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WHY ART IN VIRTUAL WORLDS?
E-HAPPENINGS, RELATIONAL MILIEUX
& "SECOND SCULPTURE"

by Patrick Lichty

yahoo projects

"Advanced synthetic characters don't merely evoke beliefs that they have various mental properties; rather, they must actually have such properties."

, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Mind, Consciousness, Robots, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Robotics, Philosophy of Mind, Turing Test, Story Generation

Internet Memetics and Fads

"By playing our games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world."

a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system.

"This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them."

convert your image into 3d (shockwave/vrml)..; not really stunning, but interesting

The CityEngine is an academia software for the creative and efficient creation of digital architecture. Scientific papers, movies, pictures and other information about this high-level design tool can be found

"on the possibility for games to teach traditional scientific habits of mind, to cultivate digital network literacies that are necessary for collaborative and open scientific research, and to create a massively multi-citizen scientific practice"

Recherche et l'Innovation en Audiovisuel et Multimédia

"CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser"

"an ambitious social networking project that aimed to interconnect existing networks.'"

Ulf Leonhardt
Professor in Theoretical Physics
University of St Andrews

"The effects of 6 foreground/background color combinations (color), 3 font types (Arial, Courier New, & Times New Roman), and 2 word styles (Italicized & Plain) on readability of websites were investigated."

"What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do in the future? What can they do now? Can robots have personalities? Can a fully-functional conscious robot be developed? If so, would it be human? And should it have rights?"

to understand the science, engineering and social role of robotics and embedded intelligence. Our multidisciplinary approach aims to create autonomous devices capable of working independently, with each other, or with us in our human society

""Dual reality" is the concept of maintaining two worlds, one virtual and one real, that reflect, influence, and merge into each other by means of deeply embedded sensor/actuator networks."

"a collection of mathematical & algorithmical computation demonstrations, as a new resource for research & education. all applications can be run fully interactively with a free player, while the source code is open & accessible."