1999
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Was Held Nov 6-7 San Jose CA
- January 16, 3pm PST: in AWCC world in Active Worlds was the Cy Awards, where Bruce Damer presented a keynote in-avatar at the AWCC/AWcommunity hosted awards.
- January 19, 4pm: Bruce Damer presented a session "Cyberspace becomes a Place" at Human-Centered Computing Seminar, at the University of California Berkeley/SIMS, where this year's series is focuses on "Social Networks meets Computer Networks". Hosted by Profs. John Canny and Nancy Van House with special support by Dr. Barry Wellman.
- January 18-20: Was the 1999 Western Multiconference in San Francisco CA where Bruce Damer presented two papers, on TheU Virtual University and Nerve Garden at the VWSIM99 sub-conference. on Wednesday January 20th, 8:30am -10:00am.
- Janurary 20-23: Was Medicine Meets VR in San Francisco, the foremost international conference on interactive technology in healthcare. This event often features virtual worlds, avatars and virtual humans.
- January 22: Expert Workshop - Was the Future of Identity in Cyberspace at the Institute for the Future, Menlo Park CA. NOTE: this event was not open to the public.
- February 23-26: Was VRML 99,the 4th International Conference on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language and Web 3D Technologies in Padeborn Germany, see our links to the live webcast where Avatars98 was presented at the Web3D roundup.
- March 5-7: Was CONTACT XVI, a unique conference bringing together anthropologists, space scientists, science fiction writers and others at the Biltmore Hotel and Suites in Santa Clara. On Saturday the 6th the Contact Consortium presented a special session on the Avatars98 experience as a large scale experiment in contact through Digital Space. CONTACT COTI (Cultures Of The Imagination) is the grandfather origanization to the Contact Consortium. Special features this year were a day at NASA Ames exploring The Copernican Principle and featuring keynote speaker Greg Bear.
- March 15-19: is the Computer Game Developer's Conference in San Jose California, see what's new in online multiplayer gaming worlds.
- March 22-23: Is theAAAI 1999 Spring Symposium Series on Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University where Bruce Damer will participate on a panel entitled "New Directions for AI in Interactive Entertainment and Art" and present Nerve Garden and other worlds and works of the Contact Consortium. See these pages for the program for AI and Computer Games.
- March 26: Is the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) 1999 Conference at Stanford University where Bruce Damer will present a session with Professor Renate Fruchter on the use of shared 3D virtual environments as process-based learning environments.
- April 26-27: Is VirComm '99, the Conference on Business-Based Virtual Communities in San Francisco California where on April 27th Bruce Damer and Bonnie DeVarco will present a session onVirtual Tradeshows as an Extension of Communities covering the Avatars98 experience. In addition, later on the 27th Bruce Damer will present a special live tour session on Virtual Worlds and their Avatar Communities on the Internet.
- May 20-21: The first annual Virtual Worlds in Formal and Informal Education Workshop ("VLearn One") at the Cornell Theory Center at Cornell University, Ithaca New York. This event is sponsored by the Cornell Theory Center, UC Santa Cruz and the Contact Consortium's VLearn Special Interest Group. This event will be "worldcast" connecting many locations together through virtual worlds as was done with Avatars98. Contact Margaret Corbit if you would like to participate in this event. Consortium co-director Bruce Damer will present a special keynote session at the workshop at 1:30pm on the 20th of May.
- May 19-21: The TWLT 15 on Interactions in Virtual Worlds at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The Parlevink project hosts a series of workshops on Language Technology, the TWLT series. The series of Twente Workshops in Language Technology (TWLT) aims at providing a platform for researchers in all fields related to language technology. Jan and Dirk de Bruin will present a paper co-authored by Bruce Damer and Stuart Gold "Steps toward Learning in Virtual World Cyberspace: TheU Virtual University and the BOWorld".
- June 7-9: Is the annual Institute for Robotics and Information Systems (IRIS) PRECARN IRIS 1999 Conference "From Virtual to Reality" in Toronto Ontaria Canada (the Regal Constellation Hotel) where Bruce Damer will give a dinner plenary and workshop on June 9th. Also on June 9th will be a Sector Focus Group (SFG) meeting on the topic of Virtual Reality. This event will occur in conjunction with the opening of The Virtual Environment TechnologiesCentre (VET) at London's (Ontario, Canada) Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute (IMTI).
- June 15-16: Was the High Wire conference for event planners in Monterey California. Bruce Damer and John Passalaqua presented a live demonstration session and workshop on creating tradeshows in virtual worlds on the net.
Apollo XI Reenactment in Cyberspace, 30 Years After
- July 20: Was the Reenactment and historical retelling of the Apollo moon landings and program with special guest Russel Schweickart, Apollo IX astronaut.
- August 8-13: Was SIGGRAPH 99 in Los Angeles CA where the Consortium presented the Apollo Reenactment Worlds at the Web3D Roundup.
- August 11-14: Was the CT'99: Cognitive Technology - Networked Minds Conference where the Contact Consortium presented a session with Michigan State University on cognitive issues in the use of networked virtual worlds.
See my coverage of Burning Man 99
- August 30-Sept 6: Was Burning Man 1999 at the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada. Never before was the virtual combined with the surreal physical on so vast a scale. See Bruce Damer's images and documentation on this millennial event.
Visit the ALLchemical Arts Galleries
Sept 12-17: Was the ALLChemical Arts Conference on Hallucinogens and the Creative Process in Kona Hawaii. This conference was hosted by Terence McKenna and explored the relationship between chemically induced visionary states and creativity. Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt participated as presenters, demonstrating 20th century virtual world cyberspaces and suggesting how they might influence art and consciousness when millions of inhabitants colonize these places in the coming century. An art gallery was built during this conference.
- Sept 24-25: Was Paradox II Seminar at the historic Arcosanti in Arizona, USA. This year Paolo Soleri again joined a group of stellar participants to discuss and experience Cyberspace Embodied, Habitat, & Human Evolution.
Crowds gathering in-world during the virtual and physical ATG V conference in Jackson Hole Wyoming
- Oct 6-10: Bruce Damer presented a special evening keynote session at After the Genome V in Jackson Hole Wyoming, sponsored by the Molecular Sciences Institute of Berkeley CA. Bruce was interviewed by Dick O'Neill of the Highlands Forum for a special feature on the Highlands Forum site (requires password).
- Nov 5: Was ACM Multimedia International Workshop on Multimedia at the 7th International ACM Multimedia Conference in Orlando Florida.Jan de Bruin and Dirk-Jan de Bruin of the Contact Consortium and Virtual Worlds Consortium presented Virtual Organizations and Virtual Worlds, a Case Study of Avatars98.
- Nov 6-7: Was futureScreen 99: AvAtArs | phantom agents at the Powerhouse museum in Sydney Australia. Active Worlds citizens and Contact Consortium members Windancer, Razzle (of Titans Studios) and Miriam E will hosted a session "Have Avatar Will Travel" and remotely connecting in Bruce Damer of the Consortium from California. This event was produced by dLux Media Arts.
- Nov 6-7 1999: Was the Digital Biota 3, a Conference on Digital Biota and Internet Worlds for Artificial Life at San Jose State University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Sign up on the Biota mailing list for updates on next years conference Digital Biota 4, planned for Sydney Australia.
It was a big success, read all about it at: Avatars99!
- On a series of dates from Oct 30, 1999 to December 4th: Was Avatars99, Colonizing Cyberspace, read the report on this millennial event in cyberspace! Sign up on the Avatars conference mailing list for updates on next year's event.
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