Flying to Perth tomorrow, taking my video camera and dat tape with me, hoping to field record

for the sound track and mix in some rl video of the actual desert.

Getting there, first clip online

http://vimeo.com/29658414

First Steps

The creation of a fake mountain, hand painting it in Blender, cost me 3/4 of the prims allowance. So I'll use sculpties for doing details.

Anticipating a trip to Kalbari, as north of the west as I'll probably ever go.

If I'll roll on the ground would it paint me?

Fau Ferdinand - Yoshikaze's New Artist-in-Residence

Yoshikaze is pleased to announce Fau Ferdinand as our next artist-in-residence. Fau has been a well-known SL artist and, as the co-director of odyssey, one of the driving forces of artists' community in Second Life.

She will occupy our Yoshikaze studio from 15 September to 30 November, during which she will be exploring:

The persona as a battle field of conflicting ideas and  the avatar as a representation of these conflicts.
Documentation of the learning process of external tools and the creation of a video art piece, being both sides of the camera.

We look forward to wonderful works she will be producing at the Yoshikaze studio during her residency.

Fau Ferdinand:

2004 – Joined Second Life, opened own digital paintings gallery – “p’ART’icle  Accelerator”

2006 – Joined Odyssey. took part at first “Exhibit A” group exhibition live performance, “All N00bs Are Sailors”, at Notice Gallery, London,  then later at Vancouver LIVE biennial  of performance art.

Joined “Second Front”, an acclaimed performance art group based in Second Life.

2007 to 2009 –  Second Front performs extensively

Worked with Berardo Carboni,  an Italian film director on a feature length machinima “VolaVola”.

2010 – on going -  Odyssey co - director and co -curator with Lizsolo Mathilde

Katerina Karoussos' NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO Now Online

Katerina's video "NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO" completed during her Yoshikaze residency:



For viewing in Second Life, please go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/98/233/351/, where there is also a display of her presentation document.

The following is the slide show from her presentation at RL HUMlab, Umeå University.

Presentation Slide Show of Noetic Grace by Katerina Karoussos

An excerpt of her presentation can be also found here: http://hulken.humlab.umu.se/vern.mov

Katerina Karoussos' NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO Exhibition

Yoshikaze "Up-In-The-Air" Second Life Residency presents

NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO by Katerina Karoussos

5-9 September 2011

@ Umeå University, Sweden

Opening Hours: 8am-4pm Weekdays

Opening: 5 September Between 2pm-4pm

Artist Talk at the Opening via Video Skype at 2pm

NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO "regards the process of 'virtual vision' such as St. John of Damascus yielded, back in the 7th century. It refers to a course of action that disregards the conventional way of viewing as it entertains the idea of intellectual vision which is beyond any sensory origin. The intellectual eye gazes without any supporting images to the image itself as an endoscopic procedure. In this context the noetic awareness faces all of what can be seen and unseen as epiphanies." (Katerina Karoussos)

Katerina Karoussos' exploration into our noetic awareness in the virtual as our Yoshikaze artist between 20 May and 5 August this year has led her to step-by-step inquiries into "imago" of the virtual.  Her residency has been a unique journey, for which her objective from the start was rather to conduct an in-depth examination of virtual vision than to produce work of art.  With the concept of image as an apparition of our mind, her voyage consisted of a series of experimentations to better apprehend our new state, each unfolding a subtle rupture of our auto-responses from the reminiscent unconsciously employed.  The process of her exploration has been thoroughly documented on our blog and in a print-on-demand book from Lulu (www.lulu.com/spotlight/kkaroussosatgmaildotcom). 

Between 5-9 September Yoshikaze will proudly present a new video by Katerina Karoussos at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden.  This video puts together her observations in Second Life during her Yoshikaze residency as a singular work of art, and exposes the dimension of her philosophical concern by revealing her course of contemplation over our noesis on time, space, physical entities, natural phenomena, and body.  The exhibition will be combined with her presentation at HUMlab at 2 pm on 5 September.

Katerina Karoussos is an artist and researcher. Her research is based on the convergence of old and new media and especially between Byzantine and new media visual practices. From 1994 to 2003 she was the director and a co-founder of the Hellenic Center of Fine & Applied Arts. From 2004 since 2010 she was working at The Athens School of Fine Arts as a free lancer at the Fresco studio. She holds a Master of Arts from Middlesex University in Art & Technology Interdisciplinary Methods. From 2009, Karoussos is a member of Planetary Collegium (CAiiA) as a PhD Candidate under the supervision of Pr. Roy Ascott. She has participated in many international conferences (ISEA, Aber, Dimea, Consciousness Reframes Series etc).  Apart from her work as a Byzantine mural painter at Orthodox churches her work has been exhibited in various international media exhibitions (Athens, Japan, Madrid, New York, Frankfurt, Montenegro, Cuba etc).

Yoshikaze "Up-in-the-Air" Residency (www.slurl.com/secondlife/HUMlab/95/215/351) is a Second Life residency programme run by Sachiko Hayashi together with SL HUMlab sim manager James Barrett from HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. As part of HUMlab, its 3264 sqm land in Second Life supports SL artists in their pursuit of virtual art practices and researches.  For inquiries, please contact: goodwind.seiling@gmail.com.

Curated by Goodwind Seiling/Sachiko Hayashi in collaboration with Didge Burroughs/James Barrett at HUMlab.  The poster designed by Carl-Erik Engqvist at HUMlab.

Yoshikaze is funded and hosted by HUMlab, Umeå University.

Imago 6 -Final state

http://vimeo.com/26909182
THIS IS MY FINAL STATE
The space of possible solutions overlaps the possibility space associated with the material process. Into this space there are no dimensional perceptions (two or three dimensional matters), no FOV's, no perspective and horizon.
My wings (my transfiguration) are functional for the fall of any dimension, rather than for an angel-like take-off.
Thank you Yoshikaze for this experience.