Is Newark Watching? by Sowa Mai (link)

4 July 2010

Chaos reigns at Push as artists wonder if Newark is really watching. 1024×1024x256 Dancoyote Antonelli KOONSBALL! Rod Mandel LLifted LLader Misprint Thursday Brush Fire In Snow Corcosman Voom Regeneration — by Kicca Igaly — ICE COLD BLUE shellina Winkler Great Dodecahedron (large) – Flexi-hedra nand Nerd The Giant Deep Red Loop A Tribute To Zoe Keating by nessuno myoo The Giant Deep Red Loop – A Tribute To Zoe Keating A tribute to Canadian musician Zoe Keating. It ‘was a real shock. His way of expression through the use of the instrument is extraordinary. A mix of technology and live performance to serve the melody and harmony that arise by magic from his hands. This sculpture is an homage to her. His figure, his music, his art. Hephaestus Platonicator is a social sculpture by San Francisco artist DC Spensley who is also known as Dancoyote Antonelli in the virtual world of Second Life. Clicking the gold obelisk either deletes existing tetrahedrons or rezzes one above the obelisk. Click any face of the resulting tetrahedron and it will rezz another tetrahedron adjacent to that face. Like all Dancoyote social sculpture the Hephaestus Platonicator can be used individuallly or by a group, cooperatively or competitively. Enjoy! Hephaestus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus Platonic solid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid dc@dancoyote.com Special thanks to Nand Nerd who was engineer on the project. Thanks for visiting Newark is Watching, formlerly Brooklyn is Watching! -DC

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In which Amy provides a reality check, suggests an ambitious possibility, plays some good music, looks at Solo Mornington’s fantastic Newark is Watching Tower and its popping eyeballs under a giant blue office chair, and takes in Rose Borchovski’s Susa Bubble storybook characters in The Kiss

Oh, Newark. by Amy Freelunch

The story of Susa Bubble – Rose Borchovski Artwork by Iono Allen (link)

Watching Newark is Watching 1 by Mab MacMoragh (link)

29 June 2010

Virtual Artwork filmed in Second Life® at Newark is Watching on Push

Inside Newark is Watching on Push:

Betty Tureaud : zoom ball 01; zoom ball 02
Blue Linden : Blue’s Office (chair)
Corcosman Voom : Brush Fire in Snow
Dancoyote Antonelli : Hephaestus Platoncator; Untitled (huge flapping object in the sky)
Kicca Igaly : Regeneration
nessuno Myoo : The Giant Deep Red Loop A Tribute to Zoe Keating
Oberon Onmura : Exploders
Solo Mornington : Newark is Watching Tower; Jiggly Eyeballs
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Outside Newark is Watching on Push:

Arahan Claveau, Dekka Raymaker, L1Aura Loire, Misprint Thursday, Oberon Onmura, Penumbra Carter, Selavy Oh, Solo Mornington, Sowa Mai : Bridge to Newark is Watching from SL7B

Oberon Onmura : Untitled (circled mountains)
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Inside Newark is Watching on Push on 29 June 2010 but not shown in machinima:

Ester Dreier : Beuys’ Oaks
Kilara Balnarring : SL7B Shepherdess outfit box
Mason Wylie : Deluxe Barbie Box
nand Nerd : Great Dodecahedron (large)
Rod Mandel : KOONSBALL!
shellina Winkler : ICE COLD BLUE; Revolving Doors
SuperKawaii Mub : Michelangelo’s David (Plastic)
Tree Kyomoon : Get Forked
Werner Kurosawa : cicp
Xenophile Neuro : XN AEP Impulse Rezzer 2.0
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Rose Borchovski’s installation The Kiss was autoreturned by Newark is Watching before Mab could film it. Rose’s Susa Bubble virtual installations can be seen at many locations in Second Life®. A good place to start is Two Fish SIM (SLurl)
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Brooklyn is Watching tower tear down by Sowa Mai (link to video)

Saturday night, 19 June 2010, at 9:15PM ET (6PM SLT) the old IKB (International Klein Blue) tower, built by Popcha, with the big marquee proclaiming ‘Brooklyn is Watching’ was attacked, demolished, and taken over by the new Newark is Watching tower built by Solo Mornington. The insurgent event was to be viewed live in Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey. The audience there were able to drive Monet Destiny, the everyman eyeball avatar who likes to watch, around to see the bit of native Second Life® there is on Push SIM. There was a good turnout and the evening ended with a series of poofs, bangs, tickles and flames.

Newark is Watching officially came into being.

Bitches at Newark Art Event by Firery Broome (link to larger view slideshow on black)

Another version of the creation story for the Newark is Watching tower composed of a stack of precariously balanced shifting-hued cubes and its columnar logo pillar alongside in an interesting echo of Joseph Beuys and his 7000 Oaks : The old tower saw the new tower across the way and got so excited it jumped the distance to be one with the new NIW, proving once again then that love can build a bridge. Or a dream can cross a few bridges.

Which is true? Both! This art is about possibilities!

BIW2NIW by Oberon Onmura (link to video)

Oberon’s video (above) is of the journey from Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Gallery Aferro in Newark.

The first Newark is Watching podcast with Jay introducing RL Newark’s Gallery Aferro owners Emma and Evonne can be heard here (link)

And if you’re interested, here’s the first blogpost on the old Brooklyn is Watching blog that charted the course for what was to come- an amazingly accurate plan, as it turns out (link)

All the old Brooklyn is Watching podcasts are still available for listening on iTunes (link) and FeedBurner (link)

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Sunday 13 June 2010: Amy breaks Brooklyn is Watching’s simulated physics with her endlessly gushing Selavy Oh/Mosmax Hax pipeline art piece combining big bang scripting with Whitenoise freebies, discusses the art movement called Virtualism and how it could relate to several big pictures (info & info), and examines nerdy-funny robot art assembled with found objects by Cheyenne Palisades (who, by the way, has announced her candidacy for CEO of Linden Lab® here). Mab, who is definitely a nerd, has not had time to be inworld since last week so is illustrating this great Amy Freelunch podcast with an itty bitty slideshow made previously (above) and also a nice image (below) of a water skiing robot made by Cheyenne so you can squint your eyes and imagine seeing the things that Amy describes so well at Brooklyn is Watching.

Listen to the podcast here, or go to the SoundCloud page. The new podcast is currently in rotation on Soup radio inworld on the Soup sims. The radio is reset most days at 1PM SLT, which means that Amy’s podcast can be heard at that time, as well as intermittently the rest of the hours. After a few days off, podcasts 1 & 2 will rejoin the playlist inworld again.

‘Who Says Robots Can’t Water Ski?’ by Cheyenne Palisades

The new Amy Freelunch show, ep 3: Exploding Selavy by Amy Freelunch

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