21 avatars depicting the Avatar Generations of Second Life. A performance artwork by Agnes Sharple and Vaneeesa Blaylock.
Category: Social Production
Related to Social Practice, but focusing more on projects that establish a framework for avatars to generate their own content. cf. UGC.
VB 238 Flash Fiction Island
This semester Medici University travels 500 km SE of our home campus in Florence to the idyllic waters of the Bay of Naples and MU’s island campus at Herculini Crater for Flash Fiction Island.
VB 234 – Miss Monica Smith (avatar design challenge)
Your challenge is to design an avatar for “Miss Monica Smith”, an orphaned daughter and university student from Ivory Coast who wants to deposit $5.7 million in your bank account.
VB 229 – Alphabet Blogging Challenge! (ABC)
Calling all avatar bloggers! In this challenge you write the ABC’s of your world!
Activity No.44 – I Love You Island
I love you. This activity is an invitation to 15,000 avatars to share a simple thought.
Activity No.39 – Self-Service Screen Tests
Andy Warhol in the 21st century. Now everyone can film their own “self-service” screen tests.
Activity No.34 – Medici University
Medici University, virtual residency & Alternative MFA’s for the 21st century.
Activity No.30 – Avatar Cards
54 avatars celebrate their creativity in this collaborative selfie card deck.
Activity No.29 – Blueberries (1-Year)
Our Blueberries art collective celebrates a year of collaboration.
Activity No.11 – Big Heads Gallery
Alice in Cornelland hosts the “Big Heads Gallery” (avatar selfie gallery)
Activity No.9 – Avatar Shape Gallery
In collaboration with Strawberry Singh’s “Whats Your Digits” challenge, we opened the Avatar Shape Gallery at Alice in Cornelland
Activity No.6 – Monday Meme Gallery
Strawberry Singh challenged avatars to envision their virtual lives as movie posters
Activity No.5 – Avatar Blogger Month
Avatars accept the challenge to blog every day for a month. An Avatar Blogger “Crossfit Gym” is setup at Alice in Cornelland to support their work.
Activity No.2 – Memory Box Workshop
The serendipity of memory in the simultaneously bounded, and unbounded, space of a virtual box