This week, BURN2 enters the final countdown phase. Events commence on Saturday October 1st at 12:00 SLT (following the opening speeches at 11:00), and BURN2 runs until the 9th October, with sims closing to public access at 23:00 SLT.
Around the main event are a few special events that might be of interest:
Thursday 29th September: Builder’s / Playa preview from 08:00 SLT. Press and bloggers preview from 08:30 SLT. Press passes can be applied for here
Friday September 30th: special Burning Man, Regionals, and Rangers day open to Regional leadership, BURNING MAN staff, and Rangers, presenting them with the chance to see the virtual playa before it opens. Full details here
Saturday 15th October: Skin Burn: a final party. Details of access TBA.
The organisers have announced that mesh builds are not allowed at BURN2, although mesh clothing and avatars are allowed. The stated reason for the “no mesh” build policy is insufficient mesh rendering support among Viewers.
As well as the builds and invited artists, the week will feature a wide range of entertainment and other events. Some centre stage highlights for the weekend*:
Saturday 1st October (times SLT)
11:00: opening addresses
12:00: Mankind Tracer – music and dance
13:00: Firedancer Yman Juran
15:00-22:00: live music from Farrokh Vavoom, Mommaluv Skytower, Eio Tuqiri, FedordJones Popstar, Lillie Woodells, Doofus Luckless and Larree Quixote
Sunday 2nd October (times SLT)
10:00: live music from Eio Tuqiri
11:00: Ladyslipper Constantine & DRUM
12:00-14:00 – live music from Rainbowrocks69 Resident, DedheadDMT Infinity and Bubba C John and the Bubbettes
15:00: poet Karima Hoisan
16:00: recording “The 1st Question” with hosts Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe
17:00-22:00: live music with Truelie Telling, Strum Diesel, Vaughn Michalak, Grif Bamaisin, Chip Takacs and Mike Nelson.
*Times may vary as then final showcase is put together – be sure to check the main events calendar at the BURN2 website.
The second Burn 2 Land rush will take place on Saturday 10th September, so if you if you wan to have a camp at Burn 2, so if you missed out in the two Round One sessions, now is your chance to claim a campsite.
Here are the details:
The land rush will be open to all, without restriction. You may purchase as many plots as you like. The only condition is that new plot locations will not be adjusted to match with your existing plots purchased in Round One
All payments must go through the land terminal on the parcel. If you pay someone directly we will not be held liable for a refund of your land terminal fee ($4L)
By participating in the Land Rush you agree to the rules and decisions made by the DPW in the execution of these rushes. You also agree to all Builder Guidelines and the Burning Man Ten Principles
Builders may have up to two assistants. The builder who owns the plot is responsible for their assistants’ actions at all times, and ensuring that all builders are knowledgeable of the Builder Guidelines, Policies of BURN 2, Second Life Terms of Service and the Second Life Community Standards
On the completion of the Rush, any remaining plots will be sold on a case by case basis by members of the DPW authorized to sell plots and certain members of the Core Team of Burn 2. Please ask for assistance through the BURNING MAN 2.0 group with these sales.
If you have any questions, please contact Kev Sweetwater or Diana Renoir in Second life.
The Burn 2 Art Committee has released the details of artists formally invited to display at this year’s Burn 2 event. In a statement issued by the organisers, the artists:
“Were chosen through an intensive selection process which involved a vastly encompassing variety of criteria to determine through consensus those whom we feel best represent a wide sample of creativity, technique, artistic expression, and resourcefulness that best expresses the spirit and values of Burning Man and Burn 2.”
The selected artists are:
Rebeca Bashly
A Serbian artist, Rebeca has been active in Second Life for almost four years, and uses only her own sculpts and textures in her work. She regards her most significant work in SL as being “SnowCrash” on UTSA Artspace, a collaborative work with Igor Ballyhoo.
Claudia222 has been involved in Second Life since mid-2007, working primarily in fantasy sculptures which use rich, vibrant organic textures to bring them to life. Her first SL build, “Parallel Worlds”, was exhibited on the sim FarStar in January of 2011. She has also exhibited at Pirats Art Network, The Nordan om Jordan gallery and has entered her work at the UWA Expositions and SL8B, where she built a honey swamp.
Claudia Jewell
Claudia222’s work most recently caught the imaginations of many residents when her mesh creations were featured in a Machinima by Rockerfaerie, previously featured in this blog. She is currently working on a sky level installation “mesh mellows”.
Active in SL since December 2006, Oberon Onmura has been making art in Second Life for over two years. In that time, his unique approach to using opposing forces on physical objects has attracted the attention of blog sites, SL and RL galleries and publications. He has recently become interested in the use of scripted agents (i.e. bots) as artmaking material.
His early work with physical objects, “Grid Floaters,” was seen at the “Kiss the Sky” exhibition at the NMC ArtsLab sim, curated by DanCoyote Antonelli, while “Beacon,” a 100-meter tower that constructs and then destroys itself, was selected for inclusion in a national exhibition of virtual and corporeal art – the “@ Exhibition” (www.arsvirtua.com) – in association with the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, California (February, 2009).
Oberon Onmura: Four Galaxies
More recently, his sim-sized projects, “The Tunguska Event” , “Storm Cells,” and “Four Galaxies” were seen at the Project Z Gallery. His collabortive work includes working with Juria Yoshikawa and Dancoyote Antonelli for a SL/RL event with a jazz club in London, curated by Arahan Claveau. He has also collaborated with Diogenes Wylder (Georgie Roxby-Smith) at the Watermill Center (USA) and Melbourne (AUS). Currently, Oberon exploring the creative possibilities of Opensim grids, running two simulator servers on his home computer in NYC, with the sims, Titania and Elena connected to the Craft grid (http://craft-world.org:8002/).
RAG Randt – the RAG standing for Richard A Goldberg, grew up under the influence of Mad Magazine, Warner Brothers cartoons, and the New Yorker Magazine. He creates artwork for publishers, advertisers, and corporations. His style translates concepts into humorous, thought-provoking art which enables his client’s messages to be memorable and effective.
Starlash will be exhibiting “Identity” at Burn 2, which has a quote from Vithu Jeyaloganathan, “The identity of one changes with how one perceives reality.”
Starlash describes herself as being, “Born at the age of 4 to confuse enemy agents. Growing up in the Central Kalahari Desert and later London has left her with a fertile and vivid imagination which fuels her desire to actualize and add a unique perspective to her creations.”
To date she has had showings of her 2D work at several galleries and has recently started to bring her stories to life with machinima. Using second life as inspiration she is constantly trying new techniques and mediums to evolve her work.
Trill describes herself thus: “Artist maybe, painter, BFA. in Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba, love to travel, draw, paint, make stuff.Canadian, activist with Four Bridges and amnesty international. Curator and Builder of the War and Peace Exhibit at the Howard Zinn Memorial Centre for Social Consciousness and the Arts as well as the Afghanistan Virtual Museum in SL. Illustrator and co-author of It’s All Chinese to Me – a culture and etiquette guide to China’ by Gwen Penner and Pierre Ostrowski: friend, lover, sister, daughter, dog lover, coffee drinker, piano player, book reader, pizza eater…”.
Of his work, she says, “Welcome to the Fool’s journey to the end of the universe and back., through all the pitfalls and trials of identity and desire, to death and beyond, through the gauntlet of useless rusty grails offered up by religion and ideology, through a modernist purgatory, and into the heart and soul of the crumbling grail castle reclaimed by nature and love. all steps along the way leading to the ultimate discovery of the true grail”.
Burn 2 has issued an announcement about the selection of this year’s juried theme camps and art plots.
The announcement reads in part:
As BURN 2 starts up, one of the most looked forward to pre-BURN announcements of the selections for juried theme camps and art plots. BURN 2 follows the Burning Man 10 principles and gifts plots on the virtual ePlaya to groups who have submitted proposals to the BURN 2 Art Team.
The selection qualifiers comprise:
Cosmic Circusality by The ChangHigh Sisters Fireshow of Light, Life and Love, Yman Juran
Transitory Thresholds by Caro Fayray
Skelly-Mer by Maya Paris
Verisimo by Cienega Soon
The announcement goes on:
We are very excited to see what these camps and art installations look like! We aren’t giving out exactly what these camps will be…just that we think they will be amazing!
We want to thank EVERYONE who submitted an application for one of the plots. Your ideas ARE AMAZING. You made it incredibly difficult! We want to encourage you to grab your own plot now and build that camp! If you need sponsors to get that plot please reach out to us info@burn2.org and we will give you a few suggestions!
A further announcement detailing the invited artists for Burn 2 will be coming in the near future.
About Burn 2
Burn 2 – originally Burning Life – commenced in 2003 as an in-world extension / interpretation of the annual Burning Man event, dedicated to “community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance”, and held each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
Scheduled for the week of October 1st through 9th, this year’s Burn 2 event is themed as “Rites of Passage”, defined as “There are moments of crisis and frisson in our lives which inform us that we’ve somehow crossed an inner threshold and are changed. Thus moving from one state of being into an unknown other obliges us to face our innermost insecurities, and it requires faith, a willingness to leap off the ladder of ordered existence. Our theme this year invites participants to join with others in creating rites of passage.”
Burn 2, formerly Burning Life, is now gearing-up for action, having just had its Community Day on August 5th.
Scheduled for the week of October 1st through 9th, this year’s event is themed as “Rites of Passage”, defined as “There are moments of crisis and frisson in our lives which inform us that we’ve somehow crossed an inner threshold and are changed. Thus moving from one state of being into an unknown other obliges us to face our innermost insecurities, and it requires faith, a willingness to leap off the ladder of ordered existence. Our theme this year invites participants to join with others in creating rites of passage.”
Burn 2 – originally Burning Life – commenced in 2003 as an in-world extension / interpretation of the annual Burning Man event, dedicated to “community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance”, and held each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
Until 2010, the event was sponsored by Linden Lab, which also spawned a series of “afterburn” events that would be held throughout the year, including the 2004 Winter Expo and the 2010 Spring Fling.
This year, Burn 2 will, as a non-Linden sponsored event, be centred on two sims, Burning Man – Deep Hole and Burning Man – Silver Seed (SLurls), and the organisers are currently calling for help in a number of areas:
For volunteers to help with the running of the event
This week, BURN2 enters the final countdown phase. Events commence on Saturday October 1st at 12:00 SLT (following the opening speeches at 11:00), and BURN2 runs until the 9th October, with sims closing to public access at 23:00 SLT.
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