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.  

Three years in the making, Speed Limits was inaugurated at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal on May 19. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to t

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.

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:

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.