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Events Team Message Board Working together using this wiki Group members (feel free to add your name!) Current Tasks Assumed Meetings Notes on Brainstorm 9.26.07

 

Working together using this wiki

 

 

 

Group members (feel free to add your name!)

 

• Casondra
• Laurie
• Lilly
• Ruth
• Scott

 

 

Current Tasks Assumed

 

1. Researching costumes, arts, crafts, recipes of Catalhoyuk--Laurie, Lilly
2. Designing Okapi Island scavenger hunt, reward-based contests basedon using archaeology skills--Scott
3. Sorting through existing video clips, making list of compelling videos and their likely uses (SL film festival, lectures, site specific learning tools, etc.)--Casondra
4. Editing video interview with Ruth--Casondra (allow a couple weeks)

 

 

Meetings

 

 

 

 

Notes on Brainstorm 9.26.07

 

POSSIBLE EVENTS

 

• juried photo contest, or unjuried photo show (photos taken on Okapi Island. jury would =us)

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• Scavanger Hunt. Users take on a series of tasks, the solution to each one leading to the next. An information guide "REMIXING CATALHOYUK" (available in the museum?) would provide clues. At the start of each task the user is given a task word.
• The first task is to find the fork in the footpath that leads to both mounds. This is the fork referred to by the Turksh meaning of Catalhoyuk, "forked mound." At the site of the fork the user will enter the task word 'fork' as a password and unlock the next task.
• The next taskword could be "pottery" and challenge the user to find an piece of ancient pottery or 'fired clay.' A trip to a hearth where clay was fired and the entry of 'pottery' will unlock a clay object (earth mother figurine, container, or balls of clay) as well as the next task.
• The taskword "crops" will begin the third task, which is to find some crop-foods such as wheat, barely, peas, and lentils. The clue for this taks would be that "these were not grown in the marshy areas around the houses...crops they tended were located well away from their homes."

etc.

 

• Virtual Catalhoyuk Scholar program. The same as the Scavanger Hunt but with points and more user freedom. The user will decide what areas of scholarship at Catalhoyuk they wish to pursue. The areas could be agriculture/diet, archaeology, ritual, crafts, art, etc. Gamers choose from a set of tasks to accomplish, get rewards for completing. Rewards could be virtual (points, beads, etc.) or "real" (bread based on ancient recipe, if we have such a thing.) skills used could be based on skills archaeologists need to have, and therefore educational.

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• costume gala

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• art/craft fair

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• multi-arts and wares festival, ala a Renaissance Fair

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• conference 1: educating about catalhoyuk

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• conference 2: demonstrating our process and the potential of SL as a scholarly/educational tool

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• film festival

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• lectures

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• site specific video

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• ritual/performance

 

 

 

WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING/WHOM DO WE CONTACT/PLACES TO FLYER (potential guest lists!)--please keep adding

 

• friends who already play in SL
• friends in our e-address books

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• UCB archaeology
• UCB art
• UCB center for new media
• UCB drama/performance studies
• UCB art history
• UCB center for enviro design research
• UCB architecture

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• same for other local universities--SFSU, USF, UCSC, Stanford, Mills, etc.

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• SFSU conceptual and information arts
• SFSU interactive cinema students

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• Expression Center for New Media 3D animation
• Academy of Art College Digital Media/3D animation
• San Francisco Art Institute New Genres
• CCA Video and Performance, New Genres
• New College Media Studies, etc.

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• CIIS Women's Spirituality Program
• New College Women's Spirituality Program
• Graduate Theological Union Women's Spirituality
• Women's Building on Valencia, SF

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• Carnegie Mellon Art, Drama, Architecture, Human Computer Interaction Group
• MIT Media Lab

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• local museums--SFMOMA, Magnes, Deyoung, Maritime (they do historical reenactments i think), Exploratorium, Bay Area Discovery, Oakland, BAM, African Diaspora, California Historical Society, Empire Mines (Grass Valley) etc.

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• local experimental arts orgs--intersection for the arts, southern exposure, new langton, the lab, cell space

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• World Archaeology Conference (WAC)
• Virtual Archaeology Sytems Technology (VAST--internat. digital cultural heritage group)
• UNESCO
• National Parks (applicable process)
• CNRS, Paris

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• local teachers
• youth media literacy consortiums (see Casondra, and JUST THINK in Presidio)
• Casondra's sister! :) (works at arts magnet middle school in DC)
• Lucas Learning
• friends in instructional technology field

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• Adobe
• Macromedia
• Maya
• Google
• Soft Image (XXI)

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• Laurie Anderson (via Kevin)
• Lynne Hershman (via Moira Roth @Mills)

 

 

MEDIA PR (after we get all the bugs worked out!)

 

7x7 SF Magazine (hipster central)

KPFA community calendar

Edutopia (George Lucas' magazine on tech and education: http://www.edutopia.org/ )

 

 

 

QUESTIONS TO INVESTIGATE--SL Community Forum might be useful in answering tech questions: secondlife.com

 

• can users in SL record sounds the way they can capture a screen shot?
• what is the optimal size, aspect ratio, and resolution for video imported into SL?
• can 3d objects from lightwave, maya, studio max, etc. be imported into SL? (if we want a very acurate basket, for ex.) how does that effect download/render time?
• how important is it to be accurate to a scholarly level with visuals? do people assume visualizations to be "truth" when they have an educational intent?

 

 

 

WHO ON TEAM IS INTERESTED IN DOING WHAT

 

see "current tasks assumed"

 

4040 in Second Life

 

The 4040 area, so named for the dimensions of the excavation on the Northern peak of the East mound (40m x 40m), is undergoing extensive yearly excavation, performed by a team of British contract archaeologists who are working under the Museum of London single context methodology.  These excavations followed a surface scrape performed in 1993 and 1994, enhancing knowledge regarding the settlement layout.  In 2007 a structure was erected over the 4040, and excavations will continue through 2013.

 

In Second Life, this area would be open for alternate interpretations of the settlement and architecture, drawing from the knowledge of current and past excavators.  This area would also be the site of ongoing virtual excavations, juxtaposing present work with past interpretation. 

 

Action List:

 

•    Draft a “wish” list, that is, what the excavators would actually need to provide

•    Draft an announcement to send to excavators that includes instructions on how to access Second Life and what they’d need to do

•    Brainstorm about the best things to do—attach buildings to people?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Draft 1

Draft 2

 sl_signs.doc (Ideas for signs (yanked texted from remixing catal project- Draft 1)

Museum_sl.doc (Signs/ images just for musuem)