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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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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“Whose Shore Will It Wash Up On? 1.1″ Solo Mornington with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8JHSAVYT0 “Flock” Oberon Onmura May, 2010 The objects that are created exist very briefly, and spend their existence flying and flocking together in random groupings. They are very sensitive and die when they reach a sim border or when touched by an avatar. “Weeping Angel” Monroe Jigsaw “Save a life” Kicca Igaly A mother who kills her son. What happens in the mind of a woman to reach such a gesture, an act against nature, accomplished by who gives life, who should protect … Little angels, I wish I had big arms able to tighten all, to give you affection and tenderness that you were denied … “Falling Within” Glyph Graves

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Last Thursday Brooklyn is Watching’s own Diogenes Wylder, Real Life (RL) Australian installation artist Georgie Roxby Smith, fractured her identity simultaneously along with participants/performers being multiple Diogenes W’s in Second Life (SL) on Push, in RL Melbourne, Australia, and in RL Watermill, New York where she has been in residence at the Watermill Center, collaborating with Oberon Onmura in RL/SL!

Watch the fantastic video documentation above created by Sowa Mai! More details and images from the event will be on the Soup blog soon.

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