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Games, New Media and other bla bla bla
Oh my God! I stumble upon my blog just to see that my last post dates back to October 10. My dear 4 readers should be angry with me... Well, just to make you know that I was not taking a sunbath on the...
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"Being an avatar, the virtual is my focus". Interview with Sugar Seville...
Well... this blog was meant to be a "one post per week" business, but it's slightly turning into a "one post per month" one... But, this one is a big one. And that's why I decided to split it into two...
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"Being an avatar, the virtual is my focus". Interview with Sugar Seville...
... Sugar Seville at her very best, talking about art and business, performance, mixed reality installations, curation, native and non native SL art. Enjoy!Me and Sugar during Burning LifeDQ. What's...
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Open considerations on The Gate - Part 1
Finally, my reflections on The Gate adventure have been published on the beautiful Italian zine Digimag. If you are an Italian reader, you can find my short essay in two parts at the links below:THE...
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Remediations
The Swedish magazine HZ has recently published a longer version of my article on art in Second Life originally written for Flash Art (pdf here) - together with many other interesting writings, such as...
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Open considerations on The Gate - Part 2
Still too much work to keep this blog regularly posted... But in a month the situation should change, and I would come back with some big news. In the meantime, here you can find the second part of my...
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Gaz - Show & Party!!!
The result of a long time effort (and one of the reasons for which this blog is so rarely updated ;-) Pictures from the show and some pills from the book will come soon!GAZIRA BABELISaturday, March...
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KA-BOOM!
Thinking back to this crazy opening, I can't but react as a crazy penguin ;-)Fix this date: Saturday, April 15, 2008. This is history now: for the first time ever, an avatar artist has a personal...
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Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age
This is not really about the "spawn of the surreal", but, well... this is what I'm doing now... and I'm sure the readers of this blog will find some interesting stuff inside there: from Gazira Babeli...
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Art and Social Networks. An interview with Mario Gerosa
I know, Italy provides a very little percentage of my readers (about 5 - 15 %, depending on the month). But I'm producing a lot of Italian stuff in these days; and this doesn't help me to keep this...
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Al dio ortopedico
... that's Gaz', clear. I keep on posting some Italian text, for the pleasure of my Italian readers. In this case, this is a venial sin, indeed. In the last few weeks, Extrart magazine contacted me for...
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Kiss the Sky, or, is there art without narration?
Yesterday morning I spent a couple of hours in Second Life to visit Kiss the Sky, an huge exhibition curated by artist DC Spensley (DanCoyote Antonelliin SL) for the New Media Consortium in...
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A Map to Reach the Impossible: Interview with Joan Leandre
In the Name of Kernel shown at Holy Fire. Photo Courtesy Y. BernardThis post is not about Second Life, nor virtual worlds, indeed. But I think that In the Name of Kernel, the last work of the spanish...
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Rinascimento Virtuale Interview
Another gift for my spaghetti readers...A couple of days ago I was interviewed by Costanza Baldini (Festival della Creatività, Firenze) for Rinascimento Virtuale, the exhibition (curated by Mario...
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THE ARTIST AS ARTWORK IN VIRTUAL WORLDS - PART 1
Article published in Digimag 36 - July / August, 2008Translated from Italian by Francesca MagnaghiJoseph Delappe, Dead in Iraq, 2003In the last years, we saw an increasing development of artistic...
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THE ARTIST AS ARTWORK IN VIRTUAL WORLD - PART 2
Article published in Digimag 37, September 2008. Translated from Italian by Francesca Magnaghi.Eva and Franco Mattes, Reenactment of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's Imponderabilia - Synthetic Performance...
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WHY THERE IS NO VIRTUAL REINASSANCE
Tomorrow (October 24, 2008) I will be in Florence to speak at the panel "Arte solo per avatar?", together with many other speakers: Margherita Balzerani, Fabio Fornasari, Stephan Doesinger, Miltos...
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Alan Sondheim, the Accidental Artist
Issue 31 of the CIAC Electronic Magazine, entirely devoted to art in Second Life, has just been published. The magazine features, along with a really interesting essay by Patrick Lichty, a text by the...
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FOR GOD'S SAKE!
A little bit of self promotion (please forgive me for that - more thoughtful contributions will come soon, hopefully!) On November 24, Spawn of the Surreal was featured on the blog artcareer.net, in a...
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For God's Sake! Catalogue essay (part 1)
FOR GOD'S SAKE!“God Always Uses the Latest Technology.”In the little town in northern Italy where I live, which is economically prosperous, culturally sleepy, religiously bigotted and politically...
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