CyberForum@ArtCenter Archives: 2000-2001

The CyberForum@ArtCenter presented real-time online author / artist chats in 3D avatar worlds.

The Spring 2000 series featured authors drawn from The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) collected and edited by Peter Lunenfeld. [Click on title to view chat logs and images.]

• "Cyberspace Architecture" with William J. Mitchell, April 12, 2000
• "New Media & Cinema" with Lev Manovich, March 25, 2000
• "Digital Dialectic" with Peter Lunenfeld, February 2, 2000
• "New Memory Palace" with Michael Heim, February 9, 2000
• "Virtual Bodies?" with Katherine Hayles, February 26, 2000
• "VR & Immersion" with Brenda Laurel, March 1, 2000
• "BioTech Evolution" with Carol Gigliotti, March 11, 2000

The Summer 2000 series brought authors and panelists together to discuss "The Avatar and the Global Brain."

• David Weinberger & Cliff Joslyn, "The Cluetrain Meets the Global Brain," August 9
• Howard Bloom, "Global Brain" author, July 29
• Niranjan Rajah, Malaysia and Global Brain, July 8
• Francis Heylighen, Principia Cybernetica, June 28
• Bruce Damer, author of "Avatars," June 14

The Spring / Summer 2001 series began with artists Miltos Manetas, Andreas Angelidakis, and Francois Perrin in their World++ in the ActiveWorlds universe. Next was a chat about the VR theory of Thomas B. Sheridan, editor of the MIT journal PRESENCE. The world built around Sheridan's flow chart was built by Matthew Sloly, a graduate student at Art Center. The modem connection at Sheridan's home was flakey, as the log will show.

• Miltos Manetas, Andreas Angelidakis, and Francois Perrin in their World++ in the ActiveWorlds universe, April 11
• Thomas B. Sheridan, MIT, April 18.
• Cybernetic Epistemologist Brandyn Webb who created the ChezWhat world in Adobe Atmosphere, July 11

The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual 
Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, 
California, under the direction of Michael Heim (mheim@artcenter.edu)