23 February 2010– Solo Mornington, Selavy Oh, Sowa Mai, Mab MacMoragh, and Banrion Constantine look at Dekka Raymaker and Penumbra Carter’s piece Whaam!
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These unofficial weekly-or-so podcasts are being strung together in a vacuum consisting of the relative absence of official guidance or organization other than the positive environment generated by the artists who continue to build or place their work on the Brooklyn is Watching space at ::: Soup ::: Push, and the artists who are tending it (most especially Soup Estate Manager Dekka Raymaker).
Fortunately BiW virtual artists are an independent and spontaneous lot, creative and capable of forging ahead on their own strengths while details get hashed out on the forthcoming exciting (and enigmatic) Newark is Watching takeover.
Sowa is doing a great job of unofficially getting the artist’s voice on record (entirely on his own with encouragement from Jay- not that I, Mab, speak for Jay or for anyone else for that matter but it’s on the record here). Text chat counts! I hope you’ll support him in his efforts by talking to him about the artwork on Brooklyn is Watching, whether it’s yours or someone else’s. Yes, the dialogue is necessarily beyond casual (a longstanding trait of the seriously disheveled Lovers Lane Studios) but it’s essential to document ephemeral work to understand where we are and where we’ve been. Any dialogue is better than none! While you’re at it, contribute your voice to Sowa’s Field of Voices project and you’ll be heard in SL® as well as in RL galleries around the world (link). Do it now!
With the intermission of leadership at present things will arise, things will get put aside or re-thought (still waiting expectantly for the gestating Official Podcasts to surface), and things will be unpredictable. But how is that uncertainty different from anything else groundbreaking and worthwhile in life?
We’re all really real-life behind the screen, burning through real-life time with real-life concerns, and making real-life sacrifices. We are really laughing and we are really crying. No one here is not real, not even the scripted art-bots (who require real-life time and real-life mind to exist) Some of us are really artists, some are really art critics, some are really art scholars, and some are really art lovers. With all due respect and kudos to the fantastic and risk-taking Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg (Good Link! Click Here!), Don Carroll, its administration and workers, its history, and especially its gallery visitors who randomly inhabited the everyman avatar Monet Destiny (sniff-now I’m going to cry…), the Brooklyn is Watching community has always been real, not unreal in any way, with a real history; and we’re still really watching NOW in hybrid RL/SL®!
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23 February 2010 Brooklyn looked away by Sowa Mai
Watch in larger format here
Participants are Sowa Mai, Banrion Constantine, Solo Mornington, Selavy Oh, and Mab MacMoragh
Art by Dekka Raymaker and Penumbra Carter, Oberon Onmura, and Solo Mornington
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5 March 2010 Brooklyn doesn’t care by Sowa Mai
Participants are Sowa Mai, Dancoyote Antonelli and Robin Moore
Art by Dancoyote Antonelli and Robin Moore
Sowa Mai: so tell us about your piece
Dancoyote Antonelli: this piece suffers from a contextual disconnect
Read the rest of this conversation on the YouTube page and watch in larger format here
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Because many blog readers in the modern world don’t actually visit the blog they’re reading any more but instead use aggregated feed-readers without all the sidebar stuff, I’m going to include the SLurl to Brooklyn is Watching at the bottom of my posts if I can remember to do it.
Visit Brooklyn is Watching in Second Life® (SLurl)
Discuss in comments below or on Sowa’s YouTube pages. Suggestions welcome.
these unofficial podcasts could become part of the “official” record if the audio portions were added to the xml file for the podcast(this term official is ironic term because from the get-go this whole thing has been such a crazy disorganized experiment in chaos… or CDEC mostly because i was involved and everything i touch is becomes a CDEC) — all i need is someone willing to do that- i can give the ftp access so they can download the xml file, add to it and upload it again. also– i saw an email saying we’d been hacked again but i don’t see it – is anyone seeing viagra here… oh wait i guess if you are seeing these words you are not seeing viagra by definition. I still believe very strongly that this community and the back and forth that is going on here still today will one day be recognized as a very important contribution to virtual art.
Left by jvanb on March 10th, 2010