PRESS RELEASE:
Internet-only band playing in support of Live8 exclusively in
Cyberspace! This is a call for the internet community to pressure the
G8 Nations to relieve African debt now!
WHO: The Gates
WHEN: Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 8 PM PST
WHERE:.Cyberspace - The Gates are performing online using the
Digitalspace Traveler avatar platform for PCs.
PERFORMANCE VENUE - "Hall of Justice" - http://techworlds.org/hoj.dsv
in the Digitalspace Traveler browser.
Band Link: www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
Free Performance Browser Software Download: www.techworlds.org
EVENT DETAILS: One of Cyberspace's first bands, "The Gates" is playing
an online tribute concert in conjunction with the Live8 festival.
The Gates will be playing exclusively in Cyberspace using the
Digitalspace Traveler avatar software. This software combines both 3D graphic and audio broadcasting capabilities.
The event will be broadcast worldwide. Like Live8, The concert is
also totally free and exists for those who cannot physically attend
any of the Live8 concerts yet still feel a desire to be a direct
part of a concert performance.
CONTACT: Please contact Jeremy Turner for more details - ideatron@gmail.com
Link:
http://techworlds.org/hoj.dsv
Jeremy Owen Turner [b. 1974, Victoria, B.C. - Canada] has been a Rhizome member on and off since 2002 (a paying member since 2004). He works as a Digital Archivist, Art-Historian, Avatar Performance Artist and Net Researcher. His degree from the University of Victoria was in Art-History and Music Composition.
As "Wirxli FlimFlam", Turner has just co-formed a new avatar performance art group in Second Life called Second Front - http://www.slfront.blogspot.com
He has completed a contract about Telecommunications Art-History (the Slow-Scan TV Video-conferencing art-scene) on behalf of the Open Space Arts Society in Victoria, Canada.
http://www.openspace.ca/outerspace
He is also an interdisciplinary artist, writer , composer and curator. He is a Co-Founder of the 536 Media Collective in Vancouver. On behalf of 536, Turner worked with the iKatun Collective (Boston) and Jessica Loseby (U.K.) to form the Digital Pocket Gallery.
http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/
In addition, he is a Co-Producer of the very first Machinima Documentary, "AVATARA". The other Producers are Donato Mancini and Flick Harrison.
http://members.shaw.ca/flickharrison/avatara/
To date, he has conducted interviews , posted blogs and written articles about innovations in New Media for: C-Theory, Shift, Intelligent Agent, Nanodot.org (Foresight Institute), Eyebeam.org, Eventcasters (AOL Canada), Extropy, Rhizome, Offbeat and Front Magazine.
He is on the Board of Editors for the Digital Salvage Online Journal hosted by Trace Reddel at the University of Denver, Colorado.
He occasionally lectures about Digital Aesthetics and Net-Art strategies at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
His current interests include Avatars, Bots, and Nanotechnology.
Jeremy lives and works in Vancouver.
Please click the resume link to view his outdated CV.
Also, if you like cutting-edge Avatar bands, check out The Gates and The Hotmails http://www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
http://www.thehotmails.com
His main art blogs are:
http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com
http://www.ontodistro.blogspot.com
http://www.rolandquagmire.blogspot.com
http://www.voiceoffire.blogspot.com
http://www.fafftopia.blogspot.com
http://www.irwinziizzw.blogspot.com
Also, he has an additional profile and video on the Saatchi Gallery website: http://video.saatchigallery.com/artist/profile/11301/Jeremy+O+Turner/JeremyOTurner.html
E-mail: jerturner536@yahoo.ca - ideatron@gmail.com
Michael Connor