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Causes: Arts & Culture, Printing & Publishing
Mission: Preserve our cultural heritages in new media platforms and support, develop and preserve new media arts and artists.
Programs: Antiques pattern library, www. Antiquespatternlibrary. Org, provides scans of public domain crafts and design books for free to anyone who wants to use them, under creative commons licensing. About 200 volunteers have been involved at various times in curatorial services, acquisitions, scanning, image editing, cataloging, database and maintaining a forum of about 6,000 members. We put considerable time into preparing the media so it can be downloaded by users with poor equipment and connections, to print or display on smaller devices, for use in hands-on crafts. The website experiences about 200,000 page visits a week.
avatar reparatory theater, www. Avatarreperatorytheater. Org is a virtual world theater and screen-capture video production troupe of about 20 volunteers and contractors with high skill levels in theater arts, 3d modeling and texturing, music, programing, sound engineering, screen capture and video editing, who produce live immersive theater and video on virtual reality platforms. We develop and perform the works of original playwrights, much of our focus is to bring traditional theater forms, such as ancient greek tragedy, shakespeare, and literary adaptations, to virtual world and gamming communities.
cookie ii, https://www. Kitely. Com/virtual -world/newmediaarts-cto/cookie- ii, is a virtual world where we maintain exhibits and hold events, ranging from theatrical performances to discussion, demonstrations and classes in creative uses of virtual world technology. We also use this platform to introduce people new to virtual worlds, to teach the skill sets they need to participate in virtual world arts.