slactions09 PolyU HKchapter, Gigi, ChangDuan Short, Swann, color HuaHui cubes

Digital Guqin Museum was selected as Best Paper to be published in Virtual World Research Journal

List of Best papers here and videos of the slactions09

slactions09 International Conference at PolyU Hong Kong
Digital Guqin Museum was presented in real life and in Secondlife at First International simultaneous online secondlife and real life conference, see program
http://www.slactions.org/slactions.php

Some pictures of the DGM presentation at Secondlife conference hall, thanks to Nelson Ramos.


Gigi Core and ChangDuan Short getting everything ready for the midnight Secondlife presentation. Microphone; presenters, actually quite a few things to prepare for an online conference.

The real life presentation at PolyU HK.

another one


Gigi made two HuaHui cubes, one silver and one in multicolor. :)

some cubes on my couch

Digital Guqin Museum exported to Real Life

The mobile Digital Guqin Museum is being built now. Using HuaHui cubes from contributors around the world.

Latest addition from London. One cube, using Old Speckled Hen Beer cans.

New pic coming.

John Thompson : on DGM

Shuen-Git

The two main reasons I find the Second Life Virtual Guqin Museum
interesting is that it brings the guqin before a new group of people,
and it allows the presentation of the music within a context that can
in some ways evoke aspects of the guqin tradition better than the
standard performance environment can. Although when well played guqin
music is very beautiful, by tradition it is not so much a performance
instrument as an instrument for self-cultivation or meditation. In
landscape painting it is commonly depicted played in the countryside,
and yet from a musical standpoint such an environment is often
unsatisfactory (waterfalls are too loud, modern sounds intrude, there
may not be an appropriate place to sit or on which to place the
instrument, and so forth). However, such an idealized environment can
be evoked and perhaps more readily controlled in cyberspace. Another
ideal environment is said to the an "elegant gathering" involving
other literati arts such as painting, calligraphy and refined
conversation. Again, such an environment can also be created in
cyberspace through the addition of appropriate imagery and
participation of invited guests. The totality of the guqin makes it
very much a multi media instrument by nature. When fully devoloped the
Second Life Museum has the potential of bringing this all together.

John Thompson
13Feb 2009
www.silkqin.com

Guqin and Hanfu revival, costume ?

A guqin yaji meeting in Cham Shan Temple, Toronto, 20june09, Guqin group, photo by: Juni Yeungs ; posted on facebook. The event is an open invitation, so I hope she doesnt mind my posting it here for the rest of us to see.

The young man on the right is wearing a HanFu robe. As this is a very recent event, we do see a revival of the costume of Han for Yaji gatherings.

There are 8 groups on facebooks dedicated to the study and playing of/with Hanfu.

Guqin International Society, Vulgar Ideas

screenshot of Guqin International society on Facebook - a rich mix of people on guqin music and culture, creator: Juni L Yeung

screenshot of Vulgar Ideas on Facebook - a new turn on guqin music and culture, creator: Stephan Walker

arts birthday 2008

screenshot

sl Hundun + rl Half Hundun

sl Hundun and rl Half Hundun

back side of sl Hundun

back side of sl Hundun and sl avatar