Fau Ferdinand (AKA Yael Gilks)
Born in Israel in 1964
Have always been drawing and painting
always trashing my art or giving it away
Makeup art photos are the only survivors of my pre computer phase
1990 first computer, an Amiga 1000 ,fell in love with delux paint II
Doing digital painting ever since then
1991 – initiated and took part in The Wedding , preformance art show involving 12 participants ,screened dpaint animations ,original music and animals
- placed a statue in a virtual museum ran by the computer department of Geneve University
1993 – part of The Royal Family of Florentin , an Israeli performance art group
1994 – was diagnosed with MS ,had a few rough years, joined AW
1999 – cooperated in building an OW world called Koan
2000 – was living in Perth Australia, working on Flare – comics
2001 – moved to London UK
2004 – Joined SL, opened my gallery – pARTicle accelerator - and displayed in Crescent Moon museum
2006 -07
displayed at SL louvre , NMC museum
live SL performance for Notice gallery in London
Cooperating with Jeremy Turner aka Wirxli Flimflam of Second Front on live performace as his foster kid
Work Process
Differs from work to work or series
The work I’m displaying here is using 2 different SL snapshots,
one for the figures and the other one for the background
using a friend as one of my models, the other one is my avatar
Built the background scene in sl, created the pose balls with free animations I found which inspired it.
Fau will be displaying work in the in-world portion of the SLCC this year.
