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THE ACCIDENTAL ARTIST

Alan Sondheim

Opening with performance
June 25th 10pm EDT and June 26th 10pm CET
location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22

VIDEO PERFORMERS: Foofwa d'Imobilite, Azure Carter, Kira Sedlock, David Bello, Alan Sondheim.
PERFORMANCE: Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim


WRITE HOME: ACCIDENTS HAPPEN!

Poor little avatars hide behind poor little avatars! Avatars ab/use!
Avatars don't need air! You can't weigh them! They don't know the meaning of the word! THESE avatars don't know anything! They're weighed down by coordinates! They can't fuck! Their prims bend, smash! Smashed prims are prims. Hello, hello! Video and performance spewed from a laboratory of virtual environments.
IN MY WORLD, THERE ARE NO ERRORS, ONLY SEDUCTIONS!


The human figure's place in art gets turned inside out here in this world of unfolded and refolded geometries. What remains of the body in the domain of the virtual?
What survives the transition? Could this still be called a body?
Where are we going in this crossing over into bits, why are we going there/nowhere and what does it say about the nature of human desire? At what point does a beautiful accident become a tragic mistake? Is there truly such a thing as a mistake?



A pioneer in virtual worlds and networked environments,
Alan Sondheim brings his latest work to Odyssey http://odysseyart.ning.com/,
an international community of artists working on 2 servers in the networked 3d virtual world called Second Life.

An autobiography of Sondheim's career as an artist can be found here http://www.alansondheim.org/COMPBIO.TXT


avatar : noun
Etymology:

Sanskrit avatārah descent, from avatarati he descends, from ava- away + tarati he crosses over

1: the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)

2 a: an incarnation in human form
b: an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person

3: a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity

4: an electronic image that represents and is manipulated by a computer user (as in a computer game

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PERFORMANCE IN SECOND LIFE THIS
WEDNESDAY July 16th
Sandy Baldwin and Alan Sondheim,
PERFORM as part of THE ACCIDENTAL ARTIST Exhibition

We're doing Theatrical Performance to the Nth Degree:
Avadrama with scripts by Sandy Baldwin and Alan Sondheim, using
EXPERIMENTAL AVATAR BEHAVIORS AND TEXTS

Wednesday, July 16th, at 1pm and 7pm PDT (SL time)
Please attend - and if you can't make it, check out

THE ACCIDENTAL ARTIST Exhibition

which changes almost daily!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22

Visit Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance at:
http://odysseyart.ning.com/
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