Liberate your avatar

Sermon, P

Abstract

An interactive public video art installation incorporating Second Life users in a real life environment. Located on All Saints Gardens, Oxford Road, Manchester, for the Urban Screens Festival, October 12th 2007 from 5pm to 6pm.

The merged realities of ‘All Saints Gardens’ on Oxford Road, and its online three-dimensional counterpart in ‘Second Life’ will, for the first time, allow ‘first life’ visitors and ‘second life’ avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a live interactive public video installation. Entering into this feedback loop through a portal between these two parallel worlds this event exposes the identity paradox in Second Life. ‘Liberate your Avatar’ examines this new crisis and reflects the history of ‘All Saints Gardens’, relocating Emmeline Pankhurst as an avatar within ‘Second Life’ where she remains locked to the railings of ‘All Saints Gardens’.

Citation

Sermon, P. Liberate your avatar. [Interactive Second Life Installation]. 12 October 2007. (Unpublished)

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Oct 12, 2007
• Deposit Date: Oct 8, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Related Public URLs: http://www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk/index.php?page=Event
• Additional Information: Corporate Creators : Let Go Global; Number of Pieces : 1