Author: Vanessa Blaylock

As a virtual public artist my work invites avatar communities to express their identity, explore their culture, and demand their civil rights.
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Valentine’s Performance Art

Artist Brian Feldman said his Friday performance-art piece, Brian Feldman Marries Anybody, was intended to show how two complete strangers of opposite sexes can marry in Florida, while a loving same-sex couple does not enjoy the same right, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.

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Authentic

Authenticity is often the coin of the realm in culture. An authentic singer on stage, genuine emotion…

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Bouguereau in Haiti

The human tragedy in Haiti is unmeasurable and unbearable. In response many merchants around the grid have…

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Balloon Couture Meets Chocolate

TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 21 January 2010 — Chocolate Balloon Couture! This is my dream job!…

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VB Previz #31 – Gracie Kendall (GK3)

The Gracie Kendal Project- A Conversation with my Avatar. graciekendal.wordpress.com Gracie, this particular image is one of…

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Mourning the Facebook Dead

If you need still more irony in your breakfast cereal, consider that the fictional film “Avatar” was #1 at the box office again this week… even as real Avatars are being executed on Facebook!

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VBFM #5 – NY Eve ARC 1 Flashmob

New Year’s Morning in Central European Time New Year’s Afternoon Down Under and the stroke of Midnight…

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VB Previz #30 – Au Pair Next Door

On Saturday, 18 April ’09, VB/CO was launched with our performance of: VB01 – Girl Next Door…

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Happy Holidays!

I recently started the Moment series. They’re just “moments” large or small that stumble across my virtual…

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Gracie Kendall v2

Gracie’s Blog: http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/ My Previous Gracie Post: Gracie Kendal Project Gracie Kendall continues her amazing Blog/Odyssey, Blogyssey?…

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In Bed with Eva & Franco Mattes

Eva & Franco Mattes made one of their pilgramages to SL last week. They installed giant appliances at The Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator and performed Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, as part of Performa09, Second Life, New York

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VB Previz #29 – 2010 Preview

For 2010, VB/CO will present 12 works of performance art.

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Bryn Oh’s Brain

What’s so amazing about a place… a space… a moment… a gift… like this crazy dwell between Bryn’s mosquito Ferris wheel and her sensorium cloud… is how capacious it is… how generous it is… and how it invites not just your brain… but also your body… to exist in resonance with it… in this time and in this space…

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The Gracie Kendal Project

http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/the-gracie-kendal-project/ Some people might say that Kris Schomaker is obsessed with her avatar, I think that Gracie…

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VB 12 Cast

VB12 LANDSCAPES WITH A CORPSE The VB Cast envisions their mortal farewells @ Petruchio a sim by…

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VB12 Announcement

Saturday 7 November 09 Noon-2pm SLT (PST) V A N E E E S A . B…

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VB Previz #28 – Running Fence

I know it’s been done IRL, but how amazing it would be to do this out of avatars holding hands! I guess if we wanted to cross a 256-meter SIM, it’d take, like, uh, 256 avatars!?

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VB10 Cast

VB10 – DRESSED / NAKED Hair & Eyes by Carina Larsen, Amacci. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amacci/184/113/22 Wardrobe by Anyusha Lilienthal,…

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VB08 Cast

VB08 – TWO WEAR MY SKIN Hair, Eyes & Poses by Carina Larsen, Amacci http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amacci/184/113/22 Each pair…

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VBFM #4 – Zombie Crawl

VBFM #4 – Burning Life ’09 Zombie Crawl Virtual Black Rock City 21 October 2009 • Images…

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VB Moment A – Moondance

dancing in the cool, moist of the crisp
suddenly
no longer alone

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VB09 Cast

VB09 Event at Chinese College, Monash University, Melbourne Australia, a performance for Time, Transcendence, Performance.

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Time • Transcendence • Performance

PDF of above document for physical world audience in Melbourne – Right-Click & Save-As: http://vaneeesa.wikispaces.com/file/view/VB09-RLsheet2.pdf On Thursday…

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VB Previz #27 – Toe Pride

The Gray Acrobat, 18 January 1930, o/c 1.6 x 1.3m Pablo Picasso, Musee Picasso, Paris I was…

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VB Previz #26 – Landscapes with a Corpse

I think we should celebrate the holidays with… Bodies all over the landscape! Sort of like a…

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Culture is Virtual

NEW CALEDON, 22 September — When human beings interact they create culture. Culture in physical space; culture…

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VB Previz #25 – Fire Walk With Me

In addition to our Theme Camp Proposal, we have been invited to submit a stage proposal for…

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VB Previz #24 – Naked Life

This year’s Burning Life theme is Evolution. Evolution is a contextual idea. Yes, we can chart it…

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Free Culture

One semester in my undergraduate program at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, I took a…

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VBFM #3 – Starlight Flashmob!

Another, Lippert: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lippert/67/194/166 ABOVE: Eloh Eliot’s Another shop in Lippert as it was during distribution of her…