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It’s official: The third annual Second Life Community Convention is set to take place in the windy city, Chicago, on August 24-26 at the Hilton Chicago, according to an announcement on the official SLCC blog. Tentatively planned for October, it seems the city was already packed with events, and August was determined to be the next best time. 3pointD hopes to be there, although I have no idea whether I’ll have drained my conference-going budget by then. Last year’s event was a hoot, with 500 flesh-and-blood avatars selling out the joint in San Francisco. No word yet on what capacity will be this year, but count on it being a bigger party than ever. See you there (I hope).

Jerry Paffendorf, Rik Riel, my friend Micah and I dropped in Saturday night at the 13 Most Beautiful Avatars show at the Postmasters gallery in New York. The prints on display were beautiful 36″x 48″ prints of avatars taken from the virtual world of Second Life by a pair of artists named Eva and Franco Mattes, who together constitute 0100101110101101.ORG. I don’t know where that number came from, but it spells 19,373 in binary (unless my calculator is broken). I spoke to Franco at the show and he told me a little but about their work and the process of putting the show together, but what I didn’t realize at the time is that he and Eva and a pair of hacktivist pranksters (or “restless European con-artists,” as they describe themselves) who have engaged in some pretty formidable and in some ways very 3pointD works of art in years past. (more…)