Blender Conference live on 2D web + 3D web

post updated 20091202 18:10 CEST

8th annual Blender Conference, Amsterdam, 23-24-25 october 2009

VIDEO ON DEMAND: http://www.debalie.nl/terugkijken

Blender is a free and open-source software program for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. Also for importing 3D objects into virtual worlds like Second Life and OpenSim.

2D WEB LIVE:

• 24/7 all three conference days (with replays in the nights) from De Balie – http://www.debalie.nl/live –   rtsp://darwin02.engagetv.com/debalie.sdp (video H.264 /Mpeg 4) – http://live.nu/1.pls (audio Mp3)

3D WEB LIVE:

• You can follow this event together live  at the Meta.Live.Nu Lab Camp Site in Virtual Holland in SL:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22

FOLLOW TWEETS:

• #blender3d – http://twitter.com/#search?q=blender3d

JOIN IRC CHATROOMS:

• irc.dds.nl  #balie – http://www.debalie.nl/chat –  http://irc.dds.nl/?chats=balie
• irc.freenode.net  #blenderchat , #blenderconference

PROGRAMME:

Friday 23 october:

• 11:00 – 21:00 CEST (= SL 02:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT ) – LIVE

Saturday 24 october:

• 10:00 – 2o:00 CEST (= SL 01:00 am – 11:00 am PDT ) – LIVE

Sunday 25 october:

• 10:30 – 18:00 CEST (= SL 01:30 am – 09:00 am PDT ) – LIVE

POST UNDER CONSTRUCTION…

Kras Alter in SL: "finally getting to making some armor for myself"

28 feb.: MMIF 2009 – MaMachinima International Festival

http://MMIF.org

Last days of ‘Dadamachinima’ expo Amsterdam ends with Machinima Festival

MMIF 2009

MaMachinima International Festival
28th february 2009 – Free entrance
PLANETART, Wibautstraat 150, Amsterdam (NL) + RastaViews sim (SL)

‘MMIF 2009′ is the first edition of an annual global film festival in cyberspace and simultaneously in Amsterdam (NL). In Amsterdam MMIF 2009 will happen at the very last day of the ‘Dadamachinima’ media-art exhibition by PLANETART about avant-garde videogame modification, started 18 December 2008.

The MMIF is initiated by the Dutch filmer Chantal Harvey. The MMIF is a celebration of machinima: a new cinematic art form, created with 3D virtual worlds and online computergames. All the actors (avatars) are individually operated real-time by real people while movie scenes are directed and recorded. On 3D web platforms like Second Life, directors can even build complete movie sets for relatively low costs. MMIF 2009 aims to bring machinima to a wider audience, online and offline.

Over forty short machinima films are screened at MMIF 2009, from all over the world. Machinima created wih all 3D web platforms and online games are welcome.

At the MaMachinima Theatre in Second Life, the artists and directors from many countries will be present in real time to talk about their creations. And to meet other machinimatographers and an international audience online.

The audience in Amsterdam can view the machinima films live via Second Life on a big screen at the auditorium of the PLANETART artspace in the former Volkskrantbuilding.

Free wireless internet and electricity provided for audience laptops.

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DADAMACHINIMA art exhibitionn by moddr_  Worm
Joan Leandre, Marc van Elburg, Julian Oliver, Gordan Savicic, Ludic Society, Gottfried Haider, JODI, Walter Langelaar, Aram Bartholl, Paul B. Davis, Friedrich Kirschner.
Thu-fri-sat: 14:00-17:00 CET
Extra: sat 28 feb. 21:00-03:00 CET
http://dadamachinima.net

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MMIF 2009 Saturday 28 february

21:00 CET (= SL 12 pm PST) – OPEN
22:00 CET (= SL 1 pm PST) – Machinima film screenings
03:00 CET (= SL 6 pm PST) – THE END + After party online in SL
http://MMIF.org

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PHYSICAL LOCATION:

PLANETART Medialab Artspace
Wibautstraat 150
1091 GR  Amsterdam (NL)
http://PLANETART.nl

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VIRTUAL LOCATION:

MaMAchinima Theatre
RastaViews
Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rasta%20Views/222/44/22

Lainy Voom, Pyewacket Bellman, CodeWarrior Carling, Rocksea Renegade, Cisko Vandeverre, Ideajuice Team, Chantal Harvey, Toxic Menges, DizzyBanjo, Fau Ferdinand,  Osprey Therian, Sail Away Project, Lowe Runo, Evie Fairchild and Phaylen Fairchild, Sandwoman Petion, Cecil Hirvi, Jam Tuqir , Larkworthy Antfarm, Shaman Nitely, Susi  Spicoli, PatrickFairhart – Kolor Fall, Rysan Fall, Starshine Halasy, Arahan Claveau, Hotspur Otoole, Brigitte Kungler, Robertz Sparrow, Mescaline Tammas, Binary Quandry, Suzi Yue, Delgado Cinquetti, Surfwidow Beaumont, Crew TinyNation, Aaron Jeans, Madame Zhora, Draxtor Despres, Eifachfilm Vacirca, Jam Tuqiri,  Russel Boyd – Pooky Amsterdam, Harisson Heller aka  Nefarious Guy, Alexicon Kurka, Lyric Lundquist, SaveMe Oh, Krrish Spyker, Evo Szuyuan, Scar Cooljoke and more!

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MMIF 2009 is a non-profit collaboration of MaMachinima, Meta.Live.Nu, RastaOpen Sims,
PLANETART and many other volunteers!

Programme, live chat, participants list, contact info and more about MMIF 2009 updated daily at the festival blog: http://MMIF.org

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MMIF 2009 promo video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YOain60Oc94 (Flash video)

http://youtubemp4.com/video/YOain60Oc94.mp4 (Mpeg4 video)

http://vimeo.com/3092902

London Theatre Blog interview ‘Goodbye Dollar’ event

Andrew Eglinton, founder and editor of the widely-respected and profound London Theatre Blog held an interview with Joyce Timmerman (SL: Joyce Menjou) and Ze Moo. About Live Machinima Theatre, as part of the  ‘Club Goodbe Dollar’ event at De Balie (Amsterdam) & cyberspace in august 2008.  And they chatted about the future of crossing boundaries between arts and technology.

Please read the entire interview here:

Theatre In Second Life

http://LondonTheatreBlog.co.uk/theatre-in-second-life

[photo by Viola van Alphen]

More references:

Live Theater in Second Life

http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/26/live-theater-in-second-life

http://twitter.com/malburns/statuses/1254010663

Teatro en SL

http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/teatro-en-sl

“Orientation” by Nebulosus Severine and Arahan Claveau

http://amyfreelunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/orientation-by-nebulosus-severine-and-arahan-claveau

31 jan.’09: Cross-reality event @ Berlin Transmediale Festival

BERLIN.live.nU update 2009 01 30 21:00 CET

PLANETART at Berlin Transmediale, Festival for art and digital culture, presents:

Live interactive Terror-Noize Danze-Party

@ C-BASE club (physical) & @ club ZENIT – (virtual)

Saturday 31 januari 2009

23:45 – 01:00 (CET)   = SL 2.45 pm – 4 pm (PST)

A cross-reality technology & art event, RL offline & online :

An ‘atomspace’ party at C-BASE club, Berlin (Germany) + a simultanious cyberspace party at Club ZENIT in the spaceship antenna (‘Fernsehturm’) above New Berlin (SecondLife). Both spaces will be audio-visually connected with eachother, LIVE!

! + also LIVE & interactive streaming on the web:

http://STREAMS.live.nU

With DJ Jce Emoto, VJ Sandwoman Petion, IJ Meta Lord, IJ Ze Moo, artists collective Second Front, visual artist Pyewacket Kazyanenko, visual artist Stelarc Luik (avatar of famous Australian performance artist Stelarc) & many others!

P H Y S I C A L   L O C A T I O N :

C-BASE

Spacestation under Berlin

Rungestraße 20
10179 Berlin

Germany

V I R T U A L   L O C A T I O N :

CLUB ZENIT

Fernsehturm – TV Tower (spacestation antenna)

Alexanderplatz, newBERLIN

Second Life

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/133/133/37 (ground level)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/133/133/193 (Club Zenit level)

WEB LIVE STREAMS

http://STREAMS.live.nU

http://DFM.nu

(with CHATBOX )

Supported by: PLANETART, Transmediale,  C-Base, DFM RTV INT, Meta.Live.Nu, BERLINin3D, Mondriaan Foundation, Engage Tactical Media, Freeteam.nl, MaMachinima.eu and others.

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ATTENTION PLEASE:

This page will be updated with latest corrections, changes and additions until after this event.

Please refresh this page often!

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‘Rez we can!’

Interesting image from http://wowinsider.com/photos/adams-wow-gallery/1231030

(found via http://twitter.com/malburns)

• Update: Strangely enough this http://Meta.Live.Nu blogpost also appears on http://wisconsinhumanesociety.net/2009/01/21/rez-we-can/ … But with Viagra and Cialis pills on Barack Obama’s hands…

Robodock Festival 2008

VIRTUAL ROBODOCK 2008
Wed 19 – Sat 29 NOV – SECONDLIFE

EXHIBITION: DAYS/ARTISTS, PERFORMANCES: DAYS/ARTISTS/PROGRAM
PICTURES: Previews/19 Nov Opening/More to come!

SLURL: Resonance (84,133,40)
At the Sims Telehub touch The Globe to get to the surface,
from there its only a few meters to the ROBODOCK TELEPORT

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VIRTUAL ROBODOCK FESTIVAL 2008 IN SECONDLIFE
- WED 19 NOVEMBER TO SAT 29 NOVEMBER 2008 -
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A 10 days tribute to the Robodock Festival
which celebrated its 10th aniversary last year
and unfortunately didn't happen this year.

A showcase of 2 years of DFM RTV INT's
relentless learning, practising, building,
organising in the Virtual World SecondLife.

A worldwide multimedia marathon meltdown of
30 artists sharing their work and experiences
with each other and those interested.

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!!! 21.504 SQUARE METERS OF ROBODOCK STYLE IMMERSION !!!
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GRAND OPENING DAY + PARTY
Wednesday - 19 November

The opening started 1 hour later then planned because of
severe Secondlife server issues (no one could log in) but
hey, only 1 hour late.. that's better then not at all!

The performances and party turned out great and the turnup good!

SOME PICTURES HERE!

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ART EXHIBITION DAYS:
ARTISTS



Thursday - 20 November
Outside tent DJ party: CET 20:00-24:00 NOOTSKI, EL-JOE, LE-JCE
Friday - 21 November
Monday - 24 November
Tuesday - 25 November
Outside tent DJ party: 17:00-24:00 TARIQUAT, MARCELLE, HAKKITAKKI
Thursday - 27 November
Outside tent DJ party: 20:00-24:00 NOOTSKI, MUGEZOND, LE-JCE

NB! The other days are exhibition days too but they also feature
scheduled and adhoc performances which might temporary interrupt
your exhibition visit. On the exposition only days most installations
will be active and the bar will be open too. Bring your friends, hang
out, meet artists. There are many things to see and explore!



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EXHIBITING ARTISTS:

Ambient Kukulkan - Mars Communication Apparatus
Binary Quandry - Key to SecondLife
Bryn Oh - Time Machine
Calimera Lane - Scorpios
Canolli Capalini - Foucault's Pendulum
Cel Edman - Blink Square
Deruub Pastorelli - Floating Interactive Picture Bot
Elfod Nemeth - Lava Clock
Flower Exonar - Noise Organ
Gumby Roffo - Valiant Knight (Riot mech #3)
Jce Emoto - Large Loud Pipe Organ
Meta Lord - Telbot Metari 8
Ninah Puchkina - Roaming Bot Dolls
Perefim Cao - Steam Nautilus
Poid Mahovlich - Marine Wheater Bot
Talia Tokugawa - Robodog

Click their names for more information/website!

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PERFORMANCE DAYS:
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SATURDAY - 22 NOVEMBER
12:00-21:00 PST / 20:00-05:00 GMT / 21:00-06:00 CET
SUNDAY - 23 NOVEMBER
12:00-19:00 PST / 20:00-03:00 GMT / 21:00-04:00 CET
WEDNESDAY - 26 NOVEMBER
12:00-21:00 PST / 20:00-05:00 GMT / 21:00-06:00 CET
FRIDAY - 28 NOVEMBER
12:00-19:00 PST / 20:00-03:00 GMT / 21:00-04:00 CET
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Back Stage


Front Stage



PERFORMING ARTISTS:

Big City Orchestra - Sound Performances
Conospherea - Sound Performance
Curtis Bay - Sound Performances
Daev Jonson - Noise Performances
Dread Rat - Sound Performance
RUBY - Noise Performances
Eabo Heliosense - Sound Performances
Jce Emoto - Sound Performances + DJ'ing
LOSD (Peter Fleur/Radboud Mens) - Sound Performance
Nutski Newman - Sound Performance
OIMA - A/V Performances
Tishiro Tanabe - Sound Performances

Click their names for more information/website!

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Click here for detailed Program Schedule!

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GRAND FINALE DAY + PARTY

SATURDAY - 29 NOVEMBER
12:00-21:00 PST (SecondLife Time)
20:00-05:00 GMT (Universal Time)
21:00-06:00 CET (Central European Time)

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EXTRAS:
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Sol Broome (NL) - Fireworks

DFM DJ Sets in outside tent during Expo Days

Several RealWorld Robodock Pictures on display

Decorum pieces used of:
Arcadia Asylum, Garth FairChang,
Rooster Misfit, Tomarus Lednev,
Tormented Twilight

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Festival Curator: Jce Emoto

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Check the realworld Robodock Site
WWW.ROBODOCK.ORG

or take a look at the
DFM ROBODOCK 2007 PAGE
or the
DFM ROBODOCK 2006 PAGE

or go back to the
DFM RTV INT
MAIN PAGE

1 nov.: Physical Virtuality: “What’s the weight of an avatar?”

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://brooklyniswatching.com/2008/10/25/november-1st-physical-virtuality-at-brooklyn-is-watching

http://secondslog.blogspot.com/2008/10/1-nov-physical-virtuality-whats-weight.html

http://www.mediamatic.net/page/56028/nl

http://www.e-nemo.nl/?id=1&s=40&d=719

http://museumnacht.hyves.nl/forum/2469962/5Pt-/What_s_the_weight_of_an_avatar_virtueel_fysieke_wipwap

25 feb.: EFA First Fusion fashion show [update]

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:

• Report by the Ewing Fashion Agency

• VIDEO ( .wmv) and text report (NLs) by At5 Nieuws  – This is the Amsterdam television Lunch News report. The evening news had a shorter report but with a bit of SL video included. This last one is not online unfortunatly.

• SL snapshots by Tillie Ariantho

• SL snapshots by Laura18 Streeter

• SL snapshots by CallieDel Boa

• Photo’s and report at MindBlizzard.com

• Photo’s and report (NLs) at  UpTheVortex.nl

 

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)

 (Snapshots taken at the EFA First Fusion show by Tillie Ariantho)

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)

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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boar.com/books/avatars

“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.

boar.com/days/03-05-20_iraq  

 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.

boar.com | bore.com | boor.com

17 feb.: Eh Oh (Italian version)

A crossmedia adaptation of the classic play ‘Eh, Joe’, by the legendary Samuel Beckett.

 THE ITALIAN SPOKEN VERSION 

At the Teatro Massimo Falcone e Borsellino – Nuova Sicilia sim, 100,170,23 Second Life.

Performance time of this show:

• 21:00 CET (SL noon PST)

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:

• Dutch actor – Cupido Oh

• Italian actress – Supernova Amat

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.