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Metaverse Meetup: 2008 Machinima Festival at Eyebeam on Sat, Nov 1

Nov 2008 1
Sat 11:00 AM
Location
Eyebeam

540 W. 21st Street
(between 10th & 11th Ave)
New York, NY 10011

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Estimated attendance
 200  people attended.
4.50 4.502

Who organized?
Annie Ok

Hello Avatars,

Our next Metaverse Meetup will be the 2008 Machinima Festival at Eyebeam on Saturday, November 1st. Admission is free and it'll be a fun day of hanging out with fellow metaversalists while getting a first hand look at what's happening in the field of virtual filmmaking across various platforms. There will be panel discussions, demonstrations and screenings. (Yours truly is honored to have been asked to be a judge and to speak on the Machinima and Art panel.) Did I mention that it's all FREE? w00t! :)

About 2008 Machinima Festival:

"In its fifth year, the 2008 Machinima Festival celebrates the revolutionary new breed of animated filmmaking that uses virtual spaces and popular video games like Halo® 3, World of Warcraft® and The Sims™ as source material for entirely new and often subversive works. Organized and produced by the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences in association with Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology and sponsored by Beepa, the event, hailed as the “Sundance for the Video Game Set” by MTV News, makes its return with a totally free format, welcoming the general public to enjoy the full day of panel discussions, demonstrations and screenings of the most groundbreaking works of this movement, along with the nominees and winners of the 2008 Machinima Awards (“The Mackies”)."

http://festival.machi...

Machinima Filmfest 2008

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th & 11th Ave)
New York, NY 10011

Festival and Screenings: 11am-8pm
Awards Ceremony: 8pm
Festival Afterparty: 10pm

Admission: FREE!!


Looking forward to seeing you at the Festival!

Best,
Annie Ok
Co-Organizer of Metaverse Meetup

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Who attended?

  • 200 attendees
    • “ There were screenings throughout the day of machinima; it turned out there were also panel discussions, which I would've realized sooner if I'd followed the link appended to the announcement on our meetup page. (Having studied and worked in theater, I'm interested in virtual acting, which was one of the topics.) By going in the evening, I missed the panels, but I got to watch some of the works and all of the awards presentation. There's exciting work being done in this field, for sure. I hope to pay more attention to it in the future, and I hope to see more participation by women or older adults; I may be wrong about who made these works and who they appeal to, but my personal impression was that a fair amount of the material was somewhat guy-oriented (recon squads, kidnapped men, battleships, super-villains). ”
    • Rob
    • ann
    • Art