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Still from an Alan Sondheim performance on Odyssey, Second Life.

The Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulators are a collection of online simulators dedicated to contemporary art and performance with a focus on performance art. The Odyssey Simulators are maintained by an International group of independent artists and include a member-owned virtual space in Second Life , with sister sims running in VRChat, and Resonite (the successor to NEOS VR).

The Odyssey Simulators hosts studio work and projects by wide International array of artists and organizations and provides resources, studio and exhibition space, technicalassistance and more to support artists working in virtual places – in particular those working in online synthetic environments. Odyssey is home to many working artists including The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, Alan Sondheim, Patrick Lichty, Liz (JE) Solo, DC Spensley/DanCoyote Antonelli, The Velvet Lounge, Sca Shilova, and the Senses Places Project by Isabel Valverde.

Odyssey has presented scores of artists over the years including Bibbe Hansen, Misprint Thursday, Selavy Oh, Joseph Delappe, Yael Gilks, Eva and Franco Mattes, Pauline Oliveros, Micha Cardenas, Elle Mehrmand, Tina Pearson, Colleen McLaughlin/Nebulosus Severine, The Second Front, Stelarc and many more.

The work of Odyssey artists has been presented in galleries, museums and festivals around the world including Diffrazioni Firenze Multimedia Festival (Florence, Italy); Canadian New Music Network National Forum (Vancouver); The Sound Symposium, (St. John’s); The Vector Game and Art Convergence Festival, (Toronto); The Shanghai Art Museum, (Shanghai, China); The Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Festival, (St. John’s, Vancouver, The Netherlands, Germany); The Net New Music Festival, (UK), the Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts (Brunel, UK); International Society of Improvising Musicians (Denver, USA); the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre (Troy, USA); International Symposium on Electronic Arts (Belfast, Ireland); OCAD University (Toronto); New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto); Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, Ireland); Debalie Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam); Crosswire – NIMK, Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam); Stream on You, IMAL (Bruxelles); Wien Modern (Wien, Austria); Voice++ Festival (Victoria, Canada); Vestfold Fylkesbiblioteck (Tonsberg, Norway); The Alternator Center for the Arts (Kelowna); Hamburger Klangwerktge (Hamburg, Germany); Institute of Santa Fe (Santa Fe) among many others.

Link to us in Second Life here (SLURL).

The Odyssey Simulators are currently curated by JE Solo and managed by the BBMC