Virtual Spectacle Fortuna/Island Grand Opening!

Virtual Spectacle Fortuna/Island Grand Opening
As part of Columbia College Chicago's
Manifest Urban Arts Festival

In SECOND LIFE!
I Am Columbia Island
TODAY!
May 7, 2007
5 PM PST/SLT

As one of the kick-off events for Columbia College Chicago's Manifest
college-wide urban arts festival, Student Affairs and the Interactive
Art & Media Department are hosting a virtual version of the physical
parade, Spectacle Fortuna. Tonight, to mirror Friday's parade in Real
Life, avatars will don costumes and make three laps around the island
from which a video will be created which will run in Columbia's Hokin
Gallery during the run of the festival. A quick 'blessing' to the event
will be given, and the party will commence.

Come join the fun!

About I AM Columbia
I AM Columbia Island is a joint effort between Student Affairs and the
Interactive Art & Media Department at Columbia College Chicago to
explore the creative and educational possibilities in the 3D virtual
online world, Second Life. In addition to college-wide events, it also
hosts a series of international functions like the New Media journal,
Intelligent Agent, and is a node, along with Ars Virtua, for the
international electronic arts network, The UPGRADE!, based in the New
Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC.

About Spectacle Fortuna:
Spectacle Fortuna is Columbia's parade of creativity, wishing good
fortune upon seniors and graduate students and celebrating the college's
spirit and creative community. To imagine Spectacle Fortuna is to
visualize a mix of mardi gras and Halloween imagery, combined with
Columbia's grit and glitter!


Patrick Lichty
- Interactive Arts & Media
Columbia College, Chicago
- Editor-In-Chief
Intelligent Agent Magazine
http://www.intelligentagent.com
225 288 5813
[email protected]

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