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Welcome Back to the Odyssey Ning!
As you may know, due to new policies at Ning, we have been unable to access this page for months. All messages to the Ning Network went unanswered. We went to great lengths to try to salvage the material on this site but the archive is vast and we couldn't save it all - so a very special thanks to Sugar Seville - the creator of this network - for hearing our pleas and renewing this site.

This Odyssey Ning Network is an amazing archive of the history of the community and the work of Odyssey artists. It also provides a user friendly and interactive site that allows all members to participate, converse and share their work. However, the events of past months indicate that the future of Ning is uncertain and therefore it may be a prudent plan to seek alternatives.

Months ago we began creating other sites to archive the work of Odyssey artists and now have an Odyssey Blog, a YouTube Page and a Facebook Page already running. None of these interfaces provide the interactivity of the Ning, so we are continuing to investigate alternatives and are open to suggestions from all members.

Please become a member of the Facebook Group, subscribe to the blog and YouTube Channel and IM or email lizsolo Mathilde or Fau Ferdinand to become a contributor to the Odyssey Blog and to send ideas for alternatives.

The Ning will stand as an archive and a place to communicate until we find an alternative but all announcements about events on Odyssey and future archiving will take place within Second Life and on the Odyssey Blog. URL: http://www.odysseysimulator.blogspot.com

Feel free to contact us anytime - in-world or online.

Love,
Liz and Fau
October 13, 2010

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Odyssey Performance Art Festival
July 31st to August 10th, 2010
The 2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival is coming up with special events happening over eleven days.

Saturday July 31 at 1:30 PM SLT
Hiding
Rose Borchovski
The opening of a new installation by Rose Borchovski - an installment of the Susa Bubble story - on the south east corner of Odyssey. The artist will be in attandance. Join us:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/210/27/21

Sunday, August 1st at 4 PM SLT
Virus. Circus. Breath.
Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade and Elle Mehrmand / Echolalia Azalee
virus.circus is an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics, soft sensors and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces. The performances explore possible queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria.
For your protection and the protection of others, you may be asked to wear a surgical mask.

Wednesday August 4th, 1:30 PM SLT
I'm Garrett Lynch (IRL)
by Garrett Lynch
The performance continues ideas of the artist, identity and being from the works "Between Saying and Doing" and "On Exactitude of Similitude". The artist, wearing his now usual sandwich board, generates two hundred visually identical sandwich boards for participants to wear while all but taking control of the chat window to focus discussion on topics including identity, location, representation, original and copy, ‘reality’ and fiction. See:
http://www.asquare.org/works/im-garrett-lynch-irl

Friday August 6 - 4:30 PM SLT
Night Gardening
lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks
Performance by lizsolo Mathilde and Fau Ferdinand taking place in lizsolo's virtual garden and simultaneously in her east coast backyard.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/13/225/21

Saturday August 7th - 3 PM SLT
Piano Drop
Man Michinaga/Patrick Lichty
“The Hansen-Ono Piano Method”, is an extension of Al Hansen’s historic FLUXUS work “Yoko Ono Piano Drop”, in which Al Hansen dropped a piano off of a building as an action for his colleague, Yoko Ono. In this action, Lichty's avatar (Man Michinaga) sits at the piano, while rains of pianos, anvils, sheep, and other whatnot rain down with cacaphanous results.

Sunday August 8 at 12 Noon SLT
My Life as an Avatar - The Gracie Kendal Project
Kris Schomaker/Gracie Kendal
The artist Kris Schomaker/Gracie Kendal discusses her work with "My Life as an Avatar" - a mixed-reality project/collaboration between Kris Schomaker and Gracie Kendal. See: http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/84/210/106
Images from the My Life as an Avatar project: "Finding Grace - 6 portraits in the pursuit of balance"

Monday August 9th - 1 PM SLT
Dan Coyote Antonelli's "Leap of Doom!"
What could possibly be better than jumping bikes through rings of fire?! All are welcome - bring your stunts.

Tuesday August 10th 12 Noon SLT
A Space to Chat
New performance work from Selavy Oh.

Thursday August 12 - 2 PM SLT
'Ceci n est pas une voiture'
by Ze Moo
This event is a Loft Opening and Live Performance taking place in Ze's loft space at the Odyssey Artists Residence. Ze Moo opens his Lofts Studio with a performance.


Saturday August 14 - 3 PM SLT - FINAL PERFORMANCE
Alan Dojoji/Alan Sondheim with Sandy Baldwin
Flesh Meat - With Coastal Avatars
A few lines about the piece from Alan Sondheim:
"I'm still looking at being-avatar in terms of sexuality, flesh, language; I do this through the lone avatar who goes nowhere, gets nowhere. There's no plot, nothing to reveal, nothing you don't already know, getting up in the morning, looking in the period. What's staring back at you has a name."

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Lofts Are Open!

The new Odyssey Artist in Residence Lofts are now officially open and we celebrated throughout the day on Wednesday June 15th. Visitors dropped by the new studio spaces built by Chi5 Shenzhou and met some of the new Artists in Residence - Sca Shilova, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, nora Furlough, Ze Moo, Xisuthra Lomu, SaveMe Oh, Masami Kuramoto, Chi5 Shenzhou, DanCoyote Antonelli with lizsolo Mathilde and Fau Ferdinand as onsite technical support.
(pictured above) SaveMe Oh announces her candidacy for Presidency at the Lofts opening.

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44 Hours Of Cornucopia Momentum
Eifachfilm Vacirca will be locked up - intervene!
The Swiss artist d-oo-b (Bendix Freutel) creates in the rural environment of Reigoldswil a time of art moments. Hikers are confronted on their way to the cable train with the high tech world of Second Life displayed large in a window. This confrontation should be an inspiration for the people to get involved in the show. Bendix Freutel (in Second Life Eifachfilm Vacirca) is organizing live and online art performances and will present them simultaneously on Odyssey and via the portal pictured above.
Performance "44 Hours Cornucopia Momentum" at Kunst-Fenster Reigoldswil and on Odyssey
28.-30. May 2010
Opening Friday, May 28 2010, 6 pm local time 9 am pdt
(Press: 4 pm local time)
The artist will perform for 44 hours until Sunday, May 30 2010 5 pm local time.
Find out more on Eifachfilm's Website

Odyssey Revamping

Odyssey is going through a redesign. Chi5 Shenzhou has been creating new structures and features for the landscape including an amphi-theatre, loft workspaces, and a new Ah Lounge. We have erected a memorial to the late Wirxli Flimflam at the the top of Sugar Mountain and streamlined the mountain top for meetings and demonstrations. In the meantime there are scores of artists working on sky platforms, developing new work and shooting machinima.

Gallery exhibits by Man Michinaga, Selavy Oh, lizsolo Mathilde, Dekka Raymaker continue on Odyssey with new work coming in June. Stay tuned for special opening events for new installations and gallery shows - including an installation by Rose Borchovski, coming next.

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Marco Manray Cadioli's exhibit Remap Berlin is closing on Saturday February 27th. Join on at 12 noon SLT as we celebrate the work one more time.
Exhibit C http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/217/131/28
link to a critical text about Marco Manray's work
http://www.marcomanray.com/remap-berlin/REMAP%20BERLIN-essay-by-balzerani.pdf

About Remap Berlin
Remap Berlin introduces a series of b&w photographs shot in the virtual world Twinity, a mirror world that reproduces a realistic 3D replica of Berlin. The photos shot in Twinity are then geo localized in google maps, re-mapped from the virtual to the real, positioned in the same point where they were shot into the mirror world.

This operation discovers different levels of reality. The photos, uploaded in the photo sharing community of Panoramio, are mixed and confused with other photographs shot in the same point by real life users. Many of these photos were selected by Google Earth and became a little geographical virus.

They are cityscapes met by Marco Manray roaming around the still empty streets of Berlin in a beta version. It is the new step of his journey in the metaverse, after Second Life and the chinese virtual world HIPIHI.

The exploration touchs the city edges, where streets end on the boundary line between land and sky, as in Medieval Imaginary. They are temporary borders of an expanding universe. See also: marcomanray.com

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Azdel Slade/Micha Cardenas and echolalia Azalee/Elle Mehrmand performed live on February 20th, simultaneously at East of Odyssey and at the LACE's (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) GUTTED event, curated by Dino Dinco. East of Odyssey. See also:
transreal.org
Elle Mehrmand
technesexual flickr images

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He Is Gone
Wirxli Flimflam's Final Performance... A Tribute to SaveMe Oh... took place this Valentines Day - February 14 (Sunday), on DIABOLUS ARTSPACE.
To see some images of the sad event see - Death of an Avatar Pics
To read more see SaveMe Oh's Blog post.

R.I.P Wirxli Flimflam 2006 - 2010

Brain Storm Session


On Sunday February 7th, 2010 the first "Brain Storm" session was held on Odyssey. This gathering was called by Fau Ferdinand to discuss performance-based programming ideas for Odyssey. Read about the session Here.

ODYSSEY HAS A NEW MANAGEMENT!
Congrats to the new team!
Fau Ferdinand is the new Artistic Director in collaboration with LizSolo Mathilde.
Rubaiyat Shatner is the new Education Director. The team will be working with the cooperation of Juliet Claridge, Eifachfilm Vacirca and more friendly people :-)
See Meeting-Chat here.
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THAT IS ODYSSEY...(Movie) See more under "Press".
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Made pics from Odyssey art pieces? Please post them in Flickr.
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Recently 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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Currently on Odyssey
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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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MARCO MANRAY CADIOLI
REMAP BERLIN
closing: Saturday February 27th 2010 noon SLT