THIS IS A LIST OF EVENTS IMAGINIFY HAS PARTICIPATED IN.

FOR A LIST OF IMAGINIFY SPONSORED EVENTS, CLICK HERE.

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Symposium on Cascadia‐region Cultural Planning and Development. UO Portland White Stag, 11/7/2008
The focus of the symposium is the explore the question, "should cultural planners engage in developing a "Cascadia" regional cultural identity?" The Cascadia region consists of the northwestern North America from Oregon to British Columbia. Partners collaborating in this event include the Western States Arts Federation, the Canadian Consulate General in Seattle, the Oregon Arts Commission, the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy.

Participants:
Ohio Arts Council, Director Emeritus, Wayne Lawson
Oregon Arts Commission, Executive Director, Chris D'arcy
Portland’s Regional Arts and Culture Council, Executive Director, Eloise Damrosch
Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Director, Michael Killoren
Vancouver, B.C. Cultural Services office, Managing Director, Sue Harvey

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1st Annual Oregon University System Campus Sustainability Conference. UO, Eugene, 10/23-24/2008
For more than a decade Oregon's public universities have been reducing their environmental footprints by experimenting with a wide range of initiatives. Efforts to monitor and reduce greenhouse gases, improve building performance, include life cycle costing considerations, purchase locally grown food, and support student initiatives have brought OUS institutions well-deserved recognition as national leaders in the campus sustainability movement.

Participants:
Dave Frohnmayer, President, University of Oregon
George Pernsteiner, Chancellor, Oregon University System
Leith Sharp, Founder & Director, Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard University
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Free Culture Conference. International House, UC Berkeley, 10/11-12/2008
Students for Free Culture (SFC) is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. Launched in April 2004 at Swarthmore College, SFC has helped establish student groups at colleges and universities across the United States. Today, SFC chapters exist at over 30 colleges, from Maine to California, with many more getting started around the world.

Participants:
Lawrence Lessig, Professor & Founder, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
Pam Samuelson, Professor, School of Information & Co-Director, Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley
John Lilly, CEO, Mozilla
Richard Rinehart, Open Museum, Digital Media Director/Adjunct Curator BAM/PFA, UC Berkeley
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9th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention. Santa Clara University, CA 6/19-22/2008
“Communication, Technology, and the Sacred”..... "consider how the spoken and the mediated word and image contribute to the human soul – or to the sacred. How have technologies and the larger media world altered our experiences of the sacred?"

Speakers:
"Phenomenological Methodologies for Media Ecology," Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University
"Keynote," Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy
"Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation," Steve Dixon, Head of the School of Arts, Brunel University
"Classical Rhetoric and Media Ecology Methodology," Anne Pym, California State University, East Bay
"Media Ecology and/as Culture," Lance Strate, Fordham University

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UC Berkeley Big Bang 08. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), 6/01-02/2008
"New Media Symposium and Art Festival... a two-day symposium on new media, art, science, and the body in partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; a campus media lab demonstration and open house; and an alternate reality game. Berkeley Big Bang is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of work by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe."

Speakers:
"Virtual Embodiment and Myths of Meaning in Second Life," Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley
"Virtually Everything, Virtually," Lynn Hershman Leeson, Artist, Filmmaker, & Chair, Film Department, San Francisco Art Institute
"Body Building," Kimiko Ryokai, Professor, School of Information & Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
"The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very, Very Small," Ruth West, Director, Interactive Technologies, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, UCLA
Co-host:
Richard Rinehart, Adjunct Curator & Digital Media Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Leonardo/ISAST, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Ken Goldberg, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media & Professor, College of Engineering & School of Information, UC Berkeley

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Database Aesthetics. Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA, 5/1/2008
"Discovering the role of data in creating a new way of experiencing—and making—art. Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art." How communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation.

Speaker: Victoria Vesna, Artist & Professor, Department of Design | Media Arts, School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA
Sponsor: Department of Information Studies, UCLA

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Oregon Arts Summit 2008: Setting the Table. Oregon Convention Center, 4/23/2008
If a conference could be more like a dinner party, then we hope the result feels something like this. After all, discussion is where all the really good ideas come from... Join statewide arts managers and advocates to address key issues facing the arts in Oregon and spur collaborative solutions. Arts and civic leader will help direct purpose-driven panel discussions. An advocate for cross-disciplinary education, Dean Bronet has implemented courses and curricula for interdisciplinary learning, combining architecture; engineering; science, technology, and society; dance and electronic arts.

Sponsor: Oregon Arts Commission

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Computational Thinking Throughout the Curriculum Symposium. Knight Library, UO, 4/11/2008
The specific focus is "computational thinking"... Topics included; "Human Brains and Computer Technology Working Together to Better Understand Brains"..."Integrating Computational Thinking Throughout the Curriculum-Now and the Future."

Sponsors:
Center for Educational Technologies (UO Library) with support from the Teaching Effectiveness Program (Academic Learning Services) and the Office of the Provost.

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Metaverse U. Cummings Art Building, Stanford University, California, 2/16+17/2008
Virtual worlds have garnered tremendous interest since their recent proliferation in the academia, art, industry, and media... explore the cultural, technological, legal, and economic issues.... aims to challenge traditional conference models with more collaborative and inclusive opportunities for participants, both virtual and corporeal.

Participants:
"Transformed Social Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality," Jeremy Bailenson, Assistant Professor of Communication, Director, Graduate Program in Co-terminal Media Studies, Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), & Assistant Professor of Symbolic Systems, Stanford University
Conference Head: Henrik Bennetsen, Research Director, Stanford Humanities Lab

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Year of the Circle. Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Oregon, 11/3/2007
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Picasso’s invention of Cubism in 1907, Tom Marioni has devoted himself in 2007 to drawing circles only. In typically mischievous yet serious fashion, Marioni declared 2007 his “Year of the Circle.” Marioni’s Out-of-Body Free-Hand Circles combine his interest in the circle with his long-term practice of making action drawings that document his body’s measurements and motions.

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New Media and Performance. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, 9/13/2007
A conversation about the intersection of fine art and emerging technologies, experiential media, relational aesthetics, and the primacy of user-generated content.

Participants:
Andrew Dickson, Multidisciplinary Artist, UrbanHonking
Peter Burr, Curator, Hooliganship
Stephen Slappe, Artist and Instructor in Foundation, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
Stephanie Snyder, Curator & Director, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College (moderator)

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Biomimicry Symposium: John Muir Day. Mezzanine, San Francisco, California, 4/21/2007
A two-hour, multidisciplinary exploration of Biomimicry as it relates to green tech, urban development and land management, economics, social systems, and the worldwide sustainability movement.

Participants:
Oz Basarir, Chief Technology Officer, Wiser Earth
Kevin Bayuk, Urban Alliance for Sustainability, SF Permaculture Guild
Janine Benyus, President, Biomimicry Institute
Peter Berg, Founder, Planet Drum Foundation
Scott Fossel, Executive Director, Green Century Institute
Michael Gosney, Co-Director, Green Century Institute
Jay Harmon, President/CEO, Pax Scientific
Paul Hawken, Executive Director & Founder, Natural Capital Institute & WiserEarth
Andrew Lawton, Autodesk Consulting, Sustainable Design Practice
Ervin Laszlo, President, Club of Budapest, Author, Science and the Re-enchantment of the Cosmos, & the A-Field
Gifford Pinchot, President, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Jon Ramer, Partner, WiserCommons
Greg Steltenpohl, Chairman, Interra

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World Index for Social & Environmental Responsibility Commons. Presidio, San Francisco, California, 11/14/2006 & Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, Portland, Oregon, 4/5/2007
A network and open source technology offering members (and partners) the tools to build their own knowledge base, creating and sharing common-pool resources and tools around social and environmental responsibility.
http://www.wiserearth.org/article/df1f1e7a1a5f7e4b9044b6bc95bc19bd
http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/be1cb1cd0f5a8e90a015b95eeb6a556a

Participants:
Andre Angelantoni, Inspiring Green Leadership
Kelsang Aukatsang, Natural Capital Institute
Rory Bakke, S-BAr
Marc Barasch
Zenobia Barlow, Center for EcoLiteracy
Oz Basarir, Natural Capital Institute
Kevin Bayuk, Urban Alliance of Sustainability
Bruce Cahan, Urban Logic
Jay Coen Gilbert, B Lab
Holly Coleman
Axil Comras, Green Home
Brad DeGraff, Interra Project
Michael Dimock, Roots of Change Fund
Peggy Duvette, Natural Capital Institute
Scott Fossel, Green Century Institute
Gil Friend, Natural Logic
Allen Gunn, Aspiration
Michael Gosney, Green Century Institute
Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman
Paul Hawken, Natural Capital Institute
Darian Heyman, Craigslist Foundation
Bart Houlahan, B Lab
Jair, Imaginify
Marc Kasky, Green Century Institute
John Katovich, Local Exchange
Jim Koulias, Center for EcoLiteracy
Melinda Kramer, WGGAN
Ethan McCutchan, Grass Commons
Mike Ozborn, Cordance
Gifford Pinchot, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Betsy Power, Wiser Business
Jon Ramer, Interra Project
Sat Santokh, Earth Aid
Andrea Saveri, Institute for the Future
Don Shaffer, BALLE National
Greg Steltenpohl, Interra Project
Michael K. Stone, Center for Eco-Literacy
Jony Waldman, Natural Capital Institute
Kerri Winn, Planetwork

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Mobile ldentity Workshop. CNet Headquarters, San Francisco, California, 1/26/2007
Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. An "unconference" in the tradition of the Internet Identity Workshops and the Identity Mashup following the open space model. [Archive.org]

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Identity Mashup. Harvard Law School & MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 6/20-21/2006
Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. The goal of the conference is to explore the role of identity systems in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of civic participation and commerce. [Archive.org] [Archive.org]

Panel Podcast:
Derrick Ashong, ASAFO Media, LLC
Derek Beres, Journalist
Marvin Hall, Jamaican Educator
Jair, Imaginify
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, Slam Poet

Other Speakers:
Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science, MIT, and WWWC
Ben Adida, WWWC
Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab
Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
David Berlind, Executive Editor, ZDNet
David Bollier, Public Knowledge
Stefan Brands, CEO, Credentica
Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity, Microsoft
Anne Carblanc, OECD
John Henry Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman Center
Roger Dingledine, Tor Project
Judith Donath, MIT Media Lab
Esther Dyson, Editor at Large, CNet
Johannes Ernst, CEO, Netmesh
Philip Evans, Senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group
Glenn Fogel, Managing Director-Corporate Development and International, Priceline.com
Urs Gasser, Associate Professor of Law, University of St. Gallen and Fellow, Berkman Center
Michael Graves, Verisign
Mark Greene, IBM
Louise Guay, CEO, My Virtual Model
Dick Hardt, CEO, Sxip
Robin Harper, Vice President of Community Development and Support, Linden Lab
Lewis Hyde, Fellow, Berkman Center
Michael B. Jones, Microsoft
David Kirkpatrick, Editor, Fortune
Karim Lakhani, Professor, Harvard Business School
Jamie Lewis, President, Burton Group
Kevin McCabe, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
William McGeveran, Fellow, Berkman Center
Anthony Nadalin, Chief Security Architect, IBM
Dr. Nataraj Nagaratnam, Chief Architect for Identity Management, IBM
Dale Olds, Novell
Jon Ramer, Executive Director, The Interra Project
Drummond Reed, CTO, Cordance
Martin Rosvall, Post Doctorate, Theoretical Biology, University of Washington
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, EPIC
Ira Rubinstein, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
Mary Rundle, Fellow, Berkman Center
Doc Searls, Editor, Linux Journal
Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, PRX, and Fellow, Berkman Center
Jean-Francois St. Arnaud, My Virtual Model
Greg Steltenpohl, Founder, Odwalla Juices, Adina Juices and Interra
Hugh Stevenson, FTC and Harvard Law School
Roger Sullivan, Vice President of Business Development, Oracle
John Sviokla, DiamondCluster
Kim Taipale, Center for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology Policy
Paul Trevithick, CEO, Parity, Co-creator: Higgins, IdentityGang, SocialPhysics
Christine Varney, Managing Partner, Hogan and Hartson
Bill Washburn, Opinity
Larry Weber, W2 Group
Danny Weitzner, WWWC
Philip Windley, Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University
Jonathan Zittrain, Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University, co-founder, Berkman Center, and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006). Computer History Museum, Mountain View, 5/3/2006
Focuses on user-centric identity and identity in the large. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that don't necessarily have a formalized relationship is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization. [link]
blog.opinity.com/2006/05/the_intention_e.html

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Free Culture Summit. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 4/23/2006
A student summit and rally back where it all started: Swarthmore College. Students from around the country gathered for a weekend to learn, share skills, network, and plan for the future of the movement. http://freeculture.org/blog/2006/04/25/national-summit-a-success

Participants:
Bryn Mawr College - Rebekah Baglini
Carleton University - Justin Barca
Columbia University - Thessaly La Force
Downhill Battle - Holmes Wilson
Drexel University - Shreyansh Shah
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Derek Slater
Franklin & Marshall College - Drew J. Cluley, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, Vincent Lombardozzi
Hampshire College - Vikki Finnan
Harvard University - Rebecca Rojer, Christina Xu, Gregory Price, Elizabeth Stark, Benjamin Horst (design), Dustin Boyer (law)
Johns Hopkins University - Raphael Krut-Landau, Asheesh Laroia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Greg Perkins
McGill University - Austin Corbett
Northeastern University - Dani Capalbo, Christopher Budnick
New York University (NYU) - Inga Chernyak, Olga Raskin
Public Knowledge - Alex Curtis
Prometheus Radio - Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania
Rochester Institute of Technology - Sam Cole, Luke Stodola
Rutger's University - Javier Rosa
Scripps College - Karen Rustad
Swarthmore College - Robert Matthews, Benjamin Blonder, Ben Warren, Kate Duffy, Mariana Pucik, Nelson Pavlosky, David A. Benitez, Alex Benn, Eric Astor, Louis Rosenberg, Eric Loui, Donna Fournier, David Chudzicki
Stanford Law School - Lawrence Lessig
Swat - Gwen Snyder, Lawrence Miller
Syracuse University - Megan Kale
The New School - Jaime Rojas
Temple University - David Allen
Thomas Edison State College - Kate Tallon
Tyler School of Art - clifford hedin
University of Delaware - Noah Ullmann
University of Florida - Elisabeth Strawser-Booth
University of Oregon - Jair
University of Pennsylvania - Catherine Turcich-Kealey, Maggie Hennefeld, Lindsay Fullerton, Stephen McLaughlin, Troy Majnerick, David Fox, Namita Thakker, Laurie Allen, Sue Smith, Mitchell Manger, Adam Dean
University of The Arts - Mark Germer

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PlanetCode Symposium: Earth Day. SomArts, San Francisco, California, 4/22/2006
Celebrating the further evolution of the digital revolution: building a sustainable culture. A combination of symposium, exhibition, rally and multimedia entertainment extravaganza featuring a range of presentations focused on sustainability solutions, with some of San Francisco’s top “conscious music” acts, DJs, and visual and performance artists.

Planet Code Presentations by:
Drew Dillinger, Eco-Poet
Michael Gosney, Founder, Calafia Project & Green Century Institute
Jair, Creative Director, Imaginify
Richard Tarnas, Founder, Philosophy, Cosmology & Consciousness, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), & Adjunct Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Karri Winn, Executive Director, Planetwork

Participants:
John Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Jim Fournier, Eprida, Inc., Biomass Energy Foundation
Melinda Kramer, Women's Global Green Action
Erik Davis, Social Historian, Author, "TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information" & Editor, Evolver magazine
Chris Deckker, Founder, Earthdance
Kaliya Hamlin, Network Director, Planetwork
Randy Hayes, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization
Mark Kasky, Co-founder, Green Century Institute
Melinda Kramer, Women’s Global Green Action Network
Laurent Pacalin, Co-chair, California Clean Tech Open
Erik Sundelof, Fellow, Digital Visions Program, Stanford University
Greg Steltenpohl, Founder, Interra Project
David Ulansey, Professor, CIIS & Founder, Species Alliance

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Sheaves Project I. San Francisco, California, 2/23/2006
Engaging in a growing set of conversations with people and groups designed to broaden the constituency of the social capital market; the people who invest in blended value deals. Context, social identity, values, interests and collaborative grouping.

Participants:
Rupert Ayton, Center for the Development of Social Finance (CDSF)
David Alan Boyd, Xigi.net
Karl Burkhart, The Evolver Project
Stephen DeBerry, Omidyar Network
Tony Deifell, KaBOOM! & Social Enterprise Alliance
Bruce Boston, Cnet
Shannon Clark, MeshForum, Hope Street Group
Brad deGraf, Books We Like, Smartocracy & Media Venture Collective
Sooz Fassberg, Threshold Foundation & 50 Simple Things
Tim Freundlich, Good Capital, xigi.net
Michael Gosney, The Green Century Institute
Mark Grimes, Tixeon & MDG Wiki
Kaliya Hamlin, Planetwork
Andrew Hoppin, Goodstorm
Ibrarhim, Movement Strategy Center & BLOC Project
Jair, Imaginify
Kevin Jones, Good Capital & Xigi.net
Peter Kaminski, Socialtext
Nicole Lazzaro, XEO Design
Ron Meiners, There.com
Sara Olsen, Social Venture Technology Group
Tracy Pettingill, Seedcapital.org
George Polisner, Alonovo.com
Jon Ramer, Interra Project
Annette Riggs, Geosystems
Dan Siegel & Jenny Yancey, YouthGive
Greg Steltenpohl, Interra Project
Sunita de Tourreil, Chocolate Dividends Investing
Edward Vielmetti, Community organizer
Greg Wendt, CFP Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc.
Tom White, Social Enterprise Reporter
Karri Winn, Planetwork
Greg Wolff, Chocolate Dividends Investing
Katrina Zavalney, City Repair

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Evolutionary Salon 2. Chinook Center of the Whidbey Institute, Whidbey Island, Washington, 1/14-18/2006. [Archive]
The theme of this second, 4-day Evolutionary Salon is "Catalyzing Collective Intelligence and Social Creativity." How do we understand, interpret, apply, and communicate the evolutionary worldview offered by mainstream and emerging sciences, and harness the collective intelligence and social creativity of our species, to facilitate a positive impact on the evolution of humanity and the natural world? How do we support a movement toward the conscious evolution of increasingly conscious social systems?

Participants:
Bill William Aal, John Abbe, Margo Adair, Dana Lynne Andersen, Carl Anderson, Terri Anderson & Tom Buxton, Jennifer Atlee, Tom Atlee, Ria Baeck, Connie Barlow, Tree Bressen, Alan Briskin, Juanita Brown, Chris Bui, Susan Cannon, Michael Cook, Ashley Cooper, Peter Corning, Chris Corrigan, Barbara Cushing, Drew Dellinger, Anne Dosher, Michael Dowd, Mark Dubois, Halim Dunsky, Stephen Feig, Tree Fitzpatrick, Glenna Gerard, David Gershon, Kaliya Hamlin, Craig Hamilton, Rich Henry, Sheri Madrone Herndon, Peggy Holman, Jon Host, Fritz Hull, Vivienne Hull, Thomas Hurley, Fernanda Ibarra, Rick Ingrasci, David Isaacs, Jair, Mark Jones, Kevin W. Kelley, Lion Kimbro, Alexander Laszlo, Kathia Castro Laszlo, Pauline Le Bel, Joel Levey, Michelle Levey, Michael Linfield, Henri Lipmanowicz, Manuel Manga, Carlos Mota Margain, David Marsing, Joseph McCormick, Joy Moulton, Butch Nelson, Carolyn North, Jean-François Noubel, Kenoli Oleari, Kate Parrot, George Pór, Vicki Robin, Tracy Robinson, Brandon Sanders, Marilyn Saunders, Jim Schenk, Jack Semura, Gabriel Shirley, Stephen Silha, Tesa Silvestre, Charles Terry, Chaiwat Thirapantu, Marc Tognotti, Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee, Finn Voldtofte and Nancy White

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Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA 10/26-27/2005.
Discussions on topics related to digital identity, identity meta-systems, common protocols, new business models and more.
- Philosophies that drive architectural decisions in these systems (ex. Social Physics, Metasystems, Open Augmented Social Networks [Open ASN], The Higgins Trust Framework & The Identity Gang ...)
- Potential architectures, problems, issues, politics and economics for Internet-scale identity systems
Sponsored by: Enterprise Computing Laboratory @ Brigham Young University

Podcast Participants: "A dialogue about Identity" [43:28 mp3]
Allain Bloch, The Merge Project
Jair, Imaginify
Dave Kearns, editor of Identity Management Journal
Scott C. Lemon, Technical Evangelist, Agilix Labs & FreeID.org
Scott Mace, editor of Information Manager Journal
Rob Marano, adjunct associate professor at The Cooper Union, Founder & CTO, Falkin Systems LLC
Bob Morgan, Senior Technology Architect, University of Washington. Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)
Joaquin Miller, Product Architect & and vice president, NetMesh
P.T. Ong, founder and chairman of Encentuate
Paul Trevithick, CEO, Parity Communications & Co-creator of Social Physics .org
Gabe Wachob, Chief Systems Architect, Innovation Group, Visa International

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2005 Emerging Arts Leaders Creative Conversations. Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts. Eugene, Oregon, 10/18/2005.
Recognize the many ways the "Arts Build Communities." The Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council partner once again with emerging arts leaders from across the country to host creative conversations (ccs)!
Local Host: Carol Philips, Hult Center For the Performing Arts
Co-Host: Andrew Toney, Lane Arts Council
Co-Host: Darrel Kau, University of Oregon, Cultural Forum

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31st International Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 10/7-8/2005.
An inter-disciplinary gathering of researchers, policy makers and practitioners that highlights current and conceptual issues in the development of cultural policy, theory, and arts administration practices in the United States and abroad.
- Arts Education, Community Engagement, and Community Cultural Development
- The Creative Sector, Cultural Industries, and Cultural Planning
- Cultural Policy, including Philosophical and Economic Perspectives- Cultural Heritage, Technology, Arts Management, and Artists

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O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, 8/1-5/2005.
The crossroads of all things open source... Explored three deep trends affecting open source: the commoditization of software, network-enabled collaboration, and software customizability.

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Neoculture. The CenterRing. Portland, Oregon, 6/25/2005.
An event that blurs boundaries... a foray into the past, present and future of people, the planet and plants. From language to logos, science to mysticism, from remembering ancestral roots to envisioning future blooms.

Collaborators:
The CenterRing
Portland State University
- Graduate School of Education & Executive Leadership Institute
-- Department of Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies (EPFA)
-- Portland International Initiative for Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning (PIIECL)
Tryon Life Community Farm

Participants:
Alder Fuller, PhD, Founder, Euglena Education
David Heskin, Visionary Artist
Jair, Imaginify
Pramod Parajuli, PhD, Executive Director, piiecl.pdx.edu
and more...

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The Sharing Economy: New Opportunities for Citizen-Based Developments. Palo Alto, California, 11/22/2004.
In the sharing economy of the 21st century, people prosper by giving away what they possess and create – and the more people learn how to do it, the more each can prosper. Neither utopian nor impractical, this "cornucopia of the commons" isn't true for all people, all enterprises, all resources – but it has already generated significant economic, social, and knowledge capital for early adopters.

Particlpants:
John Clippinger, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School & SocialPhysics.org
Brad deGraf, Media Venture Collective
Ken Jordan, Digital Multimedia Consultant
Stuart Gannes, Digital Vision Program, Stanford University
Paul B Hartzog, Political Scientist & Creator of Panarchy
Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Commons and PlaNetwork
Elliot Hoffman, Former President of Just Desserts, now with Ben Cohen doing business leaders for sensible priorities.
Jair, Imaginfy Community Network
Chris Larsen, CEO, E-LOAN, Inc.
Ross Mayfield, CEO, Social Text
Woody Powell, Education & Organizational Behavior, Sociology, and Communications, Stanford University
Jon Ramer, Interra Projet
Sri Rao, CTO, Interra Project. Founder of Exchange.com
Howard Rheingold, Futurist and Author
Zack Rosen, Founder and Director of Civic Space Labs
Andrea Saveri, Institute for the Future [IFTF], Director of Technology Horizons Program
Neil Sieling, Media Arts Curator, Television Producer, Media Systems Architect
Greg Steltenpohl, Founder of Odwalla Juice
Steve Weber, Political Science Dept. & Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Jenny Yancey and Dan Siegel, Co Founders and Directors, New Visions Research & Development

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Imaginify Free Culture, Bioneers Conference (Beaming), Lane Community College, Oregon, 10/17/2004.
How do Intellectual property restrictions on ecological media (e.g. print, sound and film) limit the dialogue and avenue for co-creation and collaboration between creative people? What means are at our fingertips to facilitate a greater accessibility to pertinent information in this day and age? Imagine if you had access to a commons of information, an idea fountain that helps build upon the work and dedication of individuals and institutions for what thrivable activities we’ve dedicated our time and effort to. We can manifest the world we envision. This multi-media dialogue and discussion will bridge a range of subjects from Stanford Law professor, Lawrence Lessigs Free Culture to Creative Commons to Free and Open Source Alternatives. bridgingworldsnw.org

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Presentation on Imaginify, Seattle Planetwork Forum. Seattle, Washington, 10/16/2004.
Imaginify as an example of a way to address local and global solutions, by using digital media and/or communication technology to work for ecological and/or social benefit.
Facilitated by: Jair

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Creative Commonalities. Oregon Country Fair, 7/10/2004.
Creative Commons for music, art, meditation, vision....and more.
Facilitated by: Jair

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Creative Ecological Media. Opal Creek Education Center, Mill City, Oregon, 4/14/2004.
Video presentation inspiring an understanding of ancient forest ecosystems and creative ways to bring ideas to light.
Facilitated by: Jair

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Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. Eugene, Oregon, 3/4-7/2004.

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Uplift Academy Workshop. Fort Mason, San Francisco, 12/11/2003.
Can we create a self-organizing systems to systematically discover and replicate positive, scalable small things?Can we use inverted perspective to discover ways of making the world a better place? What simple thoughts or actions can we discover and replicate which will have the greatest uplift to humanity? Can we connect them to trigger a cascade of uplift, in which beneficial things trigger even more beneficial activity and discovery? Can we create something comparable to to Google or eBay whose purpose is to create maximum uplift for humanity?

Particlpants:
Tracy Bialik, SiliconValleyPatternsGroup
Jake Bowman, DigitalBiota, jakebowman.net
Mary Cicalese, Research and Technology Analyst, Collective Intelligence
Dave Davidson, ManyOne Networks
Keith Devlin, Director, RDVP & Co-director, Media-X, Stanford University
Kevin Jones, Everyvoice.net
Mari Pearman, Facilitator
Jan Hauser, Janhauser.com
Shelley Hamilton, Netcentric Designs
Sam Hunting, Etopicality
Jair, Imaginify
Raphael Marambii, RDVP
Tara Martin-milius, The Center for Corporate Learning
Tom Munnecke, RDVF
Russ Rufer, SiliconValleyPatternsGroup
Ken Scott-hlebek,SiliconValleyPatternsGroup
John Sechrest, Alpha Omega Computer Systems
Megan Smith, Google, RDVF

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Uplift Pattern Language. Reuters Digital Vision Program, Stanford University, California, 12/10/2003.
a workshop to talk about pattern languages at Stanford University. Spoke a little about appropriate Pattern Form for the UpliftPatternLanguage. Of particular interest was replacing the word "problem" in the pattern to reflect the PositiveDiscourse we are seeking in the Academy. We were also looking at ways of expressing "cascade" as a property of the pattern, to talk about how patterns cascade and self-propagated.

Participants:
Tracy Bialik, Jake Bowman, Mary Cicalese, Dave Davidson, Keith Devlin, Shelley Hamilton, Jan Hauser, Sam Hunting, Jair, Kevin Jones, Raphael Marambii, Tara Martin-milius, Tom Munnecke, Mari Pearman, Russ Rufer, John Sechrest, Ken Scott-hlebek, Megan Smith

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Presentation on Imaginify, 12/6/2003
Non-Linear Dynamics & Complex Adapative Systems Focus Group, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
Introductory multimedia Flash movie detailing Imaginify's eight Integral WebPortals.

University of Oregon Members:
Annika Andersson, Psychology
Holly Arrow, Psychology
Gary Bodie, English literature
Cooper Boydston, Physics
Matt Calverley, Psychology
Strawberry Gatts, Human Physiology
Jess Holbrook, Psychology
Jair, Imaginify
John Light, Child & Family Center
Colleen Marlow, Physics
Ted Martin, Physics
Tim McMahon, Teaching Effectiveness Program
Stacey M. Pederson, Psychology
Rebecca Silver, Psychology
Chuck Tate, Psychology
Richard Taylor, Physics
Leandro Torres, Psychology
Elizabeth Walter, Psychology
Bob Weiss, Psychology

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Educating for Sustainability: Creative Cultural Paradigms. Sustainable Business Symposium, University of Oregon, 11/15/2003.
Explore the transformation and integration of knowledge systems. This interdisciplinary panel will focus on the evolutions in education, enterprise, technology, cognition and democracy.

Particlpants:
Bob Doppelt, Director of Program for Watershed and Community Health @ University of Oregon
Jair, Creative Director, Imaginify
Kathryn Frank, Instructor, Systems Thinking @ University of Oregon
Gifford Pinchot III, Co-founder, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Facilitated by: Tina Nunez.

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Presentation on Imaginify. Planetwork Forum, San Francisco Exploratorium, 11/20/2003.
Imaginify as an example of social networking, a way to address local and global solutions, by using digital media and/or communication technology to work for ecological and/or social benefit.
Presented by: Jake Bowman, "Immersive Earth," Intercommons, Talkspace Commons, Imaginify Advisor

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Creative[s] & Media. Peace, Justice and Media conference. Eugene, Oregon, 10/12/2003.
Individual, collectives, and infrastructure maintaning concepts of sustainability, while co-creating new states of thrivability via media. Topics included; civic ecologies, cultural creatives and creative class, free/open source 'gift culture,' holarchies, natural capitalism, the noosphere, planetary metabolism, smart/flash mobs and visionary art.
Facilitated by: Jair

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Dynamic Community. Solfest @ Real Goods, Hopland, California, 8/23/2003.
Creating a community takes more than a piece of land and people committed to developing it. Explore and imagine how participants can freely exchange information that will help them interact, interconnect and thrive in various community settings.
Facilitated by: Jair

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Community, Networking & Complexity, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon, 3/9/2003
Explore how dynamic systems theory and open source technology can help communities to freely "gift" information, interact, interconnect and thrive.

Particlpants:
Dianne Brause, Founder, Lost Valley Educational Center
Alder Fuller, Founder, Euglena Education
Jair, Creative Director, Imaginify
Nick Routledge, Member, Eugene Permaculture Guild
Mark Williams, Boardmember, Oregon Public Networking
Dynamic Facilitation by: Sunshine Facilitation Collective

Collaborators
University of Oregon
-- School of Law

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Introduction to Complexity. Oregon Country Fair, 7/13/2002.
Issues related to complexity, cybernetics, ecology, living systems, systems theory and more.
Presented by: Alder Fuller, Euglena Education