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AvaMars was held on March 12-14 2004

Year 2003 Events

Avatars2002, A Merry Cyber Party was held Jan 3-5, 2003, see our conference pages

January 22: Bruce Damer presented the "Drive On Mars" initiative at the Athena Mission team meeting at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California (this meeting was closed to the public).

January 23: Bruce Damer presented the Creative Commons license and virtual worlds topics for Brenda Laurel's class at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California.

February 13-18: is ARCO 2003 in Madrid, Spain where Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt presented a session on new forms of interactivity hosted by Dr. Kim Veltman.

March 4-8 was the Computer Game Developer's Conference in San Jose California.

March 21-23 was CONTACT 2003 at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field California where the Contact Consortium will present is annual special session. This year's theme is Art and Science: Visions of Exploration, with keynote speaker Dr. William K. Hartmann.

July 27-31 was SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego California.

January 3-5, 2003, was Avatars2002 a merry cyber party, a cybercelebration in Middle Earth on three platforms

Year 2002 Events

January 12: Was the 12th annual Digital Be-In held in San Francisco, see our photo album here.

Janurary 23-26: Was the 10th annual Medicine Meets VR 2002 at the Newport Beach Marriott, California, the foremost international conference on interactive technology in healthcare. This event often features virtual worlds, avatars and virtual humans along with telemedecine, imaging, and immersive VR. Galen Brandt featured a session on VR and healing/mental health.

February 24-28: Was the Web3D/VRML 2002 Symposium in Tempe Arizona where Michael Kaplan of Adobe and Bruce Damer of DigitalSpace presented a number of sessions on Adobe's Atmosphere platform.

March 1-3: Was CONTACT 2002, the 19th annual conference of CONTACT COTI (Cultures Of The Imagination), the grandfather organization of the Contact Consortium. This is a truly unique conference bringing together anthropologists, space scientists, science fiction writers and others at the Biltmore Hotel and Suites in Santa Clara. This year's dinner keynote speaker was Rusty Schweickart, Apollo astronaut and extraordinary fellow. On March 2nd the Contact Consortium presented a special session on the Avatars2001 cyberconference, work with NASA Ames on the FMARS/Haughton Mars Project, the Biota.org AlivePrize initiative and the VLearn3D SIG, On Friday March 1st was a day at NASA Ames Research Center exploring the theme "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life -- Is the Cosmos Rife with Life?". See our photo albums here.

June 10: Was Quantum Viz 1 "Social Networks, Planetary Visualization & Dynamic InfoScapes - 2D, 3D, N-D" at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. See our photo album here. The Contact Consortium was a cooperating organization and presented a session on interacting in avatar cyberspace.

June 17-23: Was Laval Virtual in Laval Mayenne, France. Perhaps the largest conference in the VR and virtual worlds field in Europe, in its fourth year with a well stocked program and exhibition.

Jul 23-25: Was SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio Texas. See our photo album here. Watch for news about the next Web3D Roundup.

August 26-Sept 2: Was Burning Man 2002 at the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada. Never before was the virtual combined with the surreal physical on so vast a scale. See Bruce Damer's Burning Man 1999-2002 images and documentation.

October 18-20: Was POP ! TECH 2002 (aka Camden Technology Conference) on the theme of Artificial Worlds, in Camden, Maine. Bruce Damer presented a session on virtual worlds and the future of the commons. See the presentation slides here, and the photo album of the event here.

October 22: Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt presented sessions at the New York Studio program of the Parsons School and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

November 12: Bruce Damer presented a special session on virtual worlds for Mars exploration at NASA Ames Research Center including topics on the 3D modeling of Mars from orbital data, BrahmsVE and opportunities for outreach for MER/2003 ("Drive on Mars").

Dec 7th: Vlearn3D 2002 was centered around the themes explored in the CILT research project Building Blocks for Virtual Worlds.

December 9-13: Was Artificial Life VIII in Sydney Australia.

Year 2001 Events

January 15: Was the DCNET 001 where the Contact Consortium presented a special demo based on the paper by Damer, de Bruin(s) and Gold on Conferences and Trade Shows in Inhabited Virtual Worlds A Case Study of AVATARS98 and 99.

Janurary 24-27: Was the 9th annual Medicine Meets VR 2001 at the Newport Beach Marriott, California, the foremost international conference on interactive technology in healthcare. This event often features virtual worlds, avatars and virtual humans along with telemedecine, imaging, and immersive VR.

February 19-22: Was the Web3D/VRML 2001 Symposium in Padeborn Germany.

March 2-4: Was CONTACT 2001, the 18th annual conference of CONTACT COTI (Cultures Of The Imagination), the grandfather organization of the Contact Consortium. This is a truly unique conference bringing together anthropologists, space scientists, science fiction writers and others at the Biltmore Hotel and Suites in Santa Clara. This year's dinner keynote speaker was be Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute. During this event, the Contact Consortium presented a special session on the Avatars2000 cyberconference, work with NASA Ames on the FMARS/Houghton Mars Project, the Moon project and the VLearn3D SIG, On Friday March 3rd was a day at NASA Ames Research Center exploring Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

March 20-24: Was the Computer Game Developer's Conference in San Jose California: what's new in online multiplayer gaming worlds.

March 28-Aprl 11th is the Online conference Online Social Networks 2001 co-hosted by Lisa Kimball and Howard Rheingold. Register for the event here (this event is facilitated through a web-based threaded discussion forum)

Aprl 12th was a special Brown Bag lunch at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (Cyberlaw) where Bruce Damer, Steven Reading, Galen Brandt, and Bob Gelman presented a session on for Lawrence Lessig's students and researchers. This presentation featured live journeys into online virtual worlds where ad hoc property and civil rules of conduct are emerging. From avatar citizens pilfering hairstyles and ending up in a moot court to communities and enterprises utilizing franchising and choardic structures, this fascinating corner of the net illustrates the concept that in Cyberspace, the code is the community.

May 2001: was a visit and special presentation made by Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt at Umea University, Sweden. Photos here.

June 18-19: was VirComm 2001, the Conference for Virtual Community Professionals in San Francisco California.

June 26-July 1: Was the North American Paleontological Convention in Berkely, California, where Biota.org hosted a special symposium "Evolution in the Computer: Artificial Life and Evolution".

Jul 23-28: was SIGGRAPH 2001 in Los Angeles California featuring another Web3D Roundup.

August 27-Sept 3: was Burning Man 2001 at the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada. Never before was the virtual combined with the surreal physical on so vast a scale. See Bruce Damer's Burning Man 1999-2001 images and documentation.

September 15-16th: was Cyberarts X, the Tenth Year Anniversary of Cyberarts International held in San Francisco at the Exploratorium and the Somarts Cultural Center. This year's theme was "rediscovering creativity". Cyberarts was presented in concert with YLEM (celebrating their 20th anniversary) and several other organizations supporting including Adobe Systems Inc., DigitalSpace and the Contact Consortium which presented a special "virtual CyberArts" and "YLEM/20 gallery" permitting in-world avatar attendance at this important event. See the CyberArts X Conference Photo Album here.

September 21-23rd: was Paradox III: Third Millenium Habitats, Integrating Community, Virtuality and Nature at Paolo Soleri's Acrosanti in the Arizona desert. Presentations touched on virtual worlds in their connection with design and living in realspace and cyberspace. See the Paradox III Conference Photo Album here.

Avatars2001 happened on Dec 1-2, see our conference report.

December 1-2 was Avatars2001 combined with VLearn3D 2001. To get information about future Avatars and other Consortium conferences, sign up on the Avatars conference mailing list for updates. All events from 1996 through 2001 are covered here.

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