ChangHigh Trinity Sisters to Perform @ UWA Grand Finale

The ChangHigh Trinity Sisters (Melvin Starbrook, Yman Juran & Jennylynn Capalini) return to the UWA - BOSL Grand Amphitheatre at 6am SLT, Sunday 5th August, to perform their Fireshow of Light, Life & Love which will kick off the Grand Finale Event to announce the winners of the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge & MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom. The previous time they took the stage at UWA was in support of an Operation Smile Benefit Concert on the 22nd of April 2012.

Said Melvin Starbrook, "The ChangHigh Trinity Sisters Fireshow is a supreme circus acrobatic fireshow with  a mixture of  highly spiritual music and cosmic speech blended with  universal insight, wisdom and  philosophy. Expect at the show acrobatic dancing, our elephant Black Zambo, trapeze and highwire acts".

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT CEREMONY 6AM SLT SUNDAY 5TH AUGUST
Time & Date: 6am SLT Sunday, 5th August
Location: UWA - BOSL Grand Amphitheatre (Entrance 1, Entrance 2, Entrace 3)

Do come early. All 51 machinima entered will be playing continuously in the 24 hours leading up to the event!

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Exploring LEA6 in July by Victoria Lenoirre

Step into a vast world of a dream....a dream of light and color....of grand architecture...a dream created by Lollito Larkham.

I'm back with another review of the LEA Full Sim installation at LEA6. I have the pleasure of reviewing Lollito Larkham's Souvenirs De Voyages: (Memories of Journeys of Marcel Chiffon, A Monumentalist Exhibition).

When you are here, remember to set your graphics to Ultra for the full experience. If you cannot, see if a friend will let you use their system. By the way, this is a great sim to make a machinima of. In Ultra, you see the lighting, the fantastic windlight setting, and you do feel disoriented. The scenes do seem random and not related in any way. The land seems so vast and spacious.

Once you arrive, you should see an Info banner/sign with destinations that you can teleport to. You just click to sit and then you will be sent to the place you chose. Click a short sign to the left for a notecard about Souvenirs De Voyages, written by Lollito Larkham.

Landing area

One of the destinations I teleported to was The Arch.

Edit: This is The Arch. You can see more images of the place at this flickr gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lollito/7576301678/in/photostream.

The Arch

It is a tall, stone structure. The light on the structure is great. It is a subtle green. Notice how the light reflects on the water? That is such an awesome effect.

Throughout this Full Sim installation, Lollito has put light onto the structures. There is even one location called Light of Life.

As is my habit, I asked the artist some questions about his work.


Who is Marcel Chiffon?

Lollito: Marcel is a traveler of the dream, little in spite of him, and it is all its misfortune there, because he does not always know how to face his night-adventures.
He does not know it, but his house is situated on a hypnagogical knot and he can be sometimes snatched by the dreams of others or be clamped in his own ones. He can sometimes get lost in very distant parts of the dreamlands without knowing how to return, or as well to live a "dream life" and more to want to return!
It is it the adventures of Marcel Chiffon !
It makes of him a dreamlike explorer.
We could place Marcel Chiffon halfway between Julius Conrentin Acquefaques and Randolph Carter...
Of return of his night-adventures, he writes notes and sketch on what he lived and met.

Marcel is born recently and he's still a character under construction.


CF. Echapées Nocturnes de Marcel ChifonCF. What does Echapées mean?

Lollito:
Echapée has different meanings in french :
-Escapade, exit;
-Free and narrow space which lets see something (this house has a breakaway on the sea);
-Space between the walking(steps) of a staircase and the ceiling;
-Made outstrip a group in a race,

and, musically , an escape tone or "échappée" is a particular type of unaccented incomplete neighbor tone which is approached stepwise from a chord tone and resolved by a skip in the opposite direction back to the harmony.

Echapée was for me the best word to describe Marcel's travels beyond the dreamlands : I can say most of the meanings above can match my installation "Les échapées nocturnes". Dreams are like little escapades from the real world and the escape tone is a great image for this : Leaving the regular tone a short moment, to embelish (in a similar process to when you create something new by "accident"), and come back to it to resolve.

What happened to Marcel? He disappeared?

Lollito: Yes. It seems that he didn't find his way back and he's still stuck somewhere in dreamlands. In "Les echapées" it was terrible for him. He had to face extradimensional creatures, which were not significantly friendly... I heard he had been abducted by one of those creatures, but i'm sure he'll be back soon, Marcel allways get the last word (or dream)!
His last échapée was not fatal.
While waiting for his return, you can admire his sketches taken during his journeys through the lands of the dream, on LEA6.



The green guy looks interesting. What does he symbolize?

Lollito: If you're talking about the leave character, he symbolizes the creation process, in micro and macrocosmos.
He's the life that comes by the light power. Isn't life given by the light. That 's why i representated it as a leaf, taking life from the sun, and transforming from a seed into a figurative person.
This character is also a sculptor, and this  represents the creation process in the microcosmos.
I displayed it at the top of the "Lollito's Boson" structure.

I was just finishing this character creation when I heard scientists have just succeeded to discover the controversed Higgs Boson.
The Higgs boson is supposed to be the fundamental composant of the mateer. I saw a relation with the meaning of this character and decided to build my own Cern cyclotron and  associate this character with. I displayed him sculpting the fundamental cube/prim at the top!

And that dear art lovers and supported is my quick review of Lollito Larkham's Souvenirs De Voyages! Won't you please venture over to explore  it at LEA6?

Have fun and enjoy the art!

- Victoria Lenoirre

MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom

 poster credit: Eliza Wierwight

We are happy to announce the 5th Machinima Challenge put forth by the University of Western Australia (UWA). The theme is 'Seek Wisdom'. Sponsored by UWA, AviewTV, Philip Vought, Freemason Magic & The Tornado Gallery, the prize pool sits at L$785,000 (approx USD 3,400). We hope you are inspired by this to create many wondrous works as you have been through the years! (Please note the major rule & special prize guideline)

WHAT: MachinimUWA V : Seek Wisdom

WHEN: Entries Close at Midnight SLT 30th June 2012.  Winner will be announced in August 2012

THEME: The theme is 'SEEK WISDOM'. How you traverse the metaverse in this quest is totally up to you...the Machinimatographer. What is wisdom? What path do you take? Can it be attained? Is it an unending lifelong endeavour? Can it be found? Should one choose to seek only in the realm of the virtual or beyond? Is one doomed to fail? Is wisdom the embodiment of someone... something... somewhere... somewhen? Is this but another JOURNEY?

MAJOR RULE:
You machinima can be about whatever you choose, but there is one rule all entries must follow. The only requirement is that at least ONE of the 100 Treasures from UWA must form part of your story. These are actual treasures, however at least 17 of them exist on UWA land in Second Life. You may choose to include as many of the treasures as you like so long as there is at least ONE. Apart from this, feel free to film anything, anywhere. You may use props at the location, or maybe want to change the footage later during the post process, this is up to you... as long as the treasure or treasures you choose to be part of your Machinima can be recognized and form part of your storyline.

‘Seek Wisdom’ is the university's motto and can be found on UWA’s coat of arms. It was selected as the theme for MachinimUWA V to honour the new way education is delivered at UWA, "New Courses 2012." The inclusion of one of treasures from the book 100 Treasures from UWA also celebrates the 2013 Centenary of the University of Western Australia. This book of which UWA Second Life is listed among the treasures, was the inspiration to enshrining at least some of these treasures in virtual space. You can see all 100 treasures online at http://www.treasures.uwa.edu.au/treasures/ and locations of the 17 that exist in virtual space are as linked below.

PRIZES: There is a prize pool of L$785,000 with a L$140,000 top prize, and 11 prizes in all. From the field of entries, a Special UWA Prize of L$100,000 will also be awarded to the Machinima that best captures the essence or spirit of 100 years of seeking wisdom at UWA. L$10,000 will be awarded to the best machinima poster

LENGTH: 4 mins 30 seconds is the strongly recommended length, but this is not a hard rule. The UWA Special Prize however can only go to a machinima that fits within the recommended length.


METHOD OF ENTRY: Load the Machinima anywhere, preferably youtube or vimeo, provide link to Jayjay Zifanwe & LaPiscean Liberty

We look forward to seeing what you find when you SEEK WISDOM.


LOCATION OF 17 of the 100 TREASURES FROM UWA THAT EXIST IN SL:
Somerville Auditorium
Sunken Garden
Mosaic Marble Floor
Moreton Bay Fig
Winthrop Tower Clock and Balconette
Hans Arkeveld's 'Celestian'
Peacocks
Paul R. Montford's 'Socrates'
Business School
Whitfeld Memorial Seat
Lysippus, Apoxyomenos
UWA Second Life Presence
Rodney Alsop Memorial Seat & Reflection Pond
Victor Wagner's 'Diotima'
Winged Lion Frieze (Fly When Teleporting)

New Fortune Theatre
Rose Window

To find out the background of each of these treasures, please check the online 100 Treasures From UWA book:
http://www.treasures.uwa.edu.au/treasures

OTHER MATTERS
* Please acknowledge the works you feature and the lands you film at
* If you need to rezz (blue screen etc), contact Jayjay Zifanwe or FreeWee Ling
* If you have questions or want to discuss anything, please contact Jayjay Zifanwe

JUDGING PANEL
Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
Dr Sue Boyd (RL) - Member of Senate, UWA, Chair, UWA Centenary Planning Committee (Former Australian High-Commissioner & Consul General)
Jon Stubbs (RL) - Director of Student Services, UWA
Virginia Rowland (RL) - Senior Policy Officer, Centenary Planning, UWA
Adia Yu (RL) - Quantum Enginered Systems Centre of Excellence Coordinator, UWA
FreeWee Ling (SL) - Curator, UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
LaPiscean Liberty (SL) - CEO AviewTV and UWA Virtual World Technical Media Advisor
Pooky Amsterdam (SL) - CEO PookyMedia, Representative of OPEN THIS END, Film Maker, Writer, Machinima-Expo 2012 Producer
Wagner James Au (RL) / Hamlet Au (SL) - Editor in Chief of New World Notes
Cisko Vandeverre (SL) - Inaugural UWA Machinima Champion
Apmel Goosson - Scandinavian Author/Publisher
Nazz Lane (SL) - Journalist and Author
Apollo Manga (SL) - examiner.com Writer & Novelist
Bryn Oh (SL) - Professional Artist & Machinimatographer
Dr. Phylis Johnson (RL) - Media Professor, Southern Illinois University, Author - Machinima: Aesthetics and Practice (a.k.a, Sonicity Fitzroy, SL Virtual Journalist)
Mal Burns (SL), Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
Chestnut Rau (SL) - Journalist
Thirza Ember (SL) - Art Blog Writer
Persia Bravin (SL) - Journalist, media producer and TV host.
Dousa Dragonash (SL) - COO Metaverse Television
Rowan Derryth (SL) - Art & Design Historian; Writer for Prim Perfect Publications
Freemason Magic (SL) - Grand Patron Gan Logia Cibernetica 3D Vitual Lodge for Cyberfreemason Avatars
Carolyn Steele -  Lecturer, Culture & Expression, York University
Tom Papas (RL) - Project48 Film Festival Director & Co-Producer
Ginette Pinnazo (SL)-  Dir of Development, AviewTV / Dir of Projects, Zindra Expo Group / Manager, Womens Resource Ctr in SL

K. DaVette See (Suzy Yue - SL) - Creative Director, Running Lady Studios and Theatrical/Film director.
Laetitia Wilson - Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, UWA
Jay Jay Jegathesan (RL) / Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Manager School of Physics/ Lead of UWA Virtual Worlds

L$785,000 PRIZE POOL (Sponsored by  AView TV, Project48, Philip Vought, Fremason Magic, SL Machinima Poster Archive, The Tornado Gallery & UWA)
1st Prize - L$140,000
2nd Prize - L$120,000
3rd Prize - L$100,000
4th Prize - L$70,000
5th Prize - L$55,000
5 Special Awards (6th - 10th) - @L$30,000 
UWA Special Prize: L$100,000 (awarded by UWA members of the committee)
Audience participation Prize - L$20,000 (L$10,000, 1st; L$6,000, 2nd; L$4,000, 3rd)
Best Machinima Poster: 3 Prizes Totalling L$30,000  

* Special thanks to Eliza Wierwight for creating the wonderful poster for this challenge
* Special thanks also to the creators of the UWA Treasures in Second Life. These include Chuckmatrix Clip, quadrapop Lane, Nyx Breen, Bradley Dorchester (Bradley Curnow, RL), Ninka Darkstone, MichealAnthony Wirefly (Micheal Flynn, RL), Lilli Field, Dragonmage Bogan (Dr Chris Thorne, RL), Sharni Azalee & Minny Werefox (Minh Tran, RL).
* Special thanks also to our sponsors Aview TV (LaPiscean Liberty), Philip Vought, Freemason Magic & the Cyberfreemasons, Virtlantis and The Tornado Gallery (Taralyn Gravois)

More information on New Courses 2012 @ UWA
http://www.newcourses2012.uwa.edu.au/

Second Life Image by Germany's Harter Fall Makes UWA 2013 Friends of the Grounds Calendar

Photo of Winthrop Clock Tower seen from the Hackett Buildings (Image Credit: Bastian Gerlach/Harter Fall)

The UWA Friends of the Grounds group (RL) have just produced their 2013 Calendar. This is a special issue to celebrate the University's centenary, and images from past photographic competitions (one of which was held in 2011) including images from the UWA Archives have been used for it.

The 2011 competition led to 2 photos from Second Life, by Jay Jay Jegathesan/Zifanwe and Silene Christen of the Spanish Balears Islands making it into the 2012 calendar. 

The photographers were told at the time, that their submissions would be also considered for the 2013 calendar as well, as the photographic competition is held ever 2 years.

We are happy to announce that the photo above by Germany's Harter Fall (Bastian Gerlach) has been selected by the UWA Friends of the Grounds selection panel for inclusion in the special edition 2013 Centenary Calendar.

On hearing the news, Harter commented, "Thank you so much for including my photo in the 2013 UWA calendar, this is a great honour. I wish the UWA faculties, students and alumni happy centenary celebrations and good luck for the next 100 years... 'Gaudeamus igitur'."

A copy of this calendar will be part of the prize package for the winners for the current UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge as well as MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom. This includes the winners of the Audience Participation Events. 

Open This End Sponsorship Increases Prize Pools for UWA 3D Art & Machinima Grand Finales

Continuing in a partnership that has spanned a number of years, OPEN THIS END, led by Cristina García-Lasuén (RL) / Aino Baar (SL) has stepped in once more as a major sponsor for the Grand Finale of the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge and for MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom.

With this, the overall prize pools rise to L$580,000 for Art and L$835,000 for MachinimUWA V.

CEO of Pookymedia, Pooky Amsterdam, will represent OPEN THIS END on the main judging panel for MachinimUWA V, while Catalina McCaw will play that role for the for the Art. Further as per previous MachinimUWA rounds, OPEN THIS END will form an internal panel to nominate a series of Award of Excellence winners to be announced at the Grand Finale from 6am SLT on the 5th of August.

Anyway, running through the end of July are Audience Participation Events for the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge, with 90 artworks from around the globe and MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom, with a sublime collection of 51 short animated film.

Both of these events are set up such that the viewers or the audience experiencing the artworks or the film, can submit a top10 list in the order they think will be the ultimate juried order. The 3 viewers or audience members who come closest in both art & machinima events can win for themselves up to L$10,000. To take part, click the link for the 3D Art or for the Machinima and everything is explained!

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT CEREMONY 6AM SLT SUNDAY 5TH AUGUST
Time & Date: 6am SLT Sunday, 5th August
Location: UWA - BOSL Grand Amphitheatre (Entrance 1, Entrance 2)

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LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (JULY): Lollito Larkham's 'Souvenirs De Voyages'

The brilliant Lollito Larkham takes over at LEA 6 for the JULY round of the LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (here for full year schedule). 
 
This FULL SIM installation will be launched at 6am SLT on SUNDAY the 15th of July 2012

GRAND OPENING: 
'Souvenirs De Voyages' by Lollito Larkham 
(Memories of Journeys of Marcel Chiffon, A Monumentalist Exhibition)

DATE AND TIME: 6am SLT Sunday 15th of July 2012.
LOCATION: HERE AT LEA 6


Flickr Images by Lollito

Chic at Phil's Place
Ziki's Blog
Kara's Korner
Quan's Travelogues
Machinima by Laurine34
Victoria Lennoire @ UWA
Honor MacMillan's Blog
Apmel Goosson Blog
Virtual Outworlding

In Lollito's words (translated from French) :

First of all, thanks to the LEA to rely on my work and to allow me to experiment. Having a whole SIM is something totally new to me.

This installation consists of meshes and the SIM must be visited with the specially conceived sky setting.

It is about independent scenes rather than a narrative set. These scenes establish the memories of journeys of Marcel Chiffon, found in the forms of sketches on the pad left behind after his disappearance (CF. Echapées Nocturnes de Marcel Chifon).

The space is conceived, with the sky setting, to pass from a scene to the other one without real transition, which is intended to give the feeling of travel within a dream.

I wanted to create spaces with the least amount of  bounding as possible.

The sky setting allows for the isolation of scenes from one to the other and also to isolate the SIM from the the rest of the world.

It is conceived to work in complementarity with the light settings of Second Life. 

The Graphic Ultra mode (with Lights  and shadows) are indispensable in order to have the desired rendering.

The use of the lights also requires that the constructions are viewed from a close distance.

I wanted to work on the monumental aspect to make something I don't usually make.Rather than to model and texture scenes in blender, which would have taken months, I preferred to work on the play of lights and  space in relation to sculptures and improbable architectural constructions.

This work gets closer to Land art and to Monumental art.

My first idea was to model and to texture the SIM in blender for mastery of the lighting at a SIM-wide scale, but it was not possible. I thus decided to use SL lights and terraforming.

The light  is a very important aspect. It is important to use the recommended sky setting, and to set your viewers to the 'ultra' graphics mode, and to approach each of the constructions to view the full rendered works.

Also, the intent was to blur the usual frameworks, by making it such that the visitor feels a little disorientated spatially: no drawn road, no guiding paths, an fully open SIM, where we can approach spaces and structures according to various angles,either by foot or flight.

The intention of the layout of the sim - without bounded spaces - and the ambiant light, is that the avatars pass in the background.

Be not surprised if you do not realize that your friends or other avatars are actually next to you. The constructions come to light according to your visit, and shall give you the feeling to move forward of musing in musing.

Thank you for your visit.

Lollito Larkham

ORIGINAL FRENCH

Tout d'abord, merci à LEA de faire confiance à mon travail et de me permettre d'experimenter.
Disposer d'une sim entière est quelquechose totalement nouveau pour moi.

Cette installation est composée de meshes et la sim se visite avec le skysetting spécialement conçu.

Il s'agit de scènes indépendantes plutot qu'un ensemble narratif. Ces scènes constituent les souvenirs
de voyage de Marcel Chiffon, retrouvés sous formes de croquis dans le carnet laissé derrière lui après
sa disparition (CF. Les Echapées Nocturnes de Marcel Chifon).

L'espace est conçu, avec le skysetting, pour passer d'une scène à l'autre sans réelle transition.
matérielle. Je voulais des espaces qui soient le moins possible délimités.

Le skysetting permet d'isoler les scènes les unes par rapport aux autres et aussi d'isoler la sim du
reste du monde. Il est conçu pour fonctionner en complémentarité avec les lumières SL. Le mode
graphique Ultra avec Lumières de proximité et ombres et indispensable pour avoir le rendu souhaité.
L'usage des lumières demande aussi à ce que les constructions soient vues de près.

J'ai voulu travailler sur l'aspect monumental pour m'écarter de ce que je fais habituellement.
Plutot que de modéliser et texturer des scènes dans blender, ce qui aurait pris des mois, j'ai préféré
travailler sur les lumières et la mise en espace de sculptures et constructions architecturales ?
improbables.

Ce travail se rapproche du Land Art et de l'art monumental.
Mon idée première était de modeler et texturer la sim dans blender pour maitriser l'éclairage à
l'echelle d'une sim, mais ce ne fut pas possible. J'ai donc du me décider pour l'usage des lumières de
second life et le terraformage.

La lumière tient un place importante, aussi il est conseillé d'utiliser le skysetting de la sim,
de passer en mode graphique "ultra" et d'approcher les constructions pour avoir le rendu final.

Aussi, le propos est de brouiller un peu les repères habituels, an faisant en sorte que le visiteur se
sente quelque peu désorienté spatialement : pas de chemin tracé, pas de fil directeur, une sim
ouverte, où l'on peut aborder les pièces et structures selon differents angles, au gré marches ou
vols.

De part l'agencement de la sim - sans espaces délimités - et l'ambiance lumineuse, l'avatar passe au
second plan.
 

Ne soyez pas surpris de ne pas apercevoir vos amis à côté de vous.
Les constructions se dévoilent au fur et à mesure de votre visite, et vous donnerons l'impression
d'avancer de rêveries en rêveries.

Merci de votre visite )

Lollito Larkham

UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge: 90 Artworks, Grand Finale & Audience Participation Event

View All 90 Works in the running for L$550,000 in Prizes

The UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge is heading to its finale from 6AM SLT, Sunday, 5th August! All 90 entries are on display at the UWA Challenge Gallery, and these have come in from all parts of the globe including the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Australia, France, Canada, England, Denmark, the USA, Serbia, Italy, Uruguay, Canada, Spain, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and the Philippines, among others.

One of the artworks below will be awarded the L$100,000 Grand Prize on the 5th of August!

UWA would like to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of the lead curator for the event, FreeWee Ling, of the Unites States, who is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Western Australia. We would also like to acknowledge fellow sponsors, OPEN THIS END (led by Cristina García-Lasuén: RL) / Aino Baar: SL) ,The S&S Gallery of Fine Art (TheDove Rhode), The Tornado Gallery (Taralyn Gravois) and the Phi Designs Group (Ginger Alsop).

More than L$580,000 will be distributed at the winners announcements from 6am SLT, Sunday 5th August 2012. This will be held in conjunction with the winners announcements of the MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT CEREMONY 6AM SLT SUNDAY 5TH AUGUST
A special event will be held to announce the outcomes of the challenge:
Time & Date: 6am SLT Sunday, 5th August
Location: UWA - BOSL Grand Amphitheatre (Entrance 1, Entrance 2)

L$10,000 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EVENT
Win a Share of L$10,000, A Spot on the Official Jury for the next Grand Art Challenge @ UWA & Special RL Package

Deadline: Midnight SLT 30th July 2011
L$10,000 has been set aside for all art lovers who take part in a special participation event. We are asking everyone to view the artworks and give us your TOP 10 artworks overall, in order of your preference (email jayjayaustralia@hotmail.com OR list them on a notecard to Jayjay Zifanwe - please put your name on the title of the notecard with the words UWA Centenary 3D Audience Event).

The 3 participants whose order comes closest to the final order decided by the judging panel (as below), will win for themselves L$5,000, L$3,000 and L$2,000 each. The first prize winner will also be invited to be on the panel for the next grand art challenge and ALL 3 will receive in the mail a special pack that includes a copy of the book, '100 Treasures of UWA' which was produced for UWA's Centenary.

UWA CENTENARY 3D ART CHALLENGE OVERALL PRIZES:
1st Prize L$100,000
2nd Prize L$75,000
3rd Prize L$50,000
4th Prize L$40,000
5th Prize L$25,000
6th - 10th Prize L$15,000

UWA CENTENARY 3D ART CHALLENGE NON-SCRIPTED PRIZES:
1st Prize L$35,000
2nd Prize L$20,000
3rd Prize L$15,000
4th Prize L$6,000
5th Prize L$4,000
6th - 10th Prize L$ 3,000

UWA Centenary Special Prize (Decided by UWA Panel Members) L$60,000
UWA Centenary Honourable Mention (Decided by UWA Panel Members) L$20,000

CURATOR'S PRIZE L$20,000

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION PRIZES
1st Prize L$ 10,000
2nd Prize L$ 6,000
3rd Prize L$ 4,000


UWA CENTENARY 3D ART CHALLENGE ARTWORKS (90 IN TOTAL)
Click Here for Start Location (OR, you can teleport directly to each artwork by clicking the name):

• Apollosmile - Steel Piano Grand (Sci Fi)
• Artee - Le Violoncelle de Béton / (Concrete Cello) [to Eléonore Schöffer]
• Asperix Asp - Spanish Revolutions
• Ayla Janick - Whale Song
• Barry Richez - Imagination
• Bryn Oh - Cerulean
• Cajska Carlsson - The Geometry of Flux
• Celestine Ghiardie - Jeg en gård mig bygge vil (I would build a farm)
• Cherry Manga - Terra-Mater
• Chic Aeon - Tree of Dreams
• Chuckmatrix Clip - Bipolar
• Cica Ghost - 5 to 12
• Coddax - Eden
• Corcosman Voom - Patsy Sees a Ghost
• Counting Offcourse - Quackness flexified
• Daco Monday - Pittura
• Dave Searby Mason - May Star Ball
• Dawnwalker - Within the Egg
• DB Bailey - Burn Baby Burn
• Dragonslord - HMSX Sirius Spaceship Uwa
• Dudi - Schism
• Earl Dinkin - Seven Friends Suddenly Sorry Out of Order
• Eliza Weirwight - The Caravanserai of Fractured Fairytales
• Elizabeth Spieler - Omnibus
• Fae Varriale - Heartwood
• Farstar Enoch - The Dancers, Children of the Abyss
• Finn Lanzius - Earth Debris
• Fiona Blaylock - Beautiful Dreamer
• Followmeimthe Piedpiper - 1936 Brough Superior motorcycle
• Fuschia Nightfire - Ariadne Spinning The Universe
• Gaea Singh - Steam Powered Blimp
• Ginger Lorakeet - Inside Art
• Gleman Jun - The culture is not enough
• Glyph Graves - reflections in diversity
• Haveit Neox - 100th Year of Raining Pages
• Ichibot Nishi - Ichibot Nishi - Somafree Gestaltabteilung A
• Jazz88 - DeStjil Tryptique
• Jess Oranos - Fountain of My Imagination
• Jesse Keyes - Dont press the button!
• JessieLeahy - Embracing Our Enemies
• June Clavenham - Humanity
• Katz Jupiter - Woman who fell from the sky
• Kicca Igaly - Hell
• kjs Yip - Painting with Light Color & Prim
• Krystali Rabeni - Follow Your Dreams
• Kyra Roxan - Shattererd Hope
• Letty Luckstone - Zerschmetterte (Shattered)
• Linda McAllister - Bad day at the UWA
• Lollito Larkham - L'histoire de Petit-Gris (The story of Petit-Gris)
• London Junkers - Sailing to the Moon
• Mad Varnish - Svetovid
• Mikati Slade - Different Faces. One Love.
• Miss Crumb - my extreem tree box lights
• Moeuhane Sandalwood - Purify the Lands
• nexuno Thespian - Looking Inside Myself
• Nima Benoir - Crossroads, On The Road To Neverland
• Ninka Darkstone - Seahorses
• Nino Vichan - I am thy father's spirit
• Noke Yuitza - Alien Humanity
• Pale Illusion - Cathedral of Thoughts
• Pamala Clift - Wings of an Idea
• PeanutbuttahJellehTime Magic - Catastrophically Thinking Outside The Box
• Pol Jarvinen - Langueur
• Pravda Core - Teracotta Army
• RAG Randt - ICCMS Cone
• Raisa Nadezda - Q Power
• Rebeca Bashly - Mother
• Rheaven Tussaud - Mystical Mirage
• Rikku Yalin - Woody Robot
• Rose Borchovski - Susa 2 not allowed at two fish
• Rose Sak - The inside of my mind
• Sabine Stonebender - To gleam..walk..And bubble...
• Sasha Dielli - Chalice of Love
• Scarp Godenot - Primitive Memory Reversal Extractor
• Scottius Polke - Oxide Eden
• Sea Mizin - ERVborn Tree of Life
• Secret Rage - The Golden Apple
• Selavy Oh - Silence, please
• Silene Christen - Tribute to Salvador Dali
• Soda Lemondrop - UWA 100 Years
• Sonna Bazar - Heart vs Train
• Soror Nishi - The Goatfruit Tree
• Takni Miklos - Keep Off The Grass
• Teal Freenote - Kintsugi
• Theda Tammas - Thorns (after Robert Juniper, St Xavier's Thorn and a Fetish, 1954)
• Thoth Jantzen - World Egg of Khemennu
• Tyrehl Byk/Ultraviolet Alter - To Be The Wind
• Ub Yifu - A Star is Born
• Yabusaka Loon - Giant Inrush
• Yooma Mayo - Zoea Larva

MachinimUWA V: ALL 51 Works, Grand Finale & Audience Participation Event

MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom, is heading towards its finale! 51 entries (all listed below, and all linked on AViewTV) have come in from around the world, including Melbourne (Australia), Rome (Italy), Monterey (USA), Rotterdam (Netherlands),  Dallas (USA), Rochester (USA), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Costa Rica, Bombay (India), Pondicherry  (India), Alaska (USA), Cambridge (England), London (England), Berklee (USA), Paris (France), Corvallis (USA), Toronto (Canada), Santa Ana, CA (USA), Gdansk (Poland), New York (USA), Oslo (Norway), Phoenix, AZ (USA), Lybster (Scotland), San Fransisco (USA), Seattle (USA), Barcelona (Spain), Colfax WA (USA), Ottawa (Canada), Tacoma (USA), Berkeley CA (USA), Naples (Italy), Ohio (USA), New Orleans (USA), Brighton (England) and Lancaster MA (USA).

We would like to acknowledge the amazing efforts of the co-host of this event, LaPiscean Liberty (AViewTV) who is also a sponsor,  OPEN THIS END (led by Cristina García-Lasuén: RL) / Aino Baar: SL), Project48 (Tom Papas), Philip Vought, Freemason Magic, The Tornado Gallery (Taralyn Gravois) & UWA. Special mention to Ginette Pinnazo, Tom Pappas, Taralyn Gravois & FreeWee Ling.

ALSO do note the ongoing UWA Movie Poster Contest closing the 15th of July

More than L$785,000 (approx USD 3,400) will be distributed to Machinima Winners at the winners announcements from 6am SLT, Sunday 5th August 2012. This will be held in conjunction with the winners announcements of the Grand Finale of the UWA Centenary 3D Art Challenge.

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT CEREMONY 6AM SLT SUNDAY 5TH AUGUST
A special event will be held to announce the outcomes of the challenge:
Time & Date: 6am SLT Sunday, 5th August
Location: UWA - BOSL Grand Amphitheatre (Entrance 1, Entrance 2)

L$785,000 PRIZE POOL (Sponsored by  AView TV, Project48, Philip Vought, Fremason Magic, SL Machinima Poster Archive, The Tornado Gallery & UWA)
1st Prize - L$140,000
2nd Prize - L$120,000
3rd Prize - L$100,000
4th Prize - L$70,000
5th Prize - L$55,000
5 Special Awards (6th - 10th) - @L$30,000 
UWA Special Prize: L$100,000 (awarded by UWA members of the committee)
Audience participation Prize - L$20,000 (L$10,000, 1st; L$6,000, 2nd; L$4,000, 3rd)
Best Machinima Poster: 3 Prizes Totalling L$30,000  

L$20,000 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EVENT
Win a Share of L$20,000, A Spot on the Official Jury for MachinimUWA VI & Special RL Package
Deadline: Midnight SLT 30th July 2012
L$20,000 has been set aside for viewers who take part in a special participation event. We are asking everyone to watch the submissions and give us your TOP 10 machinima, in order of your preference (email jayjayaustralia@hotmail.com OR list them on a notecard to Jayjay Zifanwe - please put your name on the title of the notecard with the words MachinimUWA V Audience Event).

The 3 participants whose order comes closest to the final order decided by the judging panel (as below), will win for themselves L$10,000, L$6,000 and L$4,000 each. The first prize winner will also be invited to be on the panel for MachinimUWA VI and ALL 3 will receive in the mail a special pack that includes a copy of the book, '100 Treasures of UWA' which was produced for UWA's Centenary.

MACHINIMUWA V: SEEK WISDOM (51 entries)(Order Randomized by Number Generator)

Tikaf Viper (Rome, Italy) - >RUN RAM

Karima Hoisan (Costa Rica) & Natascha Randt (Gelsenkirchen, Germany) - SEEK WISDOM

Hypatia Pickens (Rochester, New York, USA) - THE FOUR GODS OF FOLLY

Soda Lemondrop (Monterey, California, USA) - PENGUINS DIALOGUE ON WISDOM

Tutsy Navarathna (Pondicherry, India) - THE LAST SYLLABLE OF RECORDED TIME

Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA) - SEEKING WISDOM THROUGH THE AGES

Yesikita Coppola (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - INVOCATION

Kobuk Farshore (Alaska, USA) - ECHO QUIETUS SERENATA

Pixie Rain (Cambridge & London, UK) - FWD: EVOLUTION

Soda Lemondrop (Monterey, California, USA) - SEEK WISDOM

L1aura Loire/ Dr Lori Landay's (Berklee College of Music, USA) - PATHS TO WISDOM

Iono Allen (Paris, France) - RECURSIVITY

Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) - THE SEARCH

Arrow Inglewood (Toronto, Canada) - ?

Barbara McQueen's (Santa Ana, California, USA) - A FORMERLY COOL KID

Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA) - THE GUARDIAN

Pyewacket Bellman (New York, USA) - SEEK WISDOM

Benicia Beck (Ashland, Oregon) - HIGH VOLUME

Lala Larix (Gdańsk, Poland) - THE 3RD

Mimesis Monday (Oslo, Norway) - DIALOGGING

Molly Cybertar (Wisconsin, USA) - SLEEP OF REASON

Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - KEY CONCLUSIONS

M4SK22 Melody's (Lybster, Scotland) - SPINNING TIME

Bay Sweetwater (San Francisco Bay Area, USA) - PIECES OF YOUR HEART

Elizabeth Spieler (Seattle, Washington, USA) - UWA SEEK WISDOM 2012

Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) - THE ABSENCE OF MEMORY

Laslopantomik Yao (Barcelona, Spain) & Ultraviolet Alter (France) - THOUGHT ON SELF RELIANCE

JamesAir (Ashland, Oregon, USA) - THE DECONSTRUCTION OF ALICE

Pamala Clift (Colfax, Washington, USA) - OBSERVING INNER WISDOM'S DELIGHT

Ed Vespucciano (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE

aquaglo (Texas, USA) - WISDOM FOR 2012: GOD IS ALIVE - MAGIC IS AFOOT

Hypatia Pickens (Rochester, New York, USA) - STILL WATCHING

Larkworthy Antfarm (Tacoma, Washington, USA) - FIRST EMPEROR

Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - ENOUGH ABOUT ME

Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA) - MAKING WISHES

Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - SOMETHING'S BUGGIN ME

London Junkers (London, UK) & Lizzie Gudkov (Lisbon, Portugal) SEEK WISDOM

pallina60 Loon (Rome, Italy) - COLOURS

Talia Sunsong's (Berkeley, California, USA) - GREEN MYSTERY

Carl Velde (Naples, Italy) - SOPHIA'S GAZE

Misio2 (Melbourne, Australia) - RAG-DOLL WISDOM

Spiral Silverstar (New Orleans, LA, USA) - SEEKING WISDOM IN THE STARS

aquaglo (Texas, USA) - REFLECTIONS OF WISDOM

Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) - IN DREAMS

Dave Searby Mason (Brighton, England) - SEEK WISDOM

Sophia Yates (Lancaster, MA, USA) - PHILOSOPHY & WISDOM

Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) - RUNNING WITH SCISSORS

Alia Silverblade (Bombay, India)- UWALIA

Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - WISDOM FLYING IN CIRCLES

jjccc Coronet (London, UK) - UWA Summer Exhibition

Sophia Yates (Lancaster, MA, USA) - SEEKER OF WISDOM

JUDGING PANEL

Professor Ted Snell - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
Dr Sue Boyd - Member of Senate, UWA, Chair, UWA Centenary Planning Committee (Former Australian High-Commissioner & Consul General)
Jon Stubbs - Director of Student Services, UWA
Jonathon Zahra – Activities Officer, centenary Planning, Guild Services, UWA
Professor Jenna Mead - Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) Coordinator and Art Historian, UWA
Matthew McKenzie – Student Guild President, UWA
Virginia Rowland (RL) - Senior Policy Officer, Centenary Planning, UWA
Adia Yu (RL) - Quantum Enginered Systems Centre of Excellence Coordinator, UWA
FreeWee Ling (SL) - Curator, UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
LaPiscean Liberty (SL) - CEO AviewTV and UWA Virtual World Technical Media Advisor
Pooky Amsterdam (SL) - CEO PookyMedia, Representative of OPEN THIS END, Film Maker, Writer, Machinima-Expo 2012 Producer
Wagner James Au (RL) / Hamlet Au (SL) - Editor in Chief of New World Notes
Cisko Vandeverre (SL) - Inaugural UWA Machinima Champion
Apmel Goosson - Scandinavian Author/Publisher
Nazz Lane (SL) - Journalist and Author
Appolo Manga – Journalist (The Examiner)
Bryn Oh (SL) - Professional Artist & Machinimatographer
Dr. Phylis Johnson (RL) - Media Professor, Southern Illinois University, Author - Machinima: Aesthetics and Practice (a.k.a, Sonicity Fitzroy, SL Virtual Journalist)
Mal Burns (SL), Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
Thirza Ember (SL) - Art Blog Writer
Persia Bravin (SL) - Journalist, media producer and TV host.
Dousa Dragonash (SL) - COO Metaverse Television
Freemason Magic (SL) - Grand Patron Gan Logia Cibernetica 3D Vitual Lodge for Cyberfreemason Avatars
Tom Papas (RL) - Project48 Film Festival Director & Co-Producer
Ginette Pinnazo (SL)-  Dir of Development, AviewTV / Dir of Projects, Zindra Expo Group / Manager, Womens Resource Ctr in SL
K. DaVette See (Suzy Yue - SL) - Creative Director, Running Lady Studios and Theatrical/Film director.
Quan Lavender (Dortmund Germany) - Journalist & Blogger
Jay Jay Jegathesan (RL) / Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Manager School of Physics/ Lead of UWA Virtual Worlds

MachinimUWA V: M4SK22, Molly, Bay & L1aura bring total to 51!

The deadline for MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom has passed, and the final day saw the final 4 submissions come across the line.




M4SK22 Melody's (Lybster, Scotland) 'Spinning Time'


 

Molly Cybertar's 'Sleep of Reason'


 

Bay Sweetwater's (San Francisco Bay Area, USA) 'Pieces of Your Heart'


 

L1aura Loire/ Dr Lori Landay's (Berklee College of Music, USA) 'Paths to Wisdom' 

The final 4 machinima submitted to MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom, are by M4SK22 Melody, Molly Cybertar, Bay Sweetwater and L1aura Loire, bringing the total submissions to this L$775,000 challenge to 51. 


A full listing of all machinima will be made soon, along with instructions for the Audience Participation Event. Viewers will have a month to come up with a top 10 list that most costly matches the official judges decision, winning for yourselves a share in L$20,000 for watching.

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MachinimUWA V: Barbara McQueen, TaliaSunsong & Alia Silverblade

Barbara McQueen's (Santa Ana, California, USA) 'A Formerly Cool Kid'

Talia Sunsong's (Berkeley, California, USA) 'Green Mystery'

 
Alia Silverblade's  (Bombay, India) 'UWAlia'


We are about 24 hours from the submission deadline for MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom. 3 works that have just come in are from talents new to the UWA challenges. Barbara McQueen's 'A Formerly Cool Kid' gives some great advice to the youth of today, Talia Sunsong's 'Green Mystery' shows us that nature is a force to be reckoned with and Alia Silverblade (Bombay, India) asks that we listen to the sound of silence with 'UWAlia'.

These machinima are now part of the L$725,000, MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom. MachinimUWA V's theme is a tribute to the Centenary of the University of Western Australia and UWA's New Courses 2012.

Entries to MachinimUWA V: Seek Wisdom close on the 30th of June 2012 and seeks for the creation of machinima with any storyline that fits to the theme of 'Seek Wisdom' so long as at least ONE of the 100 Treasures from UWA form part of the story. Click HERE for full details and landmarks to the locations of the treasures in Second Life.

Thus far there are 47 machinima submitted.

ALSO, calling for entries to the UWA 3D Centenary Art Challenge (110 prim limit, open theme) through 30th June as well.

OTHER ENTRIES TO MACHINIMUWA V
FWD: EVOLUTION by Pixie Rain (Cambridge & London, UK)
RECURSIVITY by Iono Allen (Paris, France)
INVOCATION by Yesikita Coppola(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
'?' by Arrow Inglewood (Toronto, Canada)
KEY CONCLUSIONS by Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
REFLECTIONS OF WISDOM by aquaglo (Texas, USA)
SEEK WISDOM by Pyewacket Bellman
THE GUARDIAN by Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA)
UWA SEEK WISDOM 2012 by Elizabeth Spieler
THE ABSENCE OF MEMORY by Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA)
THOUGHT ON SELF RELIANCE by Laslopantomik Yao & Ultraviolet Alter (Barcelona, Spain & France)
SEEK WISDOM by Karima Hoisan & Natascha Randt
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF ALICE by JamesAir
SEEKING WISDOM THROUGH THE AGES by Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA)
RAG-DOLL WISDOM by Miso Susanowa (Ohio, USA)
OBSERVING INNER WISDOM'S DELIGHT by Pamala Clift
THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE by Ed Vespucciano
DIALOGGING by Mimesis Monday (Oslo, Norway)
WISDOM FOR 2012: GOD IS ALIVE - MAGIC IS AFOOT by aquaglo (Texas, USA)
STILL WATCHING by Hypatia Pickens (Rochester, New York, USA)
FIRST EMPEROR by Larkworthy Antfarm (Tacoma, Washington, USA)
ENOUGH ABOUT ME by Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

>run RAM by Tikaf Viper (Rome, Italy)

WISDOM FLYING IN CIRCLES by Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
MAKING WISHES by Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA)
SOMETHIN'S BUGGIN ME by Bleu Oleander (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

SEEK WISDOM by Soda Lemondrop (Monterey, California, USA)

High Volume by Benicia Beck

THE 3RD by Lala Larix (Gdańsk, Poland)
UWA Summer Exhibition by jjccc Coronet (London, UK)

SEEK WISDOM by London Junkers & Lizzie Gudkov (London, UK & Lisbon, Portugal)

ECHO QUIETUS SERENATA by Kobuk Farshore (Alaska, USA)
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA)
THE FOUR GODS OF FOLLY by Hypatia Pickens (Rochester, New York, USA)

SEEKING WISDOM IN THE STARS by Spiral Silverstar (New Orleans, LA, USA)

PENGUINS DIALOGUE ON WISDOM by Soda Lemondrop (Monterey, California, USA)
THE LAST SYLLABLE OF RECORDED TIME by Tutsy Navarathna (Pondicherry, India)

IN DREAMS by Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA)

SEEK WISDOM by Dave Searby Mason (Brighton, England)

SEEKER OF WISDOM by Sophia Yates (Lancaster, MA, USA)

COLOURS by pallina60 Loon (Rome, Italy)

SOPHIA'S GAZE by Carl Velde (Naples, Italy)

THE SEARCH by Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA)

PHILOSOPHY & WISDOM by Sophia Yates (Lancaster, MA, USA)