Tina Pearson has been working within and through networked spaces online since 2006. She has created, collaborated, performed, and presented in the networked platforms Skype, Google Hangout, Zoom and Second Life among others. She has been a member of the global collective Avatar Orchestra Metaverse since 2007. Based in the multi user metaverse Second Life, AOM creates audiovisual, hybrid and mixed reality performances in festivals, symposia, concerts and conferences in Europe and North America. Pearson has created networked and mixed reality projects with the Black Bag Media Collective (Techno Dream and Nightmare Choir), Liz Solo (In This Far Now), Norman Lowrey, Leif Inge and others.

Pearson has developed and facilitated sessions orienting artists and musicians to the possibilities and realities of online and networked presence, creation and performance. She was guest lecturer on alternate and virtual reality composition and performance for Pauline Oliveros’ Composition Seminar at Mills College in San Fransisco from 2010 through 2016. From 2020 through 2024, she worked with the ContaQt ensemble of Toronto to develop listening, perception and performance practices in cyberspace, for their Virtual ContaQt online performance series, and for realization of her composition Root Blood, created for ContaQt.

Networked Projects (selected)