Brain Computer Interface

Nel mio percorso personale attraverso secondlife mi sono spesso imbattuta in alcune delle notizie che io giudico in assoluto le più importanti e significative per lo sviluppo futuro delle tecnologie.

Ora scopro con piacere che ci sarà, al festival della creatività, una tavola rotonda proprio su argomenti affascinanti di interazione uomo-macchina , o meglio "Brain Computer Interface".

Non posso recarmi a Firenze ma....

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Articolo di AlecxWriter

Ars Electronica FESTIVAL 2007

http://http//www.aec.at/en/festival2007/index.asp

Alcune delle conferenze di accompagnamento del festival

Conferences
Closeness vs Dislocation – Contextualising Net-Based Art
The field of media art was expanded in the 1990s to include the genre of network art. Exploratory and dynamically creative, critically probing and transcending the boundaries of both the medium and the very concept of art itself, it has nevertheless often been declared obsolete.

Fundamental Rights in the Digital World - Lectures
The Internet, cellphone and video are essential to how we communicate now. Massive numbers of people put themselves on display in weblogs and on sites like Flickr, MySpace and YouTube. A “second life” is being marketed under the buzzword Web 2.0.

Pixelspaces 2007: Onfield
Pixelspaces 2007 is staging Onfield as a setting for a discussion of an emerging development: the strategies and methods of community informatics are being applied to location-based services. The Ars Electronica Futurelab is thus carrying on its practice begun in 2000 of intensively focusing on leading-edge trends in a series of symposia and exhibitions, and scrutinizing these developments from the perspective of an atelier-lab.

Mobile Spaces - Paradoxes of the Public
“Paradoxes of the Public” is an international art competition being staged in conjunction with RUHR.2010. Entrants are invited to submit works for, among other settings, data spaces such as mobile technologies. Söke Dinkla and Bernd Wiemann will present the competition and discuss the new possibilities of communication as well as alternative spaces in which to experience mobile technologies.

OVERTURES - environmental office. environmental information. environmental monitoring. environmental control.
Overtures, a series of projects launched in the year 2000, deals with a complex of issues having to do with water. From its very inception, this has been designed to entail close cooperation among artists, curators, technologists, scientists, economists and media experts.

Start of the fair music initiative of mica –music austria and presentation of the winners of the fair music award
Music fans have a right to listen to the exact music they want to. Creative artists have a right to receive recognition and compensation for their work and ideas. Listeners assume the money they spend for music will benefit the artists of their choice. But can they really be assured that the artists receive their fair share of the proceeds, and that the artists are allowed to make their music in a free and creative atmosphere and under fair conditions?

UNESCO Lounge
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions came into force on March 18, 2007. Strengthening democracy, ensuring justice and protecting the diversity of cultural production from the incursions of purely market-driven economic mechanisms are a few of its declared objectives.

Radio FRO Conference - Goodbye FM/AM farewell analogue TV
Preparations for both of the conference’s panels are being made at two "birds of a feather" sessions. The aim is to create a relaxed setting for exchange and dialogue

Secure Online – Symposium
Speeches and discussions will provide a setting for a critical process of coming to terms with issues connected with the rights of minors, data protection and the protection of minors online, as well as to help eliminate prejudices and to ease fears.

Featured Artist Speech

ISEA
Update by Nina Czegledy, on the recent developments and plans for the Foundation ISEA-International by ISEA Board representative http://www.isea-web.org
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Conferences

AUDIOWALK GUSEN TALK
with Prof. Aleida Assmann and christoph mayer chm.
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Conferences

Fundamental Rights in the Digital World - Workshops
The Internet, cellphone and video are essential to how we communicate now. Massive numbers of people put themselves on display in weblogs and on sites like Flickr, MySpace and YouTube. A “second life” is being marketed under the buzzword Web 2.0.
Huge quantities of data are available—often made public by the subjects themselves

Dal blog ufficiale in inglese

Introducing the Second Life Grid
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 6:32 PM PDT by: catherinelinden
Today, Linden Lab launched the SecondLifeGrid.net website, a resource for businesses, organizations and educators for creating a successful virtual presence on the Second Life Grid platform. Since the launch of Second Life, Linden Lab has been working to further open and expand the virtual world. The SecondLifeGrid.net website recognizes the opportunities virtual worlds provide to organizations,

To date ‘the Grid’ has been used synonymously with Second Life. However, with launch of SecondLifeGrid.net, Linden Lab is separating Second Life the virtual world (the product) from the Second Life Grid (the technology platform).

Second Life is and will remain focused on Residents, but virtual world technology also has a lot to offer to organizations – educators, enterprises, brands, nonprofits, and others – and the Second Life Grid will enable these organizations to understand and create meaningful 3D immersive experiences. Through new programs like the Community Gateway Program and the Global Provider Program, Linden Lab will provide guidance and support for local and international organizations interested in maximizing their participation in the virtual world of Second Life.


The Community Gateway Program is a new program for communities that wish to offer their own registration and orientation process for Second Life. Currently in beta testing, there are already more than a dozen organizations offering their own orientation experiences and gateways into Second Life as part of this program. Approximately 40% of new Resident registrations are already going through these community gateways. The program helps new Residents rapidly find like-minded friends and interest groups, which results in improved retention rates. Melting Dots in Japan, Showtime’s The L-Word in the US, and Telstra’s BigPond in Australia have all been very successful Community Gateways, and we’re looking forward to enrolling more organizations in the program. If you’re interested in learning more, please email gateway@lists.secondlife.com.

The Global Provider Program provides a higher level of account management and technical support and services for those bringing large communities of non-English speaking Residents onto the Second Life Grid. For example, Kaizen Games, Linden Lab’s first Global Provider, hosts Mainland Brazil which provides Portuguese resources for Second Life Residents. Global Providers will offer localized experiences in the virtual world of Second Life to create language specific experiences for communities all over the world.

These programs join our existing API programs to form a set of tools that will help organizations be successful in Second Life. The Exchange Risk API helps organizations to safely operate Linden dollar exchanges, and the Registration API enables groups to register new Residents via their own websites. These programs are already helping organizations create their own connections between their Web presences and the virtual world, and the Second Life Grid will further help them to leverage the powerful technology behind Second Life.

We invite all educators, businesses, nonprofits and other organizations to learn more about how others are successfully working in the virtual world of Second Life. The platform, tools and programs available on SecondLifeGrid.net will provide the foundation needed to create a successful virtual world experience.

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Second Earth

Verso l'integrazione di Google earth con second Life.
Alcune mappe di Panoramio.

http://www.panoramio.com/
http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=44.408769&ln=8.921242&z=4&k=2&a=1&tab=1
http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=44.408876&ln=8.927352&z=-1&k=2&a=1&tab=1






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