CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 17, 2006 11:28pm
Wow, another busy day at NMC Campus with events for the Impact of Digital Media Symposium, some of them happening spontaneously. Early today we met up with the glamorous Anya Ixchel, as we were testing audio and coordinating for the SLATENIGHT sessions she is helping organize for Thursday. She showed a bit of her materials for her session on "Avatar As Communication: Some Lessons from My students":
Anya will present "Avatar as Communication" Friday at 7:00 AM SLT
Visitors took in our ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 17, 2006 04:34pm
Bradley University professor Dr. Ed Lamoureux (aka Professor Beliveau) continues to get some great press for the class he is preparing to hold entirely in Second Life, on NMC Campus, in January. IN today's Peoria Journal Star, Professor B is highlighed in "A whole new world".
For this three-week, interim communications class, Lamoureux and eight students will, from their own personal computers, all log on to secondlife.com at the same time each day and maneuver their online, video-game-looking personas - ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 17, 2006 02:48pm
I am rather disappointed I missed the one day exhibiting of the sculptures of StarAx, which were set up Sunday in one of the empty sims slated for the NMC Campus expansion. Our Aho Museum curator, Tayzia Abattoir, had set up more than 30 pieces of amazing artas part of the grand opening of all of her new content in the Aho Museum.
During the opening, Ravenelle Zugzwang, a friend and colleague, spoke a few words about this Second Life artist:
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Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
Oct 17, 2006 08:19am
Entire Sim Devoted to the Sculptures of StarAx
NMC Campus saw the Grand Opening of the "Art of Second Life" this past weekend. The new exhibition spans three galleries of the museum - the main gallery; the North Satellite Gallery, located to the right of the main entrance, features the work of Filthy Fluno; and the East Satellite Gallery, located behind the main building, the art of Ehdward Spengler.
The highlight of the opening was a one-day retrospective on ... more » »