Digital
Avatar Meets Girl
a machinima animaiton by FONTANA
http://picasaweb.google.com/anthonymfontana/AvatarMeetsGirl
accumulated inventory of the Fontana avatars, Anthony and Sandra supply the viewer with information that is both identifiable and indifferent; bridging connections with those who understand the virtual world phenomenon and those who have not yet begun to understand its impact on society at large.
Fontana 2.0:
Exhibit in Second Life – Summer 2007
http://picasaweb.google.com/anthonymfontana/Fontana20
Fontana 2.0 was an exhibition of work that focused on the web 2.0 ideology of socially motivated peer production and recontextualization of the artist himself through previous works. This work was displayed at the Heldscalla Foundation in Second Life during the Summer of 2007. The show consisted of two separate bodies of work:
YouToo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2VQ0mSJ3c
The other set of works in this exhibition explore the modes, speed, and content of information transfer in the Web 2.0 era. The cornerstone of this series is the image titled “YouToo”. Mona Lisa represents 500 years of critical discourse on one singular work of art. I am very interested in the rate at which society must process and evaluate new media. Does meaning emerge through the combination of transient images, and if so, when does one stop to contemplate and understand that meaning?
NMC Connect – February 2007
http://picasaweb.google.com/anthonymfontana/NMCConnectArtistSymposium
The first symposium of artists in Second Life took place at the New Media Consortium’s virtual campus in Second Life in February of 2007. The work exhibited, titled “Hello N00b,” was my first foray into site specific comics; or a comic strip created in or about a specific place. The work illustrated the transition of the character ‘n00b’, a yellow creature from my 2005 digital image “I’m still a n00b,” into a three dimensional entity in the virtual world. During the exhibition of the work, my avatar “rode” on n00b’s back, flying around the exhibit and speaking with other avatars. The basis for this work later evolved into the concept for my first machinima animation “Machinima Paradiso”.
