There are 61 Entries in the MAY Imagine Round & 7 Flagship Entries round (see details of these competitions below) – and voting for the People’s Choice is currently in progress.
Flagship Entry Walk Through
TIME: 8pm SLT Sunday 6 June
PLACE: starting at Dusty Canning’s build
Come see the wonderful works of Eliza Wierwight, Dijodi Dubratt, Dusty Canning, Nyx Breen, Swann Jie, Ginger Lorakeet & Nina75 Shan
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA%20Winthrop/128/128/3402
People’s Choice Awards Board open for voting between the 1st – 8th of June.
PEOLE’S CHOICE VOTING BOARD: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/105/94/248
Winners announcements and party for the MAY Round will be –
TIME: 5pm SLT, TUESDAY 8th June
Place: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/65/140/250
“It is an honor to be able to both learn about Australia in such an interesting way, and to be involved with the University of Western Australia in promoting virtual worlds,” says Dijodi Dubratt. “I hope this competition will show everyone what can be done with virtual worlds, and promote the use of virtual worlds as a way to advance art and architecture in real worlds as well.”
“Just like to say what a privilege it is to be considered in these UWA challenges, especially so in as much we have two wonderful people whom are also Patron members participating,” says Eliza Weirwright. “The providence of such good company is a joy to me. I suspect Miss DiJodi Dubratt and Miss Jeri Rahja may agree. Don’t miss their work!”
NB June entries are now being received: voting for these will take place in the first week of July.
Information received from Jay Jay Zifanwe and UWA:
The Imagine Challenge
In describing virtual worlds, it is often said, ‘we are truly limited by only the imagination’, and and that is the theme of this art challenge. The limits are the imagination. Create something that will take our breath away. Any form, any shape, any influence, any medium. Of this world, or the next! (size 100 prim)
Prizes are offered to winners & runners-up every month till the 31st of August 2010. The Grand Prize is to be awarded at the end. Monthly winners & runners up to be displayed at the UWA Sim.
The Casey Cultural Prize
The Casey Cultural prize ($L4,000) has been awarded monthly from January 2010, and is a subset of this Challenge. All entries submitted for this Prize will automatically be considered for IMAGINE, and Vice-Versa.
The Casey Cultural Prize encourages artists and builders in all disciplines to research Western Australian historic OR contemporary Culture and present a piece which demonstrates aspects of Western Australian culture, ecomony or society (Participating artists are asked to attach a notecard BRIEFLY explaining their entry and the research undertaken in the develoment of it).
People’s Choice Award
A People’s Choice Award will also be given every month. A voting panel goes up each month for the days between the closing of the month’s entries and the announcement of the winners. http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/64/132/250 is where you register your vote by touching the image of the work you like best – one vote per person.
IMAGINE PRIZES
Monthly Prizes:
L$5,000 + RL Custom Tshirt (1st Prize)
L$4,000 Casey Cultural prize (Best work displaying Western Australia)
L$1,750 + RL Custom TShirt (Best non-Scripted entry) ,
L$1,750 (2nd Prize)
L$700 People’s Choice Award
Grand Prize: L$75,000 (1st) L$14,000 (2nd), L$14,000 (Best non-Scripted entry)
*RL custom T-Shirts will be made for the winners based on their favourite texture. This will be custom made, and posted to them, wherever they are in the world! These special prizes come curtesy of Shedworx.com and www.etshirts.com
THE FLAGSHIP CHALLENGE: Design the UWA Cultural Precinct Flagship Building
Design a building that captures the essence of creative engagement, which could possibly be built. The University of Western Australia plans to build such a building in real life. It is to be called AXS/lab (Art meets Science Lab). 999 prim maximum for FLAGSHIP challenge for the building & up to 200 prims to fit it our with artworks (if so desired). One entry per month can be submitted
This is tomorrow! AXS/lab will be an interdisciplinary, experimental collaboration between art, architecture and science. It will provide insights into the world we are shaping by putting a microscope on the research undertaken across the University of Western Australia. It will provide a showcase for the work of SymbioticA for the architects and designers from the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts, the Western Australian Supercomputer Program (WASP) in Physics, Computer Science students and others on campus who are exploring new possibilities for themselves and their communities and for those working with new and emerging technologies to shape our future.
AXS/lab will incorporate a cinematheque, a black box performance / installation space, a science/art gallery, wet-labs, offices and teaching and presentation spaces for a range of activities across campus.
It will also provide a hub for the Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC), of which UWA is a partner.
Prizes offered to winners & runners-up every month till the 31st of August 2010. Grand Prize to be awarded at the end. The winning entry, will be given a permanent location on the grounds of the SL University of Western Australia estate. The winning entry may be considered as a possible baseline design for one of the actual buildings that will be built at the RL location of the expanding Cultural Precinct of the University of Western Australia. The creator of the building will be contacted to consult on how to turn the Second Life design, into reality.
FLAGSHIP PRIZES
Monthly Prize: L$5,000 (1st) L$1,250 (2nd)
Grand Prize: L$75,000 (1st) L$14,000 (2nd)
SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO ARTISTS
A special artists participation pool (donation) has been established thanks to the generosity of Sasun Steinbeck, Phillip Vought, Midnightrain Glas, Tranguloid Trefoil, Galea Yates and Lowell Cremorne who have agreed to join me in contributing L$1000 monthly toward the pool. This will be reset at the start of every month. All artists who submit a genuine entry (not a block of plywood) and who do not receive one of the main prizes, will receive a share of what has been contributed to the donation jar for that month. Nothing is being kept for the land tier, 100% will go back to artists. Please donate to the pool if you are able:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/65/130/250
Contest Entry Rules:
1) Any artwork/ object can be submitted. They can be inanimate or have animation. They may contain scripts if you so choose – maximum script time of 0.5ms, and anything that runs at over 0.05ms is to have an on/off on touch with time out of 10 minutes max (if you are unsure of your piece’s script load please contact one of the Challenge hosts to have it evaluated). 100 prim maximum for IMAGINE challenge. 999 prim maximum for FLAGSHIP challenge for the building & up to 200 prims to fit it out with artworks (if so desired)
2) Note that by submitting an entry, you are giving permission to the University of Western Australia to place the objects anywhere on UWA owned land, and to have information and images of the entries placed on UWA websites and on websites promoting the UWA SIMS or events held on the UWA SIMS. If submitting an entry for the FLAGSHIP challenge, you are giving permission to UWA to use your design as the basis of the design for an actual building, when/if that eventuates.
3) Contest starts 21st August 2009, ends 31st August 2010.
4) Monthly prizes will be awarded (21st Aug 09 – 30th Sept 09 will be considered the first month. Calendar months to be adhered subsequent to this)
5) A valid entry, is any object dropped onto the contest entry billboard. Pick up item from inventory while holding down the CTRL key, and drop it onto the contest entry billboard prim (the prim should go red when your entry is in position to be dropped in)
6) Alternate method of entry is to drop the object into the inventory of Jayjay Zane, who is executive officer for the ‘UWA 3D ART AND DESIGN CHALLENGE’
7) All entrants should join the group ‘UWA 3D ART AND DESIGN CHALLENGE’
8) To join, copy and paste the following into local chat, then click as appropriate to join the group: secondlife:///app/group/cad9c421-8b96-f9c1-fb40-dade48c43fe4/about
Judging Panel
1. Professor Ted Snell – Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia (RL)
2. Frank Roberts – The University Architect, The University of Western Australi (RL)
3. John Barret-Lennard – Curatorial Director, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (RL)
4. Oron Catts – Director, SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia (RL)
5. Jayjay Zifanwe – Owner of The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator & co-host of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge (SL)
6. Raphaella Nightfire – CEO SW&MB Fashion Productions, CEO Evane Model Agency (SL) Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine, Owner Sanctorum Gallery (SL)
7. Tranguloid Trefoil – Owner of WASP at the University of Western Australia (SL)
Expanded Judging Panel for Grand Prize will include:
1. Frolic Mills – BOSL & CO CEO
2. Sasun Steinbeck – artist, scripter, and maintainer of the Art Galleries of SL list at http://sasun.info/ArtGalleriesofSL.aspx
3. Wil Dreadlow, ICON Lifestyle Magazine CEO & Publisher
4. Lowell Cremorne, Owner of The Metaverse Journal
5. White Lebed – Lead of Burning Life Art Department, Curator
6. M Linden – CEO, Linden Labs
7. Lanai Jarrico, CEO SL Enquirer
8. Pat Insoo, Publisher CEO Music Matters Magazine
9. Mal Burns, Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
10. Apollo Manga, examiner.com Writer & Novelist
11. Koinup Burt aka Pierluigi Casolari, founder and CEO of Koinup
12. Dr Gary Zabel (Georg Janick – SL), University of Massachusetts
13. Saffia Widdershins – Owner and Editor of Prim Perfect Publications
Official Hosts for the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge are Jay Jay Zifanwe & quadrapop Lane
Sponsors:
FreeWee Ling & the Residents of Artemisia
Taralyn Gravois
Phillip Vought
MidnightRain Glas
Prim Perfect 
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