Scientific Days – Pop Art Lab at Virtual Worlds Seminar

The lab will spent coming 3 days in random mode due to Virtual Worlds seminar I’ll attend in Birkerød a nice city not that far from Copenhagen. The programme for the seminar looks very exciting and I am looking so much forward meeting old as well as hopefully new friends there. So how did all this come together? I guess it was start of the year the project manager mentioned they would like this seminar spread out inworld and stuff and thats how this coming Tuesdays Metanomics Special on New Market Dynamics was born. I contacted Dusan Writer of whom I once met in San Francisco and my Skype IM was like “Hey D u want some cool content in ur show? We’re setting up some cool stuff at Danish University project!” Btw Dusan is a great guy and I am a great admire of his blog and the clever way he express the whole virtual world trauma some of us experience these years. Anyway make sure to tune into Metanomics Tuesday! But before Tuesday we have Monday and thats what my Sunday been about or well some of it. After a lot of hopefully great lectures, keynotes (all streamed!) etc. there’s a party Monday evening and I was asked if I could supply music and DJ set at the venue. And yes I love DJ so I immediately said “Yes”. So what music would you play if the audience is 50 professors, PHds, VWs experts at an average age of mmm let’s say 45. The simple answer is I don’t know and I play what I like and I keep in mind this party is mostly mingling, networking and all that so setlist will be made on the fly selecting from roughly 5 hours of great tunes. Beside this we’ll try set up party at the lab simultanous and this inworld party will hopefully be shown on huge projectors RL. By doing such I hope to capture and screen the crazyness and fun of partying inworld for all the wise professors, PHds and so. And well thats why the mix will be quite a challenge or to say the crowd will kinda reflect a broad range of minds in this mixed reality context. Ok enough ramblings on what my head went through in making this set today.

Then we hopefully wake up Tuesday a lot more inspired and ready for yet another exciting list of speakers. Despite I’ll do short presentatation on the lab I’ll most likely be in this tech mode wondering around all day hoping all the Skype, audio, streaming stuff will work out smoothly for the Metanomics show. The seminar runs 3 days and there’ll even be a trip to Louisiana Museum of which I haven’t visited in a long time. Big kudos to the “Sense making strategies …” project for pulling all this together I really looks forward to 3 days of peace and virtuality in nice surroundings.