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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
‘Pixel-Porn-Art’ of the Flickr group ‘Sexand Life’ at Amsterdam Art exhibition
15 – 23 may 2010
KunstVlaai-ArtPie is an international bi-annual alternative art fair in Amsterdam, one of the largest art events of The Netherlands.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010
http://flickr.com/groups/kunstvlaai
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/kunstvlaai2010
http://twitter.com/#search?q=kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/#search?q=artpie
Dutch art & tech organisation PLANETART selected the explicit erotic Flickr Slideshow of the ‘Sexand Life’ group to stream full-screen on a few large HD monitors as part of their “Technological Singularity” themed show at the KunstVlaai-ArtPie exhibition.
http://flickr.com/groups/sexandlife/pool/show
http://planetart.nl/now.htm
http://flickr.com/planetart
Check this Second Life & Virtual Worlds Porno-art exhibit out if you are anywhere near the Gashouder building at the Westergasfabriek Culture Park, Amsterdam this week.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010/participants-2010/gashouder
http://westergasfabriek.nl/english/engels_zalen_detail.php?d…
http://westergasfabriek.nl/agenda/agenda_item.php?id=1338&am…
More info coming up…
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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
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)
- 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
http://MetaMeets.com
First Annual Metameets Conference
Friday, May 22 – Sunday, May 24 2009
De Zwijger, Amsterdam (NL) + Virtual Holland (SL)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland%20Business/166/66/22
MetaMeets09: A European conference addressing the present and future of user-created virtual worlds such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Open source Sim grids and more….
Follow MetaMeets LIVE:
http://MetaMeets.wordpress.com
http://flickr.com/groups/metameets
http://events.linkedin.com/MetaMeets-09/pub/42678
http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=54240928817
http://metameets.sixgroups.com
More details coming up…
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.
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Mar
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16-29 march: NOOBS on Parade
`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
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.”________________________________________________________
‘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
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)
Andrew Eglinton, founder and editor of the widely-respected and profound London Theatre Blog held an interview with Joyce Timmerman (SL: Joyce Menjou) and Ze Moo. About Live Machinima Theatre, as part of the ‘Club Goodbe Dollar’ event at De Balie (Amsterdam) & cyberspace in august 2008. And they chatted about the future of crossing boundaries between arts and technology.
Please read the entire interview here:
Theatre In Second Life
http://LondonTheatreBlog.co.uk/theatre-in-second-life
[photo by Viola van Alphen]
More references:
Live Theater in Second Life
http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/26/live-theater-in-second-life
http://twitter.com/malburns/statuses/1254010663
Teatro en SL
http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/teatro-en-sl
“Orientation” by Nebulosus Severine and Arahan Claveau
http://amyfreelunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/orientation-by-nebulosus-severine-and-arahan-claveau
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