Wednesday 20 Oct. 14.30-16.00 Interactive Performance 1
S. Pio Room of Santa Maria della Scala Museum - Storying
Electro-Acoustic Music Performance John Bowers, Sten-Olaf Hellström, KTH (S); ERENA

Firday 22 Oct. 11.00-12.30 Paper Session 5
S. Pio Room - Santa Maria della Scala Museum - Supporting Community Interactions
Linking Between Real and Virtual Spaces: The Electronic Multi User Stage System (eMuse) Monica Fleischman, German National Research Centre for Information Technology (D); ERENA

Workshop "Sounding Out - About Sound in Mixed Reality Environments"

December 2-3, ZKM Karlsruhe (www.zkm.de)
The workshop will emphasise the personal exchange between individuals working in the fields of technology, media, visual and acoustic multimedia and performing arts.

"Desert Rain" by Blast Theory, Stockholm Oct. 2000

Desert Rain is a game, an installation and a performance that you must explore to find your target.
Desert Rain looks for the faint line between the real and the fictional. Travelling through real and virtual spaces, visitors must work together to search motels and bunkers, deserts and storms.
Having received a briefing each team of six uses foot pads, travelators and embedded video to navigate across deserts and an underground complex to locate your target.
The virtual world - implemented using Nottingham University's MASSIVE 2 software - is projected onto a screen of cascading water. Having completed your virtual mission two further rooms await you...