Juria Yoshikawa - Virtual Artist
About this original series
After two decades of creative pursuits - ranging from conceptual art, installation, poetry, performance, computer art, animation, photography and digital design - Juria Yoshikawa arrived in Second Life in the winter of 2007 looking for a new artistic spark. Rather than bringing in rl artwork, Juria is compelled to use mainly the elements that make up sl itself. A typical Juria Yoshikawa virtual artwork mixes kinetic objects, animated texture, ambient noise and av animations. She inevitably chooses scales larger than conventional gallery work because she is interested in people experiencing the work in a physical way - flying through them, riding on them and socializing within the art. To Juria virtual art is about freeing oneself up to create in ways she finds impossible in real life.In my real life, I am a Tokyo based multimedia artist and designer. I have spent many years making digital art, installation art and performance. Sculpture and installation are where I started my creative career but I became progressively more involved in the digital and interactive. I see Second Life as a return back to my artistic roots yet at the same time combines my newer interests in the phenomenology in the virtual world. This difficult to say word is defined as “the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view”. In my commercial life, I am a social media strategist a global company embrace social networking, blogging and Second Life.
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# Episodes
7 episodes -
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Episodes of Juria Yoshikawa - Virtual Artist
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A Collection of Artwork by Juria Yoshikawa, 2007...
A retrospective slide show of the range of virtual artworks Juria Yoshikawa created in Second Life from 2007 to 2008. All of the work were immersive installations that an avatar could enter and interact with. More about the artist's work can be found at http://memespelunk.org.
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Release date
Dec 29, 2008
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Runtime
04:27
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Neon Graffiti Party
An installation by Juria Yoshikawa (a.k.a. Lance Shields) in Second Life at the Kiss the Sky exhibition on 12/24/2008.
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Release date
Dec 24, 2008
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Runtime
03:09
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Broken Rainbow Cloudy Night - Juria Yoshikawa
Here's an eyeball busting piece that reminds me of Frank Stella sort of after the fact. It's as if Stella's piece "Sunset Beach, Sketch" got thrown into a blender, sprayed with glow-in-the-dark paint and was placed in the sky in suspended kinetic animation. It's hard to know the sources that inspire our work. Certainly the rainbow squares were Stella's. I'm tempted to call this 100m cube glorified eyecandy along the line of a rave show visuals or a music video. But that would be flattering mys...
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Release date
May 19, 2008
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Runtime
03:31
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Kaleidoscope Flowerchild Glowball
Kaleidoscope Flowerchild GlowballA kinetic installation by Juria YoshikawaVision GalleryMay 4th, 2008Location in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vision%20of%20success/47/158/435/
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Release date
May 11, 2008
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Runtime
03:02
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Infinite Pixel Loop - Juria Yoshikawa
Artworks in the Kiss the Sky virtual art survey show starting May 17, 2008 at New Media Consortium and the Museum of Hyperformalism. Located in Second Life here:slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Arts%20Lab/43/135/706/
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Release date
May 10, 2008
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Runtime
01:22
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"Moth Universe" by Juria Yoshikawa
Oh, to be a moth, starved for illumination. The dark and light are a food to feast on. The mind of a moth is simple yet true. In her mind's eye there is only one way or the other. Seek and she shall find. Trusting in her blurry instincts, her universe is not solid but made up of opposites. The moth and the light only exist for one another. Be a moth. Location in Second Life: slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/120/86/723/
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Release date
May 10, 2008
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Runtime
03:04
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