<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all, Thanks for these ideas about ideas to be immersed inside the IAIA dome. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The good news is, some of the IAIA students in the IAIA dome classes I have been teaching in the past few years have already made some short dome movies that capture indigenous stories about ways to view the world. These stories grew from the students making their own stories in the Dome space during classes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s plan a Friday morning FRIAM get-together at the IAIA Dome sometime in September after the next semester gets going. I’d be glad to setup a Dome Demo for FRIAM and arrange to have some coffee and tea available. I look forward to having all of you come see the Dome that Ed and Stephen got put in place a decade ago and is now a storytelling place for a wide variety of indigenous immersive experiences</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards, Ben</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div>Ben Shedd</div><div><a href="https://benshedd.com" class="">https://benshedd.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jul 2024, at 11:09 PM, Stephen Guerin <<a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" class="">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:12 AM Edward Angel <<a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" class="">angel@cs.unm.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="" class="">The original plan for the IAIA dome was to record stories.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Right, Ed. And the PFI grant you shepherded also explored HCI in the dome. And the the idea of the "digital kiva".</div><div dir="auto" class=""> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva" class="">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva</a><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Steve Smith worked toward this from the Sfx complex side of the grant as well as other projects.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">In some seriousness, Ben, it would be an interesting exercise for students to make "Man Cites Consciousness" or equiv in a 48-hour film challenge working out AI production workflows. This could later lead to more realtime group interaction with Artificial Consciousness (AC) in the dome in the spirit of the Kiva. Consciousness, psychedelic research and spirituality are becoming mainstream academic topics (eg <a href="https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-programming/transcendence-transformation/spirituality-psychedelics/psychedelics-and-future-religion" class="">https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-programming/transcendence-transformation/spirituality-psychedelics/psychedelics-and-future-religion</a>) </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""> IAIA dome could be one of the world's centers.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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