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

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

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.

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.

Videos: Virtual Web Symposium Amsterdam

Video-on-demand of the Virtual Web Symposium online now!

Watch these very interesting lectures, showcases and interviews in Flash video here: eduverse.org/index.php/symposia

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27 feb.: Virtual Web Symposium, Amsterdam [update]

At De Balie, wednesday 27 februari 2008, from 15:00 hrs till around 22:00 hrs CET

Extensive report about this conference at blog.mindblizzard.com

Report (NLs) at Upthevortex.nl

This event includes Scientists, Educators, Web Specialists, 3D Designers, Artists, Technicians and others. There will be demonstrations, lectures and discussions (both live and virtual) about Education and the Future of the Virtual Web

For a list of participants and more detailed info see eduverse.org

LIVE INTERNET BROADCAST

Video: National Gaming Debate [update]

11 februari 2008 – 19:30 C.E.T.: The Dutch National Gaming Debate live from De Balie in Amsterdam (Dutch spoken – Nederlands gesproken)

PLAY VIDEO (Quicktime)

  Photo by moqub

This is in the context of Safer Internet Day 2008

A new website was launced this night: WeetWatZeGamen.nl (“know what they game”)

Initiated by Digibewust

Virtual Worlds ’08 symposium [update]

 8 februari 2008 – F.E.M., Hogeschool Utrecht – 12:30-18:00

A report in Dutch at upthevortex.nl. Cellphone photo by Damien Simons.

 Collectively we hope to sketch a clear picture of the bussiness and society opportunities of virtual worlds. Second Life is the example for the moment. From a perspective of economy, community and society a vision of the future is the ultimate goal of this convention.

The above was quoted and translated from VirtualWorlds08.nl :

Gezamenlijk hopen wij op 8 Februari 2008 een helder beeld te schetsen van de zakelijke en maatschappelijke mogelijkheden van virtuele werelden. Hierbij is Second Life exemplarisch. Vanuit maatschappelijke, zakelijke en sociale invalshoek is een toekomstvisie het ultieme doel van het symposium.

What was lacking this day. in our humble opinion, was a central panel debate, with a possibility of audience interaction.

So no consensus vision about the future of virtual worlds / metaverses was established. A missed chance unfortunately…