 Welcome back everyone. This is the 10 a.m. the 10 30 session of the 2017 open simulator community conference entitled the first digital biennial As a reminder, I want to remind everyone that you can check out the full conference schedule at conference open simulator org You can tweet your questions or comments to at open sim CC or hashtag Hashtag OS CC 17 For today's session, we are going to be speaking to art blue and julietta surreal dreaming and art blue looks back on 40 years in computing industry and in the art education area currently the director of the digital art trust programmed art foundation, so we're gonna Hear from him about the last 40 years of the computing industry and art education I'm gonna turn it over to art Welcome to the presentation, which I will share with juliette surreal dreaming I Will point out what the driving elements are for setting up the first fully immersive biennial I'm known in the grids as art blue and I live as you see on my profile domain Dot de in Germany. I have to thank the organizational committee for the invite to speak today Juliette will happily show you how the project is going on at our booth 08 at expo zone 3 during the coffee break She lives in California, which gives you a chance to reach at least one of the team around the clock This is not our first project for the arts nevertheless We are both happy to learn and we can learn a lot from all the gifted persons who share and contribute with their ideas and works At the end of the presentation, you will see some first submissions and examples that are made for demonstration purposes You might wonder why I write X reality link for a website for my bio The bio CNN states about me is some years old and the blogs are published there are No longer updated the content got frozen If I would have to look for a new job in the media and the person thinking about hiring me would see that I have only 1,760 page views. I would get dumped on the spot We live in times where hits and followers count more than anything else You don't see by looking at CNN our reports. That's a content was frozen in 2015 if you look at Facebook Where it is that the entries are reality proved entries only for real friends So the advertisement industry is happy on it. You will find hundreds of persons with the name resident I mean not president. I mean resident the family name linden lab created And I know some attending this conference sitting in this audience have a facebook account that is far away from any real name Some of us have lost their ability to post in facebook as I experienced with my account art blue Sanzer the new world by linden lab wants a reasonable reality proof. So I think of facebook of course I'm in Sanzer as Avare Akan art blue looks like being reasonable real at least for Sanzer The digital existence is a persistent one like CNN or a fragile one like facebook Digital art does not come without the social media impact Creating things creating art all digital the digital Anthropocene becomes reality The impact of mankind is digitalization of our lives and life means art When it comes to digital art when you have to use another time to explore it to experience art inside the computer Usually get in the conventional or traditional art community a skeptical view Even if the art community always says we are open for new perspectives It is a difficult mission to open the eyes of an art lover to new views when it comes to computers What is real? What is virtual? Are art consumers visitors able to immerse in a virtual art installment? Some might answer for this. They have to use HMD's head mounted displays There by wearing it the person is forced to immerse for good or bad But we here using open simulator don't need an HMD to see the depth We move the camera, we zoom, we walk, we turn, we dance, we fly If there is a benefit for the human mind we literally live inside the computer That's the message The avatar is us I'm art blue, you know it In my story it's a little blue. Okay, I come back on this later Now time for a break Time for socio-model 3560 Juliette will present the model Hello ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the year 1981 Yes, a time travel trip back to the future Relax and be there Look forward into the future We present you the model 3560 which can do stunning things Oh, I get an eye from art blue that we don't have time for a story A story that reaches to the future I can just read the quote from James Morrow published in 1981 Sozio model 3560 A back tube way brought him to Darwin's control deck where center stage Byrne Newman fidgeted near one face on the main monitor The Malnovian asteroid belt orbited as if nothing had happened Under less awful circumstances Francis loved watching the great cubic monitor Which it's stirring displays in prison's suns Darwin's was a Sozio model 3560 Which meant the hollow projector was mounted in the ceiling instead of the floor or wall Sozio made 4D equipment The image had height, width, depth And a 4D that eluded precise definition It was called presence Art Blue likes to bring into his stories this passage To quote words from 1981 over and over Sozio made 4D equipment The image had height, width, depth And a 4D that eluded precise definition It was called presence Presence is what we want to create in the Biennale Let's return to the James Morrow quote Somehow you felt that the subject was there in the room with you You could seemingly walk up to it, savor its fragrance Finger its texture Rub a few eons grime off its contours You felt the Malnovian belt's presence And he reeled with total loathing Burns snorted, acknowledging that Francis too had presence Speaking of presence, Art Blue has entered the building Sorry when I don't laugh You know it is all pre-recorded You don't know? Digital is digital so why shall I speak life analog And make you believe so that it is life Will you believe when I show you paintings of old masters recoded That I have been really looking once this way I transmit right now from Unavera, an island that exists in the servers All data transmissions supervised by the NGA You can't follow? That's why Art needs a story to follow Each one a good story And we have some good stories at the first digital biennale Don't give people just a download link when it comes to the arts Don't say downloads a few of Firestorm and let them alone They are not gamers and most are not computing enthusiasts At least when it goes for the art community Readings, discussions, demonstrations And an educational compass around the globe sets our concept In Europe via the Santorini Biennale and its networks the Biennale Institute Time for some videos I presented at the first emersivia at Santorini in 2016 We call them when made in world Machinima Sadly I can only give you the links You might see and feel a story behind when you watch them The first biennale and the emersivia are connected Emersivia is made for Santorini hosted by the Santorini Biennale Running under Greek law And first biennale is hosted by Wiesel Leipzig A city hundred miles from Berlin And running under German law Contributions to the emersivia don't have to be made for an open simulator Contributions for the first biennale have to be an open simulator And have to be in a specific layout Which I will outline soon To take part in the first biennale is free of charge Juliette and I will happily answer questions If you would like to participate as a builder or artist Sponsoring is an important part in the arts Maybe the most important one Do you have a location at hand A sponsor for electricity for some big screens Music drinks next or a TV station I happily come if the travel costs are covered Same goes for Juliette Some artists have a nice atelier And offer reading and a show at the home base For a small number of guests I don't mind if only ten people attend As we air it to the web A place where reality and dream overlaps You see I fall back to stories I myself do no longer create art It does not fit to be curator and artist in one I had my high times as I was young Coding an art package in Fortran Published it This way I become one of the pioneers with the stamp Still alive and active Even MoMA has one of my early computer drawings Just because it is old, not good I set my focus to mentor young artists Means mentally young artists And to conserve the development of digital art I hope you had time to breathe, look Or that you will have later time to look a bit On the background of recoding You can't see by looking on a drawing How it was once coded All the programmers who recoded my works Did not grab the parametric concept that is behind I see it because I have a basic knowledge of processing In which recodes by the recode project happen Now I come to my last input Or let's call it vision, motivation or simple mission To conserve prim and prim and mesh based art worlds I want that these works are still available To be explored in 2049 Let's say by historians 2049 is a link to the movie Blade Runner So it is just an example Art history of the digital Anthropocene Will become a new department As we are in the age of technology Nothing is faster than coding That's the purpose of the first biennale And the guidelines are made for this purpose A biennale stands for an art show Every two years That's the statute of the art foundation For which I am in charge Our mission is to open the servers Every two years to the public And present digital art submitted To the global community in a cultural habitat environment In Germany Bremer Kunsthalle is such a suited place They have a focus on old computer art Made before 1980s Some of my works from the 70s Are conserved on paper there I am sure in 50 years Some national institutions will also see The current digital art in virtual worlds As a part of human history The next slides show examples Of our current first biennale project Just have a look The few samples are made by builder participants In the center of each pavilion Is an exhibition cube In which a participating artist Will exhibit their art The exhibiting cubes will change on demand By a click, by time, by code It's this time, so the floor is open for questions Thank you All right, do we have any questions from the floor? I'm going to ask just to get us started So the two of you are going to be Still taking designs for the cube Or you have the designs and you'll be showing them We're taking, we're still accepting Contributions for the pavilion Builds, I believe March first and then for the artist cubes It's April first, so there's still quite a bit of time left For people to jump in and participate Awesome, and how do they Get the information to do so? They would contact us in world Either art myself or Either of us And we're in multiple open stems So just search for us And at our booth we also have note cards That provide contact information And which expo are you in? 08 All right, so Any other last minute questions? We have about a minute and a half here I don't want to miss anyone's questions But I think this is fantastic I myself actually came into virtual space Because I wanted to see about creating an art gallery To feature art instead of just a flat website To sell it And then just interaction of art And the virtuality is fantastic And anybody Gosh, it's just so inspiring you You can see so many different things that inspire And it's wonderful Oh yeah, there's a plethora of creativity And open stems So I think art's mission to conserve Digital art is perfect, really is perfect So, yeah I have a very last line I made a slide as you see in the link Just right now to emphasize That we are not in a big area We are not football We are not for the big audience We are more the person with an arrow Or with a bow, the archers Where we can create what we want to create For a small group of people Not for the big masses So we're not spectators Like in football we are more the makers So I'm not concerned that we are not growing But the numbers exponentially As Maria said To survive in the future It's a niche, but it's something we are And that's the open simulator We can take care of Yeah, well fantastic Arch and Juliet, thank you very much For joining us Thank you As a reminder to our audience Again, you can see our conference schedule At conference.opensimulator.org Following this session We'll begin at 10.30 a.m. Pacific time And is entitled the Noble Spirit Transcendentalism And Transdisciplinary So Make sure you stay tuned for that I also encourage you to go They mentioned that their booth is in one of the Expo's You can also see The OSCC 17 poster Expo On Expo 3 Make sure that you take the time to jump around Because you'll be inspired By something there to inspire you to do something great With an open simulator platform Alright, we'll talk to you in a little bit Thank you