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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Roof and The Accidental Artist Announcement
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 05:21:05 -0400 (EDT)
Announcement: That if you haven't been to the Exhibition, The Accidental Artist, at Second Life, do so now! For once the materials have been pushed to the limit; what you see, experience, could not exist otherwise, i.e. in the physical world; these objects are untoward, wayward, and amazing; this is the result of complex building upon simple borrowed scripts and real- world hypnagogic imagery. For me this is the culmination of video, image, sound, performance, having brought into the world something that remains incoherently out of it. Again, here are instructions: "This exhibit is being presented in the networked environment Second Life on the Odyssey simulator. To view this work you must have a Second Life account and avatar, which is free of charge and takes about 30 minutes to set up and learn the basic functionality. To set up an account, go here: http://secondlife.com/ Once you are logged into Second Life, click this link http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 in your web browser. and the Second Life client will teleport your avatar to the location of the exhibit. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate your avatar through the exhibit and be sure to press play on both the audio and video buttons located on the lower right of your Second Life client." (Sugar Seville) There are many ways to see the exhibition: Turn sound on and off, turn video on and off, open up parameters and set the rendering to different positions (glow for example appears only in some of them), don't worry about frame-rate, you can always go back to low resolution high speed for that. Walk or fly through the space to the extent you can. Enter into the emission areas. Separate the camera from the avatar (view camera controls) and head beneath the floor into the continuation of the show in the ocean shoals. This is Ken Kesey meets Jacques Lacan; Valeska Gert meets Anita Berber; Walter Benjamin meets Salvador Dali; Kristeva meets Delaney; Ballard meets Chasseguet-Smirgel; Lingis meets Buddha; Flower Ornament Sutra meets Yamataka; Nikuko meets Julu; interior meets exterior; 4 meets 3; this is always already future anterior; defuge raised to incandescence; vision to touch; touch to vision. If you have difficulty, write me and I'll try and answer. Second Life is easy to install; it reads your hardware and configures automatically in relation to it. Next week: Performances on Wednesday, Sandy Baldwin and myself Enjoy! Now: The Different Roof Julu Twine dances around while God's busy redoing the roof. They they take a look at prim depth. Julu's happy that the thing spews different. God redoes the outdoor prim with glow and texture of breasts. Julu thinks the whole thing is over-ripe. God thinks it's fecund. Julu thinks God's fecund. There's no end to it. The ringing http://www.alansondheim.org/ringing1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ringing2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ringing3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ringing4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ringing5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth01.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth02.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth07.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth10.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/depth11.jpg There's no end to the ringing.
