june-17-nl-film-premiere-ru-there-mixed-reality-afterparty-sl

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[ NEDERLANDS ]

20.30 – 00:30 CEST (GMT+1, SL 11:30 am – 3:30 pm PDT)

Thursday June 17th 2010

Cross-media mixed-reality event live from movie theatre Kriterion (Amsterdam) and Virtual Holland (Second Life) and Ystreams.TV (web)

On Thursday June 17th  there will be a unique event for the Netherlands movie premiere of “RU There” at the kriterion Cinema in Amsterdam and simultaniously online.

“RU There was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. “R U There” tells the story of Jitze (20), a professional gamer who travels around the world to compete in video game tournaments. During a stay in Taipei he unexpectedly witnesses an accident which resembles those he re-enacts in his video games on a day to day basis; this confronts him with his own mortality and his world is suddenly shaken by reality, in a violent way. He meets an intriguing Taiwanese woman in the hotel bar where he is staying, never quite figuring out whether she is an escort, masseuse or bettle nut girl. He tries to get close to her but only manages to do so in the virtual world, on Second Life which they both visit.

The event is organised by Eye Films Nederland in cooperation with movie theatre Kriterion, Linden Lab ( Second Life ), Ystreams.TV and MetaMeets. With special thanks too Planetart and Meta.Live.Nu.

In line with the story line in the movie the event will take place simultaneously:

·         in ‘First Life’: Kriterion in Amsterdam, Roeterstraat 170, 1018  WE Amsterdam)

·         in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/119/121/1763

·         on the web and live via video stream on http://YstreamS.TV

The program:

– 20.30  CEST  (GMT+1) Dutch Premiere Screening “RU there” movie : 20.30 h  (GMT+1) Only “RL” in Kriterion, Amsterdam

– 22:00 CEST ( = SL 1:00 pm PDT ): – Q & A with “RU There”” film crew with director David Verbeek: at Kriterion, in Second Life and on the web

– 22.20 – 00.30 CEST ( = SL 1.20 – 3.30 pm PDT ): – Mixed-Reality Afterparty fromin room K1 in Kriterion, in Second Life and on the web.

‘RU There’ Netherlands Movie Premiere Mixed-Reality’ Afterparty event!

During the after party in room K1 in Kriterion and on the big film screen there will be Live Machinima projections directly live from the secon life venue. At the afterparty location in Virtual Holland in Second Life (provided by JoJa Dhara from Metameets) there will be a big screen showing the live video stream directly live from Kriterion. A community manager will take care of all contacts beteen RL and SL visitors and of the social media back channel. Dutch Second Life residents will be present at the party to help other visitors to make their own avatar so they can go and visit Second Life ! Of course there is music SL too. DJ Messalina Lavendel will provide swinging cool Jazz live from Florida and yes dancing is allowed !

Also avatars from the RU There movie will be present at the after party at Virtual Holland, an unique opportunity to meet a virtual movie star!

Follow us online via:

#RUthere

Twitter: @ystreams

Facebook:  Ystreams.tv + Kriterion

http://Ystreams.tv

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)

Second Front about Wikipedia, SL & media in general

blog post short link:  http://wp.me/p9f2i-fR

Second Front members Great Escape (aka artist Scott Kildall) and Man Michinaga (aka Patrick Lichty, also the animator of The Yes Men) were special guests in De Hoeksteen Live! at the NIMk.  Interviewed by Prince Clause Fund director Els van der Plas.  Live on SALTO 1 TV (Amsterdam) + web.

They talked about the about the CPoV (“Critical Point of View”) Wikipedia Conference in Amsterdam where they did presentations. (Patrick Lichty: “This-presentation-might-get-me-killed”)

Furthermore about the virtual world Second Life and their performance art group Second Front in particular. And about new media in general.

Above photo’s by Anne Helmond

VIDEO-ON-REQUEST:

• Video Part 3 (01:00-02:00) – Interview with Patrick & Scott starts from about 01:55.3
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280100.asf

• Video Part 4 (02:00 – 3:00 wintertime)
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280300.asf

• Video Part5 (04:00 wintertime) – Last few minutes of the Reuters SL intervention video by Second Front
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280400.asf

  

  

These above video files will be available online for a maximum of 4 weeks after the live broadcast of march 28/29 (2010).

Second Front’s Breaking News III Video (2007)

Watch the first two hours video of this edition of De Hoeksteen Live! with special attention for the current NIMk workshop ‘The Media City’ here: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bw

wikipedia-watch.org

This blog post is also posted at: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bn

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

20 feb. MMIF 2010: Avatars starring at global film festival

[ Nederlands persbericht hier ] update 20100215 07:50 CET

MMIF 2010

MaMachinima International Festival
Saturday Feb. 20th , 2010
MMIF sims (SL™) + PLANETART,  Wibautstraat 150 Amsterdam (NL)

‘MMIF 2010′ is the second edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with a screening in physical space (‘RL’). A seven hour movie marathon with a two hour afterparty. MMIF 2010 can also be followed on the web via live stream broadcasts.

The MMIF is a celebration of ‘Machinima’: a new cinematic art form, created with virtual worlds and video games. On 3D Internet platforms like Second Life®, any kind of movie sets can be build for very low costs. The MMIF aims to bring machinima to a wider audience, online – and offline. Machinima artists from all over the world are present in real time at the virtual MMIF Theatre. They present over 50 short films and have talks with other machinimatographers and an international audience.

Audience in Amsterdam can follow the MMIF event projected live on a big screen at the PLANETART Medialab Artspace. They can bring their own laptop computers to interact with the show on the big screen. Free wireless Internet and electricity is provided. No entrance fee at PLANETART, however tickets are required –  reservations must be made via email. Details at  http://MMIF.org

The MMIF is a volunteer-run non-profit collaboration of MaMachinima with PLANETART , Volkskrantgebouw, Meta.Live.Nu, Pop Art Lab, VMax, AviewTV, Ystreams.TV, Metaworld Broadcasting, MetaMeets, Gallery Fermate, Museum Of The Bohemian, and many volunteers. MMIF 2010 is financed by donations and gifts. Virtual land sponsored by Linden Lab®. The MMIF was initiated by the Dutch film maker  Chantal Harvey.

MMIF 2010 info, promo video, full programme, live streams, contact and  latest updates and changes at   http://MMIF.org

MMIF 2010 ARTISTS:
Gala Charron – Ogogoro –  Lainy Voom – Draxtor Despres – Bryn Oh –  Rohan Fermi – Toxic Menges – Tara Yeats – Phaylen Fairchild – Pooky Amsterdam & Russell (Rosco) Boyd – Poid Mahovlich – CodeWarrior Carling – Evie Fairchild – Graham Miami – Kronos Kirkorian – Osprey Therian – Chaffro Schoonmaker  –  SaveMe Oh –  Dulci Parx – Chatnoir Studios – Paisley Beebe – Rysan Fall – Sol Bartz (phil Rice) – Rocksea Renegade – Cisko Vandeverre – Nitwacket (Pyewacket Bellman) – Chantal Harvey – Lowe Runo – Pia Klaar – Al Peretz – Halden Beaumont – Kolor Fall – Binary Quandry – spyVspy Aeon – Animatechnica – Miles Eleventhauer – Lizsolo Mathilde – Delgado Cinquetti – L1aura Loire – Iono Allen – Pyewacket Kazyanenko – Fort Knight – Luca Lisci – Larkworthy Antfarm  – Beans Canning  – Gtoon Jun – Tutsy Navarathna –  Hadji Ling – Colemarie Soleil – Xineohp Guisse – Lorin Tone – Ian Friar – Suzy Yue  – Claus Uriza / Emily Hifeng – Meta Lord,  and  others.

MMIF  2010 TIMES:
Saturday 20th of  February
19:00 CET (= SL 10 am PST) – DOORS OPEN
20:00 CET (= SL 11 am PST) – Opening ceremony + Machinima film screenings
03:00 CET (= SL 6 pm PST) – THE END + After party online in SL

PHYSICAL LOCATION:
PLANETART Medialab Artspace
Wibautstraat 150
1091 GR Amsterdam (NL)

VIRTUAL LOCATION:
MMIF  1, 2, 3, 4
Second Life®

Teleport links via http://MMIF.org

21 jan. 2010: Designing for Sustainable Immobility

Thursday January 21, 20:30 CET (= SL 11.30 PST)

INTERACTIVE LIVE from De Balie (Amsterdam) + via Skype + via Second Life

[NEDERLANDSTALIG]

The world-wide mobility explosion is an enormous challenge for designers. How can we convince people that current forms of continuous mobility are no longer ecologically sustainable? Should mobility simply be made unaffordably expensive? Or can we design viable alternatives?

As a prelude to the ElectroSmog festival, De Balie in Amsterdam will present a showcase of design proposals, practical projects and design-ideas that should persuade us to start moving less.

With on-line and on-site contributions by among others:

John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, the international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design, will highlight design projects that try to tackle the question of mobility reduction.

http://DoorsOfPerception.com – http://twitter.com/johnthackara

Stefan Agamanolis, director of  Distance Lab, Forres (Scotland), will present the specific focus of his organisation on networking rural and remote area’s. The relevant question for the ElectroSmog festival  is whether we can live in a sustainable way in the green and still connect to the rest of the world, culturally and economically?
http://DistanceLab.org

David van Gent is a managing consultant for IBM on Learning Strategy & Technology, Virtual Worlds, Serious Gaming & Web 2.0. He will talk about and demo the Virtual Offices project of IBM, using open SIM technology (similar to second life):
( See for instance this CNN item )

Eric Kluitenberg, head of the media department of De Balie and initiator of the ElectroSnog festival, will present the concept behind the festival. Besides exploring the critique of mobility theoretically, ElectroSmog will also address the issue practically. All international presentations in the festival will be realised by means of tele-connections between the different international locations.
http://www.ElectroSmogFestival.net

Live & Interactive:

This program will be streamed  live on the internet – for details please refer to:
http://www.debalie.nl/live

Chat with us and other viewers at De Balie online chatroom:
http://www.debalie.nl/chat

You can also watch this live event together with other avatars at the Meta.Live.Nu Roof-Theatre in the virtual world Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amsterdam/71/122/55

See also:

http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?articleid=333103&podiumid=media

http://electrosmogblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/designing-for-immobility

ATOM.LIVE.NU

http://ATOM.LIVE.NU