B.E.T.T.Y. joins a gang.

Categories: Featured, news

B.E.T.T.Y. leaves on a tour of Australian regional galleries this month, with a gang of illustrious tour mates. She will form part of dLux Media Arts’ “Garden of Forking Paths” touring show. Curated by Neil Jenkins it features works spanning … Continued

Hold the Light

Categories: Featured, news

“Everything is Going to be O.K. :)” could be said to be the signature work of Chris Rodley and my collaboration. It has been completely reinvented as a performance for two actors and a networked tablet installation. It is showing June … Continued

IUXTA @ Tek*

Categories: blog, project documentation

A short video of IUXTA as presented at Tek* The Konvergence in Byron Bay, June 2013. See : http://www.tekstar.tv/ for more details on the event as a whole.

New Site

Categories: blog

I have recently been collaborating on an ongoing series of projects with writer Chis Rodley. He has just launched a new portfolio site here –> chrisrodley.com. Image, Chris Rodley, ‘The Birthday Boy’. http://chrisrodley.com/2013/03/01/birthday-boy/    

entry point

Categories: untitled device

In order to not be starting with an absolutely ‘blank canvas’ i thought I might use the following quote as an entry point into the project:   “The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they … Continued

THREE.js matrix rotations

Categories: blog, tutorials & resources

Rotating objects in world and local space in THREE.js. This had me a little stumped today, as over a succession of revisions, method names relating to matrix rotations have changed, therefore many snipets and suggestions online no longer work. The … Continued

Nocturne

Categories: project documentation, work In progress

The exhibition, Nocturne is a compelling and eerie mix of childhood beasties and adult horrors projected onto the backdrop of the deep, dark Australian Bush.

Elizabethan Ruffs

Categories: vm_blog, work In progress

We commissioned Rudolf Ramseyer to make us a set of ruffs for the upcoming installation and for the imbedded actors to wear as part of their costumes. The results speak for themselves.    

Art Month Video

Categories: project documentation

A video produced for ArtMonth in Sydney (otherwise known as March) for the Augmentiforms project that Warren Armstrong and developed for ISEA 2011 and is showing in Rozelle, Sydney, during March 2012.

Fledgling Virtual Environments in Unity

Categories: tutorials & resources, work In progress

Over the last couple of weeks a number of people have asked me what I have been up to, and have asked for further details when I have said that I am using Unity as the base for a number of virtual art projects I am working on. So here is the beginning of a series of posts that will outline some of this stuff. I will, over time, include some tutorials, but this post is more of a “with what?”

webcam infrared mod

Categories: work In progress

In the interest of some preliminary investigations into video tracking IR LED markers in the darkened theater environment, I opened up a Logitech c160 webcam and replaced the infrared filter with a couple of layers of exposed colour negative film.

links to reviews and texts

Categories: essays & ramblings, Featured

A collection of reviews and articles on my projects. These texts provide insight into my work that can only be provided by a critical mind with a sense of adventure when exploring the works themselves.

in the failed field – 001

Categories: work In progress

version 001 of an ongoing series of works on the Caerleon-Mnemosyne sim on ReactionGrid. This series of artworks is investigating at logical, yet non-representative structures and systems within a virtual environment.

a quick note on tools

Categories: tutorials & resources

just in case anyone was wondering.. unity on a mac running VMware fusion to code in Visual Studio C# Express works a treat.. auto-complete is an excellent learning tool..

Reaction Grid

Categories: Uncategorized

We have set up a presence for the Caerleon Collective on Reaction Grid.. This is an adjunct rather than an alternative to Second Life and is just one of the steps being taken into the larger metaverse.

opensim resources

Categories: tutorials & resources

A list of the web resources I used to get my opensim install up and running with hyper-grid functionality and inter-grid messaging functionality.

nonnatus MK.II in openlife

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standing next to big hole in the ground that will shortly be nonnatus’ experimental home at openLife… [ http://openlifegrid.com ] as most of my projects are heavily script based, i will be experimenting in coming weeks to see how things … Continued

emergence?

Categories: work In progress

well perhaps not, an odd sort of bug, but somehow one of my objects I have been working as part of a self replicating SL native ‘plant’ life has offered me an inventory item… and here is the proof…

The object ‘branch’ in Second Life has offered you inventory.
Log in to accept to decline this inventory.

= branch is owned by Nonnatus Korhonen
= http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Isle/97/0/21

oracle

Categories: work In progress

i just noticed this discussion of oracle by Aleister Kronos. http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/oracle-of-culturegion.html oracle will be de-rezzed forever at the end of this week – though i already have plans for some of its parts in a the institute of the self … Continued

basic cell division

Categories: work In progress

an experiment in exponential self replication based on simple recurring cell divisions (the cells take a little while to get going..this is a five minute time lapse of a thirty minute period.)

VastPark – foray #2

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2.48pm: startup windows… 2.49pm: log into publisher… delve into amazon web services for my keys and download s3 safe to make a ‘bucket’ in my new amazon account. 3.00pm: upload .x model created and uv mapped in blender… (uv texture … Continued

VastPark – foray #1

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4.30pm: restart my laptop in windows. (hoping that cross platform support is high on the VastPark development list) 3.34pm: point browser towards VastPark beta tools download 4.36pm: download the VastPark Browser. Install. (which also automatically searches for dependencies and asks … Continued

death of marat

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every now and then you stumble upon something in second life that absolutely just works with the media.. i believe it is more than just my long time love of david’s painting that makes me feel that way about this … Continued

Aiyas Aya

Categories: work In progress

currently the canadian artist Christopher Postill is residing in the palace of memory project space.. his research blog can be found here: http://chrispostillthesis.blogspot.com/ he is also curating the SL gallery space node zero : http://www.candormedia.com/node0/ from the images below there … Continued

palace snaps

Categories: work In progress

two new images of the palace of memory showing the work in progress ‘oracle’. currently new versions ‘street walker’ and ‘street talker’ are collecting words for the oracle to use and learn from.

networked consciousness

Categories: work In progress

street walker and street talker have led me to look for a way to deal with data manipulation in a more sophisticated manner than is capable in lsl i have been experimenting with shifting data out of SL for evaluation … Continued

street walking

Categories: work In progress

a project developed for the odyssey ‘Open Rez street art project’. street-walker and street-talker will interact with visitors to odyssey’s southern plaza and try to learn to communicate with each other, by listening to, and imitating these visitors. by taking … Continued

croquet demo movie

Categories: essays & ramblings

just when thought i had given up on open croquet, this video reminds me of some of the things that drew me to it in the first place.