the true artist tries to save the world by slowing down time

performance for the The End of the World at Odyssey, 21.12.12, 1pm SLT. 

in a virtual world, such as Second Life, creating things causes server load. Such load can lead to considerable time lag, or time dilation, affecting every movement inworld. in her performance, selavy oh will try to create as much as possible to slow down time.

if she succeeds, then the flow of time will stop and the end of the world will never come.

wish her luck.

LPDT3

LPDT3 is the new version of the collaborative installation LPDT2 on opensim (Roy Ascott, Elif Ayiter, Heidi Dahlsveen, Max Moswitzer, Selavy Oh) that is shown as part of Roy Ascott's mini-retrospective (curated by Juliette Yuan) at the Shanghai Biennale 2012. if you can't go to china or if you're interested in the inworld experience, register at NGRID, or go from elsewhere on the hypergrid to hg.ngrid.org:8002.

silence, please

site-specific installation for the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge. the work is completely invisible unless visitor communicate via Second Life chat. then, the typed text will appear as vertical column of letters, each 1m in height, above the speaker. since the main limitation for an entry to the show was the 110-prim limit, "silence, please" generates maximally 110 letters including blanks, which is pretty close to the twitter limit. as soon as the limit is reached, the letters fall down on the visitors and subsequently vanish.
unfortunately, the original version of the work, which affected visitors all over the exhibition, was not accepted and a modification was requested that restricted the range to a radius of 20m. the argument of the organizers was that the work was 'intrusive' and 'unfair to the other artists'.

conformational change

installation for Per4mance MetaLES ..O.. curated by Ux Hax 

opening june 10th 2012 1:00pm SLT at MetaLES

1000 white battens form either one single cube, the initial conformation, or four cubes, the second conformation. visitors flying through the cubes cause the battens to change their position. five cubes are visible while the transition is incomplete. see also quan lavender's blog , the echtvirtuell blog in german language, and machinima by with actor. ux made a great machinima including the final dissolution of the installation.

transformation

"transformation" was an event at LEA24 (see also der schauer). during the transformation, which took about 3 hours, the whole area was covered by three independent threads made out of prims, which traced the flight trajectories of three floating cubes. the resulting structure is a dense nest-like accumulation of interconnected prims surrounding the center of the sim. use the official Second Life® viewer with shadows enabled to experience the local lighting. the show is open until mid-march. featured event in SL's destinations.

der schauer

"der schauer" is an evolving and ever-changing full-sim installation for my 5-month residency november 2011 - march 2012 granted by the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA), which attracted over 1000 visitors. the title is german and refers to both a shower (not taking a shower, but a rain shower, a shower of meteors, etc.) and the feeling of shivering. this installation has no static elements, everything is growing, falling, changing, or rising.

pictures from the location can be found at my flickr. machinima shot on location by jjccc Coronet in mid-december, by MimesisMonday end of december, by Mab MacMoragh end of december and mid-january and mid-february. Maddy Gynoid wrote a german blog post about the installation. "What's this art" recommends the installation on her blog. Another blog post by Honour MacMillan initially misunderstood the title to be "the spectator" and i have to admit that i don't mind. Dividni Shostakovich blogged "der schauer" together with oberon onmura's "wave fields" just one sim further.

the rules

the rules, part I & II
installation for the LEA art shows
InterACT! curated by Lori Landay
and
Hyperformalists curated by DC Spensley

opening october 15, 2011, 1pm and 2pm SLT

the installation consists of two parts. in each part, 6^3 cubes are distributed over a space of 7^3 cubes. the spatial configuration of the cubes is slowly changing over time. the visitor can walk or fly through the space or just watch it. it is possible to navigate through the space - some cubes will act like an elevator moving the visitor one level up, others will move away to open a new corridor.
in part I, each cube reacts to interaction - touching, sitting on it, or colliding with it. part II of the installation reacts to interactions performed by the visitors of part I. the specific reaction of each of the cubes is not due to random chance but is determined by an inner logic - the rules.

see saveme oh's blog for some fun critique and a machinima by laurel leavitt.