Another little nice snippet about our Life Squared  project being shown at the SF Moma. Linden Lab's VP Marketing & Community Development, Robin (Linden) Harper, shares her thoughts: 

Wired magazine has a nice little bit called Art of Participation Connects Viewers, Artists. This is written about our Life Squared project currently on display at SFMOMA:

Stanford Magazine, the publication of the Stanford Alumni Association, provides a nice piece in its November/December 2008 issue on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project.  Under the title "Saving Worlds: Preserving the Digital and Virtual," neatly summarizes the project and its work, with quotations from Henry Lowood (SHL) and Beth Dulabahn of the Library of Congress, as well as a couple of nice photos.  The workshop described in the article was "Preserving Knowledge in Virtual Worlds," put on as part of Media-X' Summer Institute at Wallenberg hall.

Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Dante Hotel (1973–74) is recognized as one of the pioneering site-specific public art installations in San Francisco. Originally presented in a real hotel room staged with remnants of fictional occupants, it was recast as Life² in the virtual world of Second Life in the course of collaborative project with SHL, funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The resulting mixed reality work includes live images and online access to the project in the galleries alongside artifacts, prints, and documents from the original installation. 

About a year ago today I co-founded the Stanford Open Source Lab with some likeminded people. In celebration of this we are putting on an (un)conference tomorrow, Friday Nov. 14^th 2008, from 12 noon to about 7ish. The event takes place at Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus and is free and open to all interested parties. You will find all the details the Open Source Lab Wiki.

Even though SHL has tended to be a practice-oriented platform, we have found it invaluable to engage in theoretical reflection on our work on occasion. Among them, two are currently available on line:

The past year has seen SHL transition from a structure whose principal infrastructure costs were borne by Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences to a more loosely structured, self-supporting research collaboratory built around the work of its faculty leaders. Though the transition has posed numerous challenges, the result has been a revitalization of the lab and a refocusing of its portfolio of projects. The new website is being launched with the aim of providing a livelier presentation of this work in progress, as well as documenting the Lab's past activities and accomplishments.