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The event was sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and was produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCMedia). It represents what LCMedia calls "the new public media," which allows viewers to "step through the TV/computer screen" to participate in events, and is an example of how this new medium can be used to educate and create positive social change.
The Second Life event in January 2007 takes place in front of a virtual replica of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which includes a dramatic exhibit of photographs depicting the genocide emergency.
Continue reading "Live from Second Life: Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow and Guests." »
Cambridge, Mass.-based Lichtenstein Creative Media, an independent
media production company, organized a Second Life exhibit entitled "Our
Walls Bear Witness -- Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?"
The exhibit was unveiled by Farrow, who works as a UNICEF
goodwill ambassador; John Heffernan, director of the Genocide
Prevention Initiative for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's
Committee on Conscience; and Ron Haviv, the award-winning
photojournalist whose images of Darfur were on display.
"The mantra of our family is that with knowledge comes
responsibility," says Farrow. "I've been to the region three times, but
I don't go just for me to understand. The whole idea is that I've had
the privilege to pass on the knowledge." Farrow says Second Life is a perfect forum for disseminating
what's she learned, because the virtual world extends around the globe.
By Robert Holden
TheStreet.com Virtual Reporter
1/10/2007 5:18 PM EST
A virtual world rally against the Darfur conflict
was held in Second Life Tuesday, with actress Mia Farrow speaking on
the importance of educating residents about the struggle in Sudan and
what could be done to end the crisis.
by Angela Gunn
While I continue to smite the computer that won't turn loose of a longer item I mean to post here, perhaps this is a good time for you to try out Second Life. If you drop in at 2pm ET, you can catch Mia Farrow and folks from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum talking about the godawful situation in Darfur. There's a Ron Haviv photo exhibit to view, too -- a virtual version of the "Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" project projected on the museum's exterior wall back in November. Once you're in SL you can teleport to either The Infinite Mind or Second Life: Camp Darfur, or you could take the easy way out and follow the handy link right here. Second Life Teen folk get a simulcast of the event at Global Kids.
Posted 1/7/2007
Link: http://blogs.usatoday.com/techspace/2007/01/darfur_on_your_.html
Business Communicators of Second Life®
Darfur Event with Mia Farrow Scheduled in Second Life for January 9.
As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Ms Farrow will be in-world at the Infinite Mind virtual broadcast center in Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad. She has just returned from her fourth visit to the region and will be returning there again in February.
The mixed-reality event is scheduled for 11:00 - 12:00 noon (SLT)/2:00 -3:00 p.m. EST January 9, 2007. It will also be simulcast to two other regions in Second Life: Camp Darfur and Global Kids on the SL Teen Grid.
This is a re-schedule of an event, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, that was to take place in early December, however a real world fire in the building housing The Infinite Mind studios prevented it from happening.
"...Rethink Media..."
Last Friday Lichtenstien Creative Media was to hold an interview and
visual event in the Infinite Mind sim with actress and activist Mia
Farrow, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ms. Farrow was to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad amid images that needed no words. Tragically, a real world fire emergency kept the event from happening on Friday as scheduled.
The event will be rescheduled according to the LCMedia web site. LCMedia are the producers of the Infinite Mind radio show.
In the meantime, the Infinite Mind outdoor visual event is available on the sim. It replicates the photography exhibit, Our Walls Bearing Witness – Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?, that was projected onto the walls of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. during the Thanksgiving week in the U.S.
Continue reading "Public Affairs in Second Life: "Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow"" »
Cambridge, Mass.-based Lichtenstein Creative Media, an independent
media-production company that organized a Second Life exhibit titled,
"Our Walls Bear Witness -- Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" had to be
evacuated following an electrical fire that left some of the building's
workers trapped on a rooftop. The Boston Globe was reporting that an NStar employee was killed and close to 100 people
were being treated for smoke inhalation. It was also reported that the
MBTA's railway line between Park Street in Boston and Central Square in
Cambridge was temporarily shut down.
By Robert Holden
TheStreet.com Virtual Reporter
12/8/2006 4:23 PM EST
A virtual-world rally against the Darfur conflict
had to be rescheduled Friday as the impact of a life-threatening event
in the real world was felt in Second Life.
from 
Actress and activist Mia Farrow, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, will on Friday discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual event in Second Life.
The Darfur program, to be held Friday, Dec. 8, 12 Noon to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time), will feature a virtual replica of the "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" - a photography exhibit of Darfur images that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Continue reading "Darfur Genocide Photo Exhibit in Second Life" »
Tomorrow at 9am, actress and activist Mia Farrow will appear in Second Life to speak about the ongoing genocide in the Sudan, and her recent trip through neighboring Chad. Details at Rik's Picks. Screenshot of Farrow's avatar courtesy of her hosts at Infinite Mind island.
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"At the Museums in Second Life meeting, I heard about this event that will take place on Friday. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life. The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?”, the powerful photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC."
Link to original blog post.
from 3pointd.com (The Metaverse and 3D Web, as blogged by Mark Wallace and friends)
Posted Tuesday, December 5th, 2006, at 12:46 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
Bill Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Creative Media sends news that his firm is bringing actress Mia Farrow to the virtual world of Second Life this Friday at 9am SL time (noon Eastern), to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad. The event is being put on in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and produced by in collaboration with Infinite Vision Media.
It will also replicate in SL a photography exhibition which projected
images of the Darfur crisis onto the walls of the holocaust museum (as
pictured above), which is great if you live someplace in which visiting
the museum is inconvenient or impossible. If you have a Second Life
account, you can teleport directly.
Posted Dec 5th 2006 7:04PM by Tateru Nino
Screen Star and UN Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow, fresh from her most recent visit to Chad, will be visiting Second Life to discuss the appalling situation there and in Darfur and answer questions. Also there will be John Heffernan, Director for the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
The Infinite Mind Second Life Concert with Suzanne Vega featured on Good Morning America (November 15, 2006)
Why Savvy CEOs Hang Out in Second Life
Some of business's top guns create their own avatars to explore firsthand the potential of the online virtual marketplace
Bill Lichtenstein, President and CEO
Lichtenstein Creative Media
Award-winning former producer for 20/20, World News Tonight, and Nightline, Bill Lichtenstein oversaw the first ever Second Life concert series in August when his independent production company invited singer Suzanne Vega to perform and author Kurt Vonnegut to sit down for an interview -- in avatar form. “This is a new medium where you are able to convey an experience, rather than just transmit images and information,” he says.
Link to Business Week article "Savvy CEO's Who Hang Out in Second Life" and Slideshow
(November 14, 2006)
Dell Inhabits Second Life
By Brian Morrissey
NEW YORK Dell has joined the rush of advertisers to set up outposts in Second Life, the increasingly popular 3-D virtual world.
The computer maker took the wraps off Dell Island, a Second Life expanse that features a "factory" where visitors can customize computers that will be delivered to their real-life doorsteps. The island also has a computer museum, a conference room setup Dell plans to use for focus groups and executive meetings, and a virtual replica of the dorm room where Michael Dell began piecing together computers.
Dell joins brands like American Apparel, Toyota and Starwood Hotels to set up shop in Second Life. The lure, said Ro Parra, senior vice president and general manager of the home and business group at Dell, is to connect consumers' virtual lives with their real-world needs.
"It connects virtual reality with real-world commerce," he said.
Bill Lichtenstein is proud to show off his large new broadcasting complex, which includes a radio studio, concert stage and listening room.
None of it actually exists, however, but instead occupies space inside a virtual online world known as "Second Life."
More than 900,000 people have entered this world since it opened in 2003, and many, such as Lichtenstein, have built their own structures inside it.
"It's not gaming, it's not a Web site," said Lichtenstein, of Boston. "It really is a chance to experience a new culture and new place and new people."
Lichtenstein, president of Cambridge-based Lichtenstein Creative Media, has held live radio shows and company meetings at his virtual complex, and offered the first concert inside Second Life in August.
Fantasy world becomes real on Web
Participants on 'Second Life' create online community, exchanging real currency for virtual goods, services
Excerpt: "But Rosedale forecasts "Second Life" will pass a million users this year. A rush to be part of the "new new thing" is on, and organizations such as Major League Baseball, Harvard University, American Apparel Inc. and CNet.com are among the many opening operations in "Second Life." Even musicians such as ... Suzanne Vega have broadcast virtual concerts using the world's lifelike, animated characters."
"...Suzanne Vega appeared on public radio's "The Infinite Mind" show in SL, and her avatar held a guitar and performed live...."
Mall of the Metaverse
Suzanne Vega is waddling across the screen. Well, not the real Suzanne Vega but the quiet folk singer's digital avatar on SecondLife.com. On Aug. 3, she — or it — claimed the proud position of being the first digital representation of a major-label pop star to give a concert in cyberspace. After an interview with public radio host John Hockenberry, she sings an a cappella version of her ’80s hit “Tom's Diner,” then awkwardly straps on a guitar and plays a set for attending Second Lifers, members of the popular online virtual world.
Online Concerts Link Fans,
Musicians (And Musicians' Alter Egos)
By SARA KEHAULANI GOO, Washington Post
from the Hartford Courant
Musician Suzanne Vega got her start in the New York folk scene, but now the 1980s star has found a following in cyberspace.
With the help of some programmers, Vega created a 3-D animated image of herself, called an avatar, and she recently performed inside a world accessible only through a website, where other people represented by avatars attended the concert, streamed live to computers all over the globe.
September 7, 2006
By Marc Anderson
. . ."It’s a medium that transmits experience," said Bill Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produced a recent Suzanne Vega concert on the site. "When you have these spaces on Second Life where people perform, if it’s a small club or the back deck of a hotel at sunset, the brain processes it as that experience. And you feel it. You get that sense…that you are really there." . . .
Click here to read entire article "The Transmission of Experience" (in PDF file)
"The Transmission of Experience"
by Bill Lichtenstein
September 7, 2006
First, let me just say it: The transmission of experience.
Over a digital fiber cable. Over the internet.
Now there’s something new. And you’re hearing it here first.
Honestly.
But it’s not just the “next big thing.”
It is literally the next medium in the age-old progression of forms of communication, from language to the printed word to books to radio to film to TV.
It will change the way we communicate, and the way we live, learn and do business, just as all the other media did that came before it.
Simply because now, for the first time, you can transmit experience.
Continue reading ""The Transmission of Experience"
by Bill Lichtenstein" »
Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit
Artists Find Their Audience Online
"There's a quality that doesn't exist in any other medium," said Bill Lichtenstein, president of the company that produces "The Infinite Mind," the radio show that put on the Vega performance.
By Sara Kehaulani Goo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 21, 2006; Page A01
Musician Suzanne Vega got her start in the New York folk scene, but now the 1980s star has found a following in cyberspace.
With the help of some programmers, Vega created a 3D animated image of herself, called an avatar, and she recently performed inside a world accessible only through a Web site, where other people represented by avatars attended the concert, streamed live to computers all over the globe.
"Move over, MySpace . . . on Aug. 3, singer Suzanne Vega became the first major artist to play a live gig in Second Life. The performance was simultaneously broadcast on public radio..."
(Click video below to see Suzanne Vega perform "The Queen and the Soldier" on The Infinite Mind in Second Life.)
Continue reading "Move over, MySpace!
- Wired (August 15, 2006)" »
The launch of The Infinte Mind into 3D virtual cyberspace in August - October 2006 garnered a great deal of attention from many different sources. (see links below)
Videos
Published News Items
Photos
Blogs
Other Mentions
For a complete listing of articles, blogs and links...
Continue reading "The Infinite Mind launch in Second Life" »
from The Wire
Written by Chris Dahlen
Wednesday, 23 August 2006
Suzanne Vega has heralded the birth of several technologies. She’s
sometimes called “the mother of mp3” because the first song digitized
in the format was “Tom’s Diner.” Earlier this month, she made history
again—as the first major artist to perform “live” in the online virtual
world of “Second Life.”
If you’re not familiar with “Second Life,” at first glance it’ll look like a video game: you control a 3-D animated character, or “avatar,” who talks, plays, dances and fights with avatars controlled by other people scattered around the world. But “Second Life” isn’t a game so much as a free-for-all, player-designed social experience. And since 2004, amateur musicians have been playing gigs right in Second Life, by setting up their avatars with an animated guitar or piano and then streaming audio from their basement studios into the game.
Continue reading " over a wire, on a string: Suzanne Vega makes history in ‘Second Life’" »
The Metaverse Messenger
By KATT KONGO Staff writer
August 18th, 2006
An event for the Second Life (SL) history books occurred a few weeks ago when singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega performed in front of SL residents as part of the Infinite Mind radio show, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media (LCM).
Vega may be best known for the song “Luka,” which climbed the pop charts to number three in 1987, earning her three Grammy nominations, including one for Record of the Year.
In an exclusive interview with the Messenger, Vega said she had done things with Infinite Mind in the past, so when Infinite Mind Executive Producer June Peoples (Quirky McArdle in-world) approached her about performing in SL, she was happy to agree. She added, "Though I had only a hazy idea of what would be expected of me or Second Life was."
from Digital Media Wire posted by Rohit Bhargava
August 23, 2006
The virtual world has been getting a lot of coverage in the real world these
days. Second Life is becoming the new
poster child for the rising popularity of avatars and virtual personalities that
real people are taking on, and every day it seems there is a new development
that causes those in marketing and media circles to issue another latest news
bulletin, write a blog post, or move on the rise as del.icio.us tag candy. As
some have noted, Second Life and the concept of virtual worlds is not new. This
was an idea first explored in the dotcom days, but never really took off due
perhaps to the limitations of PCs, and the lack of abilities for promotion.
Those barriers are gone as personal media allows word to travel farther and
faster, and word has certainly spread about Second Life.
Continue reading "A Gallery of Virtual "Firsts" from Second Life" »
from GigaOm.com posted by Wagner James Au
[Excerpt]
And just last night, I received word that a fourth company is making a play to enter this field: Infinity Squared, a joint venture between Peabody award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media and Infinite Vision Media, the small metaverse group responsible for creating an event which brought Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega into SL in avatar form.
Link to original posting here.
Continue reading "Second life & The Metaverse Business Expo" »
from Gamasutra.com reported by Mark Wallace
[Excerpt]
Though Kapor[founder of Lotus Development Corporation] has been a steadfast supporter of Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale since even before Second Life got underway, he admits that he himself is still experiencing revelations about the potential of the platform. "I had an unexpected spiritual experience two days ago. I was watching on YouTube the video of the Suzanne Vega performance [in Second Life]. What I'm seeing is her avatar, she's playing guitar and there's a live performance going on, I'm hearing it on my headphones because the audio is being streamed, but I'm watching a director cutting between multiple camera angles of a live concert."
Link to original posting here.
Continue reading "Mitch Kapor Talks Second Life Supremacy" »
Harvard University in Second Life
...In-world, there are offerings that are open to the public, from lectures with NASA engineers to presentations hosted by The Infinite Mind public-radio show, which was the first live-broadcast program to have a presence in Second Life...
from New World Notes (August 4th, 2006)
Suzanne Vega is "the mother of MP3", but a decade later, we forget how hard that birthing process really was. It didn't just involve a German engineer referencing her a capella version of "Tom's Diner" to perfect a revolutionary new audio file format. In the mid-90s when MP3s first appeared, most people still used dial-up modems to access the Internet (if they did at all), so broadcasting music through them was a sputtering, cumbersome deal-- if you could even find the songs you were looking for. It took years for MP3s to reach this ITunes era of seamless user interfaces and instant downloads. (And now that we have, it's difficult to remember what music was even like before the Internet.)
Link to original blog posting here.
Continue reading "SUZANNE VEGA AND THE SECOND LIFE OF LIVE MUSIC" »
from secondlifeinsider.com (August 3rd, 2006) by Aimee Weber
from netsquared.org: remixing the web for social change
As a further testament to the online community that TechSoup is building in Second Life (if you already have an acct., go directly to the site: http://tinyurl.com/ogbpd), Suzanne Vega gave a live interview and performance last night in this growing virtual world. Read lots more about it on New World Notes and see some video highlights (that I co-edited in my very first virtual world project- it is rudimentary). I hope to post more projects like this from the TechSoup /NetSquared Community.
link to original blog posting here.
from Business Communicators in Second Life blog
Last Thursday the weekly public radio show, The Infinite Mind, opened its virtual broadcast center and studio in Second Life. To celebrate it, John Hockenberry, the host of the radio show, is interviewing four visionaries, simulcasting them in Second Life from the Infinite Mind “sim” (simulator).
This Monday and Tuesday, August 7 and 8, Hockenberry will be hosting futurist Howard Rheingold and best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. Tickets to the events in Second Life are available beginning at 9:00 a.m. (PDT, Second Life Time) on the day of each event at the Infinite Mind in-world amphitheater. SL attendees will be able to ask questions of the guests during the events.
Link to original blog posting here.
Continue reading "The Infinite Mind Radio Progam is Now Simulcasting in Second Life" »
from SL Explorers News (August 7th, 2006)
by Isabella Larzano
One of the newest ventures in Second Life is that of The Infinite Mind
Island. The island has been 
created as a joint venture between Infinite
Vision Media and Lichtenstein Creative Media, known as Infinity
Squared. The Infinite Mind is a nationally broadcast radio show and is
making a new home in the metaverse. The weekly show explores the art
and science of the human mind, brain and behavior. With their new
entrance into cyberspace, they will reach out to groups and individuals
to promote sharing of information on social issues and networking with
like-minded individuals.
Link to original posting here.
from Edge-online: Video game culture
[Excerpt]
The BBC reports that the latest of these is Duran Duran, who, likening it to the advent of the music video, find the service a new frontier to connect with fans who they hope will turn their new space into a digital utopia. Meanwhile, similar musical and more academic diversions have been taking place via The Infinite Mind, who recently hosted Suzanne Vega giving a personal avatar enhanced performance (unlike previous U2 fan-recreations), and will be accompanied by MIT Media Lab's John Maeda and author Kurt Vonnegut, the latter presumably conducted via audio only.
Link to original posting here.
from Mediangler- New Media, New World.
[Excerpt]
Second Life meanwhile is preparing for a Suzanne Vega debut as an avatar.
“In August 2006, Suzanne Vega will become the first major recording artist to perform live in Second Life avatar form. This forms part of a larger project sponsored by The Infinite Mind, a public radio show which has hired Infinite Vision Media to create a permanent presence in Second Life.”
Link to original blog posting here.
from Confused in Calcutta, a blog about information
[Excerpt]
This week, Second Life has already had Suzanne Vega and Howard Rheingold, they’re due to have Kurt Vonnegut Jr tonight, and (for those somewhat younger than me) Duran Duran have recently bought a virtual island to perform on. See this schedule if you want to get an idea of what’s happening.
Link to original blog posting here.
from boingboing.com posted by Cory Doctorow
[Excerpt]
Mary sez, "The radio show I used to produce has been doing some neat stuff in Second Life for the past couple of days -- Howard Rheingold is speaking tonight and Kurt Vonnegut is tomorrow. (Suzanne Vega played a concert last week.) The lectures will also be available in QuickTime and Shoutcast format."
Link to original posting here.
Continue reading "Duran Duran moves to Second Life, will gig there" »
Minutes after getting home last night and stepping into my alternate reality (aka Second Life) I got a message from a friend — musician Suzanne Vega was giving a live concert inside of Second Life. She send me a teleport request and — whoosh — I was there.
from Tao's Thoughts on Second Life
Yesterday night (for me) the second show of the SL version of The Infinite Mind has been taped and held live inside Second Life. Guest this time was John Maeda. As the stage at the Vega event was a bit empty (and unfortunately the stools have been moved after I did setup my camera angles and thus I had to improvise a bit) I thought about improving it a bit and thus Shukran Fahid came up with this:
Link to original blog posting here.
by Tim Surette from gamespot.com (August 7th, 2006)
[Excerpt from article]
"Duran Duran wouldn't be the first musicians to perform in Second Life. Suzanne Vega performed...on the program The Infinite Mind, which is broadcast through Second Life..."
Link to original article here.
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From The Click Heard Round the World
Last night's virtual concert by folk artist Suzanne Vega has made me think more deeply about the potential of internet-mediated and virtual music performance.
Continue reading "Vega vs. Vega: Is is live or is it Second Life?" »
From the blog of Torley Linden
Today is a great day! In Second Life, I visited The Infinite Mind, which will be open to the public soon.
I got a sneak peak, and you can find out more about what exactly this
is all about, including the big celebration opening, at the
corresponding The Infinite Mind home page.
