Second Life

  • Remediations – Michael Takeo Magruder

    Peterborough Museum has published a monograph of the work of Michael Takeo Magruder, entitled Remediations. It covers various projects that he produced between 2000-2010. One of the projects (or two, depending on how you interpret it) of his that I was involved in was Changing Room v1.0 in 2009 and v2.0 in 2010. In…

  • Changing Room at SARC

    Changing Room is being showcased as part of Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music and The Two Thousand + Ten symposium from November 4-7th. You may remember this piece from last year at Eastside Projects. Unlike last time instead of one artist having a week to develop work this time a group of artists will…

  • Changing Rooms talk and workshop

    On Thursday 21st January I’ll be doing a short bit about my involvement with the Changing Rooms exhibition that’s happening at Eastside Projects. EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE SALON Please join us between 6.30-8pm at Eastside Projects for an introduction to ‘Changing Room’ a project by the Visual Realisation Unit at EP. With an outline of…

  • Changing Room at Eastside Projects

    My part in the Changing Room exhibition ended on 6th December. For the benefit of those wishing to build in Second Life here’s my experiences working in such an environment. Monday I was feeling ill so didn’t do any building in world but I did discover the joys of working collaboratively using Skype. Tuesday…

  • Changing Room virtual exhibition

    This week I’m putting together a piece for an exhibition in Second Life and Eastside Projects: Changing Room is an evolving mixed-reality installation that considers the inherent mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age. Lead artist Michael Takeo Magruder will collaborate with Extra Special People artists Ana Benlloch, Iona…