#bcon13 : 25,26,27 oct 2013 Int. #Blender3D Conference also in #SecondLife (#SL)

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Just like in 2009 , 2010, 2011 and 2012 the annual international Blender Conference 2013, a 3D software Developers & 3-D Artists Event at De Balie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,  is streamed live online on the web and screened 3D interactive at the Caledon Oxbridge University in the virtual world Second Life.

October 25-26-27, 2013

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

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More details on live streams, chats and other social media interactivity in this collaborative EtherPad:

http://piratepad.nl/blender

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SL & Blender

 Second Life  introduced 3D mesh in 2011 . Some examples of people 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

http://Meta.Live.Nu

12,13,14 oct 2012 Int. #Blender3D Conference also in #SecondLife (#SL)

 /Please ADD or CORRECT wrong information! – Blogpost updated 2012.10.14 10:40 CEST — short link: http://wp.me/p9f2i-l7  http://Meta.Live.Nu

Just like in 2009 , 2010, and 2011 the annual international Blender Conference 2012, a 3D software Developers & 3-D Artists Event at De Balie Theatre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,  is streamed live online on the web and screened 3D interactive at the Caledon Oxbridge University in the virtual world Second Life.

October 12-13-14, 2012

Watching the 2012 Blender Conference live on the big screen at the Caledon Oxbridge University in SL. With the Youtube – Google+ Hangout live stream on a virtual laptop. – Snapshot by Pyewacket Kazyanenko.

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, OpenSim and CloudParty

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Conference info:

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

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

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Attend 3D online at the Caledon Oxbridge University  in SL:

• Viewer 1: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge%20Village/188/144/22
• Viewer 2, 3:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge%20Village/188/144/22

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Live Streams: (De Balie main Theatre only)

• http://youtube.com/blenderfoundation Flash video via Google+ with archive
• http://debalie.nl/live/live_2011_q.jsp Quicktime video
• rtsp://darwin02.engagetv.com/debalie.sdp – H.264/Mpeg4 video (Open in Android phone or copy/paste in Quicktime, RealPlayer, VLC player or others)
• http://live.nu/1.pls – Mp3 audio
• http://live.nu/1.m3u – Mp3 audio
• http://icecast03.engagetv.com:8000/debalie – 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.
• http://youtube.com/blenderfoundation (Higher quality video expected in a few weeks)

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

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

• #bconf12
• #blender
• #blenderchat

Twitter hashtags: #bconf12   –  #blender3d   – #b3d

Caledon Oxbridge University in SL – Blender Conference garden with a Blender logo-pool. 

SL & Blender

 Second Life  introduced 3D mesh in 2011 . Some examples of people 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

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

http://MetaMeets.com

17-18 june MMIF 2011 Ma Machinima Int. Festival

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[ 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

“Another Perfect World” Dutch tv documentary

“Another Perfect World” “in search of Virtual Paradise”

NEW FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM ON VIRTUAL WORLDS

Internet Premiere (dutch subitles edition) 31 july. Replays 1 – 6  august 2009

Holland Doc 24 TV (cable & satellite & web live stream & Livestation)

• Friday 22:09 – 23:06 CEST
• Saturday 02:49 – 03:46
• Saturday 10:50 – 11:47
• Sunday 06:12 – 07:08
• Sunday 19:14 – 20:11
• Monday 17:19 – 18:16
• Tuesday 14:27 – 15:24
  
• Wednesday 02:36 – 03:33
• Wednesday 12:39 – 14:36
• Thursday 12:18 – 13:15

More replays on this digital tv channel are possible.

INTERVIEWS: Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden of Second Life), Jae-Kyung Song of Lineage, Hilmar Veigar Petursson of EVE Online,  Raph Koster of Metaplace and Kevin Alderman /aka/ Stroker Serpentine of Strokerz Toyz

Kevin Alderman (SL: Stroker Serpentine) creating animations for his Adult Second Life business

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This documentary will also be broadcasted TV in more countries:  Probably on SBS Australia, NRK Norway, YLE Finland, SVT Sweden and other TV  stations.

TRIVIA:

In this Youtube preview there is a scene about virtual worlds money and economics there is a machinima fragment, shot by Sandwoman Petion. Of a burning Dollars sculpture and with an  ‘Euro-Avatar’ running passed. These Second Life objects were created by Herman Bergson for the Meta.Live.Nu event at the  ‘Goodbye Dollar’ party in Amsterdam, NL. This scene appears  not inthe full version.

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The festival premiere was in april 2009 at Hot Docs, Canada.

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The British TV premiere was 23 June 2009 on Channel Four /More 4

True Stories presents: Jorien van Nes and Femke Wolting’s fascinating insight into online virtual worlds. Second Life, World of Warcraft, Metaplace, U World – all virtual worlds where the user can create their own paradise, far removed from real life. People can create societies that range from the democratic to the dictatorial, have avatars that resemble their ideal and can engage in actions that their real life personality would never dream of doing, from cyber-sex to virtual crime. But who creates these worlds and are they the right people to be crafting idealised societies that pretend to address and solve the inadequacies of the real world?

The Internet TV premiere was:  june 2009, Metaworld2

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The Netherlands TV premiere was: Thursday 30 july 2009, Nederland 2

Voor miljoenen mensen is het virtuele universum een plek die steeds meer vervlochten raakt met hun echte leven. De plek waar makers en spelers hun eigen paradijs kunnen creëren, ver verwijderd van de echte wereld; geheel naar eigen inzicht, variërend van democratie tot dictatuur. Hier leiden de virtuele inwoners een leven waarvan zij vroeger niet durfden te dromen; van warlord tot succesvol cybersex ondernemer.

Maar wie zijn de bedenkers van deze werelden en welke ideeën en ideologieën liggen eraan ten grondslag? Hoe gaat het bouwen van een virtueel utopia in zijn werk? Wat zijn de economische en politieke regels in de virtuele wereld? Is er persvrijheid? Hoe wordt er handel gedreven? Moeten de virtuele inwoners zich aan wetten houden, of zijn zij daar eindelijk helemaal vrij in? Zijn het echt ideale werelden zonder aardse beperkingen?

In deze documentaire gaan Femke Wolting en Jorien van Nes op zoek naar antwoorden op deze vragen.

Zij spreken de oprichters van de grootste virtuele werelden, waaronder Philip Rosedale van Second Life, Jae-Kyung Song van Lineage, Hilmar Veigar Petursson van EVE Online en Raph Koster van Metaplace over de ideeën achter hun werelden.

More references:

http://raphkoster.com/2009/05/09/another-perfect-world-documentary-on-vws

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

‘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…

$299 Thought Control

“Gamers are able to move objects in the world just by thinking of the action.”

BBC report: “Brain control headset for gamers”

“The headset could be used to improve the realism of emotional responses of AI characters in games”

Tan Le, Emotiv

PLAY BBC VIDEO

(Link thanks to nootski in DFM IRC)

Another BBC report:

“Japanese researchers claim to have found a way to control a computer character by thinking about it.”

Play video: .asx (.wmv) or  .ram (.rm)

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

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