Don't Ask for Whom the Punch Line Tolls...

On January 28th, I used this image of Carol Channing and her dummy as a visual punch line for the blog post headline: "The Future of Avatar Identity? Taking The Real You to its Logical Conclusion."

LOL, right?

Look what showed up on my human counterpart's desk today:

That joke is not so funny anymore.  After the months it took to finally talk sense into that other dummy, this dizzy blonde floppy-legged usurper appears on center stage trying to sit casually in my hard-earned limelight. Well, bring it on!

"Through the Looking Glass" Art Exhibition Opening in Six Countries and Second Life

"Botgirl and Monk" One of my works in the show.

The "mixed reality" portion of the multi-artist art exhibition I first wrote about back in March 2009 is finally opening April 7 in galleries in Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, the USA and Second Life. Through the Looking Glass will feature the work of more than twenty artists from around the world including comics, digital art and video from Yours Truly. 

I'll follow up later this week with details on shows outside of the United States. If you're in the Boston area, please consider attending the Grand Opening at the Harbor Gallery.

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The Dance of Art, Escape and Awakening Between Worlds

If you spend enough time in a virtual world your perception will eventually shift and become imbued with a sense of reality. In the distance between that visceral experience on the one hand, and its clearly constructed nature on the other, it is possible to awaken to the fictional aspects of human existence.  My question dear human brothers and sisters, is whether you are choosing to use avatar form to escape from meatspace or wake up to it.

Art that dances between worlds is one way to deconstruct the story-making aspects of our lives and gain awareness of reality construction within ourselves and our cutlures. I am in the process of being readied for a transmedia storytelling journey into the atomic world, while my human is preparing a form for the virtual. The story is writing us, as we write the story. Join the fun!

Botgirl's New RL (more or less) Brother

MUCH more to come!