Netfilmmakers’ 17.edition:
“Real-Un-Real: Imagery from the Virtual” curated by Sachiko Hayashi
Machinimas by Alan Sondheim, Gazira Babel and Juria Yoshikawa/Lance Shields
ArtistTalk and Launching:
Date: August 23.rd 2009
Time: 1.pm-4.pm
Place: Medical Museion, Bredgade 62, DK-1260 Copenhagen K
“The purpose of this edition is to present “machinima,” a new genre which has been on its emergence as an established art medium. The three works presented here are created with avatars, and all the artists are well active in the virtual world Second Life that has attracted much attention from artists of various fields (architecture, music, visual, performance, etc). While the selected works take advantage of possibilities with virtual world imagery in various ways, the common denominator for this selection has been their focus on alternative narrative quality not confined to filmic story-telling.”
Text by Sachiko Hayashi
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Open Call: Machinima in Second Life - Real-Un-Real?
The upcoming Real-Un-Real: Imagery from the Virtual challenges our notion of the filmic genre. This net exhibition is based on “Machinima” art works, which brings the following questions into debate:
- Why use the filmic language in Second Life?
- Does Second Life provide less restrictions compared to the making of machinima in other 3D online-enviroments?
- Does “Machinimas” succeed in telling us about human relations?
- Is the making of “Machinima” another way of playing with identities and virtual relations?
- Does the virtual body language give way to new interpretations of physical acting or is this a kind of digital puppetry?
- Are soundtracks more important in machinimas compared to the use of these in “real” films?
- What kind of new narrative possibilities does this genre open up to?
Follow the discussion and comments on Netfilmmakers’s blog. Feel free to send your abstracts to Netfilmmakers on infonetfilm@gmail.com . Put “Real-Un-Real abstract” in the subject line.
/ Netfilmmakers
