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Recent audio recordings and broadcasts - 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | Earlier
See Bruce's speaking schedule for this year here.
Hear Bruce on the Psychedelic Salon podcast here.
Hear Bruce on the Biota Poscast here.
For other channels, projects and musings hear are some features:
April 8, 2009: New: Interviews of Bruce Damer by Henry Lowood of Stanford for the Preserving Virtual Worlds project
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Part 1 - Henry Lowood introduces question as to how a computer got to be thought of as a space, early history of Bruce, college, imaginal worlds, board games designs, early computer experience PDP/11, Telidon shuttle animation, Xerox Star, vision of 3D physics worlds in 1982, passion for space, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (1984), USC graphical projects & cellular automata (1985), Annenberg School (1986), Elixir Technologies career, derived from INTRAN on PERQ from Xerox Alto, Elixir Prague (1990-94), Charles University, NAU SolSys MUD, Snow Crash, 1994 van journey, SIGGRAPH/Myron Kreuger, Santa Fe Institute, locating in Boulder Creek near Silicon Valley, to code or to create organizations, Contact Consortium vision (1994) and realization, CONTACT conference (1995) formation of Consortium, Larry Niven, first experience in Worlds Chat (May 1995), Mitra, brainstorming, AlphaWorld & Ron Britvich, demo in Nice, France (May 1995) installing WC at Internet cafe in Nice/Derrick de Kerckhove. |
Part 2 - Derrick de Kerckhove/McCluhan Program, Worlds Chat in 1995, the rise of the use of the term Virtual World and why it is not Virtual Reality, Pavel Curtis and LambdaMoo, Paul Saffo, the term "in-world", VR had negatives, Virtual Worlds are about people, Myron Kreuger and Artificial Reality, quote from Avatars book (1997), Second Life, Philip Rosedale and the rebirth of the term Virtual Worlds and Avatars, glossary of terms, science fiction connections, Ivan Sutherland & mathematical worlds, Sutherland at the LINC, Galen Brandt as one of the first avatars in Videoplace, crossover of communities (VR to Earth to Avatars conference in 1996), the influences of VWs from MUDs, Doom, 1980s flight simulators, SIGGRAPH, VRML, |
Feb 16, 2009: Bruce Damer's presentation (download 33MB MP3) at the SMARTLab/UEL "pre Viva" presentation for transfer to PhD candidacy. See photos here.
Play streaming audio here:
Hear Bruce on the Biota.org Podcasts
Dec 2008: Bruce directed and narrated EvoGrid the Movie (animated by Ryan Norkus)
Sept 29, 2008: Bruce was the guest on another special edition of The Space Show which can be heard here.
Bruce was featured on the C-Realm podcast by KMO (Oct 1, 2008)
Oct 1, 2007: Bruce was the guest on a 90 minute live radio show called The Space Show, hosted by Dr. David Livingston. Listen to the show here.
August 2007: Bruce presented "“The Ultimate Revelation: How Rare We Are in the Universe” at the "Playalogues" at Burning Man 2007, hosted by Lorenzo Hagerty of the Palenque Norte series on Psychedelic Salon. Listen here.
May 2, 2007: Bruce's presentation at the Waag Society Cyberspace Salvations in Amsterdam, topic: What did Spock See?
Nov 17, 2006: Bruce Damer presented at the Santa Cruz Future Salon "Will bona fide life evolve from within human technology (and what are the consequences of this happening)?" at Borders Books in Santa Cruz, California.
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 Questions and answers (24MB MP3) |
Sept 2, 2005: Palenque Norte at the MAPS dome, Burning Man 2005. Photos of session
Transcription of this speech here (thanks Pohn Paul Castiaux!).
Sample music remixes of this speech here and here (fewer words, set to cool music "Elementary Particles") (thanks Adam!).
Sept 2004: Bruce's Oaxaca Mindstates 2004 podcast of "The Great Project of the Universe”.
Sept 2004: Wordstream #1 at MindStates, Oaxaca, Mexico, "A Universal Mindstate-rev2" (47.5 MB MP3)
and Questions & Answers (13 MB MP3). Photos of session
Transcription of this speech here (thanks Pohn Paul Castiaux!).
Wordstream #2 at MindStates, Oaxaca, Mexico, "Consequences of a Two Speed Mind" (62.5 MB MP3)
with questions and answers included (Sept 2004). Photos of session
Palenque Norte #2 at Burning Man 2004 "A Universal Mindstate" (31 MB MP3) (Sept 2004). Photos of session
Most grateful thanks to Terence Mckenna, Lorenzo Hagerty, Galen Brandt and many, many others for their inspiration and support for these ideas.
Aug 2003: Terence McKenna once called Bruce Damer “a visionary's visionary,” and Bruce certainly lived up to that reputation in his 2003 Burning Man presentation. Combining subjects as diverse as evolution, psychedelic experiences, and physics, he builds a mental construct to rival Olaf Stapleton's classic work Starmaker. In addition to Bruce's ideas about a conscious universe, we were also treated to an inspiring rap by his wife, Galen Brandt, as she explains the lure of the Burning Man experience. Click here to listen to "The Day the Universe Became Conscious" at the Palenque Norte podcasts. Thanks to Lorenzo Hagerty for providing this in convenient MP3 and podcasting formats!
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Aug-Sept 2003: BBC Radio 4 coverage of Burning Man with Peter Day (broadcast November 2003): (25MB MP3 audio). See photos of Burning Man 2003 and the BBC crew's experience "on the playa" here.
Bruce Damer's speech at Palenque Norte at Burning Man 2003:
Audio here!August 27, 2003: Burning Man 2003 Palenque Norte speech "The Day the Universe Becomes Conscious" (MP3 format, 68MB) also hear this broken into manageable MP3 chunks at the Palenque Norte 2003 Burning Man pages.
August 28, 2003: Burning Man 2003 Braiding Salon speech, shorter streaming version of the "Universe" (Realplayer formats):Realplayer video and audio at 256K (DSL, Cable - 26.5MB)
See Also: Palenque Norte home page, and Bruce Damer's 2003 Burning Man (and Palenque Norte) photo album.
2002 Presentations
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 Video here! |
October, 2002: Bruce Damer's PopTech 2002 speech on stage at the opera house in Camden Maine (53MB windows media player video format). See photos and powerpoints of Bruce's session at PopTech here.
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