Diaspora

   2012/12/12  Leave a Comment on Diaspora

Stylized typographic logo for "Diaspora" section of iRez featuring Neutraface typeface from House Industries. White san-serif capital letters on a red background with fine black stripes.

Stylized logotype of the word "Identity" showing the word repeated many times from very large, thin, blurry type, to progressively smaller, sharper, and more bold type, suggesting both the multiplicity of identity and the search for focus or clarity in identity. The different fonts are all different weights of the typeface Neutraface from House Industries. The image is a link button to the archive of Identity posts on iRez

[threecol_one]Button linked to archive of "Humor" posts on iRez. Button features the word "Humor" in script (Girard from House Industries) and a photograph of Agnes Sharple with a mustache.[/threecol_one] [threecol_one]Image from Joseph DeLappe's "Fifty Shades of Black Ops" performance under the banner heading "Hacktivism" - a button linked to the Hacktivism posts on iRez[/threecol_one] [threecol_one_last]Button linking to iRez posts about "People" - interviews, profiles, appreciations, etc. Under text "People" is a photo from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School of Virginia Heffernan in conversation with former classmate Jonathan Zittrain[/threecol_one_last]

[threecol_one]"Free Culture" in script type with a link to the Free Culture posts on the iRez virtual salon[/threecol_one] [threecol_one]"Open Source" in stylized script typography with a link to the Open Source posts on the iRez virtual salon[/threecol_one] [threecol_one_last]"Social Networks" in stylized script typography with a link to the iRez Virtual Salon posts on the topic of Social Networks[/threecol_one_last]

[threecol_one]Image of Charlotte Moorman with text "Performance Art" and a link to the Performance Art archives on the iRez virtual salon[/threecol_one] [threecol_one]Link to Avatar related posts on iRez. Image on button is a World of Warcraft avatar rendered in Maya as a white, uncolored porcelain figure by Ironyca Lee of the blog Ironyca Stood in the Fire and the live broadcast The WoW Factor[/threecol_one] [threecol_one_last]Link button for Dance related posts on the iRez virtual salon. Button features text "Dance" and an image of a dancer holding a toe shoe in her teeth
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[threecol_one]Button linking to the "Mixed Reality" posts on iRez. The button is an image of a performance work by Liz Solo featuring her "avatar" in 3 worlds: World of Warcraft, Second Life, and a physical Vancouver Art Gallery. Over this image is the text "Mixed Reality" set in the typeface Ed Interlock from Ed Benguiat and House Industries [/threecol_one] [threecol_one]Aerial photo of "SLCS" - Second Life Cheerleading Squad, logo on the center of the football field at the Cheertopia SIM in Second Life. A tiny figure of Lizzy Bowman relines on the grass. The SLCS logo is cutout from the field and it is a link button to SLCS posts on the iRez Virtual Salon[/threecol_one] [threecol_one_last]Button leading to the Augmented Reality posts on iRez. Button is an image of Tamiko Thiel's intervention at the Hayward Gallery / London's "invisible" show. It features Damien Hirst surrounded by gold coins all superimposed in an empty gallery at Hayward. Over this is the text "Augmented Reality" superimposed in the Ed Interlock typeface from Ed Benguiat and House Industries [/threecol_one_last]

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