Urban Screens Manchester Newsletter 8

If you’re unable to make it to Manchester for the Urban Screens conference, you don’t have to miss out on the action: tune in to one of the big screens in All Saints Gardens via Second Life.

‘The Revolution will be in Second Life’ is an interactive public video art installation incorporating Second Life users in a real life environment. Professor of Creative Technology at Salford University, Paul Sermon, in collaboration with Lets Go Global for Urban screens, will map the actual ‘first life’ town square ‘All Saints Gardens’ on Oxford Road with its Second Life counterpart, allowing both ‘first’ and ‘second’ life visitors to coexist and share the same park bench in this live interactive installation, which will transform the ‘Urban Screen’ in All Saints Gardens into a portal between these two parallel worlds.

The installation will also investigate the issue of demonstration and how it has changed from real into virtual environments. By positioning the ‘Urban Screen’ as the mediator of change, the installation will examine the history of ‘All Saints Gardens’; relocating Mancunian Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst as an avatar within Second Life. Here she will she remain locked to the railings of the park, reminding us of the need to continually evaluate our role in this new online digital society.

Fancy joining us in Second Life? You must register as a member and then install the Second Life software on your Computer, www.secondlife.com. When you have the software installed visit One Manchester http://slurl.com/secondlife/One%20Manchester/0/249/25 and click TELEPORT. This will take you to Manchester in Second Life, and from where you land it is a short walk to the Event Arena where the screens are located. On arriving at the screens there will be an icon that will allow you to play/turn on the screens.

Visit www.letsgoglobal.tv for information on their other Urban Screens events.

Saturday 13th October 2007 5-6pm