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Vanessa Blaylock

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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 274 SL20B Avatar Generations
Social Production

VB 274 SL20B Avatar Generations

3 December 20223 December 2022 by Vanessa Blaylock

21 avatars depicting the Avatar Generations of Second Life. A performance artwork by Agnes Sharple and Vaneeesa Blaylock.

VB 238 Flash Fiction Island
Social Production

VB 238 Flash Fiction Island

18 February 202112 December 2021 by Vanessa Blaylock

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)
Social Production

VB 234 – Miss Monica Smith (avatar design challenge)

30 December 202030 December 2020 by Vanessa Blaylock

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)
Social Production

VB 229 – Alphabet Blogging Challenge! (ABC)

8 December 2020 by Vanessa Blaylock

Calling all avatar bloggers! In this challenge you write the ABC’s of your world!

Activity No.44 – I Love You Island
Social Production

Activity No.44 – I Love You Island

29 May 2016 by Vanessa Blaylock

I love you. This activity is an invitation to 15,000 avatars to share a simple thought.

Activity No.43 – Art Farm
Social Production

Activity No.43 – Art Farm

1 August 2015 by Vanessa Blaylock

Art Farm!

Activity No.39 – Self-Service Screen Tests
Social Production

Activity No.39 – Self-Service Screen Tests

3 April 2015 by Vanessa Blaylock

Andy Warhol in the 21st century. Now everyone can film their own “self-service” screen tests.

Activity No.34 – Medici University
Social Production

Activity No.34 – Medici University

1 January 20153 March 2019 by Vanessa Blaylock

Medici University, virtual residency & Alternative MFA’s for the 21st century.

Activity No.33 – Avatar in a Box
Social Production

Activity No.33 – Avatar in a Box

26 December 2014 by Vanessa Blaylock

Challenges for creative avatars

Activity No.30 – Avatar Cards
Social Production

Activity No.30 – Avatar Cards

14 December 2014 by Vanessa Blaylock

54 avatars celebrate their creativity in this collaborative selfie card deck.

Activity No.29 – Blueberries (1-Year)
Social Production

Activity No.29 – Blueberries (1-Year)

11 December 2014 by Vanessa Blaylock

Our Blueberries art collective celebrates a year of collaboration.

Activity No.27 – Eau de Avatar
Social Production

Activity No.27 – Eau de Avatar

27 October 2014 by Vanessa Blaylock

Avatar sweat. Distilled.

Activity No.11 – Big Heads Gallery
Social Production

Activity No.11 – Big Heads Gallery

3 July 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Alice in Cornelland hosts the “Big Heads Gallery” (avatar selfie gallery)

Activity No.9 – Avatar Shape Gallery
Social Production

Activity No.9 – Avatar Shape Gallery

24 June 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

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
Social Production

Activity No.6 – Monday Meme Gallery

11 June 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

Strawberry Singh challenged avatars to envision their virtual lives as movie posters

Activity No.5 – Avatar Blogger Month
Social Production

Activity No.5 – Avatar Blogger Month

1 June 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

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
Social Production

Activity No.2 – Memory Box Workshop

28 April 2013 by Vanessa Blaylock

The serendipity of memory in the simultaneously bounded, and unbounded, space of a virtual box

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