Cyanide Seelowe
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Cyanide Seelowe is the initial founder of the Virtual Artist Alliance, an SL snapshot artist and sculptor, and a patron and volunteer in the Second Life art community.
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Biography
Rezzed on November 16th, 2006. After a month of exploring Second Life, Cyanide Seelowe involved herself in the art community by attending gallery openings and other artistic events. She met Rezago Kokorin at the the opening of Blekinge Sculpture Park and founded the Virtual Artist Alliance on the spot with the intention of providing new residents of Second Life with a portal to the art community of Second Life. This is her continued goal in the Second Life art community, and she uses the Virtual Artist Alliance primarily to facilitate this goal.
She has since coordinated several events and art shows with the Virtual Artist Alliance and its members, collaborating with various individuals and groups along the way. Among these were the First Book Charity Art Auction at Blekinge Sculpture Park in January of 2007, a Haiku Speed Build with the Shin Tao Haiku Retreat in October of 2007, and the Artist Self-Promotion Website with Krystal Epic. She has also curated several sculpture shows at the Virtual Artist Alliance Gallery, including "Kinetic" and the "Awesome Hat Show".
She was awarded third place in the Best of SL Art 2007's "Most Influential Patron, Collector and/or Volunteer" category.
Contributions to the Art Community
- Co-managed the Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden and Aquarium in early 2007 (along with Morris Vig and Petronilla Paperdoll) and helped organize its first series of Artist Talks with artists such as Madcow Cosmos, Sasun Steinbeck, Sabine Stonebender and others.
- Former resident artist for the Second Life Ballet (now known as Ballet Pixelle). Cyanide designed their logo and created posters for their Olmannen, Windows, The Nut, and Les Fleurs Rose performances. With Cyanide's departure from the Ballet, there is an on-going dispute over the usage rights to the visual materials she created. Details of the dispute and its current status can be found here:[1]
- Served as the Public Relations Director for the Best of SL Art 2007.
Artwork
The largest portion of Cyanide's body of work consists of Second Life snapshots. The majority of these are taken using the Windlight client because of the environment editing capabilities and overall improved environmental ambiance that the client provides. Her current collection of photos, "Aquatoid: A photojournalistic view of Second Life's non-aquatic aquatic life" is a study of how numerous aquatic forms are in Second Life, despite the absence of functional water.
The majority of Cyanide's sculptures are either incomplete or temporary in nature. She employs the use of reflexive architecture scripts in many of her temporary pieces, creating them with friends and acquaintances to demonstrate the script's capabilities before deleting them. When she creates sculptures that are not meant to be deleted right away, they usually fall into either the abstract, steampunk or industrial styles.
Press
Best of SL Art
Virtual Artist Alliance
- KnowProSE.com
- MODA Fashion Blog
- Kinetic exhibition video blogs: Part 1 and Part 2
Artist Self-promotion website
Miscellaneous
