Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27
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Skawennati: Nurturing Indigenous imagination in virtual worlds
Mohawk artist Skawennati pioneers Indigenous presence in virtual spaces through groundbreaking projects like TimeTraveller™ and CyberPowWow, while leading initiatives to empower Indigenous youth in digital storytelling
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Digitizing your ex: How men are using RPGs to cope with breakups
Videogames are a medium often used to escape the cruelties of reality, fostering a safe place for players to take a load off and step into a world that is familiar and comforting. Using a digital space to cope with complex situations or emotions isn’t a new concept, but it seems that some users are
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Second Life is the newest front in America’s electoral ugliness
There is officially nowhere you can go to hide from the interminable agony that is this election, especially online. To wit: Cory Doctorow, by way of Motherboard, reports that tensions between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump loyalists have boiled over on Second Life (2003). More to the point, Trump
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You can visit an historically accurate 1920s Berlin in Second Life
In 2007, Jo Yardely visited Second Life (2003) for the first time. She looked around, took in the view, and left immediately. “[Second Life] was a place where weird people spent all their time chatting about uninteresting things,” she said on her blog, “pretending they were having virtual hanky pank
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What new virtual world does the Second Life creator have in store for us?
Virtual reality, today, means Oculus Rift. Project Morpheus. Samsung Gear VR or HTC Vive. But say “virtual reality” just a decade ago, and the first thing that likely would’ve popped into people’s heads is Second Life. Second Life seems ahead of its time To those not active in its virtual world, Se
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The weird abandoned spaces of virtual worlds
I went to college in a rolling campus up on a forested hill, where the woods served as a playground on bored Sunday evenings, and frequent late-night power outages meant sneaking into empty administrative buildings, or finally searching for that deserted amphitheater tucked away in the forest, resig
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Very first virtual world, from 1978, acquired by Stanford; librarians to get their mob-slaying on
Stanford has gotten its grubby archival hands on the source code for MUD1, which was the first online virtual world and great grandpapa of big, life-consuming MMOs like World of Warcraft as well as computer-simulated communities like Second Life. For those of you who aren’t exceedingly old, a littl
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Happy 2014 from Kill Screen
We’re taking the day off to celebrate the New Year and enjoy some pulled pork. See you Thursday!
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Virtual reality needs more realistic expressions, less fox-people, says Second Life creator
Linden Labs’ founder wants to attract your mom to virtual reality
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All the Spaces Between Us
Struggling to connect in a pixilated world