 Hello everyone and welcome to the 11am to 11.30am session of the 2021 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session we are pleased to introduce the presentation Grand Opening of Open Simulator Art. Our speaker is Reiner Schneeberger aka Art Blue. Reiner is an artist and art curator and his life adventures have taken him deep into the sciences of math, informatics, simulations and most importantly the arts. He currently resides in Berlin and London. Please check out the website found at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios, details of sessions and the full schedule of events. The session is being live streamed and recorded so if you have questions, comments or comments during the session you may send tweets to at opensimcc with the hashtag oscc21. And again please put questions in the chat before your actual question, the word question. I change now my voice to American English and let's begin. I am the enunciators or man. I am the unnatural voice of Art Blue. I run on 180 words a minute but it's fine. Thank you all for being here. You expect the verse I know. You shall not be disappointed. It is art and on top I'm all blue. At least I will stay within the time frame. That's why I prerecorded my speech. Don't take it all too seriously when I dive into the matter. But there is hope. As soon as I have ended and the video of Wizard of Scrum was shown, then we go into serious matters and that will be the part of Juliette. Marcus, you may now start the sound file. Thank you. I change now my voice to American English. I am the enunciators or man. I am the unnatural voice of Art Blue. I run on 180 words a minute. That's a bit faster than an average It is said that gives my voice passion. Passion we all need for the matter. Later I will welcome you again in the uplift to America art with a speed of 185 words a minute so my level of passion will increase. I could break a record John F. Kennedy set up during a speech in 1961 where he spoke 327 words in just one minute to blow up your mind. But I will hold myself back for the glory of the artists who will receive today a trophy. I am pre-programmed and lack a bit of manners. Nevertheless, let me first thank La for the stunning introduction of the coded myself and let me all welcome you. Time to go straight in Metares, shall we? Hello everyone. One year ago, I announced on this stage America art as an art contest, which is in fact more an art movement into the meta. Meta is one of the oldest words in the human language and stands in Greek for beyond. America art goes beyond and shows art in an immersive interactive way where avatars both are creators and visitors. Having started in 2014 as Immersivea at Santorini Biennale the current edition envisions the afterlife and the metaverse and adds a come together in 2022 and the real America, a village in Germany located south of Leipzig. We are not the first to go beyond. For 1000 years ago in Egypt the pharaohs went beyond. They made the belief in an afterlife for the masses real. We don't know the names of the thousands of workers and only a little about the builders and overseers of the gigantic constructions that have been created by our ancestors to celebrate immortality and to honor the gods. One of them is Wadi the high priest of pharaoh nepharoker kakai who inspired me to link this project the America art to the early foundations of spirituality. Wadi's tomb was excavated only three years ago. All the inscriptions, all the carvings well-conserved and now deciphered. We even know that he tried to trick anubis. I stand between the gods and the pharaoh. I stand also between the pharaoh and the normal people, the mortals, the believers, the followers, the one giving likes. I am an avatar, some call this life a second life, some call it a code. It is not the binary code, it is the ternary code. Follow me into the stage in between. Follow art. Year after year by going deeper into the metaverse we come closer to a view that Conrad Zeus published in 1969 that the universe is a computer. His paper Reckninder Raum, in English calculating space, falls in the same timeline with Simulacran 3 a long forgotten novel written by Daniel F. Galloway. In this novel humans created idon units in the computer to operate a world simulator. They have awareness of themselves. Simulacran by Galloway, cyberspace by William Gibson, metaverse by Neil Stevenson, grammaverse by TSNKO, all put into entertaining stories which are fun to read, will not be the end of the line. Marketing always needs a branding, needs a new alphabet. Does anyone still remember Google Lively, that was supposed to beat Second Life? Will anyone remember Facebook? I will, because I teamed up with Hero Deliverator, the man behind the fastest pizza delivery in the metaverse. Frozen Meta, his newest brand, successfully promoted on Facebook. Juliet, please give Hero the sign that it is time for pizza. Please look at her. She winks with the logo Frozen Meta to make the brand known all over the world not only in Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, where the campaign was running on Facebook. We have the lunch break ahead and no one shall later say that art has forgotten what humans truly need. Imagine Juliet shouting. Pizza for everyone fresh out of the oven by Hero Deliverator. Future generations will look back at the beginning of the digital age. Some deep research will be given to dive into frozen quantum mechanics to research how Hero Deliverator could develop his brand Frozen Meta and deliver pizzas via the hyper grid. Luckily, we can give researchers, historians and excavators such an opportunity by using open simulator. America art will become frozen reality, conserved like a pizza in a freezer. Some of you might remember when two years ago I put Commander Paul from Dark Star in a fridge and Hurstine moved a copy of him into the game Engine Unity, and from there to Google Cardboard and to Oculus. I presented art in a fridge. It was a tiny fridge on the stage. Today things get bigger. We are uplifting to America. To go to America was a huge challenge for our ancestors 400 years ago. Today the challenge stays. Corona and the world on edge needs us, needs artists, a rare species who go along with fundamental changes. In open simulator users can act as creators in the meta. That's a unique position, a position others dream to have, one we do have. Let us take a peek at what the contributors to America art have created. Let us watch the machinima that the Italian videographer Wizardos Chrome has created for this day, the grand opening of the art show, so we get an impression of we are going to America. The video runs in world on the screen in a lower resolution than it is on YouTube. In case you don't manage instantly to watch the machinima here, then just click the link that is provided in chat. After the video has ended Juliet will announce the contest awards. That will be in 12 minutes from now on. Marcus you may now start the video. Hi everyone I hope you can hear me okay. We're gonna let the video play on the screen in the background. If you can make sure your media is turned down then you're able to hear me speaking. I would like to welcome everybody again and now it's time for the awards and the winners, most of the winners are in the audience in section three. So we're gonna let the video. So when you hear your name, please please stand. The Long Leged Masked Award for Immersive Building goes to Thoth Janssen and Joe Ellsmear for the installation God 9000 and this creative build uses media in an incredibly spectacular way. So you actually feel as if you are inside of the brain of God. So congratulations to Thoth and Joe. Please stand. And the next award is the Sergius Bath Award for Creative Scripting and it goes to Glyph Graves for his installation the emanated garden. Now this build actually bridges real life environmental data with virtual reality in Open Sims. It's showing the spectacular movement of flowers and plants in his garden in Australia and this work can't be conserved. So it is a one-time opportunity to experience it and it will run until the end of May 2022. Because of this outstanding concept and realization of it, Glyph is also being awarded the bronze statue of the Long Leged Masked Award. Please stand, Glyph. Congratulations. Our last award, the Tillow-Tallow Award for Real Life Painters will be given to two artists who have brought their unique style of painting into virtual Open Sims and they are Je'elle Ferri from France for her installation Soul's Journey and Ewan Seriatrix from Mexico for his installation The Ghost Tree. This is the first bienniali in which we opened a division for real life painters. We encourage them to bring their paintings and adapt them into a themed installation. Congratulations, Je'elle and Ewan. Ewan unfortunately lives off the grid down in Mexico in the forest and he is unable to be with us here today. We invite all of you to join our award winners Art Blue and myself as we go to Metta at the lunch break for the uplift. A sneak peek preview at the America Art Afterlife, a five sim installation that will grand open. It has been pushed back to January 10th at 12 p.m. Pacific Time in Craft World. However, today at lunch break there are 26 chairs prepared to lift us over 4,000 meters into the air as we glimpse 16 platforms, one for each of the contributors. And when we reach the top, Venus Adored will perform at the end of the uplift in the long-legged mascot dome where we will meet Glinda Nine, the mascot of America Art. So when we're ready to go we'll just click Metta on the teleport board and we'll meet you there and I'm going to hand it back over to Olive now to close out this session. Thank you everybody and congratulations to our winners. Thank you very much, Julieta and Reiner. That was a really wonderfully artistic presentation. Thank you very much. As a reminder to our audience, you would want to check our website, conference.opensimulator.org, to see what is coming up on the conference schedule. We now are moving to a tour as Julieta said with Art Blue and then a break. Our next session will begin at 12.30 p.m. in the Ski Note region and is a panel entitled Open Source World Interoperability. Also, we encourage you to visit the OSCC 21 poster expo in the OSCC Expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations and also explore the hyper grid tour resources in OSCC Expo 2 region along with sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC Expo regions. Thank you again to our speakers and the audience.