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

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

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…