Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance

Odyssey: a simulator in Second Life dedicated to art and performance

About this site

Welcome! Odyssey is a growing art and performance simulator in the online world of Second Life.
Link to us in Second Life here (SLURL). Odyssey is 130.000 m2 dedicated to art and performance, with more than 600 members from art scenes all over the world, including 70+ associated professional working artists and hundreds of visitors per month.
Virtual spaces offer artists stunning vistas to explore and countless opportunities to create new work. The Odyssey simulator hosts projects by individual artists and organizations and provides resources, studio and exhibition space, technical assistance and more to support artists working in virtual places.
Odyssey was founded by Pacino Hercules and Sugar Seville in 2005. Past management by Sugar Seville and Helfe Ihnen. The simulator is currently managed by Artistic Director Fau Ferdinand with co-director lizsolo Mathilde.
Odyssey is generously funded by Dynamis Corporation.
Join us here and share your experiences. Post images, video, blog, comments, links.. anything relevant to art and performance in Second Life and/or the Odyssey community.
Join us in other online places:
Odyssey Blog
Odyssey on Facebook

Members

  • D/NO D/NCO
  • Liz Solo
  • Myth Guyot
  • Nazz Lane
  • Gleman Jun
  • Maxxo Klaar
  • Alan Sondheim
  • Frieda Korda

Groups

Odyssey provides resources for artists and arts related organizations within Second Life.

 

Photos

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Upcoming Events on Odyssey

ODYSSEY HAS A NEW MANAGEMENT!
Congrats to the new team!
Fau Ferdinand, Artistic Director in collaboration with LizSolo Mathilde with Rubaiyat Shatner as Education Director and cooperation from Juliet Claridge, Eifachfilm Vacirca and more friendly people :-)
See Meeting-Chat here.
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THAT IS ODYSSEY...(Movie) See more under "Press".
You will get invitations and informations by subscribing to our mailing list.
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Made pics from Odyssey art pieces? Please post them in Flickr.
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Currently on Odyssey:
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*Mattes perform for big art event on East of Odyssey
Franco and Eva Mattes wrote:
"we're taking part to this super event curated by Marina Abramovic "The Pigs of Today Are the Hams of Tomorrow", at the Plymouth Arts Centre, UK, January 21-24
http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/livelaboratorysy.html
the event involves some great artists and thinkers like Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tehching Hsieh, Ron Athey, Marina of course etc etc"
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*Liz Solo / LizSolo Mathilde retrospective | press release

*Patrick Lichty / Man Michinaga Retrospective | press release

*erasing the spiral by Selavy Oh, East of Odyssey / more info

*"The Gate 2" by Yannick Antoine / Yves Bernard at Odyssey welcome area/press release
*remapBerlin by Marco Manray, exhbit C | Article in "Kunst Blog" (English)
*Psychotic Zoo by Dekka Raymaker, exhibit D | Text by the artist
*Joseph Delappe - Gandhi in jail - 9 month performance, life every day | Text by the artist
*Sound Installation by Pong Blumenthal
*Poetry machine and a "Wannabe Artist" Studio by Cutea Benelli
*Art Walk with pieces by Adam Nash / Adam Ramona (other artists pieces will follow)

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Latest Activity

Liz Solo added 3 photos
59 minutes ago
2 photos by Liz Solo were featured
59 minutes ago
Myth Guyot added an event
"Everything unknown comes out of the sea" by Christoph Wilhelm Aigner at 431art GALLERY, Adelebsen Isle (240, 19, 1216)
February 10, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm
Dear friends, the 431art Gallery invites you to the opening of the exhibition: Wendsday the 10th of February 2010 - 1pm sl time "Everything unknown comes out of the sea" We will show polaroidworks of C.W. Aigner AIGEN (Christoph Wilhelm Aigner)…
1 hour ago
Gleman Jun added a video
7 hours ago
Mario Lochtenknapper added a photo
yesterday
yesterday
Alan Sondheim, Chris Johnston, Roxelo Babenco and another member are attending Frieda Korda's event
February 7, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm
Come and Brain Storm All Odyssey performers are invited to attended our first Brain Storm session - Sunday January 7th at 2 PM SLT - to talk about new performance based events and projects for Ody. Come along and bring your ideas. Hosted by Fau Fer…
on Sunday
Nazz Lane and Maxxo Klaar might attend Liz Solo's event
February 7, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm
Come and Brain Storm All Odyssey performers are invited to attended our first Brain Storm session - Sunday January 7th at 2 PM SLT - to talk about new performance based events and projects for Ody. Come along and bring your ideas. Hosted by Fau Fer…
on Sunday

Blog Posts

SaveMe Oh

Hitman Wanted

To get rid of a parasite that is stalking me already since months I am in search of a serious hitman that can eliminate Wirxli FlimFlam. This lowlife creature is trying to stand all the time in my shadow in the hope he will get some kind of recognition too. He didn’t succeed to do this on his own as he is a brainless pink worm only able in sucking blood. Now he is trying, by using my name as much as possible, to get hits to his sad blog in an attempt to give a reason for his existence.… Continue

Posted by SaveMe Oh on February 4, 2010 at 3:02pm

Velazquez Bonetto

CARP CREATORS MillaMilla Noel

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Posted by Velazquez Bonetto on February 3, 2010 at 6:42am

thiswindow

free download

Here is the last chance to get a free 'This Window' mp3 download


Posted by thiswindow on January 31, 2010 at 4:58am

Ecstasy Aura

REALITY BREAKDOWN Episode 1: "Virtual Fightworlds"

REALITY BREAKDOWN on Koinup.tv





"Reality breakdown'' is also a column inside koinup.com site blog that gets deep into background stories, avatar existence, and virtual people extraordinary life linking straight to the real world. It is a suggestive, reckless, and funny trip throught web audience's imaginary worlds.

This is first Mr Voom's article:

"Virtual people, this is about Fightworlds,
Fighting is gameworld's
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Posted by Ecstasy Aura on January 27, 2010 at 4:36am

Ecstasy Aura

REALITY BREAKDOWN



www.koinup.tv

''This is a message for you, virtual creature. Time of separation between real and virtual worlds has ended: these are the days of the avatar, new species are dawning. Join me in this exploration journey, follow me over the reality breakdown.'
Mister Voom, propaganda message nr. 000.0001

2010, Thursday Jan 21 at 12:00 AM (G… Continue

Posted by Ecstasy Aura on January 20, 2010 at 4:45pm — 2 Comments

SaveMe Oh

SaveMe Oh Management Job Description

Curating
skills: Know about SaveMe Oh’s high quality fine arts, real SaveMe Oh art history, ...

- Keep the spirit of SaveMe Oh!
- Check out SL artists and art places who work in the spirit of SaveMe Oh
- Make connections to art people like SaveMe Oh
- Invite artists as SaveMe Oh
- Keep away bad art like Caerleon or Pirats stuff
- Make a program about SaveMe Oh for this century
- Help artists who want to follow SaveMe Oh with their exhibitions (Building, scripting buy things and more or engage a… Continue

Posted by SaveMe Oh on January 18, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Helfe Ihnen

Mattes perform in Plymouth and Odyssey 21-24 Jan

A e-mail by Franco Mattes:

Hi all,

if you happen to be in England next weekend there is a good reason to come to Plymouth. Marina Abramovic is curating a performance event called "The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow" for which we are performing old and new works live at the Slaughterhouse and in Second Life, for 4 days in a raw.
Last time we performed in Second Life too many people showed up (thanks!) and many could not attend the performances (sorry!) so this time we'll try to resist e… Continue

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on January 17, 2010 at 11:45am

ilariapergolesi

ART LOVER PASSION...GLI ARTISTI

Dal 13 al 20 febbraio 2010 di svolgerà la COLLETTIVA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE di fotografia e pittura a cura dell’artista Civitavecchiese ILARIAPERGOLESI PRESSO l’aula PUCCI del comune di CIVITAVECCHIA (ROMA).
La mostra , come detto in precedenza prevede l’esposizione di artisti prestigiosi a livello europeo che per questa splendida occasione saranno accolti nella città di CIVITAVECCHIA (RM) per una mostra sull’ interpretazione dell’amore IN OGNI SUA FORMA.
Infatti come spiega la curatrice dell’eve… Continue

Posted by ilariapergolesi on January 13, 2010 at 9:39am

Velazquez Bonetto

CAMERA OBSCURA Frieda Korda & Maxxo Klaar

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Posted by Velazquez Bonetto on January 12, 2010 at 7:46am

Helfe Ihnen

Odyssey History

I changed the former Tab 'Art on Odyssey' to 'Odyssey History'. If someone sees faults in the listings, please inform me.

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on December 23, 2009 at 1:04pm

Forum

rubaiyat

Odyssey experimenting with Ustream

Started by rubaiyat in Sample Title Jan 26.

Kakukkfu Yosuke

Calendar 4 Replies

Started by Kakukkfu Yosuke in Sample Title. Last reply by Kakukkfu Yosuke Jan 20.

Helfe Ihnen

Odyssey needs a new management 54 Replies

Started by Helfe Ihnen in Sample Title. Last reply by Helfe Ihnen Jan 18.

 
 

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