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The Mixed Reality Metarati and “Destroy TV”:
Merging Art, Technology, Politics and Play

The Mixed Reality Metarati came out to the Fuse Gallery/GHava{SL} Center for the Arts for the launch of Destroy Television Wednesday night. This ten day mixed reality interactive virtual/real “lifelogging” is an independent, art world foray from Jerry Paffendorf and Christian Westbrook of Electric Sheep Company, with collaborator and curator Annie Ok. The MindBlizzard Blog […]

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Hybridized Digital/Physical Worlds:
Where Pop and Corporate Cultures Mingle

These two pictures are from Nicolas Nova’s Media and Design Lab, Mediamatic Workshop, Amsterdam, May 2007 (see Pasta and Vinegar). The picture on the left is what hybridization is NOT about – rather think from a less utilitarian point of view as in picture on the right. (Nicolas Nova). This IS What hybridization is about! […]

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Virtualized Worlds and Mobile Phones:
Results of a Chat with a Real/Virtual Inventor

2D bar codes, or “QR codes,” made their debut (input as data) in Second Life today, thanks to the efforts of Dave Conway-Jones “CJ Chowderhead.” This morning, CJ kindly spent time doing an interview with me. But, of course, if you are lucky enough to meet an inventor, what you really want is an invention! […]

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