Since 2005, Scott Kildall and I have each been exploring performance and performativity in our archival prints. Kildall restages then remediates iconic performance artworks in Second Life, and, in my Compressionism series, I strap on a scanner appendage and battery pack, and perform images into existence; both processes produce art objects in the real world.

For Crossing the Void II, an exhibition at Ten Cubed Gallery – Haydn Shaughnessy’s new virtual space designed by New York architect Benn Dunkley – we were asked to produce unique, virtual works for sale in Second Life, which mirror our real world art. In response, we created a series of “Simulate Editions”, where every ‘print’ is individually signed and numbered by hand, making each work ‘technically unique.’ The works are copy and modification protected, but also come with a resize script, so that the new collector/owner – and only them – can grow or shrink their purchase so as to fit into their SL space.