[-empyre-] Becoming Dragon documentation

[lotu5 at resist.ca]

> Micha, do you have any online clips or links to "Becoming Dragon"
> performances?


yes, absolutely! thanks for asking...

http://secondloop.wordpress.com/ is the blog for the project, so recent
entries are about exhibitions and talks, but the right hand side has links
for photos and video and reviews and the older posts contain the realtime
blogging and journaling.

also, the 3 minute video documentation is here:

http://vimeo.com/3874238

and the photo documentation is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azdelslade/sets/72157610992544600/

and here's a good summary, the original press release:

http://secondloop.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/press-release-becoming-dragon-a-mixed-reality-durational-performance-in-second-life-opens-december-1st/

i've since written a number of articles for ctheory, intelligent agent and
augmentology.com about the project, but they're all still forthcoming(!),
although the augmentology piece will hopefully be out this month...

i've been busy chilling on this holiday weekend, but i'll be back to the
discussion (which is so rich already!) soon...

thanks,

  micha





>
> You write,
>
> :
> n In Becoming Dragon, I sought to
>> explore the subject in transition, in a way creating a space of
>> relation
>> between the audience and a subject who's state of being-in-
>> transition or
>> becoming is foregrounded. The performance coincided with the
>> beginning of
>> my hormone therapy, so it was also a meditation on the resonances
>> between
>> a physical becoming or transformation and a digital becoming avatar,
>> becoming mythopoetic and becoming the body-in-transmission. I
>> definitely
>> can see this as a queer relational piece, between genders as well as
>> between spaces, the physical space and the space of second life.
>>
>
>
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