Archive for the ‘Sizigia’ Category
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SIZIGIA [Intro]
The SIZIGIA project began with an open competition to develop a Mixed Reality public space for the contemporary art collective Laboratorio Curatorial 060: “transforming the conventionally passive role of the cultural apparatus from one that invents meaning, into an instrument …
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SIZIGIA [Frontera Coroza, Mexico]
Work began with the physical site of SIZIGIA Island, in the Usumacinta River on the frontier between Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala in 2007. The collective of artists and curators, LC060 commissioned twelve artists to live, fabricate and install their work in the village of Frontera Coroza.
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SIZIGIA [Sizigia Island, SL]
Sizigia Island (Second Life): For the second stage of the project, Frontera Coroza was photographed and mapped, its geographic and visual characteristics were qualified and quantified in order to facilitate their representation through other media. A film maker, a topographer and a photographer worked together closely together, trying to fix an inventory of environmental assets and cartographic views on this territory.
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SIZIGIA [Frontera Augmented, Google Earth]
Frontera Augmented (Google Earth): SIZIGIA, SL is used to compensate for the economic realities that create geospatial hinterlands. Frontera, when viewed using Google Earth, not intelligible as a territorial entity. Using a web application hybrid of Google Earth + Sizigia Island, SL, a high resolution mirror world was fabricated.
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SIZIGIA [Sizigia.net]
Sizigia.net: SIZIGIA becomes a laboratory for digital experimentation and representational practices, an interface, a place of reunion for inworld users, a platform for further questioning of the potential of this virtual environment. Neither isolated technologies nor homogeneous solution, but a multiplicity of spatial (building, sculpture…), artistic (image, video, sound…) and social (social networking, meeting, collaboration…) tools.
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SIZIGIA [Scapes]
A vocabulary of scapes forms virtual territories, transformed from boundless, amorphous, and flowing, into the building blocks of contemporary imagined worlds. The spaces of SIZIGIA are dynamic and unstable, rather than static and finished; this volatility, rather than being a …
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SIZIGIA [Platform]
SIZIGIA envisions its statehood spanning between “real structures and virtual developments. The virtual entity in question is the synthetic world, SL, a massively multi-player online (MMO) community: not a game, but a creative platform. Beyond simple 3-dimensional rendering with text, …
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SIZIGIA [Instantiations]
Sizigia.net – ECOSYSTEM : the conceptual and technical elaboration of four environments that compose the project’s media ecosystem — Frontera Island, on the Usumacinta River, Chiapas Mexico; Sizigia_Island, Second Life, Siziga_augmented, Google Earth; and, Sizigia.net— and the network protocols —technological, …
