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Gartner tech analysts pronounced that by the end of 2011, 80% of active internet users will spend a substantial amount of time in virtual worlds. Earlier this year, a few bloggers, including myself, tried to picture Second Life in the context of Gartner's Hype Cycle--my biggest concern was whether SL's platform would hold out long enough to reach Gartner's "Plateau of Productivity." Perhaps latching on to IBM's "gameframe" quickly enough, Linden Lab can buy a second life for Second Life.

found on http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/ibm_cells_virtual_world_severs/

familiar exhibition in 'raum kalk' at cologne. together with tmd-consulting, meta-unlimited organized a small get-together of colognes netart-avantgarde in kalk.

experimenting with, live-streams, social-vr, hybridspace, transformation of the image from nondigital to digital space and the concurrent theme of globalization where focused by this happening.

participants of 'WE ARE GLOBALPLAYERS TOO' :
timothy shearer, benjamin tillig, sascha blume, ge:schuetz, florian kuhlmann, lance kanno and on extend stage at the kunstwerke 'raummaschinen' featuring matthias neuenhofer.

Anybody claiming that Flash is just a big heap of senseless internet gimmicks can go home now. Because there's THE ultimate Flash application around now : a simulation of a Reggae Sound System! Actually several of them

makeart.goto10.org

WELCOME TO GAMEWORLD:
GAMES ON THE EDGE OF ART, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
MARCH 30TH - JUNE 30TH. 2007
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/gameworld/inicio_001.html

Don’t forget to download the exhibition reader.

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Sax Rohmer's series about the ultimate villain of them all. The Chinese mastermind and criminal genius reaching out for world dominion in the foggy London of the 1920ies. With help of the most obscure means. Can two honest English gentlemen thwart the devilish plans of this sinister Chinaman?

Well, almost for free. A great concept for getting rid of your old paperbacks while receiving even more other books in return. Fine for classics and pulp fiction.

Keys:
Arrow-keys, X and Y/Z

More a demo than a game is Crazy Patterns. It generates truly bliss bullet patterns and is not merely meant as a game, although it has some gameplay, making this a nice “in-between” application.

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A nice and not too hard game from the ACoders team: Crystal. The gameplay is somewhere between Bomb Jack and Emerald Mine, making this a fun experience for nighttime hours or the afternoon.

the documentation of the i buy everything event for download in pdf-format.

theibuyevrythingevent.pdf

the ‚i buy everything event‘ was an event in the tradition of the happenings, extended by 21st century communication-technology.
the purpose of the experiment was to connect the digital world of secondlife with the nondigital
world - and vice versa in order to generate an open hybridspace.
generating hybridspace with the tools of the popculture or opening public space in the spectacular-space with the tools of the artists.

 

 

places: academy of media arts cologne / lance kannos public space in secondlife.com
date: decembre 2006"

images on flickr: 

 

 

the documentation of the i buy everything event for download in pdf-format.

theibuyevrythingevent.pdf

the ‚i buy everything event‘ was an event in the tradition of the happenings, extended by 21st century communication-technology.
the purpose of the experiment was to connect the digital world of secondlife with the nondigital
world - and vice versa in order to generate an open hybridspace.
generating hybridspace with the tools of the popculture or opening public space in the spectacular-space with the tools of the artists.

 

 

places: academy of media arts cologne / lance kannos public space in secondlife.com
date: decembre 2006"

images on flickr: 

 

 

Fascinating insight into the world of funky / mad scientists: hear the true sounds of fruit and cheese!