Virtual Worlds Workshop Roskilde University August 2009
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Dixi is our new project manager ;-) Lisbeth is our coming 1-year post.doc in the field of machinima The reviews of a new 2-year post.doc position are almost finished The first stages of the design of Metrotopia are finished; next steps are taken to prepare for a teaching workshop: group rooms and a library The first stage of Carries experiments have been finished; focus groups have been arranged, conducted and transcribed Video productions: Non-Users of Digital Communication, The Cyberflaneur and You, The Networks to Come; Design of Metrotopia I & II, Metrotopia as a Laboratory, Media Reception Experiments Carrie, Dixi, Ates and Sisse attended the MetaverseU 2 conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto –
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Carrie and Dina attended the International Communication Association conference, Chicago –
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presentations papers and presentations
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special issue of Journal of Convergence and New Media article in MediaCulture article submitted to Educational Research and virtual worlds papers and presentations Transforming Audiences conference Abstracts submitted to the Berlin workshop award winning paper: Carrie ;-)
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Seminar about Virtual Archeology/ Reconstruction – – – –
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Meeting with Danish Architectural Firms’ Organization about virtual worlds and innovation management – –
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Guest researchers Greg Wadley (Melbourne University), T. L. Taylor (IT University), Thomas Kohler (Innsbruck University)
Inauguration of Metrotopia August 28 – – – –
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Follow up project together with Terry Beaubois, Montana University Follow up is part of the new post.doc research
New blog design – feel free to comment and make suggestions ;-) Teaching workshop in Metrotopia: semiotics, communication and design, week 36, 37, 38 PhD seminar: Analytical strategies and methodologies for the study of virtual worlds –
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Viking ship museum, Vordingborg museum, RUCmus, University of Warwick Follow up seminar October 7 about Virtual Reconstruction and Archeology – you are all invited! Follow up seminar late November with Jeffrey Schnapp, director of Humanities Lab Stanford University, and Henrik Bennetsen, day-to-day manager of the lab Follow up application about Virtual Laboratory for Experience and Experiments together with computer scientists and two KINO research projects
Machinima contest August 28 to September 22 Voting period September 24 to October 5 Announcing the winners October 9th. Hugh Hancock, Executive Producer, founder of machinima.com, visits the project in late November
Machinima application by October 7 – we are looking for video/ movie producers!