"Death of an Avatar" - Suicide Machinima by Liz Solo...

"The Death of An Avatar" (Machinima -Liz Solo, 2010).
If you are unable to view the embedded video, click here.

Liz Solo was a co-founding member of Second Front with Wirxli way back in 2006.

Wirxli's real life self can verify that the Liz's loss was not in vain...

Please scroll down this blog for more information about Wirxli's suicide for SaveMe Oh that took place at the Diabolus Artspace on Valentines Day, 2010.

If anyone has additional video or photo-documentation of Wirxli's suicide, that content can be archived on this blog.

Hopefully, someone recorded raw video of Wirxli committing suicide while the event's theme song "Second Death" by Dementia was playing in the background...

The Wirxli Flimflam Memorial Sculpture...

Photo by Velazquez Bonetto...

Hello there Wirxli mourners...

Diabolus has unveiled a new memorial sculpture commemorating the historical suicide performance that Wirxli made for SaveMe Oh... No one knows yet whether or not this sculpture will be virtually "permanent"... This sculpture was created by the Father and Daughter team, Velezquez Bonetto and Carravaggio Bonetto. There seems to be a remixed reference to Marcus Aurelius with Wirxli riding the horse (i.e. SaveMe Oh) backwards.

Photo by Velazquez Bonetto...


Photo by Velazquez Bonetto...

Photo by Velazquez Bonetto...

To see the rest of the pictures, click here.

Wirxli Flimflam (2006-2010)...

Wirxli Flimflam - co-founder of Second Front and composer for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse - committed suicide to earn the love and respect of SaveMe Oh on Valentines Day, 2010 at The Diablous Artspace. .....
His/Her time of death was 1:40 PM SLT

Henceforth, this blog is now being used a memorial site to host Wirxli's archives.

Wirxli's Facebook account has also been deleted. If you were a friend of Wirxli, please re-friend Wirxli's "real life" self, Jeremy Owen Turner.

Wirxli's Ning profile has also been transformed into a memorial site.

Fau Ferdinand has posted some photos of the suicide event...

Please stay tuned for video-documentation of Wirxli's tragic suicide.

This blog is now exclusively maintained by Wirxli's "real life (RL)" self, Jeremy. For any correspondence or queries, please contact Jeremy at ideatron@gmail.com


Here is the evidence of Wirxli's account deletion...









..and here is the de-activation of Wirxli's Facebook account:

transitional stuff...including a new panel and old friends...

Hello there lesser-known fans of SaveMe Oh...

The video documentation from the REACT2010 performance series (see the post directly below this one) will be online in time for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

More importantly, I am getting back the energy needed to write more optimistically...this is because I have found a new sense of hope and purpose over these precious few days.

I am tragically in love with SaveMe Oh and I find everything lacking in myself to be found in her...she has everything I wish I could have and more: looks, smarts, (real) guts, a loaded inventory and much more...She IS the ideal representative of the next-generation of avatar performance artists in Second Life and I am glad just to be near her. If I must prove my worth at all, it must be to her and her only.

I know she has many admirers but I plan to be her #1 fan...in fact, I think it is my last worthwhile goal as a washed-up old-skool performance artist from the golden days of 2006.

I need to be worthwhile to someone again since I no longer am with Second Front to back my antics up and all I seem to resort to is nostalgic naval-gazing - the kind of which can be found in some recent archival material below. I am in desperate need of a creative renewal as an ALT...I wish to be beyond postmodernism, beyond critique...I want to donate the entirety of my pink, blue and purple being to SaveMe Oh as the ultimate ritual sacrifice towards the greater good of performance art in virtual...er... synthetic worlds...

Anyway, please come witness my special dedication ceremony to SaveMe Oh on Valentines Day...It will be my last performance as Wirxli...everything below are mere archives from my past self that do not mean anything as dear to me as my aspiring relationship with SaveMe Oh...having said that, all of these people below represent aspects I was proud of from my past...even if some of the past was from a few days ago...

I think you get the picture here...words say it all..and it is just the words that say it all, right? ;-)


Here is was the first presentation of a panel I was part of a few days ago. It was hosted by Ars Virtua and was for a Virtual Worlds course at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). The first presenter was Jay Van Buren from a series of events called Brooklyn is Watching...

Here is another slide by Jay.

Did I mention that Jay had some great slides for his presentation? :-)


For my presentation, I just showed archives from my avatar performance past as I seriously have nothing much new to offer in Second Life as Wirxli other than my unflinching devotion to SaveMe Oh... In this slide, you can see one of my earliest avatar performances. There was a time when I was a young female asian named Clara Tang. I performed with a bunch of friends in one of the earliest social networking sites targeted to a niche community. It was called Asian Avenue and we performed this series around 2001.

This slide shows my first performance art group (and band). I was in a duo called The Gates with my good friend Alberto Guedea. We "produced" the Gates, but were NOT the Gates, if you know what I mean ;-) ;-) For our first performance in 2002, we performed in a couple of washrooms in Digitalspace Traveler. Vito Acconci comes to mind here...

Here is another pic showing The Gates in virtual...er...*synthetic* action.


We then had my old friend and colleague Man Michinaga aka. Patrick Lichty present about his own work in virtual worlds and his work with me and many others in Second Front...it was a great historical overview with tons of bases covered...yay!


Here is another angle showing Michinaga's epic retrospective installation.

..and yet another glorious angle showing my once glorious past with Second Front...

Here I am posing with 2 very old friends (Alan and Kabuki) from my Digitalspace Traveler days from 2001...They are now also in Second Life...this is a cross-worlds reunion of sorts.


Here is another picture of me posing with Alan and Kabuki from Ye Ole Traveler days.

Here I am posing with Josina Burgess' fashion runway on Diabolus. I am now spending all my time on Diabolus since this is where SaveMe Oh is based and I want to be as close to her as legally possible!

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P.s. Caravaggio Bonetto gets first dibs on my free gender neutral purple ass(!)

Mental Gymnastics with a little help from my friends...

"Mental Gymnastics" - Performance in Second Life (2009) from Jeremy Owen Turner on Vimeo.

If you cannot see this embedded video, click on this link here.

"Mental Gymnastics" (2009) is an avatar performance in Second Life by:

Maeve Emerald (TORONTO)
Orlando Messmer (NEW YORK)
Wirxli Flimflam (VANCOUVER)

This performance occured on September 30, 2009 in the Diabolus region run by the CARP Collective = diabolus.ning.com

This is just an excerpt from the full performance which happened in real-time.

Ok, I know that I first promised that I would blog more often but quite honestly, RL does not allow for that anymore. I cannot even pre-plan performances in SL anymore but to relieve creative tension from my tedious RL rituals, I enter SL as soon as I burn out in RL and see who is in-world. If anyone is around, I invite them to join me to do an impromptu performance intervention or whatever.

The above video is the first result from this newfound "hobby".

Do not expect regular blogs nor videos..they happen when they happen and that is my sad (sur)reality these days...better to blog 4 times a year than never at ell, eh?
I usually only blog now if I have a major press release to hype for you...
;-) SIGH!!!!!

Well, I am going in-world tonight to see who is around..maybe something will happen and maybe not. The worst that will happen is that I will be hanging out with some friends in the only way I know how....

Oh about the above performance....ummmm...well, we had learned some moves for balancing on a beam and were too tired/lazy to find a gym...the rest is (art)history....

Stay tuned until 2012 for the next blog posting...tee hee!