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<p>Dear Empyre List,</p>
<p><a href="http://accumulations.online/messlife.html">Messlife</a> is a generative virtual DIY collective artspace and
community. It manifests through online and in-person art exhibitions,
popping up within galleries, alternative spaces and classrooms even as
its true form is situated within cyberspace.</p>
<p>Messlife is both a virtual space as well as an experimental art
tool. It consists of an open sandbox platform, taking the metaphor of a
DIY artist warehouse. The environment supports a simultaneous community
of no more than a few dozen participants who primarily build collaged
sculptures and digital readymades, skate, or explore its nooks and
crannies.</p>
<p>Useful materials for construction are imported and added or found
onsite. Any 2d image can be uploaded into the space, immediately
becoming a 3d asset or artwork used for building in an additive
constructive manner, used as material for sculpture or to alter one's
own body or the shifting floor. The horizontal nature of the tool means
that fine art, memes, personal images, drawings, textures, stock photos
and screenshots all become readymade materials. These uploaded materials
are shared by the community. Any participant can use anyone else's
images, or move, resize, or shift anything</p>
<p>In addition to the warehouse artspace is a skatepark, dumpsters
for storing and discarding old materials, a performance area, art shack,
shipping containers, shopping carts. </p>
<p>Like IRL artist communities, the shared dumpsters take on an
outsize role here. The virtual dumpster is a generative space for both
discarding past images or objects and finding new ones, and new works
can be constructed using this detritus.</p>
<p>In addition to the traditional First Person 3d game view,
Messlife includes a top down world view, both intended as a generative
visual artwork of its own as well as a result of the collected images
and manipulations of the participants.</p>
<p>Messlife opens for temporary events. <a href="http://accumulations.online/messlife.html">In this body of documentation</a>, images and video captured from the space can themselves
be considered a constructed artistic output.</p>
<p>Lee</p>
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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:50 PM Daniel Lichtman <<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com">danielp73@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr">Dear Empyre Community,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to introduce the next artist for this month, Lee Tusman, who will present the generative visual output of the Messlife virtual space. Lee will send an email introducing this project in more detail shortly.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Lee is a New York-based new media artist and educator interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods of digital culture. He works in code, collage, sound, and text. His artistic output includes installations, interactive media, video art, experimental games, sound art, websites, bots, and micro-power radio stations. His work has been shown at museums, galleries, artist-run spaces, and virtual environments. He studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science at Purchase College.<br><br>Lee is an organizer with Babycastles, a NYC-based collective fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture as well as a collaborator with artist-run community Flux Factory. He co-founded Processing Community Day NYC. He is a past organizer at Hidden City Philadelphia, Little Berlin and KCHUNG Radio.</div><div><br></div><div>You can reach Lee and follow his work on Twitter at 2sman2sman, Instagram at leetusman and Github at lee2sman.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Looking forward to sharing and discussing the project!</div><div><br></div><div>Also looking forward to introducing Angeliki Diakrousi and Cristina Cochior's project, Temporary Riparian Zone, later this week.</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div></div>
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