Artist CV

Lance Shields (in real life) / Juria Yoshikawa (in Second Life)

A new media artist who creates virtual installations, performances

and machinima in Second Life from 03/2007 until the present.

Websites

Artist Blogs

http://memespelunk.org/blog/ (Until 03/2009)

http://juriayoshikawa.blogspot.com/ (Current blog)

Video/Machinima

http://www.vimeo.com/juriayoshikawa

Photos of SL Art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancesh/collections/721576130071887
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Education

San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Sculpture & Installation, Graduated

in 1992

Presentations

09/2008, Taught virtual art seminar at graduate program, Kanazawa

Institute, http://www.bluecreativestudio.com/blog/?p=32

09/2007, Presented artwork “Veiled Tongues” at the 4th Dorkbot,

Odyssey, SL, http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=175
04/2008, “Marketing Oneself in the Virtual World”, American
Chamber of Commerce Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

08/07/2009, “Are You OK?”, Virtual art collaboration and mixed

reality performance, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
http://brooklyniswatching.com/2009/08/06/are-you-ok/

07/2009, The Best of BIW Year 1 Festival, Winner and participant in

30 best group show at Kansas University Sim,
http://brooklyniswatching.com/best-of-biw-year-1-festival/

04/2009, “I’m Not Here”, Boston Cyberarts Festival virtual art and
real life show at CounterpART Gallery,
http://gallery.bostoncyberarts.org/artropolis/ ,
http://counterpartgallery.art.officelive.com/default.aspx

04/2009 to present, “Memespelunk Revival Studio”, Hosted by

Kennesaw State University, Location in SL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWDEV%20ITEC%20ISLE/29/129/35/

05/2008, “Kiss the Sky” virtual art survey show, New Media
Consortium and the Museum of Hyperformalism ,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancesh/sets/72157604923154683/

03/19/2008, “Nest of Light”, Visions of Global Justice Show,

Organized by the USC Network Culture Project,
http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=198

02/2008, “Seeing Spots, Being Dots”, CARP3 Show, Diabolus Art

Space (in SL) and Directors Lounge Festival in Berlin, Scala in
Friedrichstr (in RL), http://vimeo.com/2943242

09/2007, "Liquid Light" and "Aurora Room", Princeton University

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=160
09/2007, "Tower of Ugly Contradiction", Burning Life
http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=157

2007-2008, "Garden of Memespelunk", Personal art sim,

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=162

09/2007, "Garden Electric", IBM,

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=155

08/2007, "Blink - Two Rooms and an Island", Velvet Underground

Sim, http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=142

06/2007, "Exhibition 4", White Cube Gallery,

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=109

05/2007, "I'm Not Here", Gaping Lotus Experience,

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=93

05/2007, "Land of Forgotten Light", Bluffs Center for the Arts,

http://memespelunk.org/blog/?p=75