The September issue of WIRED Italy features a story by Matteo Bittanti on Mixed Reality Performance: An Evening on Sirikata, an  upcoming performance at the MiTo International festival of Music in Milan, Italy, on September 12 and 13.  The event is presented by the Stanford Humanities Lab [SHL] and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics [CCRMA], Stanford University).  Introduced by Jeffrey T. Schnapp (founder-director, Stanford Humanities Lab), the event will mix real-life performances with virtual worlds, thanks to the work done by the Sirikata team led by Henrik Bennetsen (associate director of the Stanford Humanities Lab) and Chris Platz, the art director.  

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.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of

Stanford Magazine, the publication of the Stanford Alumni Association, provides a nice piece in its November/December 2008 issue on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project.  Under the title "Saving Worlds: Preserving the Digital and Virtual," neatly summarizes the project and its work, with quotations from Henry Lowood (SHL) and Beth Dulabahn of the Library of Congress, as well as a couple of nice photos.  The workshop described in the article was "Preserving Knowledge in Virtual Worlds," put on as part of Media-X' Summer Institute at Wallenberg hall.

Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Dante Hotel (1973–74) is recognized as one of the pioneering site-specific public art installations in San Francisco. Originally presented in a real hotel room staged with remnants of fictional occupants, it was recast as Life² in the virtual world of Second Life in the course of collaborative project with SHL, funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The resulting mixed reality work includes live images and online access to the project in the galleries alongside artifacts, prints, and documents from the original installation. 

A $1 million project financed by the autonomous region of the Trentino-Alto Adige during the summer of 2008, the Memory Tunnels are a collaborative project between the Stanford Humanities Lab, Filmwork (Trento), and Studio Terragni (Como and New York), developed with the support of the Fondazione Museo Storico di Trento.

On February 16-17 2008 SHL hosted the Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University. Over two days attendees from across industry and academia interacted with leading thinkers on virtual worlds. A portion of the contributions from our sponsoring partners was spent to enable anyone to attend the full conference for free via Second Life. We were delighted to see the community get behind this mixed reality approach when participants from 5 different continents showed up. Virtual attendees were given equal footing in the Q&As with us alternating questions from the room and Second Life.