The Speakers

Each of our speakers and presenters will be relating to us something of their life and experience in OpenSim, the grids they have created, the festivals they have curated, their experience as visual artists, builders, educators, performers, and everyday residents.

Each session of the conference is a mix of conventional presentations in words and pictures, and artistic performances, where the artist goes beyond words to express the overarching theme of the conference, the many languages of opensim.

Welcome to the Conference: A Panel in 5 Languages!

Em Jannings, Richi Rizzoli, Minord Loup,

Lorenza Colicigno, AnaMari Maggi

EM JANNINGS

resides on Craft Grid where he runs a Poetry Workshop course, White Chickens. He is a talented actor and poetry performer.

RICHI RIZZOLI

has an encyclopedic knowledge of music, which makes him a valuable and entertaining DJ. His home is ArtDestiny grid.

MINORD LOUP

does much to create community among the french speakers of opensim. He founded the landmark grid Francopholie

LORENZA COLICIGNO

is an educator and writer sims NoiLab, built in collabolation with Tonino Lane, are valuable assets to the literary and cultural life of Craft Grid, and all of Opensim.

ANAMARI MAGGI

fluent in Spanish, Italian, and French, Ana is truly the embodiment of the international spirit of our event. Her sim, Paris, on NewLifeItaly grid, is a gem.

Loru Destiny:

Opensim, wo Träume wahr werden können

Loru Destiny resides on ArtDestiny grid with her artist husband Tryad, and friends. Loru is a fashion designer and builder, and has organized two of the biggest fashion shows in hypergrid history, bringing together many original creators of opensim clothes. A popular DJ at inworld events, Loru also founded RadioArtDestiny in 2022 with Genie Fegte and Richi Rizzoli.

Bink Draconia:

Vom Tanzsaal auf die Bühne -

Wie aus schlichten Tanzpads eine Show entstand

In 2009, Bink Draconia joined Second Life and switched to OpenSim in 2015. She was active in grids such as Kitely, Creat Canadian Grid, Metropolis and then had her own grid Kroatan from 2016 - 2021.She is well known for her Hunt builds in association with Kiki Baily. Bink moved to Pangea in January 2022, where she continues to make mall stage shows and videos.

Neo Cortex:

Story Sequencer, ein Tool um (nicht nur) NPCs zu steuern

Neo started his Virtual Life in Second Life in March 2007. A little more than a year later, in August 2008. He joined Opensim and settled in OsGrid where soon he began running his own simulators and grids. In RL he is a programmer and an IT-Admin, his speciality being Unix/Linux. He also is a 3D content creator, working in Blender, SL, Opensima and Unity. His native language is German, but he also gets along quite well in English.

Nadir Rae

Il était une fois

Nadir is a builder, DJ, actress and painter residing on Ignis Fatuus Grid with her partner Max Well She divides her time online between Second Life, where she is a DJ, and Opensim. A keen maker of textures, Nadir has been involved in many building projects both on her home grid and others. She has participated in the Theatre group on the grid SV3D

MorlitaM & Cherry Manga:

Dual Wave

One French, one Spanish, Cherry Manga and Morlita M have had a long partnership in artistic creations. Friends from the days of Second Life, Cherry supplies the visuals that reflect feelings and dreams, while MorlitaM is a skilled sound artist manipulating noises as well as notes to create poem-like soundtracks. Discover their websites at https://morlitam.com/ and https://artmvn.art/

Tristan Dehaie

Théâtre en Opensim

Tristan had a first, rather disappointing foray into virtual worlds, when he spent a year in SL in 2014-15. In 2018 however he discovered Opensim and from then on he has maintained a presence on both platforms, pursuing various projects on each, in particular musical theater with his group Theater on the Hill. His current challenge is to set up a thriving French language - and hopefully multilingual - theater in Opensim, which is beginning to take shape and have success.

Luciana Mattei:

UnAcademy, la scuola tra reale e immateriale

Luciana Mattei is a primary school teacher in Latina, Italy, where she gives lessons in Maths, Technology and English. Together with her team, she uses her region unAcademy on Craft Grid to captivate the interest and inspire the imagination of youngsters through virtual learning techniques.

Eva Kraai & Salahzar Stenvaag:

L'IA nei Mondi Virtuali: Una Guida Pratica per Tutti - Dalle Immagini ai Testi

Both Eva and Salahzar are educators and promoters of the use of virtual world platforms as important new ways of teaching students of every age. Their organization Edu3D is an Italian leader in this sector and has been operating for almost two decades, offering courses in Blender, lectures, opportunities to explore cultural and technologial subjects in immersive environments. Currently the od Edu3D emphasis is particularly on the many ways AI can be useful.

Xirana Oximoxi:

Vivir el Arte entre dos realidades

Xirana Oximoxi is a Catalan writer and illustrator, and has published several children's books. She is a multimedia artist, working both digitally and with traditional colors and techniques. Active in both Second Life, where she has a Gallery, and in Opensim, where she has a sim on Craft Grid, Xirana has been sharing her creativity with the public on virtual platforms since 2009.

Tosha Tyran:

Los cuatro mundos del Hopi Pueblo y los Españoles - Leyenda? Realidad?

One of the five organizers of the HIE event, Tosha Tyran has a long career in building in Opensim, and was one of the four original members of Craft Grid when it opened 16 years ago. A committed internationalist, she began building back in her time in SL, and her focus is on recreations of landscapes and architecture that represent real places, often world heritage sites.

Geo Portal:

Fuera de Esta Mundo

Geo Portal, is a writer from Puerto Rico. A long time resident of OSGrid, he uses virtual worlds to illustrate and share with others some of his unusual life experiences which he has documented in his books. They recount his decades long experience of encountering beings from other planets, and what their message is to humans today.

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