post updated 2010.11.14 01:00 CET | shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-jD
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?
LIVE ONLINE:
http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1987
Second Life screening:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/188/188/88
Timetable:
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:
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
This blog post is also posted at: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bn
“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)
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
Interesting image from http://wowinsider.com/photos/adams-wow-gallery/1231030
(found via http://twitter.com/malburns)
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:
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.
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://flickr.com/groups/burninglife
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Burning_Life
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This post was updated at 5 october,18:10 CEST
More updates coming up!
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.
Live performances in the virtual world Second Life interactive on the big white screen of De Balie Movie theatre. With livestream broadcasts via the web and in SL.
30 august 2008: Club Goodbye Dollar
Chat-debate, avatar-music concerts, prim-poetry, comedy-theatre, art-performances, role-play-game combat, cyber-sex shows, Most-Creative-Avatar contest, interactive virtual-dance party + LAN-party.
With The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, Second Front, Lauren Weyland, Arthole, d-oo-b, Akrazul Boa, Amari Soyinka, DFM RTV INT and many more!
www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?articleid=258551&podiumid=cinema
‘Second Life is REAL!’ Flickr discusions
‘Second Life – Interface’ Flickr discussions World News Headlines
Indymedia Global News
NPIRL
Meta.Live.Nu 
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