Upcoming Copper Robot: Designing great public spaces in Second Life.

"We look so much younger" From Left to Right, Second Life avatars of John Jainschigg, Kim Smith, Rita J. King and Joshua Fouts.

Mitch Wagner emails about the upcoming edition of Copper Robot this coming Sunday, August 16 on the topic of "Designing great public spaces in Second Life." Guests include John Jainschigg (pictured above as his Second Life avatar John Zhaoying). John is Executive Director of the Internet and Community Labs at ZiffDavisEnterprise, and head of the advisory board at World2Worlds. From the email:

As people design spaces in Second Life and other virtual worlds for
public use—including theaters and nightclubs and malls and gaming
areas and digital urban downtowns—they’re inventing a new visual
language, borrowing the principles of real-life architecture and Web
design to make exciting new digital spaces.

Dancing Ink Productions has been focused on the evolution of public space across physical and virtual worlds. Rita J. King's recent installation for the UK's Proboscis "Transformation" is a recent example, as well as her 2008 installation, Being in Common.

More on Copper Robot event here.