Saturday, November 22, 2014

Real Life Talk in Melbourne on Second Life by Jay Jay in December

3-Dimensional Virtual Worlds in Education and Society

UWA in SL Founder Jay Jay Jegathesan (Jayjay Zifawe) has, in part due to 'The Freedom Project' and 'The Three Minute Thesis'  been invited to Melbourne in December by 'ARTS ACCESS VICTORIA' to speak at 'The Other Film Festival' @ The Melbourne Brain Centre. Arts Access Victoria has for more than 40 years been supporting disability through the arts.

TITLE OF TALK
3-Dimensional Virtual Worlds in Education and Society

WHERE
Melbourne Brain Centre, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia

WHEN
Friday, 5 December, 2014 at 5pm (Running Time: 80 Mins)

TICKETS MUST BE BOOKED (BUT ARE COMPLIMENTARY). FULL DETAILS & TO BOOK TICKETS CLICK HERE


THE MELBOURNE BRAIN CENTRE

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Friday, November 21, 2014

LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (Nov-Dec 2014): Rebirth... together! 2Lei in SL V Ed. - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women


 

Lorys Lane & the remarkable 2Lei in Second Life initiative are at the helm of Nov-Dec 2014 round of the LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES at LEA 6. A full list of the LEA Full SIM offering since inception in 2011 can be found HERE.  The current round of the LEA Full Sim series runs through February 2015.
 
LAUNCH: ALREADY OPEN
LOCATION: HERE AT LEA 6
FULL PROGRAMME OF EVENTS BELOW

In Lorys Lane's words:



2Lei in Second Life is a collaborative project between some groups in Second Life, which began in 2010 with the aim to raise awareness and disseminate events related to the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women".  


Virtual artists, gallery owners, musicians and the cultural figures of Second Life are invited to share the common message of solidarity to the women via their particular Art. For the fifth year in a row, a committee of volunteers has chosen to devote time, energy and ideas together to realize projects and activities to say "No violence against women in the world."

 2Lei will go beyond the canonical virtual boundaries of recent years, through a number of projects already in the works, and through you. Beyond the frontiers of Second Life, 2Lei seeks to become like a spider's web that is woven slowly, but which becomes indestructible, rooted at every point.
 
On June 2014 "2Lei in Second Life" committee took part in SLB11 celebration with the installations "Revise the next": 3 photos by Paola Mills, and a mesh sculpture composed by Moore Tone, with creative contributions of all members; this is why the mesh was load by 2Lei Resident, the official avatar of the committee. 

The central figure, symbol of uniformity contemporary, evolves into a future dominated by the differences that co-exist and work together, generating positive feelings.

Respect, trust and equality - our empire of the mind - are the focus of the installation, but rather than expect them, we would try to get them, educating and training the future. The intent of the 2Lei initiatives was always to create, day after day, a new brick to build a world fit for individual without distinction, nor prevarication, but based on positive feelings.
 
2Lei 2014: Rebirth... together!
This year’s theme is "Rebirth… together!". We cannot just denounce: we must dare to hope, to dream, to act, to make the dream come true and springboard for new dreams. Dreams in which men and women cooperate together to build a more just, more healthy society, in which violence does not represent the instrument upon which to convey anger, frustration, fear, and aggression.
We wish every woman’s heart beat be as strong as the drum of life. No woman will be forgotten or left behind. The "Rebirth" marks the passage of the works of artists who are exhibiting in these spaces, and the performers who will take turns on stage. The program is rich and detailed, and offers many insights. Now we want to talk about "rebirth". A rebirth towards a world where people can live, breathe, and dream without the fear of having to defend themselves. We are reborn together in front of each painting, opera, photograph, theater or musical show that a fragment of this kaleidoscope of images, desires, dreams, passions, and every project of rebirth involves. Primarily this involves the denunciation of what is evil, of what is burning, what clip wings, and cuts short lives. Then, after the denunciation, comes the dream: the work, the strength to believe it, and to make it happen together. "TOGETHER" is the keyword of a true renaissance. And we will be the first to give testimony. Men and women who, together, believe in this project and have put in place. Thank you for sharing this journey with us.
 


 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 

***2Lei 2014 EVENTS CALENDAR***

2Lei 2014 Events Calendar
(SL time)

>>>>> 20/11 - Thursday

1.30 PM  SLt  Opening 2Lei 2014 edition

2.00 PM  SLt  "Women in rebirth" - MBI (Master Builders Italy, Rubin Mayo) presents:
- Art exhibition by various artists
- Reading and testimonies of womens
- Music by Andromeda Slade

>>>>>  21/11 - Friday

1.30 PM  SLt "RELIVE" - Art exhibition by various artists (Duna Gant)
- Music by Morlita Quan and Ultraviolet Alter

2.30 PM  SLt  Tour of the artworks that artists and photographers have created for this edition of 2Lei

 >>>>> 22/11 - Saturday

1.30 PM  SLt SoloDonna Event (Sniper Siemens - Elettra Beardmore)

2.45 PM  SLt  Music by Andromeda Slade

>>>>>  23/11 - Sunday

1.30 PM  SLt  Live concert by Musicante Malandrino with a great Surprise Guest :)

>>>>>  24/11 - Monday

1.30 PM  SLt  L'Arme d'Amour (Viola Tatham, Andromeda Slade) presents “I loved her more than her life” (One-act play written by Cristina Comencini)

2.00 PM  SLt Debate about violence problems (with Rosanna Tafanelli, Francesco Bonetto, Lapsus Weinstein and Alejandra Balhaus)

>>>>> 25/11 - Tuesday

1.00 PM SLt  Reading and music by Libriamo Tutti - Imparafacile (Imparafacile group)

2.00 PM  SLt  I.L.A. Idee Libere Alternative (Francy Lytton, MarinellaMonti) presents:
- Reading of "Women in rebirth" di J. Folla edited by Margherita Hax
- Live concert of Trinity Ermingtrood
- Exposure of poems by Cordediseta Rosea

3.30 PM  SLt  Conclusion of this fifth edition with closing credits

>>>>> 30/11 - Sunday

11 AM SLt STAND! SL Fashion World Stand with 2Lei (by Mila Tatham, Aliza Karu, Bodza Blackadder, Absinthe Montenegro)

1.30 PM SLt  Particle Show by Tansee Resident and music by Andromeda Slade

2.30 PM  SLt  Break all... together!

  

Sunday, November 9, 2014

FreeWee Ling wins $18,000 Endeavour Executive Fellowship to Visit Perth, UWA


FreeWee Ling has had many remarkable feathers in her cap across the 4 years she has been curator of virtual arts with UWA's 3D Virtual presence. Pioneering the UWA Studies in Virtual Arts Series, curating the various grand art challenges, conceptualising and running the Artists Choice series, the Tim Maley Butterfly Garden in collaboration with Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts WA (DADAA), and many more.

In a fitting acknowledgement to her incredible contributions to global and trans-pacific art, FreeWee has this week received a letter from the Australian Minister of Education, Christopher Pyne,  informing her of her selection as the recipient of the 2015  Endeavour Executive Fellowship worth  approximately $18,000 which will allow her to travel the the University of Western Australia, in Perth for 4 months.

FreeWee had remodelled the inside of Winthrop Hall using a combination of building plans, videos and photos and built the Len Zuks UWA Centum created for UWA's centenary, and early next year for the first time, she will be able to appreciate these in person, and meet all the people she has been working with across the years through SL including Professor Ted Snell, Len Zuks, quadrapop Lane, Dusty Canning, Sharni Azalee and Jay Jay.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Freedom Project in 'Artist's Chronicle' Book Review & A Feature at 'The Other Film Festival'


The Nov/Dec issue of the West Australian Visual Art Journal, 'Artist's Chronicle', carries a review of the Freedom Project book that can  be found HERE.

The book, crafted and put together by UWA arts curator FreeWee Ling was the end of a nearly year long cycle which saw he Freedom Project take life. The UWA's 'The Freedom Project', call for artists, filmmakers and writers from across the globe with disabilities or chronic illnesses to share a creation which showed what freedom meant to them and were invited to share their own personal story of how virtual worlds assisted them in gaining that freedom.

The Freedom Project was also the trigger for Victorian Arts Access to invite UWA 3D virtual worlds founder, Jay Jay Jegathesan to speak at 'The Other Film Festival' in Melbourne this December.

The work of Xia Firethorn, 'My body is a cage', features in the Artist's Chronicle book review. It will be available online as well presently on the Artist's Chronicle website.




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Thursday, November 6, 2014

UWA SiVA - Past, Present, Future

FROM FREEWEE:
In 2012 I created the UWA 3D Artists' Choice Challenges, a series of eight monthly exhibitions on different themes, with winners chosen by the participating artists. Along with this series I began to assemble my documentation into exhibition catalogs for each show which became the online journal series, UWA Studies in Virtual Arts, an official publication of UWA. A few of these issues were selected to have very limited print runs, including the first Artists' Choice show, last year's UWA Centenary REFLECTIONS, and this year's amazing FREEDOM PROJECT. We were fortunate with this last edition to have gotten sufficient funding to provide a printed copy of the book to each participant.

On some of the early Artist's Choice editions I had started the work, but had gotten sidetracked with other priorities. I am happy to announce that the backlog of those issues has been completed and all 8 Artists' Choice exhibition catalogs are now online.

I have just begun photographing the current exhibition: TRANSCENDING BORDERS. For this book I plan to highlight the winners of the MachinimUWA VII competition as well as the 3D art show. This is one of the most exciting shows we have ever done and I'm looking forward to assembling the SiVA catalog for it.



Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Audience Participation Event: MACHINIMUWA VII - Transcending Borders (Win A Share of L$57,500 for Watching Machinima)

The Grand Finale Winners announcements for MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders will be held in December along with the winners announcements for the Machinima Challenge. We have 38 Machinima from around the world for the 7th edition.

One of the Machinima  below will be awarded the L$100,000 Grand Prize in DECEMBER 2014!

UWA would like to acknowledge fellow sponsors, Tom Papas & SciFi Film Festival, LaPiscean Liberty & SL Artist, AviewTV, Arrehn Oberlander and MetaHarpers, Kip Yellowjacket and Virtlantis,Taralyn Gravois and Arts Castle Gallery, TheDoveRhode and Peace is a Choice and S&S Gallery of Fine SL Art, Barbie Alchemi of Creations for Parkinsons, Jon Stubbs & UWA Student Services, with special thanks to Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct.

More than L$1,000,000 will be distributed at the winners announcements in December 2014. This will be held in conjunction with the winners announcements of the companion 3D Art Challenge

WE INVITE ALL OF SL TO PARTICIPATE IN A L$57,500 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EVENT
Win a Share of L$57,500, and a Spot on the Official Jury for the next Grand Art Challenge 

Deadline For Audience Participation Prizes: Midnight SLT 3rd December 2014
L$57,500 has been set aside for all machinima lovers who take part in a special participation event. We are asking everyone to view the machinima and give us which machinima you think will finish in the TOP 10 in order 1st - 10th as decided by the official judging panel. (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 VII Audience Event).


The 5 participants whose order comes closest to the final order decided by the judging panel (Listed here), will win for themselves between L$20,000 - L$5,000. The first prize winner will also be invited to be on the panel for the next grand art challenge

* More than happy for the artists taking part as well to submit their lists, as this will not impact the actual results 

This is not a popularity vote. Your top 10 is your prediction of who the actual top 10 will be according to the official judging.

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION PRIZES
(Awarded to viewers/ visitors whose top 10 lists most closesly aligns to the actual juried top 10)
1st Prize L$ 20,000
2nd Prize L$ 15,000
3rd Prize L$ 10,000
4th Prize L$ 7,500
5th Prize L$ 5,000 



ALL MACHINIMUWA VII ENTRIES 
(In reverse Klingon Alphabetical Order)

Natascha Randt (Gelsenkirchen, Germany) & Karima Hoisan (San Isidro del General, Costa Rica) - The Connection 

Vilvi Rae (Jyvaskylla, Finland) - No Man's Land  

Chic Aeon (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) - The Ghost in the Machine 

Braclo Eber (South African in Canada - Thanks to SL) - Beyond 

Erythro Asimov (Tours, France) -  The 6th Extinction  (Click HERE for Vimeo Version) 

Iono Allen (Paris, France) -  Butchery  (Click HERE for French Version) 

GnomeZen (Ashland, Oregon, USA) - Transcending the Borders of Consciousness

Joe Zazulak [Spiral Silverstar] (New Orleans, LA, USA) - 'Transcending (surreal) Borders'

Tutsy Navarathna (Frenchman in Pondicherry, India)  - Metaphore - "Transcending Borders" 


Lilia Artis  (Berne Switzerland), Haveit Neox (Los Angeles, USA) & Mouehane Sandalwood (Berne, Switzerland) - Striding - Unknown Roads 


Eric Takkar (New York, USA) & Arcane Marenwolf (Perth, Australia) - Unseen Transcended Borders

Friday Siamendes (Denver, Colorado, USA) - Shuteye  

Arrow Inglewood (Toronto, Canada) - Pas De Digital  

Sparrow Michigan (Newport, Kentucky, USA) - September Years  


Pepa Cometa (Andalusia, Spain) - Little Marie 

Yepar Saenz (The Island of Martinique, French Carribean) - Delphine et Hippolyte 

Nyle Bakerly (Vista, CA,  USA) & Tyrus Core (St Louis, MO, USA) - Trapped in the Mansion 

Boris Twist (Portland, Oregon, USA) -  SORTIE...a film of the beautiful dark 

Sophia Yates (Boston,  Massachusetts, USA) - Transcending Borders 

Babypea Von Phoenix & Masterperry (both from a little town near Horsham, Victoria) - Silence Remains 

AvaJean Westland (New York City, USA) - Changes  

Valentina Tremont (Milan, Italy) - Imagination

Peter King (Chester, England, United Kingdom) - Crime Knows No Borders 

GnomeZen (Ashland, Oregon, USA) - Transcendence

Haveit Neox (Los Angeles, USA) - Reading Primchords  

Alfonso Garavito Olivar (Florida, USA) - La profesora de lengua castella

Erythro Asimov (Tours, France) - Night of the Johnstown Flood 

Elizabeth Spieler (Seattle, USA) - Transcending Borders   

aquaglo (Texas,  USA) - Aqua ponders? What if...    

Ultraviolet Alter (Toulouse, South France) - The Embryo   

Mexi Lane aka  Marina Bellini (Rome, Italy) - Mediterranean  

Ormand Lionheart (Surrey, British Colombia, Canada) & Rachelle Raviprakash  (France) - Reflection  


Misio2 (Melbourne, Australia) - Virtual Toy Island Plankton 

jjccc Coronet (Talygarn, South Wales) - What a Wonderful World

Valentina Tremont (Milan, Italy) - Dreaming

Valentina Tremont (Milan, Italy) - Sea and Mountain 

Sophia Hines (Paris, France) - Transcending Borders

Elle Thorkveld (Connecticut, USA) - Frontiers 

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Audience Participation Event: 3D Art - Transcending Borders (Win A Share of L$57,500)


The Grand Finale Winners announcements for Transcending Borders:  The 5th UWA Grand Art Challenge will be held in December along with the winners announcements for the Machinima Challenge. We have on display at UWA 67 artworks from all corners of the globe, except Antarctica (as usual).

One of the artworks below will be awarded the L$100,000 Grand Prize in DECEMBER 2014!

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, Tom Papas & SciFi Film Festival, LaPiscean Liberty & SL Artist, AviewTV, Arrehn Oberlander and MetaHarpers, Kip Yellowjacket and Virtlantis,Taralyn Gravois and Arts Castle Gallery, TheDoveRhode and Peace is a Choice and S&S Gallery of Fine SL Art, Barbie Alchemi of Creations for Parkinsons, Jon Stubbs & UWA Student Services, with special thanks to Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct.

More than L$1,000,000 will be distributed at the winners announcements in December 2014. This will be held in conjunction with the winners announcements of Machinima Challenge

WE INVITE ALL OF SL TO PARTICIPATE IN A L$57,500 AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EVENT
Win a Share of L$57,500, A Spot on the Official Jury for the next Grand Art Challenge @ UWA & Special RL Package

Deadline For Audience Participation Prizes: Midnight SLT 3rd December 2014
L$50,000 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 whom you think will finish in the TOP 10 in order 1st - 10th as decided by the official judging panel. (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 Transcending Borders 3D Art Audience Event).


The 5 participants whose order comes closest to the final order decided by the judging panel (Listed here), will win for themselves between L$20,000 - L$5,000. The first prize winner will also be invited to be on the panel for the next grand art challenge

* More than happy for the artists taking part as well to submit their lists, as this will not impact the actual results 

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION PRIZES
(Awarded to viewers/ visitors whose top 10 lists most closesly aligns to the actual juried top 10)
1st Prize L$ 20,000
2nd Prize L$ 15,000
3rd Prize L$ 10,000
4th Prize L$ 7,500
5th Prize L$ 5,000 

TRANSCENDING BORDERS 3D ART CHALLENGE  ARTWORKS (67 IN TOTAL)
Click Here for Start Location (OR, you can teleport directly to each artwork by clicking the name):

Following is a complete list of all 67 entries with links to SLURLs.