This is the "Now what?" meeting after the succesful conclusion of our "Proof of concept" phase.
Post Mortem for our first month
- Collaboration
- Meetings
- Building process
- The current state of NEWare
Meta Data
- Possible methods for augmenting SL with a layer of meta data
- Provide metadata for our existing and future builds
Documentation of our process
- Deciding on some guidelines for documentation and putting these in the wiki.
- Which formats would provide good documentation?
- Documentation of documentation – where does it end? Does it end?
- Extensive snaps
- Inclusion of all elements currently digitized , all blog, wiki entries, meetings, etc,
- Photographic series of meetincs etc. – check copyrite issues on using other avatars.
Building on the island
- We pretty much have got everything and more with regards to our current design docs. What happens next on NEWare?
- What parts of the current builds needs to be improved?
- Dina or Ruby? I have been in touch with Lynn’s programmer Colin about this, but nothing has materialized at this point. What should we do next in this regard?
Events
Blog
- Giving the blog a shot in the arm.
- Does everyone have write access?
Workshops
- Should we do “Critical Studies in New Media” style workshops of our own? Or join them?
- I (Henrik) would really like to see some focused workshops augmented by collaborative writing in the wiki that resulted in some papers. I would also commit to doing the legwork around these; scouting out reading, arranging etc.
- Issues for workshops
- A new literacy – exploring other ways than text for conveying meaning. A good read is: Expanding the Concept of Literacy - www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0322.pdf or a presentation by the author at http://www.annenberg.edu/presentations/2003/hawaii/
- Virtual identity
- Virtual art
The boring stuff
- Henry’s status
- Henrik’s status
Deadlines/Long term plans
- What would be successful outcomes of this project for the involved parties (Lynn & SHL)?
- Should we self impose deadlines?
- Are there events in the future we should set as deadlines?
Presence = Permanence - Death in second life – erasure
- How long will the island be up?
- How can the area be defined?
- When can we actually put in the trail, key, etc and the other proof of concepts ideas.
- (We need to refine the aesthetics a bit, perhaps it will take only an hour or two of adjustments. )
Exhibition – How is the trail made visible?
- How do you exhibit something that everyone with internet and a reasonable computer has access to anyway? How do we add value for the exhibitor?
- Combination of machina piece (tour through second life) also is prototype for Frankenstein project
- Web presence combined with Langlois web site and their designer.
- Photographic series
- A written paper document
Where does this lead? (things reflected on my website)
I suggest :
- Roberta
- Dina/Ruby
- Tillie or America’s Finest
- A film
- A photo series.
General comments
Posted at Oct 04/2006 11:21AM:
Lynn:
1) I think it would be useful to put the dante hotel receipt, of $10.00 into the piece.
2)I think we absolutely have to self impose deadlines
3) we need at the next meeting to figure out an exhibition strategy for the piece, as well as a design
strategy. I would like to be there when design is implimented.
I told Jean we would have a plan for exhibition by December, and we should initiate a collaborative website for this.
If you are going to continue to work with my work, we should have a set strategy for which works exactly, and when. Dina and Ruby came later than Roberta who is not included as yet.
I think a Machinema component on DVD is really critical, as is the website
What time on the 12th?
Posted at Oct 04/2006 12:09PM:
Lynn
I also think that all communictaions are part of the archive, the blog, the wiki, the conversations on line...
All should be available for presentation as part of the work.
