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Changing Room at SARC

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Changing Room is being showcased as part of Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music and The Two Thousand + Ten symposium from November 4-7th.

Changing Room at SARC

You may remember this piece from last year at Eastside Projects. Unlike last time instead of one artist having a week to develop work this time a group of artists will have a day to produce something.

When

Myself, Ana Benlloch and Rachel Darke will be building and showcasing our work in the space on Saturday 6th November with a ritual ‘performance’ taking place from around 1pm

Where

Changing Room will be showcased at Sonic Arts Research Centre. The ritual will be taking place simultaneously at Transitional Space in Second Life and at The Cage in Walsall from around 1pm. If you intend to take part in the ritual at Walsall get there for around 12pm.

Changing Rooms talk and workshop

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On Thursday 21st January I’ll be doing a short bit about my involvement with the Changing Rooms exhibition that’s happening at Eastside Projects.

EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE SALON

Please join us between 6.30-8pm at Eastside Projects for an introduction to ‘Changing Room’ a project by the Visual Realisation Unit at EP. With an outline of the project concept by lead artist Michael Magruder and EP director Gavin Wade, individual presentations by those developing work and a workshop exploring the technology that makes it happen.

Changing Room is an evolving mixed-reality installation that considers the inherent mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age. Lead artist Michael Takeo Magruder will collaborate with Extra Special People artists Ana Benlloch, Iona Makiola, Antonio Roberts,Lee Scott, Zhao Wei and Selma Wong to develop a new collaborative space.

Blending the shared virtual environment of Second Life with the shared physical environment of Eastside Projects, the artwork will facilitate the realisation, curation and documentation of seven distinct – yet interrelated – art projects arising from a common pool of virtual and physical resources.

Changing Room is an experimental prototype for EP:VV (Eastside Projects:Virtualised and Visualised) – a new space for imagining ideas about Art. EP:VV will develop online, multi-user virtual worlds that afford new models for participation and representation of the gallery’s artworks and initiatives.

This’ll then be followed up with a short workshop on Second Life. If you’re one of the ESPers and have ever wondered about using virtual worlds in your work come on down!