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P R E S S R E L E A S E [updated 2011 06 14 04:00 CEST]
Avatars starring at Global Film Festival MMIF 2011
MaMachinima International Festival
June 17 / 18, 2011
Web live + LEA Theatre (SL™) + Club Karlsson, Amsterdam (NL)
‘MMIF 2011′ is the third edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with an interactive cinema screening in physical space (‘RL’). Audiences can follow some of the MMIF happenings live via the web.
The MMIF is a celebration of Machinima: films created in virtual worlds and video games. On 3D Internet platforms like Second Life® for instance, any kind of movie set can be built at very low cost. The MMIF aims to bring Machinima, a new cinematic art form, to a wider audience. Films by professional machinima producers and by those who are just starting out will be screened at MMIF 2011. Machinima directors and avatar actors from all over the world are present in real time at the virtual theatre in SL. These ’Machinimatographers’ will present over fifty short films and discuss their work in front of a live global audience of viewers.
Audiences in Amsterdam can follow the MMIF event live, projected on a big screen in Club Karlsson at Keizersgracht, one of the most famous canals in Holland. Several participating machinimatographers will be present. Visitors can bring their own portable computers to interact with the show on the big screen. Free (wireless) internet and electricity is provided.
Free entrance at Club Karlsson, however tickets are required. Reservations must be made via http://MMIF.org . The amount of tickets at the door is very limited! Full = FULL!
This year MMIF collaborates with MetaMeets, a conference about 3D-internet and Virtual Worlds. MetaMeets 2011 will take place on the same dates and location as MMIF, but during day time.
The MMIF is a volunteer-run, non-profit collaboration of MaMachinima with Club Karlsson, MetaMeets, Meta.Live.Nu, PLANETART, AviewTV, Ystreams.TV, MetaMixTV, Gallery Fermate and many other volunteers. Special thanks to NIMk, De Balie and Bellissima TV. MMIF 2011 is financed by donations and gifts. Virtual land sponsored by Linden Lab®. MMIF is founded and directed by the Dutch film maker Chantal Harvey.
To view the MMIF 2011 full program, get latest news, get tickets or live online interaction please visit: http://MMIF.org
FRIDAY JUNE 17
MetaMeets:
13:00 – 19:00 – 3D-Internet Conference
MMIF:
20:00 CEST (= SL 11:00 am PDT): - DOORS OPEN
20:30 CEST (= SL 11:30 am PDT): - Workshop ‘Machinima for Dummies’
22:00 CEST (= SL 1:00 pm PDT): – Opening ceremony + 2 film blocks
01:00 CEST (= SL 4:00 pm PDT): - Ending
SATURDAY JUNE 18
MetaMeets:
13:00 – 19:00 – 3D-Internet Conference
MMIF:
20:00 CEST (= SL 11:00 am PDT): - DOORS OPEN
20:30 CEST (= SL 11:30 am PDT): - 3 film blocks
01:00 CEST (= SL 4:00 pm PDT): - Club Karlsson closes, MMIF continues interactive online
03:30 CEST (= SL 6:30 pm PDT): – Ending
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Club Karlsson
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
VIRTUAL LOCATION:
LEA Theatre, Second Life®
Teleport & live streams via http://MMIF.org
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PRESS CONTACT: Chantal Harvey info-@-mamachinima.eu
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September 9 to 12th the arts, music and technology festival GOGBOT is not only happening at multiple locations in Enschede, but just as in recent years also on location in the virtual world Second Life.
Under the motto “The Singularity is Near …” both known artists such as Stelarc, as well as newcomers bring interactive 3D sculptures, machinima and live performances.
Parallel with the physical event in Enschede, the virtual GOGBOT 2010 opens thursday 23:00 CEST (=SL 1 pm PDT) with the announcement of the winners of the GOGBOT Singularity Art & Design Contest and with the opening of the exhibition in the KST (Kueper Singularity Tower). This will also be projected on 2 large video screens at Media Art Café Berlijn in Enschede. Also Stelarc‘s performance in SL (live from Melbourne, Australia) at 23:50 CEST (=SL 1:50 pm PDT) is screened @ MACBerlijn.
Sunday, after closure of the physical festival locations, GOGBOT continues exclusively online from 19:00 CEST (=SL 10 am PDT): Live performance art by Stelarc and others. Followed by the virtual GOGBOT Afterparty with DJ ‘s and musicians located in different countries is next. So get your SL avatar out of the closet or register a new avatar for free! This event will partly be broadcasted on DFM web radio.
Gogbot 2010 Online Artists:
Stelarc, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Leona Upshaw, Solkide Auer, Bas Janssen, Dread Rat, Eifachfim Vacirca, Anamkhai Sodwind, Jce Emoto, Khannea Suntzu, Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves, Artistide Despres, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Mescaline Tamas, Lookatmy Back, La Baroque, Fuschia Nightfire, Firlefanz Roxley, Moewe Winkler, Cae Sands, Meta Lord, Zauselina Rieko, Kueperpunk Korhonen – and others …
GOGBOT 2010 Online 3D is produced by PLANETART in collaboration with Meta.Live.Nu and Brennende Buchstaben.
GOGBOT 3D Online Festival program and more info updates:
http://GOGBOT.LIVE.NU
http://GOGBOT.NL – Enschede festival program & info
http://BLOG.GOGBOT.NL – News
http://gogbot10.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/gogbot-2010-ook-online-live-3d
http://kueperpunk.blogspot.com/2010/09/gogbot-2010-parallelevent-in-secondlife.html
‘Pixel-Porn-Art’ of the Flickr group ‘Sexand Life’ at Amsterdam Art exhibition
15 – 23 may 2010
KunstVlaai-ArtPie is an international bi-annual alternative art fair in Amsterdam, one of the largest art events of The Netherlands.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010
http://flickr.com/groups/kunstvlaai
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/kunstvlaai2010
http://twitter.com/#search?q=kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/#search?q=artpie
Dutch art & tech organisation PLANETART selected the explicit erotic Flickr Slideshow of the ‘Sexand Life’ group to stream full-screen on a few large HD monitors as part of their “Technological Singularity” themed show at the KunstVlaai-ArtPie exhibition.
http://flickr.com/groups/sexandlife/pool/show
http://planetart.nl/now.htm
http://flickr.com/planetart
Check this Second Life & Virtual Worlds Porno-art exhibit out if you are anywhere near the Gashouder building at the Westergasfabriek Culture Park, Amsterdam this week.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010/participants-2010/gashouder
http://westergasfabriek.nl/english/engels_zalen_detail.php?d…
http://westergasfabriek.nl/agenda/agenda_item.php?id=1338&am…
More info coming up…
http://www.boompearls.com/?page_id=332
Press release, talks on Boom Pearls in Second Life
Saturday april 18, at 18 – 21 (gmt+1) four positions for understanding art in online spaces as Second Life (SL) will be presented to discuss how art practice in an online world is part of Real Life (RL) and the art world. The talks is part of the curated series Boom Pearls and can be seen offline at YOUin3d.com, Hannoversche Straße 3, Berlin, and online at Boom Pearls in Second Life, http://slurl.com/SecondLife/Phyllira/169/139/90.
Tommy Støckel and Pernille With Madsen both participate with art projects in Boom Pearls.
Jan Northoff and Joachim Stein both uses SL for media productions without necessarily seeing it as part of the art world.
Tommy Støckel will talk about his practice. For this project he considered how an artistic practice can be carried out in SL, where the content of the virtual world is build by the users. His installation, Primitives Collection Field (2007), consisted of freebies build by other users in SL, thereby focusing on what makes SL different from the rest of the world.
Pernille With Madsens installation Endless Structure (2009), which can still be seen, is inspired of the vertigo experienced in the meeting with reality and different constructions or architecture. The possibility to emerge in her scripted construction is another example of artworks by participating artists who are all new in SL. With Madsen will talk about her projects in and outside SL.
Jan Northoff is one of the two founders of newBERLIN, a true to scale interpretation of the german capital in SL. After working with sculpture and massive installations in Real Life, he created a virtual city with a living community of Citizens Friends and Creators of the online international melting pot. So he also invites artists to catch up with the latest 3D realtime technology and online art scenes.
Joachim Stein will talk about the Terms of Service as basis for practice in Second Life. Stein is an experimental thinker and artist, who challenges concepts of reality, play and work. He improvises and constructs narratives by doing what seems absurd and by using found situations and constellations. In 2007 Stein initiated and helped realize a TV documentary about people’s lives in Second Life. During Ars Electronica 2007 he provided workout, diet and medication plans that helped people achieve their Second Live avatar’s body in real life. In his latest work he used Second Life as a tool for re-enacting and filming of a court trial about a copyright case he had provoked by deliberately using and altering a digital map without permission.
The talks will be documented and can be seen at boompearls.com after a while.
Humans FEEL the presence of real avatars in a cross-world interactive seesaw installation, connecting virtual life to our physical world.
On saturday the 1st of november, visitors of the NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam will be physically connected to inhabitants of the virtual world Second Life through an intervirtual balancing plateau.
The total weight of avatars standing on the virtual side of the plateau will be calculated and processed along with the weight of all people standing on the physical side of the plateau. This outcome will trigger the synchronised real-time movement of both the hydraulic powered and script controlled side of the plateau, resulting in an experience of indirect physical contact between real and virtual beings.
A two way videoprojection will visually connect the virtual and real-life participants standing on the installation.
Web-location: http://sndrv.nl/physicalvirtuality
Physical location: Science Center NEMO, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Virtual location: Brooklyn is Watching project space in Second Life. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/66/144/22
Saturday 1st of november 2008
19:00 – 00:00 CET (= SL 11 am - 3 pm PST)
See also:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/physcialvirtualityhttp://blip.tv/file/1418812
http://brooklyniswatching.com/2008/11/01/physical-virturality-today
http://secondslog.blogspot.com/2008/10/1-nov-physical-virtuality-whats-weight.html
Meta.Live.Nu was selected by the Burning Life organisation to get land access in order to be present at Burning Life 2008. On show is the experimental ‘information-art’ installation by Ze Moo:
“Grid Gypsy Camp: Brazil”
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Life%20(Tigris)/222/222/22
This cross-reality, information-art installation is our reply to this years Burning Man / Burning Life theme “The American Dream”. It is partly inspired by the Burning Man festival, partly inspired by the Terry Gilliam movie ‘Brazil’ (1984), and partly inspired by the article “Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians” by Nicholas Carr. Other inspirations into this interactive mixed media art piece come from various real global social, political and enviromental issues.
Next to this, Meta.Live.Nu at BL 2008 will also present some sculptures by invited artist Herman Bergson.
Meta.Live.Nu special thanks: Tooter Claxton, Arcadia Asylum, Cel Edman, Amanda Dench, Talia Tokugawa, Talen Morgan, Luv Ock, Jamal Mfume, Ryan Linden, DFM RTV INT, De Balie Media, Freeteam, DDS,
Burning Life is a non-commercial virtual festival of Art, Fire and Community. It is the virtual version of the American Burning Man festival and starts saturday 27 september 2008 in Second Life.
* All Burning Life sims close for maintenance: Saturday sept. 27, SL 6:30 am PDT (= 15:30 CEST)
* Gates Open to the public, Saturday sept. 27, SL 9 am PDT (= 18:00 CEST)
* Center Camp stage fires up, Saturday sept. 27, SL 11 am PDT (= 20:00 CEST)
Official Burning Life website:
http://burninglife.secondlife.com
Websites for participants:
http://BurningLife.org (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_Life)
http://BurningLife.info (http://vburn.org)
Other Burning Life websites:
http://flickr.com/groups/burninglife
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Burning_Life
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- Philip Rosedale (former CEO of Linden Lab, founder of Second Life) is explaining about the enormous creativity put in Burning Life, In front of an audience of many hundreds at PicNic Festival in Amsterdam, sept. 24, 2008. www.picnicnetwork.org/person/3507/en (photo by Olando7 )
This post was updated at 5 october,18:10 CEST
More updates coming up!
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Feb
08
21 feb.: I, Avatar
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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After the first attack on Iraq, Mark Meadows hitchhiked from Kuwait to Baghdad in 2003, wanting to experience first hand what the mass media filters might not reveal to the public.
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.
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This video shows a fascinating interview with Mark Meadows. Produced at Xmedia lab, Singapore, 18 november 2005.
11
Feb
08
Second Front
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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