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The Level Playing Field:
From Web 2.0 to World 2.0 and Virtual Life

Fizik Baskerville (a.k.a Justin Bovington) says: “Web + TV + Print + Virtual Worlds = Powerful” This week Virtual Life and World 2.0 entered a new era with Destroy TV and virtual lifelogging in full swing, and the opening of the Sky News sim on Second Life. Sky News launched with a live event and […]

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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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