I'm Dr Bruce Damer and this website is now an archive dedicated to my past projects. Where possible, they are presented here in their entirety. DigitalSpace was an international corporation with a leading practice in virtual worlds for industrial design engineering, education and public outreach. Established in 1995, DigitalSpace produced some of the first Internet-based 3D "avatar" applications including virtual events and tradeshows, learning spaces for K-12 and college, corporate information sharing spaces, and virtual worlds for artists. Dr. Bruce Damer's original (pre-mobile 90s style) site, Damer.com, which despite its clunkiness contains some interesting historical content for his early work and projects. In its original incarnation from 1996-2015 Biota.org promoted the dream and helped develop technical approaches to using virtual, digital spaces to simulate biological systems. This effort carried the deeper objective that Humanity might one day understand the very process of emergence in complex systems, and with that, how life itself might have begun. As a special interest group (SIG) of the Contact Consortium ( www.ccon.org ) Biota started out with its own speakers in a special section of the 1996 and '97 Avatars conferences in San Francisco. In the summer of 1997 Biota's first collaborative project, an interactive, generative VRML-based plant growth world called Nerve Garden, was debuted at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, winning an award from Ars Electronica award. In September of 1997, conceived and hosted by Biota's founder Dr. Bruce Damer, the group sponsored its first conference called Digital Burgess, held at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada. During the conference, leading researchers in early life, artificial life, artists and a Discovery Channel crew all trekked up to the nearby famous Cambrian fossil quarry of the Burgess Shale. In 1998, '99 and 2001 Biota hosted or collaborated on three more conferences, in Cambridge in the UK ( www.Cyberbiology.org ), at San Jose State ...
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