manx.wharton virtual.empire

Champagne dumped on his head in Buenos Aires; beaten up by skinheads in Reykjavik; jailed in Crisp County, Georgia, for wearing tiger-striped tights; cursed out by Helmut Kohl; recordholder for highest altitude reached in Virtual Reality; thrown out of the Massachusetts State Assembly for busking "Bo Diddly Is A Communist" by Eugene Chadbourne; invented the term "Math Rock"; flew 12 airplane flights in one day from Monterray, Mexico, to Cincinnati, Ohio; impersonated Guest Of Honor at the New Orleans St. Patrick's Day Parade. A leading virtual reality artist, writer, musician, designer, entrepreneur, dirigible gondolier, and policy wonk. More than a decade of performance, recording, publications, and gallery exhibitions across North America.

MANX WHARTON directs 900 House Art Studio and The New Stork Lounge private club in Otherwhen, Corsica, as well as The Manx Wharton Freakout arts and social network.


poetry and commentary/
Manx is a founding member of The Plastic Collective and is one of the most feted poets in Virtual Reality. He is a regular contributor at Blue Angel Poetry, the oldest and largest poetry open mic in Virtual Reality. His poetry most recently appeared in Vitruvius and Blue Angel Landing anthologies as well as winning First Prize in the TLE Veteran's Day Poetry Competition, and is featured in the upcoming Venice Biennale Collateral Program.

live/
Manx led the widely-noted, first ever Manx Wharton Freakout Live at Venusian Gardens West Gallery in affiliation with SLCC 2009 in San Francisco, leading a broad SLRL mashup of poets, artists and musicians collaborating inworld and outworld in a live arts happening. He's a popular guest on the VR talk-show circuit, appearing in podcasts and live interviews including Bookstacks' ''Off The Shelf" program on Radio Riel.

art/
His respected RL paintings are featured at some of the most admired and attended galleries in Virtual Reality, including Infinite Art Gallery and Quadrapop. His RL Avatar portraits, some of the first ever presented in SL, were featured at SL5B and later received a special feature exhibit at the groundbreaking SOMARTS Synthetic Masquerade SL/RL plastic-combined realities art exhibit and opening event in November 2008. His thematic virtual installations have received consistent attention in the virtual arts press. Some of the most recent of these include The General Welfare (with Nestra Careless), featured prominently at Burning Life 2008, Repurposed: Your Leisure Lifestyle aboard the SS Galaxy in February 2009, and The Future Is Ruth, featured at SL6B in June 2009.

music/
He performs solo and with virtual band L-1011 at venues including The Lily Pad (the oldest live venue on the Grid), SLEvolution, TRAX, Sunshine Daydream Ampitheatre, Guthries, West Of Ireland, Blues Warehouse, Burning Life 2008, and the Grand Finale Night on the main stage at Second Life 6th Birthday. He is a regular act at ACS Callidora Relay For Life benefits across the grid including this 2009's Fantasy Faire. His recordings are featured on the popular indiespectrum radio.

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