At De Balie, wednesday 27 februari 2008, from 15:00 hrs till around 22:00 hrs CET
Extensive report about this conference at blog.mindblizzard.com
Report (NLs) at Upthevortex.nl
This event includes Scientists, Educators, Web Specialists, 3D Designers, Artists, Technicians and others. There will be demonstrations, lectures and discussions (both live and virtual) about Education and the Future of the Virtual Web
For a list of participants and more detailed info see eduverse.org
A live parallel worlds experiment: A fashion show in the metaverse Second Life and probably for the first time simultaneously a simular fashion show physically on the streets.
UPDATE:
The First Fusion fashion show is projected live from Second Life on a window of De Balie towards the street, behind the physical show outside at Leidseplein in Amsterdam .
(image by EFA)
The EFA First Fusion fashion show at the First Meta sim in Second Life is organized by the Ewing Fashion Agency
The First Fusion fashion show outside of De Balie is organized by The Artists Advice.
More info in english:
EwingFashionAgency.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/first-fusion-you-are-cordially-invited
EwingFashionAgency.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/press-release-simultaneous-second-life-real-life-show
Meer informatie in het Nederlands: www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?podiumid=media&articleid=214542
LiveCam Clip, the eyeball camera avatar was filming for the live broadcast 
(Another snapshot by Tillie Ariantho)
Sonic Acts XII CONFERENCE BROADCAST Live from De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Sonic Acts XII festival takes place between 21 - 24 February 2008 in Amsterdam. The twelfth edition of this festival is devoted to The Cinematic Experience and includes an international conference, a wide range of concerts and performances, an exhibition and a diverse programme of films. The 2008 edition promises a comprehensive overview of the cinematic experience. Recent technological developments in digitalisation, higher-definition imagary and sound, ever-faster communication networks and new types of portable video players make it necessary to re-address the question of what cinema actually is. Developments such as experiential spaces, immersion and sublimation in contemporary music and visual arts add to the urgency of this question.
Video coming up on www.debalie.nl/terugkijken
“Gamers are able to move objects in the world just by thinking of the action.”
BBC report: ”Brain control headset for gamers”
“The headset could be used to improve the realism of emotional responses of AI characters in games”
Tan Le, Emotiv
(Link thanks to nootski in DFM IRC)
Another BBC report:
“Japanese researchers claim to have found a way to control a computer character by thinking about it.”
21 februari 18:00 CET:
It promises to be a very interesting Mediamatic Beauty Parlour #06 this thursday: Artist, writer and engineer Mark Meadows (aka Pighed Stonecutter) presents his new book: I, Avatar
At Club 11, on the 11th floor of the Post CS building, Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam, NL. Reservations via mediamatic.net/pighed
An exhibition with Mark Meadows work can be seen at PLANETART, Weteringschans 179, Amsterdam.
blog.mediacatalyst.com/pivot/entry.php?id=354
What is an avatar? Why are there nearly a billion of them, and who is using them? Do avatars impact our real lives, or are they just video game conceits? Is an avatar an inspired rendering of its creator’s inner self, or is it just one among millions of anonymous vehicles clogging the online freeways? Can we use our avatars to really connect with people, or do they just isolate us? And as we become more like our avatars do they become more like us?
In I, Avatar, Mark Stephen Meadows answers some of these questions, but more importantly, he raises hundreds of others in his exploration of avatars and the fascinating possibilities they hold. His examination of avatars through the lenses of sociology, psychology, politics, history, and art, he will change the way you look at even a simple online profile and revolutionize the idea of avatars as part of our lives, whether first or second.
“As someone that has worked with virtual worlds for over 15 years, I’m only now beginning to see the weak signals and evidence of high enough technical, social, financial, and visual caliber in the work that it is attracting people. Millions of them.”
“When you look at avatars, please think of these people as settlers. You can see them more clearly if you think of them as early traders and frontiersmen who are colonizing a new world.”
Mark Meadows
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“Mark Meadow’s virtual creatures are not your next door neighbours–or are they? Leaving behind 1990s cyberculture and its underground aesthetics, with Meadows we descend into a maelstrom of Identity 2.0 in which business, leasure, sexuality, labour and fashion melt into one.”
Geert Lovink, Media Theorist, Net Critic and Activist.
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it was clear basra was wounded. i couldnt tell where the wound was (sometimes its hard to tell what is wrong when it is so goddam big, or when we are so goddam small), but i could tell it was there. basra was wounded, but it was also still very alive. people were selling vegetables, water, generators, tools, services, and friends were meeting on sidewalks, talking. i found an art gallery that was tucked into the basement of a bombed out admin building. these guys had set it up and were selling canvases out of it. one painting i found was by a painter named Manal Kheroulah. she’s a 23-year old painter at the basra college of fine arts. i like that.
A crossmedia adaptation of the classic play ‘Eh, Joe’, by the legendary Samuel Beckett.
At the Teatro Massimo Falcone e Borsellino - Nuova Sicilia sim, 100,170,23 Second Life.
Performance time of this show:
This night is exclusive to the Nuova Sicilia Community as this is an experiment. With ‘ Eh Oh’ , we look forward to testing several new aspects of SL Theatre production - including SL to SL live streaming video for facial close-ups of the actors in real time.
Please join the ‘Nuova Sicilia Friends‘ group in Second Life, for access to this virtual theatre show.
Starring:
Directed by: SaveMe Oh
Stage design: Don Laprade
Live stage MachinimaCam: LiveCam Clip
Live stream director/producer: Ze Moo
‘Eh Oh’ premiered 11 november 2007
The second performance was at 15 december 2007 (watch the video report)
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Thanks to: Nuova Sicilia (SL sim community), Meta.Live.Nu (art & media lab), De Balie (theatre in Amsterdam, NL), Engage Tactical Media (streaming media services)
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When the Nuova Sicilia sim is full:
Please watch the show for free inworld SL at De Dam square at the Amsterdam 2 sim (Thanks to 3Dutch.com)
Or watch at Alexanderplatz at the NewBerlin sim (thanks to BERLINin3D.com)
Or watch live on the web
Please join the SL group ‘Meta.Live.Nu‘ for help and info about this facility and other Meta.Live.Nu projects.
Meta.Live.Nu Interactive live information-performance-art by Ze Moo at the New Berlin Art Festival 15-2-2008
Snapshots by CallieDel Boa
‘Hand Car’ by Ollie Kubrick
‘EYEBall’ avatar by Blazed Undercity
Fernsehturm by New Berlin SL-Arbeitsambt
Concept by Ze Moo
The newBERLIN Art Festival is on friday 15 februari 2008 and starts at 16:00 CET (= SL 7 am PST) at the newBERLIN sims in Second Life
Meta.Live.Nu will be joining with:
“ATT” (Avatar Tower Television / Avatar Turm Tv)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/123/123/123
Interactive-information-remix-live-performance-art with and around the NewBerlin Fernsehturm. The audience is invited to fly around and hoover next to the television tower to be feedbacked and projected live on the tower textures. The audience avatars are part of this information-art piece. The Fernsehturm will be a tower shaped television.
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Please click MEDIA TAB to play streaming video in Second Life! (Quicktime Player install neccesary).
All this alsobroadcasted live on the web.
11 februari 2008 - 19:30 C.E.T.: The Dutch National Gaming Debate live from De Balie in Amsterdam (Dutch spoken - Nederlands gesproken)
Photo by moqub
This is in the context of Safer Internet Day 2008 
A new website was launced this night: WeetWatZeGamen.nl (”know what they game”)
Initiated by Digibewust 
WALL.K (or Dancing About Architecture)
A performance art happening by SECOND FRONT, 10 february 2008, at the Second Wall-ker Art Center at the Locusolus sim, in Second Life.
Artist/director/writer Man Michinaga (Patrick Lichty) was joined by artists Aliselborg Zhaoying, Tran Spire, Ze Moo and a few others in ‘Wall.K‘.
In Wall.K, the performing artists were wearing wall-shaped avatars.(!)
All this was projected to a live audience as part of ‘SL ONE‘ at the Directors Lounge in Berlin, in cooperation with the ZKM - Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Next to SL ONE curator Olga Wunderlich, only a small fortunate audience was invited to attend the Wall.K performance inworld SL, in an attempt to prevent sim lag. Among them were Jce Emoto, Ninah Puchkina, Chantal Harvey, SaveMe Oh, CallieDel Boa, Ollie Kubrick, LWK Telling, and a couple of other priveleged SL-residents.
Second Front seems to be one of the most profoundly recognized performance art groups in the metaverse Second Life. Patrick Lichty is better known as a member of brilliant anti-WTO activist group ‘The Yes Man’ (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_men)
More pictures and video coming up…
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WHEN MAN MET ZE. 
During the Video Vortex Conference in Amsterdam in january, Patrick Lichty (Man Michinaga) was visiting the ‘DO NOT FEED (Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INT)’ installation at the VideoVortex.2 exhibition.
In the physical exhibition space of the N.I.M.K., Patrick Lichty took control of the naked Ad Breda avatar and escaped the cage at De Dam square in SL-Amsterdam. Ad Breda then went to do an spontanious streaker intervention at the IAM Columbia Isle, the sim of the Columbia College Interactive Arts and Media (IAM) department in Chicago, Illinois. Ze Moo was observing how Ad Breda would survive this without a sim-ban… Read more about this happening at the SecondFront.blogspot
The day after the VideoVortex Conference, Patrick Lichty arrived as SL-resident Man Michinaga in the cage with Ad Breda and Eveline Schoonhoven.
This time, Patrick Lichty was logged in from an airport somewhere in the U.S. while changing flights, while Man Michinaga was changing avatars…
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