90- Travelling exhibitions available soon on EXTRA30.05.2008 15.15 – 16.30 Lavinia Del Longo for Carlo Maiolini

Topic

the new online persistent virtual worlds

“In 1991 Howard Rheingold foresaw that, in ten years, millions of PC users would have visited thousands of virtual worlds.

Today we can confirm the correctness of his prophecy.”

Bernard Frischer, UCLA - Los Angels, 2002

new

What are virtual worlds?

Game of UR, 2500 A.C

Kriegspiel, 1811

D&

D, 1

972

MU

D, 1

978

Project Habitat, 1985

Active Worlds, 1995

Why an exhibition about virtual worlds?

Are we assisting the birth of a new communication medium?

People are curious of what’s in there…

…but there is still a lack of information on this issue.

The cyberspace facilitates debates on interesting topics as:

identity, community, reality, representation, social spaces, interpersonal relationships.

Key disciplines:

psychology, sociology, cognitive sciences, economy, antropology.

Target

But it is good for experts as well, they will find a theroretical review

on the hours spent on-line

The exhibition is suitable for

everyone, from 8 yrs old

In particular it is addressed to who

wants to know these digital realities, even

if not confident with computers

Format

The exhibition completely virtual.

The itinerary moves through 11 virtual rooms accessible only in individual computer kiosks.

The kiosks will be hosted in the only real room of the exhibition, set up in a special scenography.

Format

New possibilities of display / Experimentation

Social Facilitation

Easy to tour

Cheap

Perception of the event / let’s go out of home

Real Sociality

Better technical performance

Museum Explainer / Helper in the room

Contents

REASSURE

Panels / Texts

Images

Videos

Interactive exhibits (mini-games)

Exhibition itinerary

Loan information

Fully customizable set up: 4 to 25 kiosks

Required space: 5 to 100 sqm

Hardware requirements: 1 server + 4 to 25 PC (with mid-end GPU)

Set up time: 3 days

Lavinia Del Longo

dellongo@mtsn.tn.it

Carlo Maiolini (Avatar’s curator)

carlo.maiolini@mtsn.tn.it

www.avatarexperience.eu

THANK YOU!

CreditsSUPERVISOR:Michele Lanzinger – director of Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE:President: Mario Gerosa - writer, editor AD Architectural DigestMatteo Bittanti - Associate Researcher, Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford UniversityRoberto Caso - Università degli Studi di TrentoPaolo Cavallotti - Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo Da Vinci”, MilanoGabriele Cazzulini – sociologist of politics and journalist, GenovaVincenzo D’Andrea - Università degli Studi di TrentoIvan Fulco – journalist and editor, RomaUgo Morelli – director of Master of Art and Culture Management, TSM, Trentino School of Management David Orban – digital explorer and blogger, BergamoPaolo Pedercini - new media and online cultures expert, Troy, NYDomenico Quaranta - editor, journalist and art critic, Brescia

CURATOR:Carlo Maiolini

ART DIRECTION:MediaMix Design

SOFTWARE:Virtual Italian Parks

3D PLATFORM:Moondus

WEB:Valentina Gottardi

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