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Hello performance art fans,
Finally! The video documentation from Second Front's Art's Birthday performance at the Western Front (Jan 17, 2007) is now online for your enjoyment! Despite dropped-frames and shaky Real Life (RL) camera-work, we have managed to preserve enough video footage that is worth taking the time to view.
This video was recorded with a handheld cam and was captured directly off the projection screen that was installed in Vancouver's Western Front. If you listen carefully to the audio on this video, you might hear the RL voices of Wirxli Flimflam (Jeremy O. Turner), AliseIborg Zhaoying (Penny Leong Browne) and Tea Chenille (Tanya Skuce).
With the exception of Alise who occasionally possessed Wirxli's avatar, the rest of Second Front was performing on-screen... Tran Spire (Doug Jarvis), Gazira Babeli (classified), Man Michinaga (Patrick Lichty), Lizsolo Mathilde (Liz Solo) and Great Escape (Scott Kildall).
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
SECOND FRONT FEATURED IN SPARK MAGAZINE!
Second Front has been featured in the second issue (April edition) of SPark Magazine produced by Irish CEO, Aidan Aquacade. SPark is located in-world at these coordinates: Castle Bromwich City (38, 154, 26). If you already have Second Life installed and want to teleport there directly from the web, click here.
Here are some profiles of Second Front included in SPark magazine. A revised version of our group bio is now available on the right hand side of this blog...Here is Second Front member, Wirxli FlimFlam at SPark HQ located in the virtual version of Castle Bromwich City. FlimFlam is having a close-up look at the in-world edition...
Here is the editorial page about Second Front next to the advertisement for Man Michinaga's BitFactory on Columbia Island.
With this snapshot, you get sense of the size of the head-shots of Second Front in relation to the avatar body ;-)
Here is the review of our Martyr Sauce performance by Wrong Wright.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Not out of the gutter yet, but back in build mode
et used to Ian.
Hey everyone.
Man here. Just got back from New Orleans, and the Columbia Island is up!
So, that means that Ti Mosienko, Solstice Eriksen, Artemis Fate and I are hard at work on the Columbia College version of The Bitfactory and all the places on the island that will house the college's Manifest SL collegewide fest. Quite a project.
I really hope that Second Front will want to perform there, as we have a LOT of space to deal with.
However, my Admin self, Atari Writer, has not let me have a place yet. Therefore, despite the tux (found at a second hand noob store), I still remain with Ian on Odyssey in the squat. So it goes. Despite admin'ing a whole domain, I still am diving in the dumpster. Could be worse, I'm really starting to get used to Ian's drinking...
Hey everyone.
Man here. Just got back from New Orleans, and the Columbia Island is up!
So, that means that Ti Mosienko, Solstice Eriksen, Artemis Fate and I are hard at work on the Columbia College version of The Bitfactory and all the places on the island that will house the college's Manifest SL collegewide fest. Quite a project.
I really hope that Second Front will want to perform there, as we have a LOT of space to deal with.
However, my Admin self, Atari Writer, has not let me have a place yet. Therefore, despite the tux (found at a second hand noob store), I still remain with Ian on Odyssey in the squat. So it goes. Despite admin'ing a whole domain, I still am diving in the dumpster. Could be worse, I'm really starting to get used to Ian's drinking...
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Man in the interim...
Man here again...
Hopefully there will be some larger SL things, but in the dead of winter, we seem to be busy.
Well, after the crash of the first BitFactory, I'm still suck on Odyssey, living in Ian Ah's squat under Wirx's very nice office.. Was able to salvage enough from the old museum, and sell off cheap to get a thousand meters in Chindo, but there's nowhere to live there, so I'm sort of stuck.
It's been OK - Ian hasn't been kicking as much at night, but we ran out of wOOt Loops, so I'm looking through the dumpster for the moment - usually pretty slim pickings. Has Wirx been getting the last goodies, and taking them up to the office?
Sugar just told me that she nominated me for Wirxli's running for SL Presidency. Whether that means SL candidate for the US presidency (probably better than most out there), or presidency of SL, I know one thing is for sure. I know I'll be in the center seat after Wir takes a cap in his prim from some nOOb , so I had better get ready.
I know that Columbia Island is going to be mine in the next couple weeks, and that there will be no less than three BitFactory locations, but I guess this is an avatar's trial by fire. Can the curator of a museum wait through homelessness until the new location is built? I guess I'll have to. But for now, I just wish Ian would let me use the damned portapotty. He's been in there for hours. Or is it just locked. Damn.
Friday, January 26, 2007
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007
Second Front's HAZARDOUS - Double Bill at screenings of Lynn Hershman Leeson''s "Strange Culture"
Wednesday's screening: AliseIborg Zhaoying (left) and Man Michinaga stage their 'sit-in' in the backrow. Lys Ware in the next chair over is keeping a watchful eye.
Dear Performance Art Fans!
Second Front members were conspicuously present in full hazmat gear at the January 15th and January 18th screenings of Lynn Hershman Leeson's 'Strange Culture' at the artist's residency complex, NEWare island. Thanks to Lys Ware, curator and archivist of L2, for sending us the coveted invitations to this much anticipated event that included a live audio stream from Sundance where the film debuted.
'Strange Culture' is a docudrama about the case of American artist, Steve Kurtz, whose bacterial cultures that he was growing for a show prompted a FBI investigation of Orwellian proportions. In America's post-911 age of terror and paranoia, the biohazard unit raided his home believing the petri dishes of food bacteria were weapons of mass destruction.
Multiple images of RL people wearing hazmat suits created an atmosphere of 'strange reality' at Monday's screening.
Perhaps the seriousness of the film's subject added to the strange reality of the screenings themselves. While nobody actually came up to Second Front members and asked them if they should suit up themselves, members, Man Michinaga, Tran Spire, Wirxli Flimflam and Gazira Babeli who were in attendance at the first screening were asked to refrain from consuming alcohol on the premises.
A close-up shot of Wirxli Flimflam in biohazard headdress. He was also asked to refrain from wearing flames.
Alcohol was not the only banned substance. Great Escape was ordered to remove his buzzing flies and smoking skirt. Great Escape along with Man Michinaga were also asked. albeit politely, not to wear their signature flames though Great Escape refused to extinguish his and can be seen flaming throughout the screening. The reason for the all-substance ban, we can only surmise - perhaps a fear of igniting an unknown biohazard agent on the island? It's anyone's guess. Has RL's post-911 paranoia leaked into SL? We hope not!
Lizsolo Mathilde, the "creature in dragon fly wings" standing next to Tran Spire.
Here is Wirxli Flimflam sitting next to famous VR pundit, Howard Rheingold who is wearing the tan hat.
Man Michinaga and AliseIborg Zhaoying doubled up at Wednesday's screening. AliseIborg Zhaoying who arrived a few minutes after the start of the screening was still rezzing when she was asked to take a seat which was hard to do since the theatre was almost at full capacity.
She managed to locate a seat in the back row where Man was already comfortably settled in.
AliseIborg Zhaoying (left) and Man Michinaga spotted in the backrow at Wednesday's screening.
The audience which at times looked like a noncholant Crit 101 class were actually quite engaged with the film, given the questions asked in the post-shows Q&A session which included Steve Kurtz himself in a a live audio stream from Sundance. With Lys Ware keeping everything in check, there was no evidence of drinking or aimless wandering of aisles.
"Crit 101 class" in session.
But don't mistake immobility for inactivity, for in the backrow, Alise and Man were staging their hazmat sit-in.
Here is Man Michinaga, unaccustomarily still and looking cooly authoritative without his flames.
A zoom-in on AliseIborg Zhaoying. Notice how the hazmat headgear highlights her riveting violet eyes. Perhaps scanning for petri dishes cultivating biohazard agents?
Second Front members were not the only attendees staging sit-ins at the screening. Midway through the screening, a man still in his chair attached himself to the upper-left section of the screen. It took only seconds before an audience member asked him to "Please move".
Sit-ins aside, during the Q&A session Man posed a strategic question about the CAE (Critical Art Ensemble). Seems like our hazmat suits did not hamper our social ranking as rumor has it that the CAE is thinking of opening up their Second Life office in Man's BitFactory.
For the final act, AliseIborg Zhaoying and Man Michinaga performed a stand-in, taking photos with NEWare official Lys Ware, wrapping up what was a very hazardous and strange Second Front intervention!
AliseIborg Zhaoying posing next to Lys Ware after the screening.
Second Front's HAZARDOUS - Double Bill at screenings of Lynn Hershman Leeson''s "Strange Culture"
Wednesday's screening: AliseIborg Zhaoying (left) and Man Michinaga stage their 'sit-in' in the backrow. Lys Ware in the next chair over is keeping a watchful eye.
Dear Performance Art Fans!
Second Front members were conspicuously present in full hazmat gear at the January 15th and January 18th screenings of Lynn Hershman Leeson's 'Strange Culture' at the artist's residency complex, NEWare island. Thanks to Lys Ware, curator and archivist of L2, for sending us the coveted invitations to this much anticipated event that included a live audio stream from Sundance where the film debuted.
'Strange Culture' is a docudrama about the case of American artist, Steve Kurtz, whose bacterial cultures that he was growing for a show prompted a FBI investigation of Orwellian proportions. In America's post-911 age of terror and paranoia, the biohazard unit raided his home believing the petri dishes of food bacteria were weapons of mass destruction.
Multiple images of RL people wearing hazmat suits created an atmosphere of 'strange reality' at Monday's screening.Perhaps the seriousness of the film's subject added to the strange reality of the screenings themselves. While nobody actually came up to Second Front members and asked them if they should suit up themselves, members, Man Michinaga, Tran Spire, Wirxli Flimflam and Gazira Babeli who were in attendance at the first screening were asked to refrain from consuming alcohol on the premises.
A close-up shot of Wirxli Flimflam in biohazard headdress. He was also asked to refrain from wearing flames.
Alcohol was not the only banned substance. Great Escape was ordered to remove his buzzing flies and smoking skirt. Great Escape along with Man Michinaga were also asked. albeit politely, not to wear their signature flames though Great Escape refused to extinguish his and can be seen flaming throughout the screening. The reason for the all-substance ban, we can only surmise - perhaps a fear of igniting an unknown biohazard agent on the island? It's anyone's guess. Has RL's post-911 paranoia leaked into SL? We hope not!
It seems Lizsolo Mathilde who was also at Monday's screening was the most well-behaved member of SF and did not illicit any reprimands. But this definitely didn't mean she went unnoticed. Lizsolo Mathilde and her gossamer wings garnered the attention of Red Herring reporters who in an article about the event, referred to her alongside a "giant fox" as "a creature in dragon fly wings". Maybe the reporters saw her 'creature' as contributing to the 'strange culture' of the event? Seems like Red Herring wasn't the only paparrazi with Second Front on its radar - Metaverse Manager took a photoshoot of Second Front members near the end of Monday's screening.
Lizsolo Mathilde, the "creature in dragon fly wings" standing next to Tran Spire.
Here is Wirxli Flimflam sitting next to famous VR pundit, Howard Rheingold who is wearing the tan hat.
Man Michinaga and AliseIborg Zhaoying doubled up at Wednesday's screening. AliseIborg Zhaoying who arrived a few minutes after the start of the screening was still rezzing when she was asked to take a seat which was hard to do since the theatre was almost at full capacity.
She managed to locate a seat in the back row where Man was already comfortably settled in.
AliseIborg Zhaoying (left) and Man Michinaga spotted in the backrow at Wednesday's screening.
The audience which at times looked like a noncholant Crit 101 class were actually quite engaged with the film, given the questions asked in the post-shows Q&A session which included Steve Kurtz himself in a a live audio stream from Sundance. With Lys Ware keeping everything in check, there was no evidence of drinking or aimless wandering of aisles.
"Crit 101 class" in session.
But don't mistake immobility for inactivity, for in the backrow, Alise and Man were staging their hazmat sit-in.
Here is Man Michinaga, unaccustomarily still and looking cooly authoritative without his flames.
A zoom-in on AliseIborg Zhaoying. Notice how the hazmat headgear highlights her riveting violet eyes. Perhaps scanning for petri dishes cultivating biohazard agents?
Second Front members were not the only attendees staging sit-ins at the screening. Midway through the screening, a man still in his chair attached himself to the upper-left section of the screen. It took only seconds before an audience member asked him to "Please move".
Sit-ins aside, during the Q&A session Man posed a strategic question about the CAE (Critical Art Ensemble). Seems like our hazmat suits did not hamper our social ranking as rumor has it that the CAE is thinking of opening up their Second Life office in Man's BitFactory.
For the final act, AliseIborg Zhaoying and Man Michinaga performed a stand-in, taking photos with NEWare official Lys Ware, wrapping up what was a very hazardous and strange Second Front intervention!
AliseIborg Zhaoying posing next to Lys Ware after the screening.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Second Front celebrates Art's Birthday - Western Front - Vancouver, Canada
Great Escape and Gazira Babeli doing the "twist" for Art's Birthday.
Left-Right: A UPS delivery Van, Bryan Dix, Great Escape, Wirxli Flimflam, Gazira Babeli, Tran Spire, Westernfront Obscure. The pix on the wall (with the exception of the Last Supper mural) are by Chi5 Shenzhou. The Last Supper embedded video is still rendering in this pic.Greetings Performance Art Fans!
On January 17, 2007 - Second Front performed for the Art's Birthday festival. This performance was webcast and projected live at the Western Front in Vancouver. Thanks to the media curator, Peter Courtemanche for allowing us to officially perform at the Western Front.
Admittedly, these are far from the best documented images from the performance.
For example, there is this fantastic blog posting by one of our groupies from Oslo (Norway) named Plurabelle Posthorn. She took some excellent photos of us during our performance! Check out her blog posting here.
There will be some uploaded video soon from the Western Front itself and even some hi-rez images on its way to this blog very soon so stay tuned...
In the meantime, check out a few more of these in-world photos:
Left to Right: Lizsolo Mathilde (below), Gazira Babeli (above), Tran Spire (above with pink flamingos), unknown avatar (above), WesternFront Obscure , Wirxli Flimflam, Great Escape (with Art’s Birthday Cake) and the UPS delivery van.
Left-Right: The UPS delivery van, Tran Spire, Wirxli Flimflam (in front of Tran), Lizsolo Mathilde, unknown avatar, Gazira Babeli...
In this pic, you will notice that Chi5 Shenzhou's photos have rendered and that the Last Supper mural is still in the process of rendering...Left Right: WesternFront Obscure, Tea Chenille (with a chicken), Wirxli Flimflam, unknown avatar (above Wirxli), Tran Spire, Lizsolo Mathilde and the UPS delivery van.
Left-Right: The UPS delivery van, Great Escape, Lizsolo Mathilde, Gazira Babeli (on the bed), Wirxli Flimflam, Tran Spire, Bryan Dix (special guest as Mr. Kool Aid), Tea Chenille, and WesternFront Obscure.
Left-Right: The UPS delivery van, Unknown avatar (on the bed), Gazira Babeli (also on the bed), Wirxli Flimflam, Bryan Dix (Mr. Kool Aid), Tran Spire, Tea (in front of Tran with chicken), Great Escape (still wearing the birthday cake)and WesternFront Obscure.
Left-Right: Tran Spire (still wearing that spectacular mass of pink flamingos), The UPS delivery van, Wirxli Flimflam, Unknown avatar (on the bed), Gazira Babeli, Tea Chenille, Man Michinaga, Great Escape, and our special guest, Bryan Dix aka. Mr. Kool Aid.
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