[spectre] Stelarc discussion with Micha Cardenas / Azdel Slade Dec 8 and Brian Holmes Dec 10

[lotu5 at resist.ca]

Hi, I'm staying off email for the performance, except to check for emails
from support people, so I thought I'd share this one announcement...

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Subject: Monday , Dec 8th, 6pm: Second Life Voice Chat with Stelarc & 
Micha Cárdenas projected live at Lui Velazquez
From:    "Katherine Sweetman" <ksweetma at ucsd.edu>
Date:    Fri, December 5, 2008 10:25 am
To:      "ksweetma at ucsd.edu" <ksweetma at ucsd.edu>
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Monday December 8th at 6pm
The Body in Transmission/Transition: Learning to Live in Mixed Realities
Streamed live from Second Life at Lui Velazquez

Live Second Life chat with infamous performance artist Stelarc as part of
Micha Cárdenas' Becoming Dragon project. At Lui Velazquez we will stream
this live beginning at 6pm. You will be able to ask questions of both
Micha Cárdenas and Stelarc.

Drinks and snacks will be served.

Dec 8th, 6pm
Voice Chat with Stelarc
"The Body in Transmission/Transition: Learning to Live in Mixed Realities"
also broadcast in Tijuana live at Lui Velazquez
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au
http://luivelazquez.com

Lui Velazquez is located right next to the US/Mex border on the Tijuana side.
directions: http://luivelazquez.com/directions.html


Dec 10th, 2pm
Voice Chat with Brian Holmes and Rubaiyat Shatner
“Imagining New Worlds, Biopolitics and Self-Governance in SL”
http://arsvirtua.com
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/


What: Performance in Second Life and at Calit2 on the UCSD Campus
When: Beginning December 1st, running for 365 hours
Where: The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA),
Atkinson Hall, Visiting Artist Lab #1613, UCSD, and in Second Life at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/186/12/35
Contact: Micha Cárdenas, 619-750-8851, mcardenas at ucsd.edu


Becoming Dragon is a mixed reality, durational performance in Second
Life, in CRCA's Visiting Artist Lab #1613 of the Atkinson Hall building,
on the UC San Diego campus. The opening begins at 7pm on December 1st,
2008 and the performance will run for 365 hours. The performance is
Micha Cárdenas' final MFA project.

Becoming Dragon questions the one year requirement of Real Life
Experience that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive
Gender Confirmation Surgery (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), and asks if
this could be replaced by one year of Second Life Experience to lead to
Species Reassignment Surgery. For the performance, Micha Cárdenas will
live for 365 hours immersed in Second Life with a head mounted display,
so that all she will see is Second Life, and a motion capture system to
map her movements into Second Life. The performance space will be open
to the public for the duration, during the hours that the building is
open, 9am to 7pm. During the entire duration of the performance Micha
will stay in the performance space at CRCA and in Second Life.

Read Micha's live blogging from Second Life during the performance at:
http://secondloop.wordpress.com

Hours and Location:
CRCA, Atkinson Hall, Room 1613
Hours: 11am-7pm, Opening Dec. 1, 2008, 7pm,
Continuing for 365 hours, roughly 3 weeks

First Floor, Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Map & Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/

Read more at:
http://secondloop.wordpress.com
http://sharingissexy.org/wiki/Becoming_Dragon
http://bang.calit2.net/tts/category/becomingdragon/
http://flickr.com/photos/azdelslade
http://flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157606067246259/
http://delicious.com/lotu5/becomingdragon

Katherine Sweetman
ksweetma at ucsd.edu
619-838-7666