Category: Creative Practice & Strategy

INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EARTH 3D VISUALIZATION GRAND CHALLENGE

How can we better experience this world of ours at the cross roads of human impacts and climate change?  How can we best communicate these experiences, particularly in light of the major changes Earth now faces, as one world?  How can we most compellingly understand and communicate those experiences and processes?  What 3D experiences or 3D tools can you share that might encourage the opportunity for a better world?  If you think you can do this in a way that demonstrates how people can more easily and effectively communicate, YOU COULD WIN BIG!

The International Digital Earth 3D Visualization Challenge gives researchers, creative programmers, community leaders, activists, and students this unprecedented opportunity for international visibility of their work.  Submit your entry by 1 April 2007 to be one of several International Digital Earth Challenge Winners!

Winners will be flown, with all expenses paid, from around the world to San Francisco for the June 5th to June 9th symposium. Six (6) finalists will receive their awards and prize packages at the Gala Awards Dinner on June 7th on the U.C. Berkeley campus.  Contest sponsors, including Google, ESRI, and NASA will be attending the awards ceremonies for the International Symposium for Digital Earth awards dinner.  Winners will be afforded the unique opportunity to interview with these industry giants for potential employment opportunities.

Runners-up will receive outstanding recognition by the International Society of Digital Earth, and the major geobrowser leaders; ESRI, GeoFusion, Google, and the NASA World Wind team.

Don’t delay.  Visit the Challenge Contest Rules today at http://dex.telascience.org/entry-form or on the conference web site at www.isde5.org!

Be recognized as a world-class Digital Earth Champion!  For the chance of a lifetime, accept the Digital Earth Challenge!!!

 

I recently attended and presented at the First Joint International Conference on CyberGames. I was asked to write an article on the conference for RealTime. Please note that the last paragraph has been incorrectly edited. The conference was not enjoyable in spite of Scot & my workshops! Read “Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds“.

Also, RealTime published a pic and small paragraph summary of an installation and performance project in the online virtual world Second Life: Second Front: Online Performance Art. I previously reviewed that event here.

Writing the Story of the Future

The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and AFTRS invite you to a one-day seminar exploring a universe in which the book is a game without buttons.

Join acclaimed US collaborators new media artist Eddo Stern and writer Jessica Hutchins; award-winning scriptwriter Simon Hopkinson; new media writer, producer and AFTRS lecturer Jackie Turnure and writer, performer and filmmaker Richard James Allen as transmedia educator Christy Dena MCs this exciting discussion of how digital media are transforming storytelling.

Writing the Story of the Future is aimed at writers, writer-producers, organisations that work with and support writers, educators, literary critics and the media.

Seminar registration is free. For catering purposes, we request that all attendees register by 21 February 2007. Visit http://www.ozco.gov.au/thestoryofthefuture to register.

Date: Monday 26 February 2007
Venue: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett St, Adelaide
Time: Registration opens 9.00am, seminar starts 9.30am

This seminar is presented in association with the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian Network for Art and Technology.