As the year ends it is a time of thoughtful reflection, near excessive drinking and searching for missing podcasts which got sucked into the vortex of space and time loss that we frequently experience in virtual reality. On that note I hand you an oxygen tank so you don’t have to hold your breath any more for the recordings which will eventually surface from the vicinity of Brooklyn. Welcome back to Jay from the vacation that you probably didn’t know he took because that information was cleverly tucked in the last podcast that never got posted before the cruise ship left town. 
In the meantime! I would like to invite anyone from the BIW community to join us in a year end podcastpalooza.
You’re all invited. We might talk about art, we might talk about 2009 and if you’re not there we might talk about YOU. We might even talk about you even if you are there.
When: Wednesday December 30th
Where: Brooklyn is Watching at PUSH
Time: 5pm SLT (had to make it a little later-sorry)
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SPECIAL EDITION BIW PARTYCAST please instant message Misprint Thursday in world saying you would like to participate. Alternatively- just come and bring maracas.
On the parcel right now is an interesting piece by Gleman Jun and his notecard states:
“10 seconds of SL …SL joy or damnation, 2nd life or a mirror of the 1st? About 100 avatars of 10 different nationalities, have tried to express through the 3 communication channels of SL (picture, voice and chat) their message summarizing in just 10 seconds. ”
The piece is a series of changing swirling SL snapshots that rattle of bits of peoples stories in text and in robotic voice. It is the first work I have seen from this Italian artist looking at identity and has more of a narrative feel. I like the departure for this artist. Check it out!
Something else to check out is the piece by Sowa Mai promoting participation in an ongoing collaboation series at Caerleon Art Collective. The sculpture that looks a bit like a recording booth encourages people to grab the note which gives instructions of how to give their voice/sound clip to the collaborative installation. The note states: “All the sound clips collected will be placed on individual prims forming part of an artistic landscape and will also be part of a RL book published in early 2010.”
thanks misprint, here’s the info on how you can participate which is all at http://arsactual.com/memo/
Your Voice as Art!
We are now at the point in the development of the art of virtual words where we can conduct focused experiments into the nature of the six aesthetic-technological dimensions. This is the purpose of the project which the Caerleon sims has launched.
Aequitas is working with other artists in developing one of six aesthetic-technological dimensions of this project; ‘Networked Collaboration’, (for a further details of the project see below.)
We need your help, we are collecting voice samples. We are asking you to record a nine second audio clip.
Say your name and country in your native language together with a short sentence on any subject you like, it can be a quotation, words from a song, a poem, a description of what you do or even an abstract sound, anything you like.
There are a few easy ways to create the sound file.
* If you are in Second Life you can call Sowa Mai directly and leave a message.
* If you have a microphone you can use the option on the website to record your sound and it will be sent by email.
* You can call one of the local numbers on the site (Avaline numbers) and leave your contribution by telephone.
of course if you are a smarty pants artist type you can make your own special sound file and drop it on me with open perms
save me 10 lindens in the process
Left by sowa on December 29th, 2009