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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 15, 2008 09:54pm
A stunning new Second Life art show will be opening this Saturday on NMC Campus. "Kiss the Sky" is the definitive exhibition of Hyperformalism in the world of Second Life®, and is a brand new collection of Second Life art curated by DC Spensley (aka DanCoyote Antonelli).
Virtual worlds are a place for discovering new territories and exploring meaning outside the context of the material world. Even in virtual worlds there is an avant garde, a native artform spawned from ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 19, 2008 05:32pm
Coming up Monday, Wainbrave Bernal (aka Jonathan Richter form University of Oregon) is visiting the NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session to tell us about the SaLamander Project -- an interesting weaving of several technologies designed to have educators tag and catalog the best resources and learning materials in Second Life.
As described by Wainbrave,
The SaLamander Project is an open Second Life education community with a mission to develop a searchable peer-reviewed database of educational builds and tools in Second Life. Using ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 16, 2008 10:59pm
it's been quite some time since the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication, held way back in early December, 2007. It was such a huge event, its taken us this long to organize all the resources (please activate your avatar's nodding head in agreement animation).
Below we provide some of the highlights, mainly links to the archived video of the sessions. These videos were archived from our set up that provided live video streams to our overflow sims, but required ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 15, 2008 10:41pm
Today witnessed an amazing turnout for Stephane Zugzwang's demo and release of the Virtual Reality Room tool for educators, hosted today at Learning on NMC Campus.
We had a capacity crowd of 73 for the 10:00 AM demo, and we got so many messages and IMs from people knocked out to the next sim, that Stephane agreed to provide another demo at 12:00pm where we saw an additional 41 eager avatars show up.
As a recap, we have some audio recorded ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 10, 2008 04:03pm
We had an excellent session this morning over at the Babbage Amphitheater on NMC Conference Center- MediaGridAaron Oh presented on how grid computing applies to virtual worlds, and the work the Immersive Education project is doing to provide connections and shared access to multiple virtual worlds.
We had 54 attendees, including ones from the U.K., Belgium, Spain, and all over the US.
Today's event was a pre-cursor to the Boston Digital Media Summit taking place January 12-13, 2007 which will include presentations, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 16, 2007 10:31pm
With so many blogs to write in, photos to post, and places to be in Second Life, we humbly aplogize for not sharing a video from way back in.. August 2007. As you ought to have memorized, this was the NMC's first every online conference hosted completely in Second Life- the NMC Symposium on Creativity in SL.
While we have a good pile of tagged media and stories on the main NMC web site, we goofed and completely forgot to ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 10, 2007 04:02pm
This keynote presentation by Howard Rheingold was delivered live into Second Life to an audience of 90+ attendees of the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication.
The presentation will span from the time of speech and collective defense and collective food-gathering among primate ancestors on the African savannah; to the emergence of writing on clay tablets as empire-cities began to grow out of agricultural settlements; to the invention of the alphabet and the restriction of alphabetic knowledge to elites ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 14, 2007 09:19am
Just popping up yesterday on the web video circuits, bouncing around by email notices, are references to another beautiful machinima by Robbie Dingo, The Mask. From opening credits:
War-paint. Camouflage. Concealment. Act of self-expression or of belonging to a group. Representation, reflection, or pretense? For protection sometimes; actually often. A curtain, a screen, a veil behind which to hide. A shield, disguise or figment. Often fanciful though - ones persona, like war-paint. Masks and avatars. Behind each, a person, with hopes ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 31, 2007 12:21pm
Yesterday, Case Western Reserve University hosted both in RL and SL their Faculty Technology Showcase-- with versions of project posters available at Case's location on the ClevelandPlus sim.
Live video streamed in the overviews provided by the faculty, but in addition, we got to listen to a moving lunch time (well lunch time in Cleveland) keynote by Lev Book (aka RL Lev Gonick, Case CIO).
Look below for our audio recording of Lev's remarks, very much worth listening to as he ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 28, 2007 08:36am
It's been more than a week since the end of the NMC Symposium on Creativity on Second Life, yet we continue to find thing to share! As noted, from the Friday highlights, we ended that day with 3 performances of DanCoyote Antonelli's ZeroG SkyDancers, one of the most unique and demonstratively creative art forms in Second Life (learn more about DC's concepts of hyperformalism...)
During the show, like many of you, I was taking lots of snapshots (see 1000+ flickr photos ... more » »
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