Jokaydia Comes to UWA

Edumeet@Jokaydia is coming on a field trip to UWA this weekend...

Sunday 1st November, 6pm Perth Time
Jokay Wollongong and the crew from Jokaydia will be meeting up with JayJay Zfanwe and quadrpop Lane for a tour of the UWA in SL sims.
Lasting only one hour this field trip will only have time togive glimpses of the work being done at UWA in SL... so we expect some return visits!

Awesome YouTube by UWA Student on the UWA in Second Life presence

Machinima by Matt Jiley on the UWA presence
BTW folks we do have a dance floor already... And a Halloween Hangout

Also the Metaverse journal is carrying a story on the UWA Second LIfe experience and the 3D Art & design competition being run
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/10/25/uwa-making-everyone-welcome/

UWA: making everyone welcome

UWA: making everyone welcome

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October Entrants in UWA 3d Art & Design Challenges

To see images of all the October entries - so far - in the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenges - Imagine and Flagship... go to UWAinSL on Koinup

To see the entries in SL please use this SURL it will land you here:

UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge - September

On the evening of Sunday October 11th, 2009 (8pm in Perth, 5am in California or SLTime) an excited group of avatars gathered at the UWA 3D Art & Design platform on WASP Land to find out the inaugeral winners of the Imagine and Flagship Challenges.

The level of skill and concepts displayed by the first round of entrants has been good to excellent, with some interesting concepts and impressive craftsmanship.

After having given the guests time to gather, and welcoming each by name as they arrived, JayJay Zifanwe began the proceedings by revealing new developments in the Challenge - more funding and prizes! This is now one of the biggest (if not the biggest) prize pools in SL Art history.

JayJay then went on to announce each of the prize winners in turn, only one of whom was not present. As he was in voice with his speakers sounds level up we could hear the ker-ching of his Linden balance emptying with each prize - lovely to hear such support for the arts in SL.

Here is the full transcript of the speech JayJay made:

Greetings everyone, and welcome to the very first announcement of winners for the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge. I am so happy to see all of you here today. You honour us with your presence, and we have also been honoured by the incredible, varied and wondrous artworks submitted since this competition kicked off on the 21st of August 2009. Before going on, I would like for everyone to acknowledge one of the most wonderful people I have come across since my SL journey began. Zhie has been an inspiration, a colleague, a confidant, and a tireless champion of all we have been trying to achieve at UWA, and also a champion in the artworld of Second Life over the years. Please join me in giving a big round of applause to the jewel of Western Australia, and co-host of the UWA 3D Art & Design challenge, quadrapop Lane !!! Some exciting new developements that happened today. Thanks to ShedworX.com, we have managed to raise the GRAND PRIZE for both the IMAGINE & FLAGSHIP Chalenges to L$75,000 (& L$14,000 for the Second Prize. Monthly prizes, with immediate effect will increase to $L5,000 & $L1,250 respectively. For the IMAGINE challenge, the Best Non-Scripted entry prize will also increase to L$1,250 and the winner of the 1st prize and best Non-Scripted prize will have RL custom T-Shirts made for them based on their favourite texture. This will be custom made in RL, and posted to them, wherever they are in the world! These special prizes come curtesy of Shedworx.com and www.etshirts.com
Also a special artists participation pool (donation) has been established thanks to the generosity of Sasun Steinbeck & Tranguloid Trefoil who have agreed to join me in contributing L$1000 monthly toward the pool, and Phillip Vought who has agreed to contribute for October. 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. On the judging panel were:

1. Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
2. Frank Roberts (RL) - The University Architect, The University of Western Australi
3. John Barret-Lennard (RL) – Curatorial Director, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
4. Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Owner of The University of Western Australia
5. Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - CEO SW&MB Fashion Productions, CEO Evane Model Agency
   Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine, Owner Sanctorum Gallery
6. Tranguloid Trefoil (SL) - Owner of WASP at the University of Western Australia

I apologize for the long speech. Now to announce the winers. The winers will be announced in 1 minute intervals. We do invite everyone to comment and congratulate the winners and for the winers to respond before the next announcement. Winners also please do ensure you get a photo of you and your artwork taken by quadrapop before you go. Four honourable mention prizes have been awarded.
The Honourable Mention prize of $L500 for Legacy is awarded to: FIRST PRIM - VENOM SILVERFALL

The Honourable mention prize of $L500 for Elegance & Movement is awarded to: PEACOCKS - NINKA DARKSTONE

The Honourable Mention prize of $L500 for Technique, is awarded to: SEAHORSE - TWEAK SERPENTE/STRIX SERENITY

The Honourable Mention Prize for Excellence in Texture Creation, which is a Custom Made RL T-Shirt for them based on any texture they would like, is awarded to: SOROR NISHI - THE WIZARD FRUIT TREE



Next we move to the 2nd overall prive for the IMAGINE Challenge. There were an incredible array of remarkable entries, and it was very difficult for the judges to seperate the top 6. After long consultation, the 2nd prize ($L1,250) was awarded to: IMMERSIVE ART: THE MAZE - ALIZARIN GOLDFLAKE

We also have for this month, a special prize for Best New Artist. This was judged 2 weeks ago, by Arts Philanthropist, Phillip Vought, who contributed 7,000 prims on his land at Excalibur, Aquitaine for use by the artist for the month of October. UWA have added L$1,000 to the prize. This award, was given not for a single artwork, but for the incredible range displayed by the artist. The prize goes to: ISAA GELBER

Please visit the Exhibition she has set up on Aquitane, and do let all your colleagues know about it.

Next is the prize for Best Non-Scripted Entry ($L1,250). What the judges were looking for, was the entire message the artwork gave, and the capacity of the artwork to make the viewer pause and ponder. This prize has been awarded to: AN UNKNOWN RACE - ISAA GELBER An amazing double triumph for isaa, from 2 different judging panels

Can everyone please set land to midnight, and CAM to look at the balloons from a distance. Now for one of the overall winner prizes. Again,as mentioned, 6 artworks were shortlisted for the top 2 positions, and very little seperated them, but in the end, the judges decided that inaugural monthly winner of the L$5,000 IMAGINE Challenge prize is: OUR SOULS COLLIDE - SNUBNOSE GENOPEAK

The final prize for the day, is the winner of the FLAGSHIP CHALLENGE for September. The judging panel, elected not to award a 2nd prize for this category, and hence we were able to award the Honourable Mention prizes. Inaugural monthly winer of the L$5,000 FLAGSHIP Challenge is: ARCAPELUS SANCTUARY - MOTH REXEN

That concludes the official part of the evening. quadrapop will reveal a special TP that has been set up to go to the wonderful creation by Moth Rexen, where there will be music and dance. A bigthanks to our wonderful DJ Briana Spires!

UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge (Imagine and Flagship Challenges)

UPDATED May 24, 2010
Updated November 2009



There are 2 competitions running simultaneously,
the IMAGINE challenge and
the FLAGSHIP challenge.
There are monthly prizes available separately for both, and the top 2 each month will go into the pool for the Grand Prize (which will have an expanded judging panel).
You can enter as many times as you like or for any month that you choose.
For the Imagine challenge there will also be a monthly prize for best non-scripted entry


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 offered to winners & runners-up every month till the 31st of August 2010. Grand Prize to be awarded at the end. Monthly winners & runners up to be displayed in the Second Life installation of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, on the grounds of the University of Western Australia (UWA - this island). All winners COULD also be part of a real life (RL) exhibition of digital interactive art at the University of Western Australia in 2010.

IMAGINE PRIZES
Monthly Prize
L$5,000 + RL Custom Tshirt (1st)
L$1,250 + RL Custom TShirt (Best non-Scripted entry) ,
L$1,250 (2nd)

* 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

Grand Prize
L$75,000 (1st)
L$14,000 (2nd),
L$14,000 (Best non-Scripted entry)



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 FUTURElab. FUTURElab will provide insights into the world we are shaping by putting a microscope on the research undertaken across the University. It will provide a showcase for the work of SymbioticA for the architects and designers from UWA’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts who are exploring new possibilities for themselves and their communities and for those working with new and emerging technologies to shape our future. FUTURElab will incorporate a black box performance/screening environment, a science/art gallery and teaching and presentation space 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 grounds of the University of Western Australia. 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 & Tranguloid Trefoil who have agreed to join JayJay Zifanwe in contributing 1000L monthly toward the pool, and Phillip Vought who has agreed to contribute for October. This will be reset at the start of every month. All artists who submit an entry 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 here to the pool if you are able by paying the donation jar.


CONTEST ENTRY RULES

1. NOTE THE PERMISSIONS ON ENTRIES ARE NOW WHATEVER THE CREATOR/DISPLAY REQUIREMENTS NEED THEM TO BE.
   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.
   1000 prim maximum for FLAGSHIP challenge
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 (that fits the above criteria). 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

Entries each month will be on display at the 3D Art & Design Platform on UWA (SURL to Come)

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

Official Hosts for the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge in SL are:
JayJay Zifanwe
quadrapop Lane

UWA in SL Launched on 2nd October 2009

The UWA in SL estate (three sims and counting - Uni of WA, WASP Land and UWA) was officially launched by the Uni's Vice Chancellor Professor Alan Robson. The event was advertised in a number of places both in SL (via group and personal invitations) and in RL - UWA's What's On, Facebook, with the local papers all having a story about UWA's new presence in SL.

There are images of the launch on the UWA in SL Koinup site as well as some on the WASP website.

In True Web 2.0 fashion you can now keep up with events and developments on UWA in Second Life at the following sites: Twitter, Flickr, Flickr Group, Koinup, Live Journal, on Second Life: http://tinyurl.com/UniWA (you will need a Second Life account to visit the virtual campus - a reasonably decent machine and broadband internet connection)