Tizzy Canucci
The voice-over starts; ‘The whole world is an illusion. Whatever you see outside, the mountains, the lakes, the people, they are illusions, created by the senses and mind together’.
In Amelie Marcoud’s virtual world installation in Second Life (on Marina Münter and Megan Prumier’s G.B.T.H. sim), stacked televisions repeat images in endless loops. This video works, reworks and repeats her theme.
These televisions only exist on people’s screens. The looping images emphasise the equally looped animations of the trees and my own ‘human’ avatar – animations that seem ‘natural’ while half-watched but become as mechanical as an a Victorian automaton when looked at with care. Little stoppages occur between the repetitions as the animations return to the beginning. These short loops, potentially saying the same thing infinitely, makes a storyline irrelevant.
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Supernova presents a mixture of adventures in digital animation and motion-art produced by Tizzy Canucci, aka artist Tess Baxter, through Second Life. Currently studying for a PhD in Contemporary Art at Lancaster University (UK), Baxter's focus in digital medium envelopes ‘Machinima,’ a limite...
Tizzy Canucci
A film poem combining words, images and music. Set in an abandoned space, overlain with sounds from the past and music of the present. The words reflect how thought, place and time can run parallel or intertwine and give meaning to one another. A machinima filmed at The Far Away ...
Tizzy Canucci
Filmed at Delicatessen in Second Life, Meilo Minotaur greets with ‘whoever tells a tale, adds a point’, a Portugese saying. And so we are invited to make our story from what has been placed there. In my case, I found a visual stream, a textual flow of consciousness, sounds, and t...
