Second Front: mixed reality

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Second Front performs at "The Gate", Opening for the iMAL in Brussels

October 4, 2007 - (20:30 SLT) Interactive Media Art Lab, Brussels, Belgium

Video by Penny Leong Browne a.k.a. AliseIborg Zhaoying

Second Front performed on October 4th to both a live RL audience in Brussels and at Odyssey in SL. The performance happened through a RL and SL portal space, The Gate, featuring a bi-directional video stream on a 4 metre x 4 metre screen projected live for the opening of the iMAL - Interactive Media Art Lab's new space. The show is organized and curated by Yves Bernard, Brussels, Belgium. Second Front performance curated by Domenico Quaranta.

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Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Founded in 2006, Second Front quickly grew to its current 8 member troupe that includes Jeremy Owen Turner (Vancouver), Doug Jarvis (Victoria), Tanya Skuce (Vancouver), Gazira Babeli (Italy), Penny Leong Browne (Vancouver), Patrick Lichty (Chicago), Liz Solo (St. Johns) and Scott Kildall (San Francisco). Taking their influences from numerous sources, including Dada, Fluxus, Futurist Syntesi, the Situationist International and contemporary performance artists like Laurie Anderson and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of virtual embodiment, online performance and the formation of virtual narrative. Created in 2006, they have already performed extensively, including in Vancouver, Chicago, New York, and has been featured in publications including SLate, Eikon, Realtime Arts (Australia), The Avastar (published by Axel-Springer, Germany) and most recently in Exibart (Italy).

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Second Front performs at "The Gate", Opening for the iMAL in Brussels

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