Mark Skwarek is presenting @ the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference

am presenting @ the .

Alan and Azure Sondheim Present @ NYU Polytech

Alan and Azure Sondheim presented @ my NYU Polytech 3d graphics class.
http://www.alansondheim.org/

Craig Freeman and Will Pappenheimer present at NYU Polytech

and presented their work to my 3d Graphics Class at NYU Polytech.

ID Broolkyn Projects Site

ID Broolkyn was a project that I worked on with the good people at Citytech's Architecture Department in Brooklyn, New York. For the project I directed the creation of 3-D assets [virtual downtown Brooklyn New York]. ID Broolkyn was a historical Google Earth "like" project which allowed users to peel away the present-day architecture and look at buildings and geography which previously existed at that location. Users were able to work their way back to a time when Brooklyn was farmlands.

Lily and Honglei Li presenting at my NYU Polytech class

Lily and Honglei Li presented there work at my NYU Polytech 3-D graphics class Monday.
Lily and Honglei Li will be presenting at Eyebeam for Performing in Second Life on
Oct 09, 2009 :::: 6:30PM-8:30PM :::: MAP

Dumbo Art Festival 09 Highlights

Artist Seohee Koh in the studio @ Dumbo Art Festival 09.

Betaville gets Rockefeller Grant!!

IT's OFFICIAL --

Betaville gets Rockefeller Grant!!


Betaville gets Rockefeller Grant!!
I worked on this project in the Spring 2009 as a BXMC [Brooklyn Experimental Media Center] Researcher in Residence 2008-2009
and have been advising over the summer.

Presenting with Ana Boa-Ventura at SLACTIONS 2009

I will be presenting with Ana Boa-Ventura at SLACTIONS 2009 -- Research Conference in the Second Life® World
Life, Imagination, & Work using Metaverse Platforms. The US conference venue will be held in Austin Texas at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The event takes place in 7 countries and SL simultaneously.

FYI and if you're interested in attending online, the global conference program (presentations in SL) is at http://www.slactions.org/slactions.php?s=ProgrammeSlactions

BUY MY BOOK!

Joke :P --- But I was mentioned in "Interactive Documentary: A Production Model for Nonfiction Multimedia Narratives" on page 54! hehe
Buy it here!

COA showing @ Golden Thread Gallery, ISEA

Children of Arcadia is currently showing at ISEA in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Golden Thread Gallery
7th of August and closes on the 6th of September
Opening Times Tues - Friday: 10.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday - Sunday:10.30am - 4.00pm
www.gtgallery.org.uk
Exhibition opening night 7th of August: 7 - 9pm


ISEA 2009 was curated by Kathy Rae Huffman. Huge thx to everyone that made this possible, The University of Ulster, Peter Richards, everyone from the gallery, the artists, and all the great people I met on the trip!





Brad Todd's Red TV along side COA @ the Golden Thread Gallery.


me making projector adjustments

video I took on the return from Ireland to the U.S.

Images from the Peace Wall

I'm standing in front of the wall to give it some scale. Noticte where the the paint has been eaten away from the wall in the image to the right. This happened from flammable substances that were thrown back and forth at people on the other side.

Sadly northern Ireland is known for a period of civil strife where Protestants and Catholics where at war with one another-
Events of August 1969, forty years of political conflict. pt 1
Events of August 1969, forty years of political conflict. pt 2
Walls were constructed that were used to control the the opposing groups. I took video and pictures along the wall along with John Craig Freeman who is creating a virtual peace wall in Second Life. This will be somewhat similar to his Virtual Florida

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Craig walking towards one of the only open control gates on our walk...

a pile of palettes for a bonfire, note the British flags on top

bonfire the day after