workbook
(1)
Writing
(3)
Blog Archive
- Nov 14 (2)
- Nov 11 (5)
- Nov 04 (1)
- Nov 03 (3)
- Nov 02 (4)
- Oct 29 (1)
- Oct 27 (1)
- Oct 22 (3)
- Oct 20 (1)
- Oct 15 (2)
- Oct 14 (2)
- Oct 10 (2)
- Sep 22 (1)
- Sep 17 (2)
- Sep 16 (10)
- Sep 15 (2)
- Sep 10 (1)
- Sep 07 (2)
- Sep 02 (4)
- Sep 01 (1)
- Aug 30 (2)
- Aug 27 (1)
- Aug 20 (1)
- Aug 19 (1)
- Aug 11 (5)
- Aug 10 (2)
- Aug 03 (4)
- Jul 27 (2)
- Jun 12 (7)
- Jun 09 (4)
- Jun 08 (12)
- Jun 04 (3)
- May 25 (1)
- May 12 (6)
- May 05 (8)
- Apr 01 (2)
- Mar 30 (2)
- Mar 27 (1)
- Mar 24 (1)
Shelley Year Four Research Essay
Research Links
- AES, AES+F
- Anthony Vidler- Warped Space
- Architectural Space- Second Life
- Becoming Dragon
- Cao Fei
- cao fei video
- Cyborg Bodies
- Dash Snow
- Donna Haraway- Cyborg Manifesto
- Emobdied Research Group
- FAAARR OUT!
- hokusai to octopussy
- Hokusai, octopussy...
- Milo- interactive technology
- No Ghost Just a Shell
- No Ghost....
- Pierre Huyghe- Annlee
- Pipilotti Rist
- Reviewing cybertext
- Sadie Plant
- Second Life
- Second Life Dancer Blog :)
- Second Life Machinima
- Shadows, Dreams and Substance
- Shelley's DELICIOUS
- Simulation/Avatar blog
- SL Machinima
- STELARC
- Stelarc's Dream
- The Floating World
- TV MOORE
- William Merrin-Myspace and Legendary Psychasthenia
- Youtube-Last Riot
Followers
Second Life Screen Shots
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