Program areas at New Media Arts
Antique pattern library, www.antiquepatternlibrary.org, provides scans of public domain crafts and design books for free to anyone who wants to use them under creative commons licensing. About 100 volunteers have been involved at various times in curatorial services, acquisitions, scanning, graphical editing, cataloging, database, and maintaining a forum of currently 6000 members. We put considerable time into preparing the Media so it can be downloaded by users with poor equipment and connections, to print or display on smaller devices. The website experiences about 200,000 page visits a week.
Cookie ii, httpswwwkitelycomvirtualworldnewm... is a virtual world where we hold events ranging from theatrical performances to discussions and demonstrations of creative uses of virtual world technology. We also use this platform to introduce people New to virtual worlds, to teach the skill sets they need to participate in virtual world Arts and to support and develop New Media Arts and artists.
Avatar repertory theater, www.avatarrepertorytheater.org, is a virtual world theater and video production troupe of about 15 volunteers and contractors with high skill levels in theater Arts, 3d modeling and texturing, music, programming, sound engineering, screen capture and video editing, who produce live immersive theater and video on virtual reality platforms such as opensim grids and second life. We perform, for the most part, as voiceover actors in avatar (animated cartoon) visual form, live or recorded. Much of our focus is on bringing traditional theater, such as ancient greek comedy and tragedy, shakespeare and shaw, to virtual worlds.
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