Digichotomy was featured in two online publications this past week!
You can now find us at the Calit2 Life website, and at Walkingtools.net!
We’re still working on getting the word out about Digichotomy. If you’d like to feature it in your blog, please email us!

Digichotomy has been accepted to UCSD’s BEST OF ICAM 2009!

We are excellent.
Come watch us perform at 5:00pm on Wednesday, June 10th at UCSD’s Calit2! (Or, at the same time in Second Life at Digichotomy!)

We just finished our first official performance of Digichotomy!
Here you can see the video documentation:

“It’s not a game.” -jjccc of Second Life
A lot of really interesting moments took place. People in First Life tended to associate the voices they were hearing with the performer, despite how often the Second Lifers told them that they were [...]

We’ve been testing the WiFi equipment all day. Soundiego, who normally works on professional media such as the popular TV show Veronica Mars, was so kind as to lend us some of their audio equipment! Second Life will be broadcast in style.
Here you can see a video of Atom and Angela trying to communicate with [...]

The ideas for Digichotomy are all ironed out! Today we will begin building, coding, and testing.

Our idea has morphed considerably over time.
We’ve renamed the project “Digichotomy” to reflect the dichotomy between the real and virtual worlds (and, admittedly, to poke fun at academia’s incessant and often unnecessary usage of the word ‘dichotomy.’)
We’ve also decided that Digichotomy would function most successfully as a mobile performance piece. Walls and rooms hinder our [...]

Here’s a picture of Angela’s husband setting her very successful live video feed on fire:

Inspirational.
Also,
We’ve contacted Josephine Dorado via Second Life. She has done a considerable amount of performance work with Second Life, and has offered to arrange a time that we can speak. Her work is very insightful, and we’re hoping that speaking to [...]

Success!
So thanks to streamguys, and their awesomely affordable streaming, we are in business.
Here you can see Angela streaming her face LIVE into Second Life, right alongside her avatar!

The foundation of Digichotomy took place via email. Angela Black had just returned from studying in Córdoba, Spain, and Atom Leonhart was currently working in Berlin, Germany.

Angela Black
10.08.08 @ 9:39pm
Here’s the rough draft of the proposal:
Bi-directional Iris
For my project I propose to create a new type of space where people can interact with the [...]