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SUMMARY:Melody Owen // Pearl Hyacinth exhibition with virtual world piano performance by Dana Reason
LOCATION:invisible art space\, 141/2-18 Buchanan Street\, Balmain\, NSW\, 2041
URL:https://www.invisibleart.space
DESCRIPTION:The Hyacinth Report\, a ten-year retrospective of Pearl Hyacinth’s adventures building\, documenting\, exploring and adding animal voices to virtual worlds. This includes a machinima film by Melody Owen\, recorded in Second Life in 2020 with Dana Reason playing piano in-world during the time of the wildfires in Oregon. Dana’s avatar sits at the virtual piano playing beautifully haunting melodies\, surrounded by forest creatures whilst the fires burn around her.\nExhibition runs 15-29 August 2026. Gallery open sat+sun 12-3pm. A closing event party with Pearl Hyacinth shall take place in-world\nMelody Owen (USA) is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer and curator from Portland\, Oregon\, who works with installation\, video\, photography\, digital processes and hand cut collage. Melody explores technology\, ecology and the embodied perception and communication of reality via different types of living forms. She’s specifically interested in the voices and languages of bird\, insect and animal species as well as the interconnected and entangled nature of us — including mycelium\, moss and plant life. Melody mixes conceptual “poetry” with ideas around ecology and technology. Most recently\, she has been exploring these issues through 3D virtual worlds. Her digital representative\, Pearl Hyacinth is a nomadic multiverse avatar who has been curating and creating work within existing social\, creative virtual 3D worlds for the past ten years. Some of her recent work took place within the context and …\n\nTickets: https://www.invisibleart.space
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