27 sept.>5 oct.: Meta.Live.Nu @ Burning Life 2008s,

Meta.Live.Nu was selected by the Burning Life organisation to get land access in order to be present at Burning Life 2008.  On show is the experimental ‘information-art’ installation by Ze Moo:

“Grid Gypsy Camp: Brazil”

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Life%20(Tigris)/222/222/22

This cross-reality, information-art installation is our reply to this years Burning Man / Burning Life theme “The American Dream”. It is partly inspired by the Burning Man festival, partly inspired by the Terry Gilliam movie ‘Brazil’ (1984), and partly inspired by the article “Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians” by Nicholas Carr. Other inspirations into this interactive mixed media art piece come from various real global social, political and enviromental issues.

Next to this, Meta.Live.Nu at BL 2008 will also present some sculptures by invited artist Herman Bergson.

Meta.Live.Nu special thanks: Tooter Claxton, Arcadia Asylum, Cel Edman, Amanda Dench, Talia Tokugawa, Talen Morgan, Luv Ock, Jamal Mfume, Ryan Linden, DFM RTV INT, De Balie Media, Freeteam, DDS,

Burning Life is a non-commercial virtual festival of Art, Fire and Community. It is the virtual version of the American Burning Man festival and starts saturday 27 september 2008 in Second Life.

* All Burning Life sims close for maintenance: Saturday sept. 27, SL 6:30 am PDT (= 15:30 CEST)
* Gates Open to the public, Saturday sept. 27, SL 9 am PDT (= 18:00 CEST)
* Center Camp stage fires up, Saturday sept. 27, SL 11 am PDT (= 20:00 CEST)

Official Burning Life website:

http://burninglife.secondlife.com

Websites for participants:

http://BurningLife.org (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Burning_Life)

http://BurningLife.info (http://vburn.org)

Other Burning Life websites:

http://BurningLife.com

http://flickr.com/groups/burninglife

http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Burning_Life

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Philip Rosedale (former CEO of Linden Lab, founder of Second Life) is explaining about the enormous creativity put in Burning Life, In front of an audience of many hundreds at PicNic Festival in Amsterdam, sept. 24, 2008. www.picnicnetwork.org/person/3507/en (photo by Olando7 )

This post was updated at 5 october,18:10 CEST

More updates coming up!

Club Tabac: Cross-reality event reports

We are gathering images, sounds and other data documenting last weekends succesfull Club Tabac cross-reality event.

Please add your images and videos’s to flickr.com/groups/metalive . Or add other URLs in the comments. Please contact Ze Moo if you need help with uploads.

Video recording exerpt of the live broadcast with Eifachflim Vacirca‘s performance with DJ Damien S. at the end of the video:

http://d-oo-b.cc/adam_444_DL.mov (33 mins.)

http://d-oo-b.cc/adam_444_15.mov (19 mins.)

Club Tabac snapshots by puchkina

Club Tabac snapshots by CallieDel Boa

Snapshots by Joja Dhara

by puchkina

Eifachfilm Vacirca performing in the background, SaveMe Oh and another great avatar (name?) on the right. On screen the pro/contra smoking debate live at De Balie

DJ Damien Simons double on live screen: physically at De Balie and virtually at Club Maya Beach.

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BIG CHEERZ to everybody who contributed to this unique event!

28 june 2008 Club Tabac: cross-reality party

Club Interbellum presents a Cross-Reality party event about smoking-culture: CLUB TABAC.

Club Tabac is inter-connecting 5 physical spaces and 5 virtual spaces: The event rooms at Theatre/cinema/café De Balie (Amsterdam NL) and the sims Amsterdam-SL, Groningen-SL, Virtual Holland Future, Club Maya, and SL5B Copy.

Image by Anya Kivert

This is the last saturday ever in the history of The Netherlands that smoking will be allowed in clubs, bars, restaurants coffeeshops and so. The new Dutch public places smoking-ban law takes effect on july 1st 2008.

This Club Tabac event brings pro-smoking versus contra-smoking debates, live bands, DJ’s, VVJ’s, art performances and more. Physical as well as virtual! RL live mixing physical and virtual images and sounds on audio & video livestreams on the web and in Second Life. And on large physical video projection screens at De Balie halls.

SL5B LAN-Party

Bring your laptop and celebrate SL5B in RL! Free wireless internet and powersockets available. Club Tabac tickets are 10 euros. FREE ENTRANCE for the first 5 avatars logging in from this LAN-Party. They will get their RL entrance ticket money refunded in Linden Dollars.

SMOKING AVATAR CONTEST 2008

The most popular avatar in sexy ‘smoking-fetish’ or ‘smoking celebrity lookalike’ or craziest smoking avatar is chosen by a Real Life audience and wins L$ 15000. Total prizemoney: L$ 25000. (Twentyfive Thousand Linden Dollars!)

Full programme and info on CYBER CLUB TABAC:

www.clubinterbellum.nl/clubinterartikel.jsp?articleid=257654