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The Infinite Mind launch in Second Life

The launch of The Infinte Mind into 3D virtual cyberspace in August - October 2006 garnered a great deal of attention from many different sources. (see links below)

Videos

• Suzanne Vega perfoms "The Queen and the Soldier" live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.
• Kurt Vonnegut interviewed by John Hockenberry live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.   
• Robbie Dingo's "Machinima" animated video of the virtual creation of Suzanne Vega's virtual guitar

Published News Items

• Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit: Artists Find Their Audience Online - Washington Post (page one) August 21, 2006
• Metaverse Messenger article (July 18, 2006)  (August 15, 2006)
• Right-click to learn: Second Life offers students a virtually real education - (Boston) Phoenix, August 18, 2006
• "Move over, Myspace!" - Wired, August 17, 2006
• The Boston Globe
• Current newspaper
• Globe and Mail newpaper

Photos

• Opening tour of The Infinite Mind virtual studios and complex photos from Pathfinder Linden/ John Lester
• Tour of The Infinite Mind cyberspace studios photos from Torley Linden
• The Infinite Mind Press Kit photos
• Vega and Hockenberry broadcasting in SL (studio photos)
• Hockenberry and Vonnegut virtual interview in SL

Blogs

• The Berkman Blog by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School
• The Infinite Vision Media blog
• New World Notes blog (1) (2)
• Ericrice.com

Other Mentions

• The Wire
• Gamespot.com
• Edge-online

For a complete listing of articles, blogs and links...

The Infinite Mind launch in Second Life

The launch of The Infinte Mind into 3D virtual cyberspace in August - October 2006 garnered a great deal of attention from many different sources. (see links below)

Videos

• Suzanne Vega perfoms "The Queen and the Soldier" live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.
• Kurt Vonnegut interviewed by John Hockenberry live in Second Life for public radio's The Infinite Mind.   
• Robbie Dingo's "Machinima" animated video of the virtual creation of Suzanne Vega's virtual guitar

Published News Items

• Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit: Artists Find Their Audience Online - Washington Post (page one) August 21, 2006
• Metaverse Messenger article (July 18, 2006)  (August 15, 2006)
• Right-click to learn: Second Life offers students a virtually real education - (Boston) Phoenix, August 18, 2006
• "Move over, Myspace!" - Wired, August 17, 2006
• The Boston Globe
• Current newspaper
• Globe and Mail newpaper

Photos

• Opening tour of The Infinite Mind virtual studios and complex photos from Pathfinder Linden/ John Lester
• Tour of The Infinite Mind cyberspace studios photos from Torley Linden
• The Infinite Mind Press Kit photos
• Vega and Hockenberry broadcasting in SL (studio photos)
• Hockenberry and Vonnegut virtual interview in SL

Blogs

• The Berkman Blog by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School
• The Infinite Vision Media blog
• New World Notes blog (1) (2)
• Ericrice.com

Other Mentions

• The Wire
• Gamespot.com
• Edge-online

For a complete listing of articles, blogs and links...

over a wire, on a string: Suzanne Vega makes history in ‘Second Life’

from The Wire
Written by Chris Dahlen  
Wednesday, 23 August 2006

Suzanne Vega has heralded the birth of several technologies. She’s sometimes called “the mother of mp3” because the first song digitized in the format was “Tom’s Diner.” Earlier this month, she made history again—as the first major artist to perform “live” in the online virtual world of “Second Life.”

If you’re not familiar with “Second Life,” at first glance it’ll look like a video game: you control a 3-D animated character, or “avatar,” who talks, plays, dances and fights with avatars controlled by other people scattered around the world. But “Second Life” isn’t a game so much as a free-for-all, player-designed social experience. And since 2004, amateur musicians have been playing gigs right in Second Life, by setting up their avatars with an animated guitar or piano and then streaming audio from their basement studios into the game.

Anyone Out There

from Edge-online: Video game culture

[Excerpt]

The BBC reports that the latest of these is Duran Duran, who, likening it to the advent of the music video, find the service a new frontier to connect with fans who they hope will turn their new space into a digital utopia. Meanwhile, similar musical and more academic diversions have been taking place via The Infinite Mind, who recently hosted Suzanne Vega giving a personal avatar enhanced performance (unlike previous U2 fan-recreations), and will be accompanied by MIT Media Lab's John Maeda and author Kurt Vonnegut, the latter presumably conducted via audio only.

Link to original posting here.

Duran Duran Given Second Life

by Tim Surette from gamespot.com (August 7th, 2006)

[Excerpt from article]

"Duran Duran wouldn't be the first musicians to perform in Second Life.  Suzanne Vega performed...on the program The Infinite Mind, which is broadcast through Second Life..."

Link to original article here.
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Infinite Mind Comes to SL

From The Metaverse Messenger, a real newspaper for the virtual world

The Infinite Mind, public radio’s most honored and listened-to health and science show, is opening a virtual world headquarters and broadcast facility in Second Life.

Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produces The Infinite Mind, describes the move as a “first step through the looking glass” into the virtual world, allowing TIM the opportunity to reach a vast new global audience.

Link to PDF file for entire newspaper.  Article located on page 24.

Howard Rheingold in "Infinite Mind" broadcast in Second Life, August 7

Posted by Howard Rheingold on his blog, Smart Mobs

I will be participating as an avatar in a live broadcast in Second Life on August 7 as part of the new Infinite Mind series that combines radio with 3D online virtual world interaction.

Link to original posting here.

Public radio comes to Second Life with Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega

The public radio show, The Infinite Mind, is going to start broadcasting form a virtual studio in Second Life. The first show includes performances by Suzanne Vega and interviews with Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Rheingold. This is the first regularly scheduled national broadcast to establish an ongoing presense in a virtual world. Begins Aug. 9th

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