Second Front about Wikipedia, SL & media in general

blog post short link:  http://wp.me/p9f2i-fR

Second Front members Great Escape (aka artist Scott Kildall) and Man Michinaga (aka Patrick Lichty, also the animator of The Yes Men) were special guests in De Hoeksteen Live! at the NIMk.  Interviewed by Prince Clause Fund director Els van der Plas.  Live on SALTO 1 TV (Amsterdam) + web.

They talked about the about the CPoV (“Critical Point of View”) Wikipedia Conference in Amsterdam where they did presentations. (Patrick Lichty: “This-presentation-might-get-me-killed”)

Furthermore about the virtual world Second Life and their performance art group Second Front in particular. And about new media in general.

Above photo’s by Anne Helmond

VIDEO-ON-REQUEST:

• Video Part 3 (01:00-02:00) – Interview with Patrick & Scott starts from about 01:55.3
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280100.asf

• Video Part 4 (02:00 – 3:00 wintertime)
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280300.asf

• Video Part5 (04:00 wintertime) – Last few minutes of the Reuters SL intervention video by Second Front
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280400.asf

  

  

These above video files will be available online for a maximum of 4 weeks after the live broadcast of march 28/29 (2010).

Second Front’s Breaking News III Video (2007)

Watch the first two hours video of this edition of De Hoeksteen Live! with special attention for the current NIMk workshop ‘The Media City’ here: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bw

wikipedia-watch.org

This blog post is also posted at: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bn

31 jan.’09: Cross-reality event @ Berlin Transmediale Festival

BERLIN.live.nU update 2009 01 30 21:00 CET

PLANETART at Berlin Transmediale, Festival for art and digital culture, presents:

Live interactive Terror-Noize Danze-Party

@ C-BASE club (physical) & @ club ZENIT – (virtual)

Saturday 31 januari 2009

23:45 – 01:00 (CET)   = SL 2.45 pm – 4 pm (PST)

A cross-reality technology & art event, RL offline & online :

An ‘atomspace’ party at C-BASE club, Berlin (Germany) + a simultanious cyberspace party at Club ZENIT in the spaceship antenna (‘Fernsehturm’) above New Berlin (SecondLife). Both spaces will be audio-visually connected with eachother, LIVE!

! + also LIVE & interactive streaming on the web:

http://STREAMS.live.nU

With DJ Jce Emoto, VJ Sandwoman Petion, IJ Meta Lord, IJ Ze Moo, artists collective Second Front, visual artist Pyewacket Kazyanenko, visual artist Stelarc Luik (avatar of famous Australian performance artist Stelarc) & many others!

P H Y S I C A L   L O C A T I O N :

C-BASE

Spacestation under Berlin

Rungestraße 20
10179 Berlin

Germany

V I R T U A L   L O C A T I O N :

CLUB ZENIT

Fernsehturm – TV Tower (spacestation antenna)

Alexanderplatz, newBERLIN

Second Life

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/133/133/37 (ground level)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/133/133/193 (Club Zenit level)

WEB LIVE STREAMS

http://STREAMS.live.nU

http://DFM.nu

(with CHATBOX )

Supported by: PLANETART, Transmediale,  C-Base, DFM RTV INT, Meta.Live.Nu, BERLINin3D, Mondriaan Foundation, Engage Tactical Media, Freeteam.nl, MaMachinima.eu and others.

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ATTENTION PLEASE:

This page will be updated with latest corrections, changes and additions until after this event.

Please refresh this page often!

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Second Front

WALL.K (or Dancing About Architecture)

A performance art happening by SECOND FRONT, 10 february 2008, at the Second Wall-ker Art Center  at the Locusolus sim, in Second Life.

Artist/director/writer Man Michinaga (Patrick Lichty) was joined by artists Aliselborg Zhaoying, Tran Spire, Ze Moo and a few others in ‘Wall.K‘.

In Wall.K, the performing artists were wearing wall-shaped avatars.(!)

 All this was projected to a live audience as part of ‘SL ONE‘ at the Directors Lounge in Berlin, in cooperation with the ZKM – Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Next to SL ONE curator Olga Wunderlich, only a small fortunate audience was invited to attend the Wall.K performance inworld SL, in an attempt to prevent sim lag. Among them were Jce Emoto, Ninah Puchkina, Chantal Harvey, SaveMe Oh, CallieDel Boa, Ollie Kubrick, LWK Telling, and a couple of other priveleged SL-residents.

Second Front seems to be one of the most profoundly recognized performance art groups in the metaverse Second Life. Patrick Lichty is better known as a member of brilliant anti-WTO activist group ‘The Yes Man’ (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_men)

More pictures and video coming up…

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WHEN MAN MET ZE.

During the Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam in january, Patrick Lichty (Man Michinaga) was visiting the ‘DO NOT FEED (Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INT)’ installation at the VideoVortex.2 exhibition.

In the physical exhibition space of the N.I.M.K., Patrick Lichty took control of the naked Ad Breda avatar and escaped the cage at De Dam square in SL-Amsterdam. Ad Breda then went to do an spontanious streaker intervention at the IAM Columbia Isle, the sim of the Columbia College Interactive Arts and Media (IAM) department in Chicago, Illinois. Ze Moo was observing how Ad Breda would survive this without a sim-ban… Read more about this happening at the SecondFront.blogspot

The day after the VideoVortex Conference, Patrick Lichty arrived as SL-resident Man Michinaga in the cage with Ad Breda and Eveline Schoonhoven.

This time, Patrick Lichty was logged in from an airport somewhere in the U.S. while changing flights, while Man Michinaga was changing avatars…