MachinimUWA III: Corphaelia Ninetails 'Voyage to Antarctica'

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A Voyage to Antarctica from Corphaelia Ninetails on Vimeo.

Corphaelia Ninetails brings the missing 7th continent to UWA at last with 'Voyage to Antarctica' rounding out the 50 creations for MachinimUWA III: Journeys.

Do consider taking part in the audience participation event which carries a L$10,000 prize pool!

And keep 6am slt Sunday the 22nd of May free for the winners announcements at the 4-SIM UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre

Also, please do attend the MachinimUWA III Review on the 20th & 21st of May

The MachinimUWA III Review: Hosted by AviewTV & TMUnderground 20th & 21st May

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The MachinimUWA III Review: Hosted by AviewTV & TMUnderground 20th & 21st May 2011

The MachinimUWA III Review will be hosted by AviewTV & TMUnderground on Friday the 20th of May and Saturday the 21st of May. UWA is grateful to LaPiscean Liberty (AviewTV) and Ken White (TMUnderground) for hosting this event, and to Kinte Fergerson (Kinte Trill) who will be Master of Ceremonies for both days.

Time & Date:
4pm slt - 8pm SLT Friday May 20th May 2011
12pm SLT - 4pm SLT, Saturday, 21st May 2011

Location: UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre
(Entrance 1, Entrance 2)

The Spotlight (Radio Show) will broadcast this special event. This event is a review of entries to the MachinimUWA III: Journeys challenge.  All 50 submissions will be watched Live in Second Life and  reviewed.

Master of Ceremonies, Kinte Fergerson (Kinte Trill)

Each hour will see a panel of expert Machinima Film makers from various platforms....Some scheduled panelists include AnimaTechnica, Ben Tuttle, Blaze Lee Dragon, Chris62, FallopianFedora, Harrison Heller, Macweymss, RGR, and Shirley Martin, and a host of others.

A full list of all submitted works can be found on this blog, HERE.
A live stream is being hosted by AviewTV as well, and all the creations are running HERE.

The Art of Wizard Gynoid - UWA Full SIM Art Series

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The UWA Full SIM Art series continues in May with 'The Art of Wizard Gynoid' whose mathematical wonders have now almost filled the entire sim to its limits!

Location: CLICK HERE TO TELEPORT TO 'THE ART OF WIZARD GYNOID'
Unofficial Opening: Already Open, everyone welcome
Official Opening: 12pm (NOON) SLT, Saturday 14th May

With the 7,200 prim Fractalized Tensegrity Icosahedron made up of 1,728 individual Tensegrity Icosaheda, this is a a display not to be missed!

As follows, all of this is described in the words of the Wizard herself:

My friends caIl me Wizzy. So you can call me Wizzy.

I guess it could be said that an underlying theme of my recent work has been demonstrating that the elegant beauty of complex mathematical/geometric objects can be shown to be "Art" by changing the context in which they are viewed. Fractal, Tensegrity and Hyperboloid Artworks are respresented here.

My artwork tends toward the geometrical. This is not so strange. Artists have been inspired by geometry for millennia.

Plato said, Aei ho theos geōmetrei (God always geometrizes) and the sign over the door of Plato's Academy said: Ageōmétrētos mēdeìs eisítō. Let no one who is destitute of geometry enter here.

My RL university training is in Philosophy, especially the History and Philosophy of Science. I am very interested in the Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. The traditional separation of the domain of Art from the domain of Science and their reconciliation is of great interest to me.

You might say that I am obsessed by Sacred Geometry. I find Second Life to be the perfect place to obsess on Sacred Geometry and I have spent a lot of time building Geometrical objects by hand. My old Temple of Sacred Geometry was dedicated to these works and I find that some of my favorite artists and writers inspire me to build. Most notable of these are M.C. Escher, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Neal Stephenson and Buckminster Fuller.

On this University of Western Australia sim we find some very significant geometric objects. To me these are among the most beautiful objects in existence, and I hope I do them justice. One of these is one rotation of the E8 Polytope (originally displayed at my Rezzable Visions show of October 2008.)

Perhaps I am best known for building this 8 Dimensional object in SL. This was a daunting and difficult task and I had the help of a theoretical physicist and a team of mathematicians and programmers. This SL object was subsequently ported out to RL and can be found there inside a laser-etched crystal cube. http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/e8/

The E8 Polytope is the most complex and elegantly beautiful geometric object known to mathematicians. It is used in String Theory and is of heightened interest lately due to its use in several "Theories of Everything" -- the modern term for the Unified Field Theory. Inscribed within it, I have found all of the platonic solids and many other symmetrical polyhedra. I have discovered several axes of symmetry, the most significant being icosahedral symmetry, and it is therefore richly encoded with the Golden Ratio. The Hexahedral axis is also intriguing, due to the suggestion of a 3D isometric grid. The Quadrahedral symmetry axis suggests the discovery of interesting spiral fractals and symmetrical lotus flower-type patterns within the E8 Polytope.

Lately, my work has turned to tensegrity objects discovered by Buckminster Fuller. I have been playing around in SL and RL with something he called the "Vector Equilibrium." Bucky considered this object to be the most elegant in nature. This object is important because it demonstrates what I like to call the 3D Isometric Grid. It is also very closely associated with Sacred Geometry objects. The Vector Equilibrium is displayed here on UWA Virtlantis.

Fuller's "Tensegrity Icosahedron" inspired the massive centerpiece of this show. This piece appeared spontaneously for this show and has never been shown elsewhere. It is a Fractalized Tensegrity Icosahedron. The 7,200 prims are made up of 1,728 individual Tensegrity Icosaheda. My friends can testify how difficult it was to build this piece. I came near to quitting several times out of frustration.

Also to be found on the sim is something called the "Vector Matrix." This object expands on Buckminster Fuller's Vector Equilibrium, and has special spiritual significance to the philosopher Nassim Haramein. Discovering this object was important for my own Qabalistic studies and is mysteriously related to the Tree of Life.

Other new works created especially for this show use "hyperboloid objects." When set rotating they create beautiful and interesting Moire patterns.

The terrain for the UWA Virtlantis show was created specially for this show by me. The terrain texture is the Isometric Grid mentioned above. You can see a demonstration of the significance of this geometric grid by simply selecting Ctrl Shift R.

Special Thanks to Jayjay Zifanwe, Polagirus Paragorn, JJValero Writer, Desdemona Enfield, soror Nishi and Miso Susanowa.

WIZARD GYNOID

A Yesikita Coppola Promo for MachinimUWA III Grand Finale

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MachinimUWA III: Journeys - 22 May from Yesikita Coppola on Vimeo.

A Yesikita Coppola Promo Clip for the 6am slt 22nd May Grand Finale of MachinimUWA III: Journeys!

Watch all the creations here and be part of the event!

Yesikita Coppola tracks through the MachinimUWA III Blog entries

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Official UWA Machinimatographer, Yesikita Coppola tracks through the blog entries for MachinimUWA III


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A Sophia Yates Machinima of the April Round of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge (PT 1)

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With thanks to the beautiful camerawork of Sophia Yates, many of the artworks featuring in the April Round of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge are on display!

Wonderful music, amazing art, beautiful machinima.

MachinimUWA III: Andy Graycloud's 'I Want to go Fast'

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Andy Graycloud's journey, 'I want to go fast' takes one across the world in a fireproof bike to reach what is most important in life! The penultimate entry to MachinimUWA III: Journeys

Do consider taking part in the audience participation event which carries a L$10,000 prize pool!

And keep 6am slt Sunday the 22nd of May free for the winners announcements at the 4-SIM UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre

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MachinimUWA III: Lala Larix's '3 Minutes Ophelia Journey'

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Lala Larix brings us a timely journey with '3 Minutes Ophelia Journey' for MachinimUWA III: Journeys

Do consider taking part in the audience participation event which carries a L$10,000 prize pool!

And keep 6am slt Sunday the 22nd of May free for the winners announcements at the 4-SIM UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre

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MachinimUWA III: L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay's 'Time Journey'

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L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay travels through time and motion picture to find the answers to an elusive question in 'Time Journey' for MachinimUWA III: Journeys

Do consider taking part in the audience participation event which carries a L$5,000 prize pool!

And keep 6am slt Sunday the 22nd of May free for the winners announcements at the 4-SIM UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre

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MachinimUWA III: Arrow Inglewood's 'Bakerman's Trip'

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From fresh dough to burnt toast, Bakerman trips the baguette fantastic. Arrow Inglewood rises with 'Bakerman's Trip' for MachinimUWA III: Journeys

Do consider taking part in the audience participation event which carries a L$5,000 prize pool!

And keep 6am slt Sunday the 22nd of May free for the winners announcements at the 4-SIM UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre

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