Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance

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

About this site

Welcome! Odyssey is a growing place in the virtual world of Second Life where artists can explore the virtual space. Where? Link here. 130.000 m2 for art, more than 550 members from art scenes all over the world, 70+ associated professional working artists, about 700 visitors per month. The simulator hosts projects by individual artists and organizations. It provides recources like exhibition spaces, technical assistance and more to help artists by exploring the nearly unlimited chances to create art in virtual space. Odyssey was founded by Pacino Hercules and Sugar Seville. It is funded by Dynamis Corporation and managed by Helfe Ihnen now.
Join us here and share your experiences, perceptions, criticisms. Post images, video, blog, comment, link.. anything relevant to art and performance in Second Life and/or the Odyssey community.

Members

  • Chimera Cosmos
  • Marta Lanzius
  • Albert Girós
  • Kelda Homes
  • Enid Bates
  • Chrome Underwood
  • Sonja Pedell
  • Ford Heberle

Groups

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

 

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Upcoming Events on Odyssey

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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Upcoming on Odyssey:
*Dec 4 Opening of Patrick Lichty / Man Michinaga Retrospective

Currently on Odyssey:

*Nov 16 Performance by Eva and Franko Mattes at exhibit A (done) | press release| pics

*"The Gate 2" by Yannick Antoine / Yves Bernard at Odyssey welcome area/press release

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

Marta Lanzius added a blog post
Trailer machinima from the original Guido Crepax 'Riflesso' Graphic Novel, published in 1984. Screenplay adaptation by Caterina Crepax, Voice of Nicoletta Mandelli. Director and Machinimist Luca Lisci. First presented live in Museo della Trie...
5 hours ago
Gary Zabel added 16 photos
yesterday
Sca Shilova added a blog post
i regularly get messages like: Suzanne added a comment to your profile on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance To view the new comment, visit: http etc etc but when i visit the link there is nothing. am i missing something? greets sca
yesterday
Drifter Rhode added an event
'The Second Death of Caspar Helendale at Royal Opera House, London & 2ND LIVE island [http://slurl.com/secondlife/2ND%20LIVE/180/223/23]
November 27, 2009 at 1:15pm to November 28, 2009 at 1:45pm
'The Second Death of Caspar Helendale' by Jessica Curry and Dan Pinchbeck (a.k.a. Trixiebelle Landar & Caspar Helendale) 27th and 28th November at 9.15pm GMT / 1.15pm PST Linbury Studio Theatre @ Royal Opera House, London / 2ND LIVE island in the ...
yesterday
Josina Burgess added a blog post
challenged myself to make Photographs in SL like so many do and I wanted to make something a bit different then normal. After making the hyperformalistic sculptures for Faces of the Sky, Hyperform Chaos and the latest Hyperform exhibition at Pirat...
yesterday
Josina Burgess added 18 photos
yesterday
enjoyed muchly :-)
yesterday
C O S T I S added 8 photos
on Wednesday

Blog Posts

Marta Lanzius

Valentina 'Riflesso' Machinima di Luca Lisci




Trailer machinima from the original Guido Crepax 'Riflesso' Graphic Novel, published in 1984.

Screenplay adaptation by Caterina Crepax, Voice of Nicoletta Mandelli. Director and Machinimist Luca Lisci.

First presented live in Museo della Triennale , Milano and Rome's ARA PACIS auditorium in summer 2009.

Save the date for the extended version live in Rome, EUR Palazzo dei Congressi for Digital Café event December 8 2009. Continue

Posted by Marta Lanzius on November 20, 2009 at 11:35am

Sca Shilova

comments

i regularly get messages like:

Suzanne added a comment to your profile on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance
To view the new comment, visit: http etc etc

but when i visit the link there is nothing.
am i missing something?

greets
sca

Posted by Sca Shilova on November 19, 2009 at 12:32pm — 2 Comments

Josina Burgess

challenged myself to make Photographs in SL like so many do and I wanted to make something a bit dif…

challenged myself to make Photographs in SL like so many do and I wanted to make something a bit different then normal. After making the hyperformalistic sculptures for Faces of the Sky, Hyperform Chaos and the latest Hyperform exhibition at Pirats I placed my avatar inside the sculptures I made, let her fly and float and dance and photographed her. Then In Photoshop I reworked and changed the Photographes, braught them back in SL and made sculptures with the textures. But I wanted a exhibition… Continue

Posted by Josina Burgess on November 19, 2009 at 10:45am

Helfe Ihnen

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org performing at Odyssey, Second Life at Nov. 16, 2009

All my pictures here!!

I want to say "Thank you": To the artists! To our sponsor Pacino Hercules, Dynamis.co.uk who pays the rent every month! And last not least to our audience and our community for making every event a big creative fun!

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Press release by the artists:

As part of Performa09, the New York Biennial of performance art, we are performing a pseudo-Futurist total improvisation ext… Continue

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on November 16, 2009 at 7:42pm

Grace McDunnough

Grace's Liner Notes on Koinup

I just joined the Koinup blogging team and I'll be writing stories about the magic of music in virtual worlds, affectionately labeled Grace's Liner Notes.

Liner notes are a wondrous mix of music inspired art, words and untold stories, and that's exactly what I hope to share as well as share tips and insights about live music in general -… Continue

Posted by Grace McDunnough on November 14, 2009 at 8:16am

Helfe Ihnen

Odyessey Project Group grows

I am very happy, that our group of art lovers grows. In April we had 500 Members and today Nov 10, 09 we are 650. Minus 150 that logged in last 2 month before, there are 500 ACTIVE MEMBERS. Most of them academics.

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on November 10, 2009 at 3:57am

Helfe Ihnen

Secret Performance by Gaz

Yesterday I accidentally came to this secret performance by Gaz on her sim and have seen the last minutes. It seems only super VIPs were invited regulary...

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on November 4, 2009 at 8:00am

Helfe Ihnen

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Posted by Helfe Ihnen on November 4, 2009 at 4:45am

Helfe Ihnen

Go there - it's great!

Doppelgänger Exhibition by
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Curated by Gillian Raymond
http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/doppelganger/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Portrait%20Island/186/102/31

Posted by Helfe Ihnen on October 30, 2009 at 4:45am

lily & honglei

"Land of Illusion" Machinima

RMB City Blog:
by Gianna Yebut, June 12, 2009



Going back to the concept of ‘heterotopy’ (other space), today I’ve come upon a beautiful machinima entitled ‘Land of Illusion’ by Beijing media artists Lily Xiying Yang and Honglei Li (杨熙瑛, 李宏磊).

It’s a very dense and multilayered tale about freedom of thought and cultural isolation and it interestingly superimposes different Chinese traditions and folklor… Continue

Posted by lily & honglei on October 23, 2009 at 11:46pm

Forum

Helfe Ihnen

Acting As Aliens 7 Replies

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Helfe Ihnen

Plans and reports by management 13 Replies

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Man Michinaga AKA Patrick Lichty

Now What? Ideas for Odyssey. 10 Replies

Started by Man Michinaga AKA Patrick Lichty in Uncategorized. Last reply by Man Michinaga AKA Patrick Lichty Jul 24.

 
 

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