Category: Diaspora
Does a citizen of the virtual century have a homeland? At the iRez Diaspora Hub the myriad ways that we discover, reclaim, and express identity and presence are celebrated through an array of content portals.
Topless at Whole Foods
Project Glass is a glimpse of not-so-distant future. And so is this video clip shot with Blue…
VB36 – Dance Anywhere
TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 30 March — At exactly Noon PDT / 20:00 BST today, Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company…
Cherrybomb: The Band That Never Was
Some people don’t see a connection between truth and fiction. I get that. But the truth…
Creative Freedom
NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY — Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece…
Brian Feldman Follows Me!
WASHINGTON DC, 26 May — Performance artist Brian Feldman is following me. Only me. Well, only me…
2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…
I Share Therefore I Am
Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story…
The Walters Art Museum
BALTIMORE, 8 May — William Walters may have died in the 19th century, but today the museum…
Making a 3D Game Character Myself
SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF EMERYVILLE, CA, 21 May — Legendary game designer Ironyca Lee, wait, scratch that, Legendary…
Esra’a Al Shafei
BAHRAIN / LONDON / BISCUIT BAY, 9 April — From my dorm room at King’s College in…
No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
This is a strange little surrealist trip juxtaposing fluid avatar image deconstruction with a gospel song about…
Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…
My Vagina in the 21st Century
LOS ANGELES, 3 May — 18 years after Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues, Funny or…
Transworld Syndrome
This is a strange little contemplation on virtual identity in the form of a conversation between…
The Public Square
ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 2 May — Today Google Inc. made permanent their ban…
Eric Whitacre / Virtual Choir
LINCOLN CENTER, 2 April — At the nexus of TED’s elitism, Thomas Kinkade’s populism, Sigfreid & Roy’s…
Weak Genes
RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, 27 April — Launched 10 April, and sued yesterday by 18 Olympic athletes claiming…
Tupac Shakur 1971 – 1996 – 2012
INDIO, CA, 15 April — Tonight the late Tupac Shakur appeared at the annual Coachella Valley Music…
Timmie Jean Lindsey
HOUSTON, 16 March 1962* — today Timmie Jean Lindsey underwent the world’s first silicone-gel breast implant surgery….
Thomas Kinkade, dead at 54
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, 6 April — Thomas Kinkade, “The Painter of Light” died today of unknown, and…
Athena Reich
NEW YORK CITY, 6 April — Singer, songwriter, actress, TV Personality, Lady Gaga impersonator, and arts educator…
Google: Project Glass
MOUNTAIN VIEW, 4 April — The long time dream of Augmented Reality “heads-up displays” (HUDs) took a…
Girls Around Me
4 April — The meteoric rise of iPhone App Girls Around Me to, well, deletion… has been…
Vaneeesa Blaylock
INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 4 April — Meet Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock,…
Vanessa Anne Blaylock
INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 1 April — Meet Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock,…
Previz #62 – Dance Anywhere
TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 30 March — Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company and Gallery Xue / London City will join…
Celluloid Heroes
KANDAHAR, 24 March — Friends dancing at a mountain site featuring Betty Tureaud’s immersive light and space…
Diderot, Britannica, Wikipedia & Knowledge
CHICAGO, 13 March — surprising no one, 244 year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica announced today the end of their…