Yoshikaze is very pleased to have Oberon Onmura as our next artist-in-residence. His residency starts on 15 October and extends to 31 December. We look forward to the wonderful work he will be doing at our Yoshikaze space.
[Project Description]
For the past several years, I have been occupied with designing and creating huge, sim-sized installations. These works share in common my interests in Second Life physics, order and disorder, and interactive automated systems. The results have been large visual spectacles best experienced over several long visits. (At this point I want to acknowledge the Linden Arts Endowment for kindly granting me the personal use of an entire simulator for nearly one year.)
Looking forward, it is time for me to refocus my efforts on other aspects of the Second Life environment. For the Yoshikaze Residency I want to explore a much simpler idea - that of using sound alone as the material for creation. Specifically, to use sound cues in a stereo field, with no visual elements, to guide avatars from some starting point toward a final goal.
Sound in Second Life is fairly rudimentary. In contrast to the powerful 3D modeling tools readily accessible by pressing the ctrl-3 keys in the client/viewer, the SL client provides no sound creation or modification tools. The only inherent sounds are wind noise, mouse-button clicks, a teleportation sound effect, and physical object collisions. All other sounds must be uploaded as 10-second .wav files, or must be streamed in on various available media channels. Furthermore, the scripting language offers few sound functions, and those involve only various ways to play a sound file or set the URL of a stream.
These limitations present a wonderful challenge in creating a rich soundscape as the basis for creating art in SL. I have asked three artists, all known for their interesting use of sound in their work, to each create their unique version of this concept. I am hoping that each artist, in offering his/her unique solution to this challenge, will expand the possibilities for using sounds as creative material in SL. My role will be curator, mentor, scripting advisor, and major domo.
The artists who have agreed to participate in this project are Maya Paris from the UK, Eupalinos Ugajin from France, and Alpha Auer, from Turkey, living in London.
[Bio]
Oberon Onmura has been making art in Second Life for over four years. In that time, his unique approach to exploring the capabilities of physical objects has attracted international attention of blog sites, Second Life and “real life” galleries and publications.
Oberon cites as his primary influences American minimalist art of the 1960s and 70s for its precision of form, Stephen Wolfram’s “A New Kind of Science” for its analysis of complex systems, and Indian classical music for its manifestation of unseen physical reality in art. He has recently become interested in the use of scripted agents (i.e. bots) as art making material.
Oberon's "real life" person lives and works in New York City.
Recent and current shows
Recipient - Linden Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residency Land grant (twice) 2011-2012
Group show - "Further Along the Path", May, 2012 (Bryn Oh, Curator)
Solo show - Linden Arts Endowment Land Grant - "15k*30m*30d". February, 2012.
Solo show - Linden Arts Endowment Land Grant - "Wave Fields". December, 2011.
Group show - Museum of Hyperformalism (multiple works), October - December, 2011 (Dancoyote Antonelli, curator)
Group show - Pirats Omega Art Gallery ("The Chasm"), October, 2011 (Merlina Rokoko, curator)
Collaborating artist (with Eupalinos Ugajin) "Chutes d'Images", Cariacou sim, July, 2011
Invited artist, "SynchroniCITY", AIRE Ville Spatial (Ecologia sim), July, 2011 (Marc Moana, curator)
Participating artist, "Light & Gravity", Cearleon, July, 2011 (Pixels Sideways,Sunseeker Miklos, curators)
Invited artist, Split Screen installation space, April, 2011 (Davidni Shostakovitch, curator)
Winner, first prize ("Chroma (Loom)"), UWA 3D Open Art Challenge, January 2011
Featured artist, INNOVATION FESTIVAL !D.A.! Digital Art - Museo del Metaverso (SL)/ Academy of Fine Arts Macerata (Italy) - Roxelo Babenco, Curator
Winner, first prize ("Transition Zone"), Gogbot Cyberarts Festival, The Netherlands (September, 2010)
Invitation exhibit - “Transition Zone” - Two Fish (Cariacou sim) curated by Rose Borchovski
Solo show - Fruit Island Arts ("Intersectors") - Lizzo Dreamscape, Curator
Group show - Invisible Museum of Post-Contemporary Art ("Plaza") - Rod Mandel, Curator
Group performance - Pirats "Arts Kahos" Bourbon sim (Merlina Rokocoko, Newbab Zsigmond, Curators)
Group show (with Misprint Thursday) Pirats Omega Arts (Merlina Rokocoko, Curator)
Solo show - "Storm Cells" Cetus sim (Zachh Cale, Curator)
Solo show - "Light Traffic" Deutsche Info Welt (Asmina Duranjaya, Curator)
Group show - Erato of Caerleon Sim - "The Pool" -(Sabrinaa Nightfire, Curator)
Solo show - "Four Galaxies' - Lennox Hills sim (Zachh Cale, Curator)
Mixed realities performance collaboration with Diogenes Wylder (Watermill Center, NY) April, 2009
[Links to Oberon's Previous Works]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmura/sets/72157629421812551/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmura/sets/72157627169407386/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmura/sets/72157622242213714/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberon_onmura/6496564965/in/photostream
https://vimeo.com/15389093
https://vimeo.com/30389215
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