Fwd: VWBPE - Metaverse Shakespeare Theatre, Historic Replicas, and a Museum of 3d Paintings
Ina Centaur
relating to Shakespeare, virtual theatre, historic replicas, and 3d
paintings.
I will be giving two presentations on Saturday - one in the
Practice-Based Project and Event Presentation stream on Metaverse
Shakespeare (formerly SL Shakespeare) and its Innovations in Virtual
Theatre - and another in the Project-Based Exploration stream, which
will be tour-presentation on Shakespeare sim and Primtings (3d
paintings) Museum. Further info and abstracts below:
The Performance of Our Innovations in Virtual Theatre – Metaverse
Shakespeare Company - 2PM, Saturday @
http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20East%202/72/5/76
The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (formerly SL Shakespeare Company)
recounts and briefly analyzes a number of its innovations in virtual
theatre—what worked, what didn't work, and what evolved into something
totally unexpected. Several crucial areas in virtual theatre will be
discussed in context of past productions: virtual theatre for
supplementing existing RL courses; reaching out to a global audience,
especially those in rural and inner city areas; SL as a platform for
virtual theatre; enhancements made to SL as a platform for virtual
theatre; and socioeconomic insights in running a professional virtual
theatre company that is self-sufficient without external funding.
Efficient Information Conveyance in Virtual Historical Reconstructions
and Museum Settings: Touring Shakespeare sim and Primtings Museum -
6PM, Saturday
6PM Convene @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Central%203/114/121/621/
TP-ing to Shakespeare sim and Primtings sim. Contact: Ina Centaur or
(moderator) Fiery Broome
The Shakespeare sim features virtual reconstructions of architecture
of note in Shakespeare's lifetime. Primtings Museum exhibits “prim'd
paintings”--3D interpretations of 2D paintings. Whether conjectural
historical replicas or interpretations of currently existing RL
designs, these virtual venues and artifacts contain built-in
educational or research information modules: for example, Shakespeare
sim uses both display boards and inline “incognito” discovery objects;
Primtings demonstrates how a large virtual museum with dozens of
exhibits can feature both RL traditional placement in locational
galleries, and SL optimizations, such as TP directories. In addition
to highlighting methods of information dissemination that fully
utilize the 3D nature of SL, we will also discuss activities at these
venues, as well as techniques used in building both accurate buildings
and prim-efficient builds on Second Life. The itinerary starts at the
Blackfriars Theatre, in the southwest part of the Shakespeare sim in
the first part of the tour, then heads north to the 4-sim SL Globe
Theatre, before finishing at Primtings Museum. While primarily aimed
at educators, librarians, and museum curators, this tour should also
be an enjoyable experience for the curious public.
If you can't make these times - Metaverse Shakespeare also has a
poster parcel @
http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20South%202/187/18/24 - you can grab
posters, playbills, programme booklets and other info there.