The Imagination Age: The Imagination Age

Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Imagination Age

Tonight, while preparing The Imagination Age, the Dancing Ink Productions island in Second Life for a meeting with TREET.TV-- I felt extremely honored to work with DIP House Artist Mencius Watts, shown above, writing intern Diandra Louarn, whose new column will premiere next week, and Chief Global Strategist Joshua S. Fouts.

Happy Friday, everybody. Thanks for reading.

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Rita J. King is Innovator-in-Residence at IBM's Analytics Virtual Center, a Senior Fellow at two think-tanks: The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress in Washington DC. She is the Creative Director of the Imagination Age and CEO of Dancing Ink Productions. Her essays, various writings and works of art have been commissioned, published and exhibited globally. She thinks of technology as a prism held up to the bright beam of the imagination to create a new global culture and economy.

@RitaJKing can be followed on Twitter.

Joshua S. Fouts is Chief Global Strategist of Dancing Ink Productions and a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is also a Senior Fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.

Joshua's primary focus is on working with organizations to develop quality game and virtual world narrative toward vibrant community and culture in the physical world. He is recognized as the world’s leading expert on Digital Diplomacy. His most recent project, Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds, which he co-directed with Rita J. King, explored how virtual worlds can be used to enable nuanced understanding between and around Islamic culture. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, the Guardian, New World Notes, UPI and NPR. He began his career at the US State Department. From 1992-1994 he was a Presidential Management Fellow.

Follow Josh on Twitter @josholalia

Blurbs about DIP's Latest Project ...

Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds:

"Joshua and Rita are THE great explorers of new possibilities and media for public diplomacy."-- Tish Shute, propietor of UgoTrade.com and TishShute.com

"The project’s use of Second Life virtual experiences, where internet users can interact with each other through avatars to engage in intercultural dialogue, is indeed a pioneering initiative." Prof. Muhammad Ayish, Abu Dhabi's "The National"

"A fascinating clash of best intentions and actual spiritual desires, transplanted into the virtual realm." Wagner James Au in New World Notes.

"With this report, Josh and Rita have illuminated a new path–a definite intelligible plan–for practical public diplomacy in an area of supreme urgency. Furthermore, they have done so by elevating humanity’s most distinguishing feature: the imagination."-- Joel Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

A New Global Culture and Economy

Dancing Ink Productions, the publisher of "Dispatches from the Imagination Age," a company that develops business strategy, immersive narrative and mixed-media, mixed-reality content, games, conferences and other events for a new global culture and economy in the Imagination Age.

Clients, collaborators and strategic partners include IBM, Linden Lab, Manpower Inc., The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, The American University in Cairo, The Center for the Study of the Presidency, The Lounsbery Foundation, The British Council and The Orr Institute.

DIP has been featured in various mediums including the The New York Times, New World Notes, Time.com, BBC Radio, Press-TV the Huffington Post and CNN SLi-Report.

Active participation in the development of a healthy, interdependent global economy leads to increased communication across seemingly separate socio-economic, cultural, racial and political systems--and can produce a massive upsurge in creative expression that invites collaboration and rapid development of even the biggest ideas.

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The Imagination Age

Saturday, May 30, 2009