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COMMISSION #2: Viral Duets
by Pipsi Bracken (a.k.a. Niki McCretton)
Monday 18 February 2008 (2-5pm & 7-10pm GMT) @ Exeter Phoenix only:
Individual 20-minute tutorials in the Second Life world, followed by 20-minute encounters with Pipsi in the basement of Exeter Phoenix. The encounters were relayed to the public screen in the Exeter Phoenix bar.
Tuesday 19 February 2008 (2-5pm & 7-10pm GMT) in world only:
Individual 20-minute encounters with Pipsi, attended by avatars from far and wide.
Phoenix Scratch in the Second Life® world continued as dancer and performance artist Niki McCretton created a series of one-to-one, spontaneous, movement-based performances in a specially constructed dome on the island of Diecicento. Avatars were given tools to take away and encouraged to recreate the performance with other avatars, spreading their duets like viruses through the SL world. Niki drew on motion capture technology, working with animators Susan Sloan and Adam Vanner from the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University.
Niki McCretton 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.
Niki McCretton being calibrated in the motion capture suite at N.C.C.A.
Documentation
Documentation (images, video footage, chat logs from the making process, etc.) will be available soon, but in the meantime:
1. You will find a number of still images from the event below.
2. The event has been blogged by two participants. Click here for Dizzy Banjo's blog entry. Click here for Strawberry Singh's blog entry.
The performance space being built
Wireframe image of the animations being tested
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Erik Horczys
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Merlintheatre Dumpling
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Ubik Emmons
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Strawberry Singh
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Not Merlin
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Born Rosca
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Gabissa Sun
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Simpson Vendetta
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Indigo Fairweather
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Ina Centaur
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Dizzy Banjo
Viral Duet: Pipsi Bracken & Marcantonio Vita |
