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

http://MetaMeets.com

17-18 june MMIF 2011 Ma Machinima Int. Festival

short link http://wp.me/p9f2i-kf

[ Nederlands persbericht ]

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

20 nov. Protest Day: NETHERLANDS YELLING FOR CULTURE

http://wp.me/p9f2i-jZ

http://NederlandSCHREEUWTomCultuur.nl

Flip your website!

DUTCH GOVERNMENT RAISES TAXES ON ARTS: It was 6% , will be 19%!!!

The planned cuts to arts and culture are totally out of balance!

As expected, the VVD, CDA and PVV parties in the Netherlands have agreed to make deep cuts to government arts funding. Their disastrous new coalition agreement slashes the cultural budget by more than 200 million euros.

The new cabinet’s plans directly threaten the continued existence of countless Dutch cultural institutions. These cuts amount to a quarter of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science’s budget which is only 0.5 percent of the total government budget. ( A bit of motorway…) The arts sector will thus receive a disproportionately hard blow. The result will be a drastic longterm worsening of the artistic and cultural climate in the Netherlands.

Sign the petition protesting the cabinet’s plans on the Stop Culturele Kaalslag (‘Stop Cultural Demolition’) website. More than 60,000 people have signed so far.

 

http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=137491739636352

“Paying the costs of making things free”

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Economies of the Commons 2 – International Conference on Open Content

November 12 , 13 – 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands + online

How are we going to pay the bill for Free Culture that is to remain as publicly accessible as possible?

http://www.ecommons.eu

LIVE ONLINE:

http://www.debalie.nl/live

http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1987

Second Life screening:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/188/188/88

Timetable:

http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1675

18 april: Boom Pearls – Understanding art in online spaces

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.

16-29 march: NOOBS on Parade

http://NOOB.live.nu

`CYBER SPACE JUNK 1.1`

– data remix cloud of geekism, spirituality, art and more –

Until march 29th, 2009.

An Interactive Information-Art installation for NOOBS on Parade – Contest at Avalon Art District (Ars Lunga sim region) in SL:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ars%20Lunga/99/177/33

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Snapshot with visitors inside the Black Prim Temple, taken by Callipygian Christensen

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concept: Ze Moo – http://ZeMoo.live.nu

avatar: Globe Core – Planet Earth

video: A Noob Machinima – Chantal Harvey – http://MaMachinima.eu
music: 7 Seas – High Voltage

radio:  Cryosleep – http://BlueMars.org

Black Prim Temple

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THE CONTEST
Inspired by the popular “Cows on Parade” featured in cities across the world, Avalon Art District challenged artists take a sculpted NOOB and change the textures, modify it, add to it, make it creative, silly or inspirational. Entries are displayed in Avalon Town at Ars Lunga SIM and open for voting by SL residents.

Voting:
March 16 until the 29th noon SL ( = 21:00 CET)

Party!!!
Join us for a party on March 29th, from 1 pm PDT ( = 22:00 CEST) , the five Noobs that received the most votes will be featured and all those attending the party will vote for their favorite.  The Winner by Popular vote will receive $5000L. Two runners-up will recieve $2000L.

Globe Core

STONE
“the Stone fell from Heaven to show Adam and Eve where to build an altar and offer a sacrifice to God.”
“The Stone will have two eyes with which it will see and a tongue with which it will speak, and it will testify in favour of those who touched it in sincerity.”

SPACE JUNK
“Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by humans, and that no longer serve any useful purpose.”

CYBERNETICS
“The theory/science of communication and control in the animal and the machine.”

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‘Life is short, Art is long’

At the exhibition in SL:

PLAY & mix sound music + video
Quicktime Player installed?
Ctrl-P
Audio & Video
Streaming Preferences
[V] Play Audio
[V] Play Media

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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Report: Club Goodbye Dollar

Live Machinima Theatre & SLLAN-Party

The Live Machinima Theatre cross-reality event ‘Club Goodbye Dollar’ was a great succes! Please check Lauren Weyland’s blogpost and here are some images:

flickr.com/photos/tags/clubgoodbyedollar

' ORIENTATION' - Performance art by Arthole

Goodbye Dollar debate livestream at Amsterdam-sim

Do you know more sites who reported about this event? Please add the links in the comments. Did you also take snapshots or make video? Please upload them to the web and add the URLs here.

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.