Courtesy of Stefano Canzio we now have a video up of the performance we did in collaboration with The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and the Computer Science Department:

MiTo Festival - Mixed Reality Performance: Una serata in Sirikata

Under the head line Taking the Time to Study Speed the Stanford site has a good little piece up on our Speed Limits project:

“Life in the fast lane” is a contemporary phrase we often use to describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is the human obsession with speed?  Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford professor of Italian and of Comparative Literature, explores this very question in an exhibit titled, Speed Limits, at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).

Not coincidentally, Speed Limits, an exploration of speed and its evolution is taking place during the one-hundredth anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s foundation of the Italian Futurist movement. Futurism dismissed the past and its old political and artistic traditions, admiring among other things, speed, industry, and technology’s conquest of nature.  As its founder, Marinetti stated in his Manifesto of Futurism, “The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.”

Just posted the following on the Metaverse U Conference website:

I am very happy to announce that the next Metaverse U Conference also will take place at Stanford University. We have booked a great that holds about 150 people so we are aiming for something more focused for this second iteration of the conference.

Please join us as we discuss liminal spaces, Afghan culture, the role of artists, and the future of South Asia:

Sunday, March 29, 2009 
3:00 pm film screening - 3:30 pm discussion

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Screening Room
701 Mission St @ 3rd
San Francisco, CA 94103

$7 General Admission

Another little nice snippet about our Life Squared  project being shown at the SF Moma. Linden Lab's VP Marketing & Community Development, Robin (Linden) Harper, shares her thoughts: 

Wired magazine has a nice little bit called Art of Participation Connects Viewers, Artists. This is written about our Life Squared project currently on display at SFMOMA:

About a year ago today I co-founded the Stanford Open Source Lab with some likeminded people. In celebration of this we are putting on an (un)conference tomorrow, Friday Nov. 14^th 2008, from 12 noon to about 7ish. The event takes place at Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus and is free and open to all interested parties. You will find all the details the Open Source Lab Wiki.