DRIFTER RHODE
CURATOR/PRODUCER

Drifter Rhode is the 2ND LIVE curator and producer, and the Second Life® avatar of artist-academic-curator Stephen Hodge.

Stephen is a Senior Lecturer and member of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter (UK), and a core member of Wrights & Sites, a group of artist-researchers with a special relationship to site, city/landscape and walking.

He is a member of the UK's New Theatre Architects, a board member of New Work Network and the curator of Theatre, Dance & Live Art at Exeter Phoenix.

Click here to visit the Centre for Intermedia website.

Click here to visit the Exeter Phoenix website.

Click here to visit the Wrights & Sites website.

DEDOME NISHI
ARTIST (PHOENIX SCRATCH COMMISSION #1)

DeDome Nishi is the Second Life avatar of Richard Dedomenici.

Richard is an artist based within the M25. He is currently seeking to update his artistic statement, which describes him as:

'a one-man subversive think-tank primarily dedicated to the development and implementation of innovative strategies designed to undermine accepted belief systems and topple existing power structures. By approaching the limits of conventionally acceptable behaviour, Richard Dedomenici's poetic acts of low-grade civil disobedience forcibly ask pertinent questions of society, while his subtle anarcho-surrealist interventions create the kind of uncertainty that leads to possibility.'

Click here for more details about Richard's commissioned work, Third Life.

Click here to visit Richard's website.

PIPSI BRACKEN
ARTIST (PHOENIX SCRATCH COMMISSION #2)

Pipsi Bracken is the Second Life avatar of Niki McCretton.

Niki is known for creating accessible cross-art form performances. Recent work includes Relative (a co-production with digital artist Kathy Hinde) which explored the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren, and Space 50, a piece she made to celebrate half a century of space travel.

Click here for more details about Niki's commissioned work, Viral Duets.

Click here to visit Niki's website.

ADAMU FULLSTOP
& SUZ SKINSTAD
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
(PHOENIX SCRATCH COMMISSION #2)

Adamu Fullstop is the Second Life avatar of Adam Vanner.

Suz Skinstad is the Second Life avatar of Susan Sloan.

Adam & Susan, animators from the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) at Bournemouth University, are collaborating with Niki McCretton, creating SL animations from material gathered in the NCCA motion capture suite.

Click here to visit the NCCA website.

THE 2ND LIVE GROUP
AN IN-WORLD NETWORK OF AVATARS

The 2ND LIVE group is the in-world network of avatars who share an interest in the 2ND LIVE programme.

If you'd like to be kept up-to-date about 2ND LIVE activities, please send a SL Instant Message to Drifter Rhode requesting membership.