Entering the Territories of Second Life
In July, concurrently with the Gameworld exhibition, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is organising four workshops exploring the intersections between videogames, art and reality today. A different side of videogames will be revealed by creators who can uncover their codes, subvert the standards imposed by the industry and can even address social and political issues through them. Game hardware and software will be used for performances, activism and critique. The goal of the workshops is to familiarise participants with the language of videogames and enable them to create new meanings and results.
Wokrshop. Image: LABoral
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world currently inhabited by over six million “residents”. This workshop explores SL as a platform for art expression, activism and critique. It will be led by a machinima professional, two media artists and a programmer who work on SL on a practical and theoretical level using it as an ideal platform to share ideas and to perform. Participants will learn through collaborative work how to make machinimas, how to write basic scripts and how to use SL as a platform for social action and artistic expression.
Teachers
Ricard Gras is an artist, producer and director of machinima Europe Board. He explores new creative uses for technologies and relationships between art and the media. In 2003, he founded LA-INTERACTIVA, one of the companies that are officially in charge of the development of SL.
Kristian Lukic is a writer, artist and a cultural and game researcher. He is a program manager in New Media Center – kuda.org and the founder of Eastwood – Real Time Strategy Group and also
of Napon - Institute for flexible culture and technologies.
Ilias Marmaras is a new media artist and a leading member of the international group Personal Cinema. He has been working in gaming environments and game art since 1999.
Yannis Scoulidas is a technical director, administratorand programmer of Personal Cinema and specialist in software and hardware.
Time: from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 to 8 pm
