Public Affairs in Second Life: Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow

Last Friday Lichtenstien Creative Media was to hold an interview and visual event in the Infinite Mind sim with actress and activist Mia Farrow, sponsored by the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Ms. Farrow was to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad amid images that needed no words.  Tragically, a real world fire emergency kept the event from happening on Friday as scheduled.

The event will be rescheduled according to the LCMedia web site.  LCMedia are the producers of the Infinite Mind radio show.

In the meantime, the Infinite Mind outdoor visual event is available on the sim.  It replicates the photography exhibit, Our Walls Bearing Witness – Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?, that was projected onto the walls of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. during the Thanksgiving week in the U.S.   

The virtual exhibit was scheduled to be dismantled on December 12,  however, in light of the circumstances, it may remain until the interview can be rescheduled. It also includes a video of the real world exhibit installation.  Don’t miss out.  Take a few minutes and teleport over.

This is yet another example of the powerful communications tools Second Life affords. 

I often refer to “360-degree” content when urging clients and colleagues to rethink information presentation in 3D spaces.  By that, I don’t necessarily mean an object which an avatar can walk around, through or physically interact with.  I also mean rethinking more powerful content through multimedia.

Second Life is global.  Issues we want people to experience often have universal impact.  We cannot rely on language to communicate here.  Some things become diluted with language.

Rethink media.

The Infinite Mind is located in Second Life here.

For more information on the real world event, see the Holocaust Museum web page.

December 10, 2006