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Liberate your Avatar; The Revolution will be social networked (Consciousness Reframed 11)

Sermon, P; Gould, CE

Authors

P Sermon

CE Gould



Contributors

Roy Ascott
Editor

Espen Gangvik
Editor

Margarete Jahrmann
Editor

Abstract

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual environments. The authors' artistic projects deal with the ironies and stereotypes that are found within Second Life in particular. Paul Sermon’s current creative practice looks specifically at the concepts of presence and performance within Second Life and 'first life', and attempts to bridge these two spaces through mixed reality techniques and interfaces. Charlotte Gould’s Ludic Second Life Narrative radically questions the way that users embody themselves in on-line virtual environments and identifies a counter-aesthetic that challenges the conventions of digital realism and consumerism.

Citation

Sermon, P., & Gould, C. (2010). Liberate your Avatar; The Revolution will be social networked (Consciousness Reframed 11). In R. Ascott, E. Gangvik, & M. Jahrmann (Eds.), Making Reality Really Real (181-183). Trondheim, Norway: TEKS Publishing

Publication Date Sep 20, 2010
Deposit Date Nov 8, 2010
Publicly Available Date Apr 5, 2016
Pages 181-183
Series Title Consciousness Reframed
Series Number 11
Book Title Making Reality Really Real
ISBN 978-82-998211-2-4
Publisher URL http://teks.no/?page_id=137&lang=en%3f
Related Public URLs http://teks.no/
Additional Information Funders : Arts Council Norway;Public Art Norway (KORO);Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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