17-19 june MetaMeets 3D-internet & virtual worlds conference Amsterdam

http://MetaMeets.com

29-31 oct.: blender conference 2010 live on 2d + 3d web

Please ADD or CORRECT info! – Blogpost updated 2010.10.30 08:37 CEST — shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-ix

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Just like in 2009, the 9th annual Blender Conference, a 3D software Developers & Users Event in Amsterdam, will be streamed live online on the web and screened in the virtual world Second Life.

October 29-30-31, 2010

Blender is a free and open-source software program for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. For graphic designs, movies,  games and other visual arts. Also for importing 3-D objects into virtual worlds such as Second Life and OpenSim.

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Conference info:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference

Schedule:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/schedule

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Attend online at the Caledon Oxbridge University in SL:
http://paderdesign.de/secondlife/blender-conference-2010

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/76/141/29 – Lecture Hall

The Blender Conference moves from the Lecture Hall to the Sandbox in the evenings and nights:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/66/159/1501 – Sandbox

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Live Streams: (De Balie main theatre only)

http://www.debalie.nl/live

• http://live.engagetv.com/debalie.php – Flash video
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash – Flash video (high bandwith 720 x 404 pixels)
  
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash-small – Flash video – (low bandwith 480 x 270 pixels)
• http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-html5 – Html5 browsers video (iPhone, iPad, etc)
• rtsp://darwin02.engagetv.com/debalie.sdp – H.264/Mpeg4 video (copy/paste in Quicktime, RealPlayer, VLC player or others)
• http://live.nu/1.pls – Mp3 audio
• http://live.nu/1.m3u – Mp3 audio
• http://82.94.213.7:8000/live.nu-1 – Mp3 audio (also for SL parcels)

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Video-on-Demand / Replay:

• Repeats on the live streams of earlier recorded video when there is no live feed.
• Video files available after a few weeks or so.

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IRC Chat Channels:
http://blender.org/community/chat

http://webchat.freenode.net – irc://irc.freenode.net

• #blender
• #blenderchat
• #blenderconference

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Event pages:

• http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=165195463505056
• http://flickr.com/groups/blender2010

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Tweets:

• Hashtag #blenconf2010 – http://twitter.com/search/blenconf2010
• Hashtag #blender3d – http://twitter.com/search/blender3d
  
• The #Blender3D Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender3d
• Hashtag #blender – http://twitter.com/search/%23blender
  
• The #blender Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender
• http://is.gd/gseWL (tweetgrid)
• http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=8&q1=blenconf2010&q2=blender3d&q3=blender+conference&q4=%23blender&q5=%23opensource&q6=blenderconference&q7=%23SL&q8=SecondLife&q9=opensim

Apex Aeterna 1 by Maygray, created with Blender, imported in SL.

Second Life recently introduced 3D meshing (Beta). Some examples of pioneers using Blender to import 3D creations into SL:

http://flickr.com/groups/secondlife3dmesh

Other Blender user images:

http://flickr.com/groups/772503@N23

http://flickr.com/groups/blender

9-12 sept. GOGBOT 2010: Online 3D Festival as well

| DEUTSCH | NEDERLANDS | shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-i2

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

GOGBOT ‘The Singularity’ – Online Art & Design Contest – DEADLINE: september 6th, 2010!

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GOGBOT ‘The Singularity’ – Online Art & Design Contest

DEADLINE EXTENDED to september 6th, 2010!

Create an image, video, music, an avatar or a 3D object related to the GOGBOT 2010 Festival theme: ‘The Technological Singularity’

-> 1st Prize: 10000 L$

–> 2nd Prize: 5000 L$

—> 3rd prize: 3000 L$

—> The 3 best works will be exhibited 9-12 september 2010 at the GOGBOT Festival, Enschede (NL)

—> The 12 best works will be exhibited 9-12 september at the GOGBOT Neocortexx Singularity Tower (SL)

—> The winning works will be published on the GOGBOT 2010 website.

Please read more about how to submit your works online, the competition rules and more updates:

http://flickr.com/groups/singularityart

GOGBOT is an annual Art/Music/Technology/Media Festival produced by PLANETART Foundation. GOGBOT Festival has free access to exhibitions and events at over 10 locations in Enschede, The Netherlands. (Admission only for the indoor music events) GOGBOT is also happening global online in the virtual world Second Life. GOGBOT 2009 had around 15000 RL visitors. Enschede is an Arts, Business & Technology University town near the Dutch-German border crossing of rail & road route Amsterdam-Berlin.

http://GOGBOT.nl

http://BLOG.GOGBOT.nl

http://flickr.com/groups/gogbot2010

video: ‘Video Vortex 2’ expo (2007/2008) with Meta.Live.Nu “DO NOT FEED”

short url http://wp.me/p9f2i-hB

http://youtu.be/iyqoj1zOO3o

Video impression (upload june 2010) of the ‘Video Vortex 2’ exhibition (dec. 2007-jan. 2008) at NIMk (Netherlands Media Art Institute) . Including a segment about the hybrid-reality installation/happening “DO NOT FEED – Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INT” installation. [ 1:10 > 1:38 ]

http://youtu.be/BgzWc47wKvM

Machinima impression of  “DO NOT FEED” (9 dec, 2007) by Chantal Harvey

15-23 may: Pixel-Porn-Art in Amsterdam

‘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://sexandlife.net

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…

May 7-8: MetaMeets 2010

“Europe’s Premier 3D Internet Developer Conference”

May 7th & 8th 2010

http://metameets.com

http://metameets.wordpress.com

2009: Amsterdam, The Netherlands + Virtual Holland, SL

2011: Berlin, Germany + Berlin , SL + … ?

24 april: ARflashmob by SNDRV

short URL: http://wp.me/s9f2i-ar

Bring you own Virtual Human statue to the worlds 1st  Augmented Reality Flashmob at De Dam square, Amsterdam, NL

April 24th 14:00 CET

This happening by Dutch artist Sander Veenhof is not inworld SL, but with a little imagination one can foresee future possibilities of AR with live avatars & prims and it’s possible social impact…

More:
http://sndrv.nl/ARflashmob

http://twitter.com/#search?q=ARflashmob

http://flickr.com/photos/sndrv/4519088620

Sander Veenhof (aka Overig Solzhenitsyn in SL) is also known for his  groundbreaking performances and experiments with SL. Like for instance the mixed-reality installation:
“Physical Virtuality: What’s the weight of an avatar?”
http://sndrv.nl/physicalvirtuality

ALERT:

Who is gonna be in Amsterdam @ #ARflashmob this saturday and live stream from mobile device??? (Ustream or qik or so) Then we can also do a simultanious Media-Prim-Avatar-FLASHmob in Amsterdam, Second Life! 🙂 (with SL 2.0 Viewer)

March 18-20: ElectroSmog Festival

updated 2010 03 29 06:00 CET

http://ElectroSmogFestival.net

International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

March 18 – 20, 2010

Online + SL + #Amsterdam #London #NewYork #Helsinki #Riga #Madrid #München #Banff #Delhi #NewZealand #Dhaka #Nairobi #Montréal #Forres #Cambridge #Strasbourg #Barcelona #Boston #SaoPaolo #Wuppertal #San Francisco + more locations on the planet connected!

Follow the conference in SL:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22

Live streams on the web:

http://www.debalie.nl/live/live_2010.html

http://coolmediators.net/websites/electrosmoglive.jsp

#esmog

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23esmog

“ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility we refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.”

‘Web3’ Second Life related programs in the ElectroSmog Festival:

Friday march 19:

Designing for (im)mobility

• 13:00-15:00 CET (= SL 5 am – 7 am PDT) Debate with Sicarius Fegte, developer of Land of NoR, using Second Life as a platform for Roleplay Gaming. (MMORPG) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Resonance/149/4/70

Saturday march 20:

VIRTUAL-URBAN-WILDERNESS

DFM RTV INT & Meta.Live.Nu , De Balie , Engage & Schijnheilig present parallel parties happening in a squat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)  and a  Cyber-Nomad-Camp (Virtual Holland, Second Life)

• 22:00 – 22:30 CET (= SL 2 pm – 2:30 pm PDT)  – Avatar Orchestra Metaverse – Experimental live music & visuals from a secret sim (SL) .
  

• 22:30 – 23:00 CET (= SL 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm PDT)  – Second Front – Live performance art from Oddessy sim (SL).
  

• 23:00 – 00:00 CET (= SL 3 pm – 4 pm PDT)  – RaaskalBOMfukkerz – Live from Amsterdam. (NL)

• 00:00 – 00:30 CET (= SL 4 pm – 4:30 pm PDT) –  DJ Ninah Puchkina – Live streaming from San Francisco (USA)

• 00:30 – 01:00 CET (= SL 4:30 pm – 6 pm PDT) – DJ Yamna – Live streaming from San Francisco (USA)

• 01:00 – 02:00 CET (= SL 4:30 pm – 6 pm PDT) – DJ Jce Emoto – Live streaming from Amsterdam (NL)

Teleport:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22

Live streams:

http://DFM.nu

http://MBTV.live.nu Channel 2

Please refresh page for last-minute updates!

2010 03 20 18:00 CET

Feb.26-28: Sonic Acts XIII Festival

The Poetics of Space

Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology.

friday-saturday-sunday  feb. 26-27-28

Follow Sonic Acts Conference live from Amsterdam together on the Web3 , @ Meta.Live.Nu Lab Camp Site

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22

http://2010.SonicActs.com

#SonicActs2010