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Posted On: October 14th 2026, 10:22 pm
Tonight! A back to back screening of Ouvroir the Movie (2010) ¹ by Chris Marker and KOOLAID MAN IN SECOND LIFE : A conversation with Nicholas O’Brien (2009) ² by Jon Rafman (@jonrafman).
Two short films taking place in the virtual world Second Life.
¹ “A tour of Ouvroir, the virtual museum Chris Marker created in the online world Second Life with collaborator Max Moswitzer. Guided by Marker’s cat avatar, Guillaume-en-Égypte, visitors explore a 3D island of galleries, cinemas, and reading rooms inspired by Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel. The film documents this digital extension of Marker’s lifelong exploration of memory, art, and technology.
² “From 2008-2011, Kool-Aid Man gave tours of the massively multiplayer online game, Second Life. The game has no objective, no story. Most of the content on it is exclusively created by players. Kool-Aid Man traverses this seemingly infinite user-created landscape: unpopulated desolate areas, nature modeled after a beautiful version of reality, and many places where users created as a field to interact with other users. Several places Kool-Aid Man finds are perverse, serving specific subcultures or fetishes. No music is played over the video, the sound effects in Second Life play throughout the video, plus any other music being streamed by the landscape. The appearance of Kool-Aid Man closely resembles the cartoon character from the popular American drink mix. Rafman’s avatar has red legs with foot-like shapes at the end, but his arms are red rods without hands. Its face is static, with a big smile.”
At @smoothievortex from 6 - 8PM. (Feel free to linger around after for discussion.)
Two short films taking place in the virtual world Second Life.
¹ “A tour of Ouvroir, the virtual museum Chris Marker created in the online world Second Life with collaborator Max Moswitzer. Guided by Marker’s cat avatar, Guillaume-en-Égypte, visitors explore a 3D island of galleries, cinemas, and reading rooms inspired by Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel. The film documents this digital extension of Marker’s lifelong exploration of memory, art, and technology.
² “From 2008-2011, Kool-Aid Man gave tours of the massively multiplayer online game, Second Life. The game has no objective, no story. Most of the content on it is exclusively created by players. Kool-Aid Man traverses this seemingly infinite user-created landscape: unpopulated desolate areas, nature modeled after a beautiful version of reality, and many places where users created as a field to interact with other users. Several places Kool-Aid Man finds are perverse, serving specific subcultures or fetishes. No music is played over the video, the sound effects in Second Life play throughout the video, plus any other music being streamed by the landscape. The appearance of Kool-Aid Man closely resembles the cartoon character from the popular American drink mix. Rafman’s avatar has red legs with foot-like shapes at the end, but his arms are red rods without hands. Its face is static, with a big smile.”
At @smoothievortex from 6 - 8PM. (Feel free to linger around after for discussion.)
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