second life
video: Intimacy: Day Three
Submitted by bencraggs on Fri, 07/03/2008 - 00:10.The third and final day of Intimacy was a symposium, with feedback from particpants and engaging discussion. A short montage of which can be found in this video.
event: GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents)
Submitted by Ariel Elkin on Wed, 06/02/2008 - 16:02.GALA IN A NUTSHELL GALA is an annual festival to showcase the latest Animated Lifelike
Agents created by university students and academic or industrial
research groups. GALA was launched in 2005. GALA provides:
- the GALA Final event, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art in the
technology of virtual humans;
- the GALA Jury Award for student projects and the GALA Public Award
for any entry; [read more...]
event: Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums
Submitted by Ariel Elkin on Wed, 23/01/2008 - 15:44.CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS VW LEM CONFERENCE
"Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7841728111
Saturday, March 8, 2008 in Second Life
Purpose of the Conference:
To provide a gathering place for librarians, information
professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about [read more...]
forum: Intimacy: Feedback and Reportage
Submitted by bencraggs on Fri, 30/11/2007 - 12:51.This thread has been set up to facilitate a focussed discussion on the partcipants and events taking place at Intimacy.
Intimacy is packed full of events. Kicking off today, Friday 7th December, with workshops, seminars and performances leading to the FREE LAUNCH EVENT tonight at 6.30pm - Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths. [read more...]
event: Intimacy - Virtual Salon
Submitted by bencraggs on Thu, 29/11/2007 - 15:04.To complement the 'real world' workshops, seminars and performances that will make up 'Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance' a virtual 'salon' is being hosted to discuss some of the key questions raised by the events.
Over the next two weeks the Intimacy forum will be calling for contributions and responses to questions such as: [read more...]
forum: 'Bodies' in Second Life
Submitted by bencraggs on Thu, 22/11/2007 - 00:18.I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the importance of the body and body image in Second Life? I must admit I had not ventured into this area until last week - but thought I should log on and explore considering one of the seminars is going to run 'there'. [read more...]
blog: Intimacy Discussion Forum
Submitted by bencraggs on Sat, 17/11/2007 - 13:00.Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance.
Discussion Forum Open!
As a precursor to the series of events that take place in December an online discussion is taking place on our Digital Arts and Humanities
group. http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/448 Join now to contribute. To kick things off, Intimacy organisers Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan have kindly agreed to appear online for an interview to discuss the event and to give their responses to the theme of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance. [read more...]
event: Designs on eLearning Conference
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Tue, 21/08/2007 - 10:22.Some fifty papers from delegates coming from the UK, the Americas, Australasia, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and other parts of Europe, cover topics from Drawing, Colour, VLEs, blogs, and Second Life to the Online Studio.
The Conference reception is at the Lethaby Gallery and the Dinner is at Tate
Modern.
The programme is online at [read more...]
blog: Preserving Virtual Worlds project - Second Life
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 11:48.The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) have received funding for a two-year project to explore methods for preserving digital games, interactive fiction, and shared realtime virtual spaces. [read more...]




