NMConnect

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February 11-13, 2007

[edit] Thank you for Connecting with US!

This NMConnect material culture archive will link the artists and avatars participating in collaborative art experiences through NMConnect and other media arts on the web. Please feel free to post your images, videos and links to works on this wiki and tag your archives NMConnect. A PDF archive of this show will be available this spring.

Visit http://www.flickr.com/groups/nmconnect/ for archives and memories.

[edit] About NMConnect

CONNECT THE DOTS! Dots tell the stories of the artists; the walks between the worlds illustrate more of the connections in this group art experience. Built on the New Media Consortium Campus for Second Life by In Kenzo of AMO Studio, NMConnect features over 50 art installations from a dozen countries built collaboratively in the virtual world. Explore expression from the comfort of your computer.

Six theme areas over 5 sims illustrate the fundamental ideas that bind us together as networks and forces in the world. We come together around LOVE, PEACE, BEAUTY, CHAOS, TRUTH and WISDOM to explore over 50 installations from many of Second Life's most accomplished artists. Visit as professors, installation artists and sculptors, filmmakers and media presenters, performance groups and awareness teams make their connections clear at NMConnect.

[edit] Connect beyond Second Life

Post your photos on Flickr or other communities! Tag NMConnect: the best archive submission to the web will win an AMO PrizePak!

Join hundreds of artists, educators, designers and researchers in a visual symposium for Second Life: NMConnect. Structures of artistic expression in every medium will be linked and combined to tell new stories on how we bond within our shared new worlds. How do you connect the dots?

[edit] How to Participate

Any art that can be translated and created within Second Life may be considered for installation; please inquire by email if you would like to share your work inworld. Groupings of 2D, 3D, video and interactive elements will be combined to tell stories on six major themes: Love, Peace, Beauty, Truth, Chaos, Wisdom. Performances and discussions around these common themes will bind us into new collaborations as we participate in these networks of creative illumination.

Over three days the NMC Campus will host seven forums on the structures of creative social networks building within these emerging new media. Sessions include:

Better World Building: Real World Action: Hosted by Sue Stonebender

[1] for blog and podcast links

Flow and Nurture: Creating Healthy Systems: Hosted by Yes Bright and Artemystic

Podcast release date TBD

Organic Architectures and Sustainable Design: Hosted by ManorMeta, rescheduled for March 2007

Art and Energy: Hosted by In Kenzo and R7 Terry for GhettoTech, reschedule and video release TBD

Memory Palaces, Artifacts and Icons for the Future Hosted by Ava Dougall and Mnemosign Nemeth.

[edit] Want to Share Your Work?

See the NMConnect Call For Artists (892k PDF). Visit http://www.nmc.org/sl/nmconnect.php from January 11-31st to register your visual and interactive art installations (note: submission are now CLOSED, thank you!).

All participants are welcome to join us at forums and events throughout the week of NMConnect; interactive and participatory art is encouraged. To visit the show prior to closing on February 18th visit http://www.nmc.org/sl/join/ and become a member of the NMC Guests group inworld.