Inside Avatar Studio: Season 4 – Brett Linden, Senior Marketing Manager, Linden Lab

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Inside Avatar Studio: Season 4 – Brett Linden, Senior Marketing Manager, Linden Lab

Rockcliffe University and our charming host Renne Emiko Brock (Zinnia Zauber) are pleased to have Brett Linden, Senior Marketing Manager at Linden Lab as our first guest of Season 4: Inside the Avatar Studio on June 13, 2018 at 3:00 PM SLT. 

VIDEO: https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbMo-G5bDE

Brett is also an Associate Professor at Washington State University. He will be bringing to the discussion over a decade of senior management experience as a website editorial lead and content development strategist for companies including Amazon.com, Linden Lab, RealNetworks, and Billboard magazine.

Brett’s background also includes demonstrated experience in interactive storytelling, social media persuasion and evaluation tools using multimedia and virtual reality content across multiple platforms. 

Join us at the RUC Rotunda, Rockcliffe Library https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Library/243/12/29 or watch live on Rockcliffe’s YouTube channel https://gaming.youtube.com/urockcliffe (with many archived videos to revisit!)

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Inside Avatar Studio – July 11, 3PM “In Conversation With Dick Dillon (Coughran Mayo): Innovation and Tenacity in Virtual Environments” 

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Inside Avatar Studio – August 8. 3PM – The team behind the incredible feature documentary “Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is me” (embodiment and placemaking in virtual worlds) with Bernhard Drax, Tom Boellstorff & Donna Davis. Full feature film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQw02-me0W4&feature=youtu.be  

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Producer: Bevan Whitfield (Elisa Butler)

Inside Avatar Studio: Season 4 Kickoff “Education In An Age Of Social Disruption”

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Inside Avatar Studio: Season 4 Kickoff “Education In An Age Of Social Disruption”

The long-awaited Rockcliffe Inside the Avatar Studio: Season 4 kicks off May 16, 3 PM SLT!  Renne Emiko Brock - Avatar Zinnia Zauber

Our lovely new co-host Renne Emiko Brock (Zinnia Zauber) interviews with Kevin Feenan (Phelan Corrimal), founder of Rockcliffe University Consortium in conversation about “Education in an Age of Social Disruption“. 

The iconic Inside The Avatar Studio (#IAS) brings together innovative leaders from the virtual technology frontier to discuss perceptions, perspectives, and predictions of what ‘being virtual’ means in today’s society. Guest speakers discuss current issues and trends surrounding the implications virtual experiences based on their own areas of subject matter expertise.

Our past guests have included: Robert Bloomfield, Beverly McCarter, Jessica Lyon, Lauren Weyland, AJ Kelton, Maria Korolov, Malburns Writer, Ham Rambler, Bernard Drax and Daniel Moshel,Terry Beaubois, Botgirl Questi, Doug Thompson, Gentle Heron, Dick Dillon, Chestnet Rau, Ian Hughes, Dave Levinson, Will Burns, Pooky Amsterdam, Tim “Digistar” Goree, Wiz Nordberg, Joel Foner, Chris Collins, Andrew Hughes, John Lester.. and panel topics such as Social Communications, Avatar the Movie, Virtual Frontier Panel and VWBPE…

Join our studio audience in Second Life https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Library/243/12/ or watch live on Rockcliffe’s YouTube channel https://gaming.youtube.com/urockcliffe (with many archived videos to revisit!)

Season 4 will see a re-worked format for the new season including additional perspectives on digital literacies, future technology, education pedagogy, guest hosts, and much more.

Host: Zinnia Zauber (Renne Emiko Brock) Producer: Bevan Whitfield (Elisa Butler)