Video
All videos can be seen on my YOUTUBE profile.
#SECONDHAND
In the summer of 2009, Anthony Fontana joined the Intersect Art Collective and participated in the first of two exhibitions that year. The first was titled #secondhand and used short 12 second video clips to respond to prompts sent out via Twitter by curator Christi Neilsen. Here are the collected works from that online exhibition by Anthony Fontana.
Downtown LA Film Festival Project
Intersect Art Collective was invited to create online responses to the films showcased at the 2009 Downtown LA Film Festival. Fontana’s four submissions included:
- Now & Later
- Where the Edges of Conquest Meet
- Tiffany Trenda’s Entropy
- OH: Drifting Awareness with Another Parallel
Machinima
Machinima is the animation technique of rendering computer generated imagery using real-time 3D interactive game or virtual world engines such as Second Life. Read more…
The Union
a machinima animaiton by Anthony + Sandra Fontana
This work represents and acknowledges the importance of identity and relationship between of two avatars (those of Anthony and Sandra Fontana, the artists) in a virtual space. Furthermore, it adds to the continuum of machinima created by the artists over the last several years, developing an ongoing mythology of their virtual experiences and interactions. Much like a marriage ceremony, the avatars are portrayed celebrating, sacrificing, and intimately engaging and changing one another.
The Union from Anthony Fontana on Vimeo
YouTube version here.
The Union debuted on Feb. 7th, 2009 at the Secor Gallery in Toledo, Ohio. The video below was shot at the opening.
Avatar Meets Girl
a machinima animaiton by Anthony + Sandra Fontana
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.
Avatar Meets Girl from Anthony Fontana on Vimeo
YouTube version here
QUIT
Quit from Anthony Fontana on Vimeo
YouTube version here
Machinima Paradiso
This work examines the theme of virtuality and more specifically the relationship between my avatar and its in-world creation: n00b. More info…
Machinima Paradiso from Anthony Fontana on Vimeo
YouTube version here
Machinima Paradiso was first exhibited at The Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, Michigan in August 2007. The video above was shot at the exhibit.
THE DOGS in Second Life
These short documentary and commercial videos were used to promote the sale of my graphic novel in the virtual world of Second Life.
Net(works): Art in pre-existing web platforms
The following videos were taken at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Charleston, West Virginia in the Fall of 2007. This presentation details my understanding of art in the virtual environment including insight from my own endeavors to exhibit art in Second Life.
Synopsis: I have been creating artworks in Second Life since 2005. Each body
of work has relied more and more on ‘in-world’ aesthetics,
capabilities, and audience. In a virtual world,where each resident has
the ability to “build and own their world”, where does art fit in?
There are three perceived art experiences in Second Life. The first is
recreation of the real; mimicry to the point that a work of art may be
purchased, taken home, and hung above a virtual couch. The second is
that of a performance or happening in which the audience and experience
become part of the artwork. The third is that which is built by both
the artist and the audience. Web 2.0-type collaborations and common
space peer production are arguably the most important phenomenon
happening in Second Life or on the internet. One good example would be
Machinima, or machine-cinema, in which director and actors must work
together to create a narrative. In my own recent work, I seek to engage
residents interactively, allowing them to add to the work I have
started. How this affects meaning, who “owns” the work, and how the
collaboration between artist and audience is valued remain vital
questions.
Net(works) episode # 8, # 9, and # 10.
Second Life Tutorials
The following videos tutorials were developed for the use of the public, the OLN Second Life Learning Community in Northwest Ohio, and the Bowling Green State University virtual campus in Second Life.
1st Gallery show in Second Life
As document of my first exhibition of artworks in Second Life.
