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'Straight to the Light', YT Recreant's journey into the light!
Entries to MachinimUWA III close on the 1st of May
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
MachinimUWA III: Ed Vespucciano's 'Peyote, It Was Sweet'
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In Ed Vespucciano's 'Peyote, It Was Sweet', Leonard Crow Dog, Sicangu Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader, takes a virtual journey to bring us his message of the peyote road and the long standing cultural oppression of his people.
Entries to MachinimUWA III close on the 1st of May
PEYOTE IT WAS SWEET from Ed Vespucciano on Vimeo.
In Ed Vespucciano's 'Peyote, It Was Sweet', Leonard Crow Dog, Sicangu Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader, takes a virtual journey to bring us his message of the peyote road and the long standing cultural oppression of his people.
Entries to MachinimUWA III close on the 1st of May
MachinimUWA III: Pia Klaar's 'The Red Shoes'
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Pia Klaar's 'The Red Shoes' is a story about a girl's journey to find her dream; a journey that many take. It is also about the difficulties that one may have in order to achieve that dream.
It is inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Red Shoes" , in which a girl could not stop dancing in her enchanted red shoes. But it is also inspired by the song "The Red Shoes" by Kate Bush and the 1948 film of the same name.
Entries to MachinimUWA III close on the 1st of May
Pia Klaar's 'The Red Shoes' is a story about a girl's journey to find her dream; a journey that many take. It is also about the difficulties that one may have in order to achieve that dream.
It is inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Red Shoes" , in which a girl could not stop dancing in her enchanted red shoes. But it is also inspired by the song "The Red Shoes" by Kate Bush and the 1948 film of the same name.
Entries to MachinimUWA III close on the 1st of May
MachinimUWA III: Kobuk Farshore's 'Requiem'
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Kobuk Farshore's entry to MachinimUWA III, REQUIEM. A journey of love, jealousy and the death of things thought immortal.
A thrilling journey created by a new Machinimatographer!
Kobuk Farshore's entry to MachinimUWA III, REQUIEM. A journey of love, jealousy and the death of things thought immortal.
A thrilling journey created by a new Machinimatographer!
Monday, February 21, 2011
MachinimUWA III: Ginger Alsop's 'The Clock Tower'
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The 3rd entry to MachinimUWA III: Journeys takes one on a journey that does not travel very far physically, but does travel far through the sands of time across generations of people who have graduated at Winthrop Hall / Clocktower.
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The 3rd entry to MachinimUWA III: Journeys takes one on a journey that does not travel very far physically, but does travel far through the sands of time across generations of people who have graduated at Winthrop Hall / Clocktower.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
100 Treasures From UWA
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A book of 100 Treasures of UWA has been released as part of celebrating 100 years since the act of parliament that caused the creation of UWA was signed in 1911. The 100 treasures were selected by the Centenary Planning Committee Chaired by Dr Sue Boyd. Along with the book, the 100 treasures are all up on the web as well. This post will display scans from the book as well as provide direct links to the relevant sections online.
100 Treasures from UWA Book Cover
What is amazing and thrilling to those involved in the UWA Second Life presence is that 'UWA in Second Life' has been selected as one of the 100 treasures! The feeling cannot be described. How the presence that was nothing before the 1st of June 2009 is now one of the 100 treasures spanning a century of history at UWA!
Depicted in the photo is Galea Yates with the image being the main one used for the original UWA Machinima Challenge which spectacularly broke down the barriers between 'Real Life' and 'Second Life' at UWA.
While the overall UWA presence is listed, another exciting development is that 11 of the 100 UWA treasures listed can actually be found at UWA in Second Life.
The Whitfeld Memorial Seat and the Sunken GardensThe Whitfeld Memorial Seat (#8) and the Sunken Gardens (#9) are seen above. The Second Life (SL) version of the seat was created by quadrapop Lane, original founding curator of Art at UWA (SL). Meanwhile, the Sunken Gardens in SL was amazingly put together by UWA graduate, Minh Tran as the first thing she ever built in the virtual world, under the tutelage of Gryff Richard.
The Rose Window (Winthrop Building)
Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager, School of Physics
A book of 100 Treasures of UWA has been released as part of celebrating 100 years since the act of parliament that caused the creation of UWA was signed in 1911. The 100 treasures were selected by the Centenary Planning Committee Chaired by Dr Sue Boyd. Along with the book, the 100 treasures are all up on the web as well. This post will display scans from the book as well as provide direct links to the relevant sections online.
100 Treasures from UWA Book CoverWhat is amazing and thrilling to those involved in the UWA Second Life presence is that 'UWA in Second Life' has been selected as one of the 100 treasures! The feeling cannot be described. How the presence that was nothing before the 1st of June 2009 is now one of the 100 treasures spanning a century of history at UWA!
The UWA Second Life Presence
Depicted in the photo is Galea Yates with the image being the main one used for the original UWA Machinima Challenge which spectacularly broke down the barriers between 'Real Life' and 'Second Life' at UWA.
While the overall UWA presence is listed, another exciting development is that 11 of the 100 UWA treasures listed can actually be found at UWA in Second Life.
The Whitfeld Memorial Seat and the Sunken Gardens
The Rose Window (Winthrop Building)The Rose Window (#35) modelled on a window from the Basilica of Saint Francis of Asisi in Italy, can be seen here at the UWA SL presence. This was created by co-founder of the UWA presence, Dr Chris Thorne (SL: Dragonmage Bogan) with images taken and enhanced by UWA Computer Science graduate, Wong Tzu Yen.
The Reid Library Walkway
The Reid Library Walkway (#66), while not fully reconstructed in SL, was the inspiration used by quadrapop Lane, UWA Arts Alumni, in creating the main landing point for the UWA presence in Second Life. The sounds you hear at the location, replicate the songs of birds you would hear at the physical site.
Peacocks @ UWA
I believe the Peacocks at UWA (#22) was the most popular response when UWA staff were asked to provide suggestions for consideration by the committee in the selection of the 100 works. UWA's Second Life peacocks were created and donated to the UWA presence by the magical Ninka Darkstone. There is also a white peacock at UWA, which the author has not seen anywhere else in his lifetime.
Mosaic Marble Floor @ Winthrop
The Mosaic Marble Floor (#41) in the foyer of Winthrop Hall was built by Italian stonemasons, the De Marco brothers in the 1930's. Dr Chris Thorne recreated the Second Life space.
The Moreton Bay Fig
The Moreton Bay Fig (#68) at UWA is the authors favourite tree in all the world, and I desperately wanted this to be part of the Second Life presence. And because of this, we have not one, but 2 versions of this grand piece of nature created by two stalwarts of the UWA Challenges. The first by Nyx Breen multi-award winner and many time champion of the UWA Flagship Challenges, the second version by Machinima-maker extraordinnaire, Bradley Curnow (SL: Bradley Dorchester), current reigning champion of the Machinima challenges. Both stepping out of their comfort zones in recreating the Moreton Bay Fig.
Rodney Alsop Memorial Seat & Reflection Pond
The amazing Reflection Pond (#56) in front of the Rodney Alsop Memorial Seat is a favourite haunt of staff and students at UWA, filled with ducklings in the spring, and birds throughout the year, the serenity created by the reflection of Winthrop Hall is unmatched. Recreated in Second Life by quadrapop Lane, this is the start location normally used by Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager of the School of Physics, when conducting tours of the SL presence.
Winthrop Clock Tower & Balconette
The Winthrop Clock Tower (#38) was the inspiration for the founding of the UWA Second Life presence, the tower, the flora and the fauna. Graduation ceremonies, exams and enrollments are all held inside. We are grateful to Dr Chris Thorne and Dusty Canning for recreating the maginificence that is Winthrop Clock Tower in Second Life.
The Business School
The UWA Business School (#63) building is modern and innovative and creatively uses copper, steel, aluminium, terracotta and sandstone in its design, and evokes themes of the Kimberly, the Pilbaraa, the Goldfields and the Wheatbelt, all preides of Western Australia. Australian architect, Lilli Field, recreated this magnificent architectural structure in Second Life so that it can be used by students of the School of Business under the tutelage of Professor Wade Halvorson.
A listing of some of the 100 works (#58 - UWA Second Life)
The above is an image listing some of the 100 treasures. All 100, can be seen here. I am blown away that UWA in Second Life is part of this!Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager, School of Physics
Thursday, February 17, 2011
MachinimUWA III: Walk to Eleal - Myth Guyot & Lakshmi Giha
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The 2nd entry to the L$530,000 MachinimUWA III: Journeys (closing date 1st May).
Myth Guyot & Lakshmi Giha with a composition that rival's current champion, Laurina Hawks offering from MachinimUWA II (in length!)
The 2nd entry to the L$530,000 MachinimUWA III: Journeys (closing date 1st May).
Walk to Elea! [UWA_Version 2011] from 431art on Vimeo.
Myth Guyot & Lakshmi Giha with a composition that rival's current champion, Laurina Hawks offering from MachinimUWA II (in length!)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Dialogues With Landscapes - Terra(socio)sonica: A Crossover Project
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At 6pm on the 15th of February 2011 (West Australian Time), Dialogues With Landscapes will be launched, running through the 6th of March 2011 in conjunction with the Perth International Arts Festival, and under the auspices of the Cultural Precinct at UWA, led by Professor Ted Snell. This is to commemorate The University of Western Australia's centenary, with seven artists commissioned to create immersive real and virtual environments across the campus – incorporating sound, sculpture, installation and performance. Julian Stadon's (SL: Julez Rickenbacker) 'Terra(socio)sonica' waves the flag for virtual worlds with his creation that crosses the great divide between the physical and virtual realms.
Cultural Precinct Director and Chair of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Professor Ted Snell said, "Its an exciting blurring of the boundaries between real life and second life and it will engage audiences attending the Sommerville Auditorium in a second life experience that will rival their first world experience."
Alongside the RL experience, Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager of the School of Physics, UWA will assist newcomers who register their interest to experience the Second Life portion if this artwork.
Synopsis of Terra(socio)sonica
Terra(socio)sonica explores the notion of unspoken ‘silent dialogues’ under a paradigm of social engagement, through individuals and large clusters of people producing amplified sounds and shadows, based on their oscillating movements within a defined social landscape.
This work uses real-time tracking technologies with a unique pipeline application to create a mixed reality soundscape, that is mediated through interactions between the viewer, the environment and other participants within a hypersurfaced mixed reality feedback loop. As visitors negotiate a traditional public environment: the entrance and surround to the Somerville Auditorium, data regarding their movements and interaction with others present is gathered and translated into sonic outputs, both in the physical and in the virtual. In the physical the output will be present via stereo speakers installed in the space and in the virtual, a three dimensional representation will shadow and echo sonic and visible traces of the real time dialogues that occur, into UWA's Second Life Environment.
The work is inspired by Deleuzian notions of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, with particular regards to second level cybernetic feedback systems (within the context of mixed reality social interaction). The work also investigates the relationship between traditional (postcolonial) socio-technic hierarchies, and those developing in current evolving cybercities. This is an attempt to explore Bernard Steigler's historicisation of technical objects and western philosophy in a way that embraces Deleuze's translation of Bergsonism, particularly regarding intuition as method.
At 6pm on the 15th of February 2011 (West Australian Time), Dialogues With Landscapes will be launched, running through the 6th of March 2011 in conjunction with the Perth International Arts Festival, and under the auspices of the Cultural Precinct at UWA, led by Professor Ted Snell. This is to commemorate The University of Western Australia's centenary, with seven artists commissioned to create immersive real and virtual environments across the campus – incorporating sound, sculpture, installation and performance. Julian Stadon's (SL: Julez Rickenbacker) 'Terra(socio)sonica' waves the flag for virtual worlds with his creation that crosses the great divide between the physical and virtual realms.
Cultural Precinct Director and Chair of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Professor Ted Snell said, "Its an exciting blurring of the boundaries between real life and second life and it will engage audiences attending the Sommerville Auditorium in a second life experience that will rival their first world experience."
Alongside the RL experience, Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager of the School of Physics, UWA will assist newcomers who register their interest to experience the Second Life portion if this artwork.
Synopsis of Terra(socio)sonica
Terra(socio)sonica explores the notion of unspoken ‘silent dialogues’ under a paradigm of social engagement, through individuals and large clusters of people producing amplified sounds and shadows, based on their oscillating movements within a defined social landscape.
This work uses real-time tracking technologies with a unique pipeline application to create a mixed reality soundscape, that is mediated through interactions between the viewer, the environment and other participants within a hypersurfaced mixed reality feedback loop. As visitors negotiate a traditional public environment: the entrance and surround to the Somerville Auditorium, data regarding their movements and interaction with others present is gathered and translated into sonic outputs, both in the physical and in the virtual. In the physical the output will be present via stereo speakers installed in the space and in the virtual, a three dimensional representation will shadow and echo sonic and visible traces of the real time dialogues that occur, into UWA's Second Life Environment.
The work is inspired by Deleuzian notions of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, with particular regards to second level cybernetic feedback systems (within the context of mixed reality social interaction). The work also investigates the relationship between traditional (postcolonial) socio-technic hierarchies, and those developing in current evolving cybercities. This is an attempt to explore Bernard Steigler's historicisation of technical objects and western philosophy in a way that embraces Deleuze's translation of Bergsonism, particularly regarding intuition as method.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The UWA Pavilion Project and Documentary featuring UWA SL Co-Founder
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Original SL version by Mrs Brandi, based on plans
The University of Western Australia's inaugural Pavilion Project asked graduate architects and early career designers to create an exciting and original structure. It had to be a fusion of art and architecture and employ green technologies and principles to provide economical and environmentally friendly emergency shelter for remote areas and communities at times of disaster or distress(note this was not an SL project).
The independent judging panel - UWA Winthrop Professor Geoffrey London, Singapore-based architect Richard Hassell, Melbourne-based architects Sean Godsell and Peter Corrigan, and UWA graduate and Sydney-based architect Abbie Galvin – selected Elisa Mansutti & Luca Pavarin’s design from the 76 submissions from 24 countries.
The real deal @ UWA
They won the UWA Convocation Prize of US$10,000 and a mentorship with architectural firm Cox Howlett and Bailey Woodland.
Beyond the winning submission, two projects were highly commended: a team of Perth-based UWA graduate architects, including Ken Chun Kit Yeung, Jack Sze-Ho Choi, Tor Johnny Dahl and Vanessa Chiau Wei Chong was commended for its ‘plan blue' design; as was an innovative ‘dandelion shelter' design from Portland, Oregon-based Swedish architect Anders Gustafsson, a graduate of Lund University.
The winning design will be erected in Whitfeld Court at the University and launched on the 14 February as part of the University’s anniversary celebrations.
In the meantime, Evgeni Sergeev (SL: Mrs Brandi) who invented the Sketchlife method of creating objects within Google Sketchup and transferring it into Second Life used the method to bring a model of this onto Whitefield Court within Second Life (as per photo above). As such for the anniversary celebrations, the winning design will be standing on Whitefield Court both in real life and Second Life!
Click here for full information on the Pavilion Project.
In other news, Honourary School of Physics Research Fellow Dr Chris Thorne (SL: Dragonmage Bogan, co-founder of the UWA Second Life presence along with Jay Jay Jegathesan / Zifanwe)is featured in a documentary on the iinet channel. It shows a bit of the history of the development of virtual worlds at UWA including the Google earth project and shows snippets of Bradley Dorchester's prize winning effort from the original UWA Machinima Challenge. Fast forward to around 8:35 onwards.
http://freezone.iinet.net.au/channels/freezone/iinet/geek-speak?player=video/3775
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Original SL version by Mrs Brandi, based on plansThe University of Western Australia's inaugural Pavilion Project asked graduate architects and early career designers to create an exciting and original structure. It had to be a fusion of art and architecture and employ green technologies and principles to provide economical and environmentally friendly emergency shelter for remote areas and communities at times of disaster or distress(note this was not an SL project).
The independent judging panel - UWA Winthrop Professor Geoffrey London, Singapore-based architect Richard Hassell, Melbourne-based architects Sean Godsell and Peter Corrigan, and UWA graduate and Sydney-based architect Abbie Galvin – selected Elisa Mansutti & Luca Pavarin’s design from the 76 submissions from 24 countries.
The real deal @ UWAThey won the UWA Convocation Prize of US$10,000 and a mentorship with architectural firm Cox Howlett and Bailey Woodland.
Beyond the winning submission, two projects were highly commended: a team of Perth-based UWA graduate architects, including Ken Chun Kit Yeung, Jack Sze-Ho Choi, Tor Johnny Dahl and Vanessa Chiau Wei Chong was commended for its ‘plan blue' design; as was an innovative ‘dandelion shelter' design from Portland, Oregon-based Swedish architect Anders Gustafsson, a graduate of Lund University.
The winning design will be erected in Whitfeld Court at the University and launched on the 14 February as part of the University’s anniversary celebrations.
In the meantime, Evgeni Sergeev (SL: Mrs Brandi) who invented the Sketchlife method of creating objects within Google Sketchup and transferring it into Second Life used the method to bring a model of this onto Whitefield Court within Second Life (as per photo above). As such for the anniversary celebrations, the winning design will be standing on Whitefield Court both in real life and Second Life!
Click here for full information on the Pavilion Project.
In other news, Honourary School of Physics Research Fellow Dr Chris Thorne (SL: Dragonmage Bogan, co-founder of the UWA Second Life presence along with Jay Jay Jegathesan / Zifanwe)is featured in a documentary on the iinet channel. It shows a bit of the history of the development of virtual worlds at UWA including the Google earth project and shows snippets of Bradley Dorchester's prize winning effort from the original UWA Machinima Challenge. Fast forward to around 8:35 onwards.
http://freezone.iinet.net.au/channels/freezone/iinet/geek-speak?player=video/3775
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First Submission to MachinimUWA III: Journeys - Anri Emerald
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We are please to announce that Anri Emerald's "The journey of life and death, Arsenal inc. Desert environment" is the first submission to MachinimUWA III: Journeys.
Do click the link to see the challenge details. Closing date is 1st May 2011
We are please to announce that Anri Emerald's "The journey of life and death, Arsenal inc. Desert environment" is the first submission to MachinimUWA III: Journeys.
Do click the link to see the challenge details. Closing date is 1st May 2011
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