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Vanessa Blaylock

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Category: Performance Art

Performance Art projects with Avatars in Virtual Worlds.

Occasionally involving Mixed Reality elements from RL.

VB50 – Farewell
Performance Art

VB50 – Farewell

23 July 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Farewell.

VB49 – SPF50
Performance Art

VB49 – SPF50

6 July 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

In a world where beauty is free

VB48 – Glitch Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB48 – Glitch Avatar Pride Parade

23 February 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Is it a glitch? Or is it life?

VB47 – Child Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB47 – Child Avatar Pride Parade

16 February 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Invisible people never get civil rights.

VB46 – Demo Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB46 – Demo Avatar Pride Parade

9 February 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

The Fashion of Abundance.

VB45 – Noob Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB45 – Noob Avatar Pride Parade

2 February 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Returning to our roots!

VB44 – Tiny Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB44 – Tiny Avatar Pride Parade

26 January 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

All avatars are equal, but some are more equal.

VB43 – Animal Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB43 – Animal Avatar Pride Parade

19 January 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Our new dramaturge, Trill Zapatero, was so inspired by VB42 – Avatar Pride Parade, that she immediately challenged us to do an Animal Parade on the Sydney sim.

VB42 – Avatar Pride Parade
Performance Art

VB42 – Avatar Pride Parade

12 January 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

We’re here; we’re avatars; get used to it!

VB41 – Rock the Casbah
Performance Art

VB41 – Rock the Casbah

4 August 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

fashion insurrection

VB40 – Charlotte, Forever!
Performance Art

VB40 – Charlotte, Forever!

28 July 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

Arrested by NYC police for her performance of TV Bra for Living Sculpture, Charlotte Moorman died from breast cancer.

VB39 – Pink & Blue
Performance Art

VB39 – Pink & Blue

21 July 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

Love Pink! Or Pink Scare?

VB38 – Isomorphic
Performance Art

VB38 – Isomorphic

8 May 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

Isomorphic: isos “equal” + morphe “shape”

VB37 – Sitting is the New Smoking
Performance Art

VB37 – Sitting is the New Smoking

26 April 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

walk for life

VB36 – Dance Anywhere
Performance Art

VB36 – Dance Anywhere

30 March 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

What if, in one moment, the whole world started dancing?

VB35 – Like a Prayer
Performance Art

VB35 – Like a Prayer

17 March 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

to calm the mind

VB34 – Net / Work
Performance Art

VB34 – Net / Work

10 March 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

What if we were entering into a new time?

VB33 – Sugar Mountain
Performance Art

VB33 – Sugar Mountain

2 March 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

Calming our minds; paying attention; noticing our breath; celebrating life.

VB32 – Shit Happens
Performance Art

VB32 – Shit Happens

11 February 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

My [stuff / shit] is my identity

VB31 – Demo Days
Performance Art

VB31 – Demo Days

21 January 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

I am artificial

VB30 – Born Again
Performance Art

VB30 – Born Again

7 January 2012 by Vanessa Blaylock

baptizing the noob

VB29 – Natatorium
Performance Art

VB29 – Natatorium

17 December 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

the immersion and weightlessness of liquid space

VB28 – The Seniors Project
Performance Art

VB28 – The Seniors Project

18 June 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

Do avatars grow old?

VB27 – Un/Wedding2.0
Performance Art

VB27 – Un/Wedding2.0

4 June 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

I take you?

VB26 – Average
Performance Art

VB26 – Average

30 April 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

man (sic) is the measure of all things

VB25 – Resurrection
Performance Art

VB25 – Resurrection

23 April 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

not so grandiose as a “resurrection,” simpler, like a “return”

VB24 – Multiverse
Performance Art

VB24 – Multiverse

12 February 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

not like atoms, but like bits

VB23 – New Clothes
Performance Art

VB23 – New Clothes

22 January 2011 by Vanessa Blaylock

and they fit just right

VB22 – The House with the Ocean View
Performance Art

VB22 – The House with the Ocean View

16 September 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

Sometimes art is just painful.

VB21 – Gogbotahedron
Performance Art

VB21 – Gogbotahedron

12 September 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

Life is fractal.

VB20 – Taaratantaarinen
Performance Art

VB20 – Taaratantaarinen

28 August 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

Life. Sculpting.

VB19 – I Avatar
Performance Art

VB19 – I Avatar

21 June 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

I Rez, Therefore I Am.

VB18 – Avatar Chess
Performance Art

VB18 – Avatar Chess

5 June 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

I’m just a pawn in your chess game.

VB17 – Dark Side of the Moon
Performance Art

VB17 – Dark Side of the Moon

8 May 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

I am a Platonic Solid.

VB16 – Au Pair Next Door
Performance Art

VB16 – Au Pair Next Door

16 April 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

If Cinderella were an avatar, she’d still have to do everyone’s laundry.

VB15 – Gracie / Kris
Performance Art

VB15 – Gracie / Kris

6 March 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

How do I live in a world where “beauty” is free?

VB14 – Gingham
Performance Art

VB14 – Gingham

13 February 2010 by Vanessa Blaylock

Pick one: I (Love / Hate) you because you’re different.

VB13 – Peace
Performance Art

VB13 – Peace

12 December 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

I am a child.

VB12 – Landscapes with a Corpse
Performance Art

VB12 – Landscapes with a Corpse

7 November 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Do avatars die?

VB11 – Fire Walk With Me
Performance Art

VB11 – Fire Walk With Me

24 October 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

At the Burning Man regional event “Burning Life” we play with fire.

VB10 – Dressed / Naked
Performance Art

VB10 – Dressed / Naked

17 October 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Exploring the dressed & naked avatar body and the embodiment of truth.

VB09 – Event
Performance Art

VB09 – Event

1 October 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Frozen moments awaiting a spectacle in the courtyard of Chinese College, Monash University, Melbourne.

VB08 – Two Wear My Skin
Performance Art

VB08 – Two Wear My Skin

12 September 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Impossible IRL, avatars become clone pairs wearing identical bodies.

VB07 – I Advance Masked
Performance Art

VB07 – I Advance Masked

15 August 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

A blind Oracle in a Delphic temple who sees more than most of us dare.

VB06 – Golden / Red
Performance Art

VB06 – Golden / Red

7 July 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Wearing design competition winning scarves in our performance at St. Leo University.

VB05 – Brooklyn is Watching
Performance Art

VB05 – Brooklyn is Watching

2 July 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

Our cast suspended from specimen hooks inside bell jars.

VB04 – Prism
Performance Art

VB04 – Prism

27 June 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

The heat of wetware vis-a-vis the coolness of mid-century geometric abstraction.

VB03 – Veinticinco Mujeres
Performance Art

VB03 – Veinticinco Mujeres

6 June 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

The avatar body, circa 2009, as a work of sculpture and installation.

VB02 – Peggy Sue
Performance Art

VB02 – Peggy Sue

9 May 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

A tableaux vivant animated by music.

VB01 – Girl Next Door
Performance Art

VB01 – Girl Next Door

18 April 2009 by Vanessa Blaylock

9 Avatars as a Tableaux Vivant.

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Aaron Swartz Agnes Sharple Alice Liddell Apparel Avatar Biscuit Bay Blog Bodies Campaign Finance Reform Chelsea Manning Clothing Dance Anywhere Edward Snowden EZTV Fashion Fiona Blaylock Gallery Xue Granny D InWorldz Isabella Medici Jane's Walk Jane Jacobs Joseph Cornell Kimika Ying Lawrence Lessig LEA Lela Lee Linden Endowment for the Arts Michael Masucci Minecraft Nadya Tolokonnikova Perfume Petruchio Pride Parade Pussy Riot Saveme Oh Second Life Birthday Strawberry Singh Streaming Video sunrise Sweat Trilby Minotaur Vanessa's Place Vista Hermosa Art Center Ze Moo

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