The Omnium Technical team has just returned from the annual CreateWorld conference at Griffith University, Brisbane QLD. The conference focused on providing academics and their support staff information on a range of research methods and the current state of Digital Arts.

At the conference we saw a range of presentations which covered a nice variety of subjects from Net Art to the idea of a Virtual classroom. Although some of the ideas presented appeared to utilising new technology for technology’s sake, it will be interesting to see how some of the ideas progress. An example was using the much talked about Second Life, which I see to be completely overrated. I have used Active Worlds - which is a similar 3D collaborative virtual environment - in the learning environment and lets just say the experience was less than impressive.

We would like to thank AUC for bringing us this fabulous opportunity to meet with peers and also the people presenting.