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| event archive november 1997 |
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| Wednesday, November 19th 7:00 p.m. |
Dinner Meeting Ukrainian Home 140 Second Avenue (between St. Mark's and 9th Street) All Welcome! Join the NYVRMLSIG for dinner to meet and talk with Larry Rosenthal (cube3@loop.com), founder of the New York VRMLSIG. Larry moved to Los Angeles in April, 1997 and his Starbase C3 site has recently launched on the Asylum/AOL site (http://www.asylum.com). Larry's got plenty of stories to tell!! Important!! Be sure to show Larry some support — visit the Asylum site, check out his VRML models and post a message about his VRML models on the Sci Fi message board!! Steps:
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| The NYC form*Z/ElectricImage SIG | The NYC form*Z/ElectricImage SIG meets at Video Corporation of America, 370 7th Avenue (30th street) 5th floor, at 6:30 pm, the third Wednesday of every month.
We are primarily a user-driven group, with techniques demos and showing of recent work, with limited product/vendor demos. The group is chaired by David Teich, Lawrence Kaplan and Richard Lainhart, longtime users and experts in the field of 3D and 2D animation and video. We invite you to show examples of your recent work. If you are bringing digital files, we can accept 44/88 meg Syquest, floppies, or CDs. If your work is on Zip, Jaz, or other media you must bring your own drive and arrive by 6pm when we will be setting up. We also support VHS and Beta video formats. If you would like to be included on the SIG e-mail list, you will receive monthly meeting reminders. Send your e-mail address to: mindmachine@mindspring.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Dave Teich, Mind of the Machine mindmachine@mindspring.com http://www.mindofthemachine.com |
| Mon, November 24th 3rd Annual SuperCyberSuds |
Participating companies showcasing their work include:
Event Time/Duration: 4-9pm Location: Puck Building, 293 Lafayette Street (@ Houston); B/D/F/Q to Broadway/Lafayette or 6 to Bleecker Contact: Sherry Riesner Email:sherry@nynma.org URL: http://www.nynma.org Phone: 212.785.7898 Sponsor: NYNMA and the sponsors listed above Cost: free |
| Event Archive December 1997 |
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| Saturday, December 6th | ADRIFT A New Work Evolving in a Networked Digital Medium. Performance: 3:00 p.m. New York time, 9:00 p.m. Austrian time Adrift, is an Internet performance event, that will be streamed live from Vienna, Austria as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of Austrian radio's Kunstradio, and from the Fakeshop in Brooklyn, NY. A collaboration by three artists — writer, composer Helen Thorington, and composer Jesse Gilbert, both in Vienna, Austria; and architect Marek Walczak in New York City, this evolving work is an interplay between three environments — sound (Gilbert and Thorington); text (Thorington); and vrml 3D (Walczak). Programming is by Mark James, Jonathan Feinberg and Martin Wattenberg. Press Release |
| December 8th Alias User Group Meeting |
The NY Chapter of the Alias Global User's Association Meeting If you'd like to attend the Alias Users' Group meeting on Dec. 8th, you must send an R.S.V.P. message to david_halbstein@belltech.com with "User Group" in subject line as space is limited. Monday, December 8, 1997 6:00-9:00pm Bell Technology Group The Puck Building 295 Lafayette St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10012 Featuring a Pre-Release Demo of MAYA courtesy of Alias|Wavefront Special Opportunities: Users are welcome to present any interesting work, finished or in progress. Please contact David Halbstein if you wish to present. The Alias User Group is also looking for volunteers to take responsibility for several aspects of running this user group, from meeting organization to mailing list maintenance to Web site management. Questions or requests to demo: Contact David Halbstein Alias|Wavefront's Maya LOS ANGELES - August 5, 1997 - At SIGGRAPH, Alias|Wavefront, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI), demonstrated impressive progress on the development of its next-generation 3D animation software product, MayaTM. Along with providing an update on the IRIXTM version of Maya, Alias|Wavefront announced development plans to implement Maya on Microsoft® Windows NTTM. Maya is a dramatically new approach to character animation and further strengthens Alias|Wavefront's current leadership in visual effects technology. The advanced architecture of Maya delivers unmatched system speed and a streamlined workflow resulting in significantly increased productivity. Maya provides an unprecedented level of openness allowing customers to easily extend the system to meet their specific production requirements. |
| December 9th nyVRMLsig BOF |
Panel Discussion Group to be Moderated by Mark Pesce
“The Future of 3D on the Internet”
Tuesday, December 9, 1997 6:00-8:20 p.m. Bell Technology Group The Puck Building 295 Lafayette St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10012 You won't want to miss Mark Pesce's panel discussion group at the nyVRMLsig BOF. Because the event will be held the week of IWorld, we have invited an extraordinary panel of industry leaders. Watch for further details. Mark Pesce is an Internet visionary and co-creator of VRML. As lecturer and teacher, Pesce has educated people around the world to the power and potential of VRML. Author of VRML: Browsing and Building Cyberspace, Flying Through the Web and Learning VRML: Design for Cyberspace, he has helped individuals worldwide to master VRML. Mark Pesce is also Chairman and CTO of blitcom, Llc. blitcom is focused on the creation of character and story — narratives — using 3D Web technologies. In August at SIGGRAPH, blitcom premiered Bliss.Com, a real-time streaming VRML character, heralding a new age of Web based entertainment. (details may be found at http://www.blitcom.net) |
| Event Archive January - February 1998 |
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| Wednesday, January 28th |
NYVRMLSIG Monthly Meeting The Bell Technology Group Puck Building 295 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room Corner of Houston All Welcome! 6:00 - 8:20 p.m. |
| Guest Speakers: | Paul Hoffman, IrishSpace (see detail below)
Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University Tisch School of the Arts Team (also a nyvrmlsig landmark project team), "vSHOW" (see detail below) Vittorio Marchi, Frederico Bertagnolli, Beau Morley, Paula Murgia, Der Hong Yeng, Kyoung Soo Koh and Paula Murgia We look forward to seeing you there!
IrishSpace
The production can be thought of as a "radio play with VRML visuals",
with a mix of fully-scripted non-interactive scenes, and "free-roaming"
scenes which the user can explore. It runs in a 4-frame HTML interface,
and includes 27 separate scenes, involving 45 VRML wrl files.
vShow vSHOW utilizes the favorite electronic and telecommunications devices of teenagers all over the world, the television, the telephone and the Internet. Knowing that most teens are comfortable with these devices the NYU team decided to push the telecommunications model by merging all of them together in a chat/game environment, all based in a Virtual Washington Square Park, (the unofficial campus of NYU). |
| MEETING
Wednesday February 11th |
1998 Landmark Project Planning Meeting
The VRMLSIG will resume activity on the VRML landmark project which was started in June, 1997. This would be a good meeting to attend if you would like to join the project and build a VRML model of a New York historical landmark. All are welcome. 7:00 p.m. La Boulangere 49 East 21st Street (between Broadway and Park Avenue South) Bakery/Cafe offering sandwiches and salads; very informal; spacious and loft-like; many customers order coffee, open until 10:00 weekdays. |
| WEBCAST
Thursday February 12th |
LA VRML User's Group (LAVUG) Meeting Webcast
(via a Java enabled browser) ECI Web Site, at http://www.ecafe.com, and the LA VRML Users Group Web Site at http://vrml.LAVUG.org/worlds/multiuser.html 7:45 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
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| MEETING
Tuesday February 24th |
General Meeting
All are welcome 6:00 - 8:20 p.m.
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| MEETING
Wednesday February 25th |
NYC form*Z/ElectricImage SIG
All are welcome 6:30 p.m.
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