Second Front Samizdat Installation: “Virtual Identity Theft – R U Real?” SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Stone Pike 150,160, 35, Second Life, (With additional components at Odyssey, I AM Columbia, and Nolidae servers) Contacts: Scott Kildall – [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Lichty – [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Second Front is premiering a new performance-installation at SF Camerawork called Virtual Identity Theft: R U (4) Real?. The show runs from October 2nd-November 1st. This is part of a show is called I Feel Free But Know That I Am Not, curated by Chuck Mobley. Guillermo Gomez-Pena (with Violet Luna and La Pocha Nostra) and Oliver Herring (with multiTASK) will also be presenting performances/installations. Virtual Identity Theft: R U (4) Real? In this performance-installation, Second Front challenges gallery- goers to prove that they are “real.” We are avatars in Second Life who can fly, teleport and change gender, and many other things. We do not age or get sick. Second Front does not understand how you can, or even would want to, live a first life. We invite to tell us who you are, and what is good about your "First Life". By sharing the stories of the visitors, we will take a little bit of that person with us through a hidden webcam. Constructing items such as milk cartons, “soul gems” and other artifacts, we will build a “hall of identities” as well as distribute identity-objects throughout the Grid. Come share your stories with us, and let us tell the virtual world that you are, in fact, “4 Real...” Show details: Opening reception: October 2nd, 5-8pm SF Camerawork 657 Mission Street (between 3rd & New Montgomery) Second Floor, San Francisco About Second Front: Second Front is a pioneering virtual performance art group, creating happenings, spectacles, as well as critical and absurdist actions in the spirit of the Dadas, Fluxus, and contemporary traditions of media/performance art pioneered by Abramovic, Burden, Nauman, and others. Spanning the globe from San Francisco to Milan, Second Front was founded in 2006 and includes Gazira Babeli (Milan), Yael Gilks/Fau Ferdinand (London), Scott Kildall/Great Escape (San Francisco/NYC), Bibbe Hansen/Bibbe Oh (NYC), Liz Solo/Lizsolo Mathilde (St. John's), and Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga (Chicago/New Orleans). Second Front has shown internationally in venues like the San Francisco Art Institute, the Performa Performance Art Bienniale NYC, Gogbot Amsterdam, and has been recognized in press by Exhibart Italy, Eikon Milan, ArtNews and Art in America. About Second Life (SL): SL is an Internet-based 3D virtual world created in 2003 A free downloadable browser called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, to interact with each other through avatars, creating a large online community. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, and participate in individual and group activities. For more information, please visit http://www.secondlife.com SF Camerawork http://www.sfcamerawork.org/ Second Front video archve http://secondfront.blip.tv Second Front blog http://www.secondfront.org/blog/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
