Caerleon Isle - Toronto: Virtual Art Symposium

Caerleon Isle - Toronto Virtual Art Symposium
March 27th-29th (opening 6-9pm on Thursday)
3rd Floor, Image Arts Building
122 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario

March 27- 6:00 pm
Opening welcome from all collaborators & speakers. Virtual collaborative artwork begins.

March 27- 7:00 pm
Nonnatus Korhonen / Andrew Burrell
(Australia, Hybrid Media Artist & Educator, http://www.miscellanea.com)

[Philosophical reflections on parallel realities]
Much of the dialogue that surrounds virtual worlds discusses them as being somehow discreet or separate from reality. Nonnatus will be arguing against this notion of a divide between the real and the unreal and looking at how the self can inhabit such spaces in a sense that is indeed very real.

March 27 - 8:00 pm
Adam Ramona / Adam Nash
(Australia, New Media Artist & Composer, http://yamanakanash.net/)

[MUVEs (multi-user virtual environments) can be viewed as ‘post-convergent mediums’]
This talk will discuss the performative, compositional and formal implications of post-convergent artistic practice.

March 28 - 1:00 pm
Alx Beaumont / Alex Bal
(Canada, Educator)

[Emerging economic models in virtual societies]
Second Life represents becoming a forum for building a community of practices. Given the introduction of artificial general intelligence to Second Life, are we witnessing the emergence of a new definition of communities? One whose practice is based on the co-existence of human and machine networks and the interplay of their experiences?

March 28 -3:00 pm
Filthy Fluno / Jeffrey Lipsky
(USA, Real World Painter/Virtual Artist, http://jeffreylipskyarts.com)

[Differences of creative expression within the physical and the virtual]
Filthy has been a practicing visual artist in what he refers to as ‘RL’ (Real Life) for years, but claims that Second Life has afforded him opportunities he would never have found prior. Filthy will discuss how virtual worlds have changed, supported and enhanced his artistic practice.

March 28 - 5:00 pm
Georg Janick / Gary Zabel
(USA, Educator & Philosopher, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/)

[Exercising political ideals within virtual worlds]
This talk will discuss the motivation behind being patron to the Caerleon Isle project, a non-capitalist art utopia in the virtual world of Second Life. Georg will discuss how he has manifested his political philosophies in the virtual world and the implications of doing so.

March 29 - 1:00 pm
Blackthorn Hare
(USA, Recent Master’s Graduate & Artist)

[Aesthetic qualities of shared virtual worlds and their implications for artists]
Blackthorn has just received his Masters for a body of work created within Second Life. He will be speaking about SL as a medium, its formal qualities and how it pushes art production along particular axes.


March 29 -3:00 pm
Feathers Boa
(USA, Student & Artist)

[Techniques, philosophies and sensibilities of a virtual artist]
Feathers will discuss her experiences creating art natively in Second Life while having no ‘real world’ exhibition experience. She will give an overview of her body of work and discuss the positive response from her online audience.

March 29- 5:00 pm
Collaborative building of virtual artwork ends. Celebration of symposium.