Hi, I'm staying off email for the performance, except to check for emails from support people, so I thought I'd share this one announcement...
// ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Monday , Dec 8th, 6pm: Second Life Voice Chat with Stelarc & Micha Cárdenas projected live at Lui Velazquez From: "Katherine Sweetman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, December 5, 2008 10:25 am To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday December 8th at 6pm The Body in Transmission/Transition: Learning to Live in Mixed Realities Streamed live from Second Life at Lui Velazquez Live Second Life chat with infamous performance artist Stelarc as part of Micha Cárdenas' Becoming Dragon project. At Lui Velazquez we will stream this live beginning at 6pm. You will be able to ask questions of both Micha Cárdenas and Stelarc. Drinks and snacks will be served. Dec 8th, 6pm Voice Chat with Stelarc "The Body in Transmission/Transition: Learning to Live in Mixed Realities" also broadcast in Tijuana live at Lui Velazquez http://www.stelarc.va.com.au http://luivelazquez.com Lui Velazquez is located right next to the US/Mex border on the Tijuana side. directions: http://luivelazquez.com/directions.html Dec 10th, 2pm Voice Chat with Brian Holmes and Rubaiyat Shatner Imagining New Worlds, Biopolitics and Self-Governance in SL http://arsvirtua.com http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/ What: Performance in Second Life and at Calit2 on the UCSD Campus When: Beginning December 1st, running for 365 hours Where: The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), Atkinson Hall, Visiting Artist Lab #1613, UCSD, and in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/186/12/35 Contact: Micha Cárdenas, 619-750-8851, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Becoming Dragon is a mixed reality, durational performance in Second Life, in CRCA's Visiting Artist Lab #1613 of the Atkinson Hall building, on the UC San Diego campus. The opening begins at 7pm on December 1st, 2008 and the performance will run for 365 hours. The performance is Micha Cárdenas' final MFA project. Becoming Dragon questions the one year requirement of Real Life Experience that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive Gender Confirmation Surgery (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), and asks if this could be replaced by one year of Second Life Experience to lead to Species Reassignment Surgery. For the performance, Micha Cárdenas will live for 365 hours immersed in Second Life with a head mounted display, so that all she will see is Second Life, and a motion capture system to map her movements into Second Life. The performance space will be open to the public for the duration, during the hours that the building is open, 9am to 7pm. During the entire duration of the performance Micha will stay in the performance space at CRCA and in Second Life. Read Micha's live blogging from Second Life during the performance at: http://secondloop.wordpress.com Hours and Location: CRCA, Atkinson Hall, Room 1613 Hours: 11am-7pm, Opening Dec. 1, 2008, 7pm, Continuing for 365 hours, roughly 3 weeks First Floor, Atkinson Hall University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 Map & Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/ Read more at: http://secondloop.wordpress.com http://sharingissexy.org/wiki/Becoming_Dragon http://bang.calit2.net/tts/category/becomingdragon/ http://flickr.com/photos/azdelslade http://flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157606067246259/ http://delicious.com/lotu5/becomingdragon Katherine Sweetman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 619-838-7666 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
