Pyewacket Kazyanenko - Yoshikaze's Next Artist-In-Residence

Yoshikaze is pleased to announce Pyewacket Kazyanenko as our next artist-in-residence.  Pye is a performance artist and has worked with Stelarc on several occasions.

Pye will be welcoming all who would like to meet her during her residency at Yoshikaze, which starts from 15 February and extends to 15 May.  If you are interested, here is the slurl to Yoshikaze spot: http://slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/95/215/351

We look forward to the wonderful work Pye will be producing during his Yoshikaze residency.

 Pyewacket Kazyanenko. Outline  and intent for Yoshikaze Residency

I've spent the last few years working with Stelarc in simple virtual displays and performance. In my virtual work, amongst achievements and satisfying victories , things inevitability go wrong, strange things happen, sculpts appear wrong, scripts and codes don’t work correctly, robots break.
Not being much of a coder or a mathematician, my approach to working with code and 3d environments has always had a naive and random quality.

In my exploration with the Yoshikaze residency I hope to further my relationship with the 'glitch' in virtual worlds. The genera of digital glitch art has become quite popular but little has been explored in virtual worlds. I will enter the space with an empty pallet , clear mind and simply explore ,try and make happen the wrong, the glitch and the obscure, mixed with ongoing adventures and inspirations that happen daily inworld.

My research into avatar psychology and the notion of 'artistic role play' will also have some effect on what I will be doing. This brings the digital unconscious into the work with dreams, desires, needs , failures ,a sense of humour and a longing for creativity.

 
Pyewacket was born and made an independent artist in her own right, making art, performance and getting articles in art magazines. The process of the creation of an online artistic personality is well under way .One day I hope to break Pye from the strings of the human puppet master and go AI altogether. This interest in the avatar as independent entity , or robotic artist ,will also play a part in the art I will be exploring. I hope to reveal a story about the life and times of a cyborg. It'll be a hacking and deconstructing of my virtual life as an avatar.

I hope to present short experimental machinimas (with red/blue glasses provided), photographs, a possible live performance, and a 3d environment as documentation to the residency.

Pyewacket web: http://www.pyewacke.tk

 

SECOND LIFE PERFORMANCES
STELARC & PYEWACKET
STELARC SITE AT RMIT CREATIVE MEDIA

 2011  Blue Rider Symposium. Live performance
       Nov -Tate Modern Gallery, London

 2011  Dublin Science gallery.Human +  - Event for Avatar.
       June .  Live performance

 2011  Phantom flesh/circulating Organs . WRO Art Biennale . Poland .
       May 20 (sim on a stick performance)

 2011  Sydney Powerhouse science museum .
           SL live performance, Pyewacket & Stelarc articulated arm robot
           April            

 2011  BODY, BRAIN & CONSCIOUSNESS- KINETICA ART FAIR
           SL Performance, Prosthetic Head Installation & Presentation
           3- 6 February- Ambika P3, London, UK.

 2010  BODY OVERDRIVE: STELARC X GONZO
                    Second Life performance: “Rotating Brains / Beating Heart”
                    18 November- Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan.

 2010  AEAF & MILDURA PALIMPSEST
                     Performance: “The Cadaver, The Comatose & The Chimera”.
                     18 September- Dom’s Nightclub, Mildura, Australia.       

 2010  DRHA 2010: SENSUAL TECHNOLOGIES
                     SL Performance with AOM Metaverse: “Rotating Brains / Beating Heart”
                     5 September- Theatre AA101, Brunel University West London, UK.

 2010  (RE)PEFORMING THE HUMAN
                      Presentation & Performance in Second Life
                      21, 22 May- University of Sussex, UK.

 2010  THE POST-HUMAN CONDITION
                     Presentation & Performance in Second Life
                     7 May- Institute of Aesthetic Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

 2009   EXPLORATIONS- LA MAMA
                     SL Performance & the Prosthetic Head: Avatars Have No Organs
                     14, 15 & 16 December, La Mama Courthouse, Melbourne, Australia.

 2009    CONFERENZA- PERFORMANCE
           Performance in Second Life: “Avatars Have No Organs”
         25 October- Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Gallarate, Milan, Italy.

 2009   BORDERS, BOUNDARIES AND THRESHOLDS OF THE BODY
                     Second Life Performance: Cloned Dance
                     12 June- CRASSH, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

 2009   INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL BAINS NUMERIQUES CONFERENCE
                     Second Life Performance: Cloned Dance
         11 June- Centre Des Arts, Enghien-Les-Bains, Paris, France

 2009   A.L.I.C.E.- FUTURE SCHOOL
                     Second Life Performance: Cloned Dance
                     30 April- Nabi Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea

 2008   TRAJECTORIES OF THE CATASTROPHIC SYMPOSIUM ON PAUL VIRILIO
           Presentation & Performance in Second Life
           25 October- San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA.

 2008   4TH ANNUAL ROCK CAN ROLL MUSIC AND MEDIA FESTIVAL
           Presentation & Performance in Second Life                        
           23 October- Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada