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INTRODUCTION
For the Conflux festival in Brooklyn, New York, september 13 until
september 16, Dutch artist Sander Veenhof developed a walking project,
loosely based on the principles of the classic psychogeography.
Conflux is the annual (RL) New York festival for contemporary
psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through
emerging artistic, technological and social practice.
With the walkie talkie walks festival attendees will be given the
opportunity to experience their surroundings by being accompanied by a
Second Life avatar using specially developed walkie talkie devices. In
this project two real life persons will be performing a simultaneous
walk together, one being on the street in Brooklyn, New York, the other
behind a computerscreen, using the Second Life avatar.
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YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROJECT
Second Life inhabitants are invited to participate in this project
and join a New York festival attendee for a simultaneous walk. Walkie
talkies can be picked up for free at the 0031 area at the hours
mentioned below.
Festival attendees will check out the available Second Life walking
companions by browsing a list on http://slwalkietalkie.com on their
mobile phone. Clicking on one of the avatar names turns the phone into
a walkie-talkie communication device connected to the Second Life
avatar of choice.
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WALKS CAN BE STARTED AT THE FOLLOWING HOURS:
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14th 2007
between 11.45 am and 01.00 pm
(Second Life time)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15th 2007
between 08.30 am and 09.30 am
(Second Life time)
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between 02.45 pm and 04.00 pm
(New York time)
between 11.30 am and 12.30 pm
(New York time)
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SL location: 0031, 0031 NO (151, 64, 21)
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RL location: Luna Lounge
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EXHIBITION
From september 13 until october 14 there will be an exhibition
related to the subject of psychogeography at DEPOT art gallery with
works by Rogier Verkade and Cathelijn van Goor. The works by Cathelijn
van Goor are also to be seen in RL at the Gitana Rosa Gallery in New
York from september 14 until october 14.
Both RL and SL galleries can be visited as part of the walks.
DEPOT, Reignier (130, 111, 28)
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A simultaneous SL/IRL walk in progress
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