SL Creativity

Video of workshop with Daniel (Linden) Huebner

Here’s a video of Stanford Humanities Lab’s How They Got Game Workshop #1 with Linden Lab’s Director of community affairs Daniel Huebner.

After the fold you will find my short notes, but if you can spare a good hours time then you should check out this interesting video. You should that the sounds quality is a little rough in few places, but hopefully you will get everything out of the context.

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Call for avatar / Second Life Performance Artists

(Got this in my email)

LIVE Performance Art Biennale October 2007 / Vancouver Canada

LIVE 2007 (in partnership with Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center) is presenting an exciting new performance art initiative in the virtual world of Second Life. LIVE 2007 invites international Avatar performance artists to participate. The event will be simulcast as part of the festival program.

Please email a brief expression of interest, avatar performance proposal, CV, bio, and links before May 1st, 2007 to:

• Jeremy O. Turner (a.k.a. Wirxli Flimflam of Second Front fame) director of Avatar Development, LIVE jerturner536@yahoo.ca

• James Morgan (a.k.a. Rubaiyat Shatner) director/curator, Ars Virtua gallery@arsvirtua.com

The LIVE Performance Art Biennale was founded in 1999 and has located Vancouver, Canada as an important and recognized node of local, national and international performance art activity and critical study.

Ars Virtua is a new media center and gallery located in the synthetic world of Second Life. It is a new type of space that leverages the tension between 3-D rendered game space and terrestrial reality, between simulated and simulation. Ars Virtua is sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media.