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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1999
* DOORS OPEN AT NOoN PST
* Admission: $10.00 Donation requested
* Live A/V webcast from Start to finish

• ECI IS A PHYSICAL PORT OF ENTRY TO:
  
  AVATAR '99
  "COLONIZING CYBERSPACE"
  www.ccon.org/conf99/index.html
  
  ECI's ON-SITE & IN-WORLD PRESENTERS:
  
  12:00pm - Celia Pierce, New media pioneer, author, educator: "Art & Science of Community."
  
  1:00pm - Lucrezia Borgia, Director of Distance Learning Technology for Activeworlds.com
  
  3:00pm - Dave Blackburn, Virtual Ventures: "RODS, Sky-Fish, or the New Millennium Bug!"
  
  4:00pm - Kit Galloway,
  Tour of "Electronic Cafe's Roadside Attractions."
  Tour begins by meeting in Alpha Worlds at (aw 2N 4061W)
  
  *** - To see our presenters in Activeworlds, and for the full lowdown of In-World and On-Line activities for AVATARS'99, goto the Contact Consortia website at www.ccon.org/conf99/index.html for the master calendar of events.
  

• HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN WEB SITE
  
  Promoting yourself and your music on the Internet has emerged as an important aspect of career development. Having a personal Website is rapidly becoming the norm. This event will include the actual construction of a Website and will explore the following topics
  * The fundamentals of Website design
  * How to register a Domain Name
  * The basics of HTML
  * How to implement MP3 audio and Real audio on your site
  * Free and "secure" music file formats
  * Linking music files to a web page
  * How to register your site on search engines & maximize your position on those engines
  
  Guest Speakers:
  Chris Palmer, Director of Product Development Multimedia, Acoustic Systems, Inc.
  Steve Shmerler, President of SASnet Design, an Internet consulting firm
  Laura Betterly, President/COO, VisioSonic, a DJ hardware/software company.
  

• MILLENNIUM HUM I
  a vocal event for the public's participation, composed and produced by
  BONNIE BARNETT.
  Part of the World Festival of Sacred Music October 9th to October 17th,
  and the first of three global millennial vocal celebrations to be produced by Barnett.
  
  The visual sacred Mandala backgrounds for Millenium Hum I will be generated live by Rik Henderson, founder of, and the primary creative force behind Transmedia Productions.
  
  If you can't be at ECI in the flesh, return to this page for the live webcast of the event or watch the live webcast in the 3D VR Theater inside Cybertown at www.cybertown.com where you can shake, gather and hum with avatars from all over the galaxy. You can enter Cybertown in 2D as a visitor, then use the Jump Gate in the right hand frame to go the the ePlex, then the VDrome. On Oct. 17th, you will see a button to view the event. In 3D you can click the screen in the VDrome to start the live stream.
  
  The good people from the "World Tea Party," will join us with their portable tea trolley -- the tea is also free!
  www.worldtea.net
  SEE: PRESS RELEASE
  
  SEE: HOW TO HUM
  

• Join the Electronic Cafe International for the afternoon and see what this wonderful piece of the cyber world has to offer. Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz will give a verbal and digital tour of thier space and then listen to some poetry with "Caught in a Little traffic" , four writers, including Bruce Bauman and Keith Antar Mason, and a couple others from past issues of, "The Traffic Report" will give a prelude to the Publication Party for the1999 issue that is happening on site later this evening which will feature the whole cast and crew. (The 18th Street Lobby Gallery,1639 18th Street, SM, CA 90404 at 8 p.m.) ECI willl visit the 18th Street Arts Complex Website where the traffic report is online too!!

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ECI took this summer off to work on it's archives that includes 25 years of Telecollaborative Arts. We will return to programming in the fall (see you at SIGGRAPH'99).
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• The International Artist-in-Residence Program of the 18th Street Arts Complex Presents:.
  GODDY LEYE.
  A Visual/Video Artist from Cameroon, Africa.
  Mr. Leye will present his current work stemming from television clips to ancient African writings. His work will both distort and transform images on the screen in an attempt to reveal the unseen. Mr. Leye,presents his new work, "Behind The Scenes" .
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• LAVUG Monthly Meeting.
  No Meeting This Month. Please check back for information on May's event.

• LAVUG Monthly Meeting.
  A night at Active Worlds.
  Mandee Tatum, Director of Distance Learning, will start the evening off with an overview of the Active Worlds technology.
  Then, Kit Galloway will escort the audience through his AMAZING AW creation "Electronic Cafe's Roadside Attractions."
  Come and enjoy his live demonstration of Participatory Avatar Theater, an Avatar Dance Performance for stage, and Avatar Formation Flying -- with live multi-site participation from Avatar Performers such as "raiven" and ""JAN THE MAN." Also, experience first hand the Theme Parks like rides, supernatural anomalies, thrills, chills, avatar abductions, and fantastic structural creations of "Electronic Cafe's Roadside Attractions"!
  There's an exit up ahead, you're about to enter....
• Check out the LAVUG website for more info and links.

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  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1999
  * 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm PST
  *Webcast from 8:15pm - finish:
  • Live Performance from.
    Highways Performance Space.
    1651 18th Street.
    Santa Monica, CA.
    *Produced by Sheila K. Brennan*.
    
  • REVELATIONS:
    A Tarot Reading.
    Directed by Leo Garcia with:
    Michael Ellison.
    Sheila Brennan.
    Sal Dominguez.
    Martin Wiech.
    Mia Farrell.
    Lorenzo Buford.
    Doug Summers.
    Rex Poindexter.
    Richard Piscuskas.
    

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  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1999
  *Social at 7 PM
  *Meeting at 7:30pm PST
  *Admission: $5.00 LAVUG, IICS, AIP members/$8.00 students/$10.00 non-members
  *Webcast from 7:45pm - finish:
• LAVUG Monthly Meeting.
  FUNTOPIA: Larry Chen, Chief Technical Officer of Funtopia will be the featured presenter for our February meeting. Funtopia is re-opening their 3D Virtual Reality Game site in February for beta testers of their new 3D Virtual Reality world. During his talk, Larry will discuss applications of VR, Java vs. VRML accessibility of worlds, and the dynamics and benefits of on-line communities.
  Check out the LAVUG website for more info and links.

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  THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1999
  *Social at 7 PM
  *Meeting at 7:30pm PST
  *Admission: $5.00 LAVUG, IICS, AIP members/$8.00 students/$10.00 non-members
  *Webcast from 7:45pm - finish:
  • LAVUG Monthly Meeting.
    Dr. Terzidis has experimented in four directions: a) models of existing, proposed, or historic buildings, b) virtual services, c) painting spaces, and d) 3D world maps. His many projects in this direction including the Getty museum, UCLA's North Campus, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and an urban block in Venice, CA.
    Check out the LAVUG website for more info.
    

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