[ExI] TransVision 2010, October 22-24, 2010 - All videos recorded from Teleplace are online

[Giulio Prisco]

TransVision 2010, October 22-24, 2010 - All videos recorded from
Teleplace are online
http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/transvision-2010-october-22-24-2010/

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> TransVision 2010, October 22-24, 2010 - First videos online
> http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/transvision-2010-october-22-24-2010/
>
> We have uploaded the first bunch of videos taken from Teleplace. We
> will upload the rest within a couple of days. We have also started
> uploading the full collection of HD videos taken in Milan, but
> completing the collection will take a few weeks.
>
> G.
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> TransVision 2010, October 22-24, 2010
>> http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/10/transvision-2010-october-22-24-2010.html
>>
>> TransVision 2010 is over! I wish to thank all speakers and
>> participants, those who came to Milan and those who participated
>> remotely via Teleplace. Special thanks to Kim for her work at the main
>> Teleplace workstation and for handling many technical problems, and to
>> Cosimo and Jacopo for their work at the HD video camera. I wish to
>> thank the volunteer Italian to English translator (I am not mentioning
>> your name here because I guess you prefer it this way, but you know
>> who you are and thank you so much), who gave also a great unscheduled
>> presentation of the Polytopia Project. And of course I also want to
>> thank Riccardo and Stefano for their support in organizing and running
>> the conference. In particular Stefano should really have stayed at
>> home to recover from recent surgery, but he made a special effort to
>> be with us.
>>
>> In the first two pictures, Dan Massey and Max More giving their talks.
>> In the foreground, the Terasem 1 O'Neill Island One Space Habitat, a
>> Bernal sphere model built by Simon Deering for the Terasem Movement of
>> Martine Rothblatt and presented at TV10 by Khannea Suntzu. The model
>> is now on its way to Florida to be delivered to the Terasem Movement.
>> We had many great talks, not only about visionary technologies but
>> also about literature, politics, philosophy and art. The second half
>> of the first day has been dedicated to Italian neo-Futurist literary
>> and artistic movement, but strike neo- because Futurism is always Neo
>> by definition. I have been disappointed by not seeing as many people
>> as I hoped: I counted about 65 participants in Milan over 3 days
>> including a dog. The problem is that participating in conferences
>> costs money and time, and in my own presentation (which I shortened to
>> less than ten minutes to make time for other speakers) I proposed
>> online conferences 2.0 as a solution.
>>
>> We had about 30 remote participants in the in the TVirtual online
>> extension of TransVision 2010, hosted by the teleXLR8 project based on
>> the Teleplace online telepresence platform. Remote participants have
>> been able to watch all talks in realtime, and interact with speakers
>> and other participants. In the picture above, Max More's talk is shown
>> to remote participants in Teleplace, and the virtual Teleplace
>> conference hall is shown to the participants in Milan. We used two
>> Teleplace workstations, one to stream the video and voice of the
>> speaker and to interact with remote participants, and one to stream
>> the speaker's slides. Lesson learned: if the text on the slides is
>> small it is better to upload also the original .ppt or .pdf to
>> Teleplace. We did this in realtime during the conference, but we
>> should have done it in advance. For those speakers without
>> presentations in .ppt or .pdf, we used the second Teleplace
>> workstation to show the audience in Milan to the audience in
>> Teleplace.
>>
>> In the afternoon of the second day we have reversed the procedure
>> outlined above and shown remote talks from speakers in Teleplace to
>> the audience in Milan. After great talks by Eugen Leitl and Robert
>> Geraci, Natasha Vita-More started her talk (picture above)... but 20
>> minutes into Natasha's talk all the Internet connections in the
>> conference hall in Milan died, perhaps due to overload caused by too
>> many WiFi connections in parallel. The Internet servive provider's
>> technicians could not fix the problem. The remote participants in
>> Teleplace continued without us, and we have video recordings of the
>> talks by remote speakers. However, all remote speakers have been
>> invited to repeat their talks to the teleXLR8 community.
>>
>> In the morning of the third day, not only the Internet connections in
>> the conference hall were still dead, but also the screen projection
>> system was dead! I had a (very) heavy-handed "exchange of views" with
>> the hotel's personnel (wife says I can be quite unpleasant on
>> occasions), and the technical problems were fixed.
>>
>> This was a very interesting event, with great talks by great speakers.
>> I am happy to have seen again many old friends and made many new ones.
>> In the picture above, some speakers and participants at a dinner after
>> the end of the conference. I was not really able to pay attention to
>> any of the talks including my own, and I look forward to watching the
>> video coverage. We recorded everything on video, both in HD with the
>> cameras on site, and from Teleplace. The videos will be available
>> online and on the conference's DVD proceedings. The videos recorded in
>> Teleplace will be available online in a few days, and those recorded
>> on site in a few weeks.
>>
>> I have started two blog posts as containers and index pages for
>> material to be posted later. Both posts have the same title as this
>> one. The post on the TransVision 2010 blog will have links to the HD
>> videos recorded in Milan, and the post on the teleXLR8 blog will have
>> links to the videos recorded in Teleplace. The Twitter feed created by
>> participants at #TV2010 has the twitting history of the conference.
>>
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