Orange explores SL cultures

This Thursday, Orange Island welcomes an array of prestigious speakers & panelists for a series of discussions aimed at exploring the richness and diversity of SL Cultures.

Music in SL: Past, Present, and Future

(9am – 10am)

The music scene in Second Life is growing rapidly, with more than three hundred artists performing regularly. We’ll take a look at how performances have changed over the years, what the current trends are, and where music is headed into the future of SL.

Speakers:

Kandi Valkyrie is involved in the simkastradio project. simkastradio is Second Life’s first Live Radio station to broadcast in world!

Cylindrian Rutabaga has a real cult following on SL in just the short time she has been here.

Kourosh Eusebio is a musician/artist working in the medium of piano and synthesizer. The music he creates has been described as relaxing and soothing, yet gripping and hypnotic.

Komuso Tokugawa created the SynaesthAsia with MoShang Zhao, a real time jam project. He developed a prototype Generative Visuals System from bio/neuro feedback.

Rules & protocols and their impact on behavior

(10am – 11am)

This panel will take a look at the creation of space and communities in SL and to what extent they are rule-based and why, as well as the impact that rules and protocols have on the behavior of the community members.

Speakers:

Michi Lumin is one of the founders of Luskwood, Second Life’s largest furry community, which strives to provide a “natural” area, free of commercial focus and overbuilding to all SL residents.

Tao Takashi is a builder, scripter, photographer, clothes designer, photographer and video blogger in Second Life. In his blog and video blog he reports about new ideas, cool events and other stuff he comes across in the virtual world.

Meja Milosz is a designer, builder, singer, photographer, teacher, researcher and consultant in and about Second Life. She also runs the Mare Mare Research Centre in SL.

Relay For Life: Connecting Cultures with Common Purpose

(12.00pm – 1.00pm)

This panel will introduce the Relay For Life campaign, which has raised more than US$170,000 over the past three years for cancer research and patient programs, and will illustrate how many diverse communities have come together, bringing their unique ideas, for the common purpose of fighting back against cancer.

Speaker: Jade Lily

DEBATE! Immersionism vs. Augmentationism

(1pm – 2pm)

Tom Bukowski will introduce a statement such as “people should be able to create a legal identity for their avatar” and give each side an opportunity to argue for the affirmative or negative of the statement.

Tom Bukowski conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world.

Immersionists:

Gwyneth Llewelyn is a very well known blogger, philosopher and activist in Second Life. In RL, Gwyn uses the Second Life platform on her part-time job to do educational & cultural projects since December 2004, mostly for non-profits and charities who use computers to give young people/senior citizens a better life.

Sophrosyne Stenvaag is a Digital Person living exclusively within the Internet. She is a blogger, social networker, and hostess of Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon, a weekly discussion event in Second Life.

Augmentationists:

Hiro Pendragon is a long-time resident. He is known for having created a 3D wiki that lets users collaboratively work on designs for the redevelopment of a real-world park and for making Fine Japanese Weapons.

Giulio Perhaps (RL: Giulio Prisco) is the Director of the futurist consulting consortium FutureTag. Prisco is based in Madrid, Spain, where he founded the Spanish transhumanist group FASTRA and is on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

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