MachinimUWA IV: Sophia Yates' 'A Virtual Reality'

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'A Virtual Reality', by Sophia Yates features numerous award winning artworks that have been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

ARTWORKS
1. FLY WITH THE WIND by Josina Burgess
2. FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE by Miso Susanowa
3. THE GLOWING SERPENT by Ginger Alsop
4. LAZER BALLS by Betty Tureaud
5. DREAM OF THE COLD SLEEPER by Typote Beck
6. IL PLEUT SUR MON COEUR COMME IL PLEUT SUR LA VILLE ("It's raining in my heart, as it's raining in the town") by Cherry Manga
7. TRAVEL IN THE SHADOW OF TECHNOLOGY by Anley Piers
8. PARANORMAL FROTTAGE by Misprint Thursday
9. THE ILLUSIONIST by Gleman Jun
10. LIGHT TOWER by Betty Tureaud
11. TURNING THE TIDE by Nish Mip
12. CHOOSE YOUR BLOSSOM by Suzanne Graves
13. SYMPHONY IN THE BARREL OF A GUN by Arrow Inglewood
14. PLANET CENSORED by Anley Piers
15. STRANGE PLANT...UGLYNESS & BEAUTY by Claudia222 Jewel
16. THE RHYTHM OF MOOD - Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook
17. DIGITAL GLOVE by Misprint Thursday
18. THE WILD WILD WORLD OF ILLUSION by RazorZ & Olga Soulstar
19. THE MINOTAUR OF CARTON by Typote Beck
20. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Cherry Manga
21. SHATTERED by Ginger Alsop
22. THE FRAGILITY OF THE SOUL IS NOT A DEFECT by Gleman Jun
23. SPANISH BULL by Silene Christen
24. TROIS PETITS TOURS ET PUIS S'EN VA (Three little turns and it goes away) by Josiane Sorciere
25. JUNGLE CHALLENGE by Dusty Canning
26. THE DOCK SPIRIT by Scottius Polke
27. ULTRA VIOLET by quadrapop Lane
28. THEATRE OF WAR by Miso Susanowa
29. VENUSTRAP by Claudia222 Jewell
30. ONE AND FOUR TIMEBOARDS by L1Aura Loire
31. UNE HORDE DE CORDES by Aristide Despres
32. 5x8 COMPUND CUBE by Wizard Gynoid
33. TIME AS A HELIX OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES by Miso Susanowa
34. THE HUMANICAL FROG by Lollito Larkham
35. HERE COMES THE SUN by Sledge Roffo
36. TV MORNING EXERCISES by Dusty Canning
37. PIUME DI PAVONE by Nino Vichan
38. DANGLING NARROW CHAIN DEMONSTRATOR by Emilin Nakamori
39. HARMONIES IN C GREAT (+) by Artistide Despres
40. NOT EVERYTHING IS PLAIN BLACK & WHITE by Fuschia Nightfire
41. LIVING FRACTAL by June Clavenham
42. THE MATTER OF IDEAS by Gleman Jun
43. THE SUPERHEROES BREAKFAST by Typote Beck
44. DOWN ON THE DATA FARM by Miso Susanowa
45. PETITE ETUDE SUR OLIVIER MESSIAEN by Artistide Despres
46. OMNIPOTENT by Pixels Sideways
47. THE CHASM by Oberon Onmura
48. EXCERPTS FROM REALITIES by Glyph Graves
49. THE ABANDONED DAUGHTER by Eliza Wierwight
50. YOU CAN'T TOUCH HEAVEN by paleIllusion
51. AUTUMN by nexuno Thespian
52. THE CROSSING by Nish Mip
53. FANTASIA EN LA SOMBRA by Romy Nayar
54. PRIMSCAPE DREAM by Sledge Roffo
55. 99% by Harter Fall
56. BLACK SHIRT by Misprint Thursday
57. IN DREAMS by Blue Tsuki
58. SWALLOWED UP BY THE CROWD by Fuschia Nightfire
59. L'IMPATIENCE by Josiane Sorciere

NON-SCRIPTED ARTWORKS
1. THE COPPER BEECH by soror Nishi
2. LOSS by Gingered Alsop
3. MISS N by Suzanne Graves
4. DAUGHTER OF THE WIND by Fae Varriale
5. GECKO ON THE GEKKO by Yooma Mayo
6. SHATTERED by Ginger Alsop
7. THE FRAGILITY OF THE SOUL IS NOT A DEFECT by Gleman Jun
8. TRIBUTE TO GOYA by Silene Christen
9. MARIONETTE by Haveit Neox
10. HISTORY IN CREAM by Haveit Neox
11. FATA DANZANTE by Daco Monday
12. SPATIAL by Sledge Roffo
13. SPRING BOX by Cherry Manga
14. TRUST by spirit Radikal
15. TUNNEL WITH LIGHT AT THE END OF IT by RazorZ
16. HURDLE by Corcosman Voom
17. BEHIND COLUMNS by Harter Fall
18. BIRDSONG by Cherry Manga
19. YOU CAN'T TOUCH HEAVEN by paleIllusion
20. STILL LIFE by soror Nishi
21. 99% by Harter Fall
22. THE REVOLT OF THE MANNEQUINS by Silene Christen
23. USED PIECES by Secret Rage
24. SMALL PIECE OF HELL, The Suicide Forest Infested by Harpias by Rebeca Bashly
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MachinimUWA IV - NicoleX Moonwall's Record 20 Entries

NicoleX Moonwall, one of the most prolific Machinimatographers in Second Life has shattered all previous ecords for entries to the UWA machinima Challenges (shattering her previous record), with 20 entries to MachinimUWA IV.

Some of the previously announced entries have been rethought, as now only one machinima per artwork will be entered by Nicole.

Here is the full list of 20 entries:

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) - The End or the Beginning, Part I (Multiple Artworks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL158ijCgXM

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) - The End or the Beginning, Part II (Multiple Artworks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LynpOIncS64

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) - The End or the Beginning, Part III (Multiple Artworks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyazOghkOk

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) - The End or the Beginning, Part IV (Multiple Artworks)
TBA

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) - "Paradox" (Art - Nino Vichan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDpq7Gahq0

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Spirits Move Me (Art - Fae Varriale)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3cRaB2uFM

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  "Baby Elephant Walk" (Art - jjccc Coronet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJUZozD1ZY

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Flying Window of the Soul (Art - Leigh Quartz)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVzKsvHmAQ

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Reaching (Art - Oberon Onmura)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcm1dvq_JWw

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  On a warm winter day (Art - Ush Underwood)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddjzGfAFIs

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Cubes of Color (Art - Betty Tureaud)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNg0tM9yOO0

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Home & Garden,Not (Art - Claudia222 Jewell)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGj9sx_NvBc

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  The Rhythm of Mood (Art - Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutTwKguaiM

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Color Tinted Sphere (Art - Wizard Gynoid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtHitAOww0

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Color of Money (Art - Miso Susanowa, Art of War)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6vDCkbey8

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Running Wild or Catch me if you can (Art - Dusty Canning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdYOGEt-0Kg

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Sheets of Acid (Art - Giovanna Cerise)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzImOwOS-nQ

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Many Moon (Art - spirit Radikal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUyXvA3-jM

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  Waiting for (Art - Miso Susanowa, Big Winter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5AaTChWD9E

NICOLEX MOONWALL (New Orleans, USA) -  portent 3 views (Art - Spiral Silverstar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyW1jd5jQP0



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MachinimUWA IV: Corphaelia Ninetails' 'Farshore'

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'Farshore, by Corphaelia Ninetails features 'The Fly-By-Night Eggs' an artwork by Kobuk Farshore that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

It looks like Corphaelia has managed to submit the very very last entry to both MachinimUWA III & MachinimUWA IV!
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MachinimUWA IV: Evie Fairchild's 'Intermission'

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'Intermission', by Evie Fairchild features numerous award winning artworks that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artworks Featured:
Here Comes the Sun by Sledge Roffo
Forest's Tears by Silene Christen
Uncanny Valley by Oberon Onmura
Butterfly Ball by Milly Sharple
Three Little Turns by Josiane Sorciere
Wizz-Pow-Blop by Artistide Despres
Minotaur of Carton by Typote Beck
Fly with the Wind by Josina Burgess
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MachinimUWA IV: Alessia Vegro's (Demaya) 'Revolution Life'

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'Revolution Life, by Alessia Vegro (Demaya) features numerous award winning artworks that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Featured Artworks include:
Spring Box (Cherry Mmanga)
In Dreams (Blue Tsuki)
Salvation or... (Toughlove Sabra)
My World (Secret rage)
Omnibus (Solkide Auer)
Mirror Worlds (Fae)
Overlaps (Giovanna Cerise)
Within The Waves (Nish Mip)
Second Libations (Haveit Neox)
Gateway To Hell (Fuschia Nightfire)
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MachinimUWA IV: L1aura Loire's 'Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink'

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'Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink', by L1aura Loire/Professor Lori Landay, explains virtual art while featuring various award winning artworks that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artwork Featured
Swallowed Up by the Crowd, Fuschia Nightfire
Digital Glove, Misprint Thursday
The Matter of Ideas, Gleman Jun
Here Comes the Sun, Sledge Roffo
One and Four Timeboards, L1Aura Loire

In L1aura's words:

The best virtual art is a new kind of new media, using the particular properties of the virtual world to make metaphors manifest.

Virtual art can be seen as experimentation with what could become augmented reality, when the equipment for creating and experiencing it are more accessible to everyone.

When we break free from the constraints of the physical, we call attention to new contrasts; we may make distance evaporate, but does that mean we create closeness? If the experience of telepresence is to know that I am experiencing something where I know I am not, and teleaction is to affect change where I am physically not, what kind of aesthetic will have to emerge when our subjectivity is so connected to the perception that there is no distance between myself and what I see?

Live footage filmed by
Richard Cownie, Andrew Paonessa, Lori Landay

Edited by Lori Landay

Music generated with Otomata

For more information about Joseph Kosuth's piece, One and Three Chairs,
see the MoMA website:http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81435

For my essay "Virtual KinoEye: Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life," in The Journal of eMedia Studies, see http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/4/art...

Original content: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 2011
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MachinimUWA IV: Fuschia Nightfire's 'Art of the Artists'

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'Art of the Artists', by Fuschia Nightfire, is a unique deconstruction that features a number of award winning artworks that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Works in order of appearance:
Aerie by Cherry Manga
Here Comes The Sun by Sledge Roffo
Primscape Dream V4 by Sledge Roffo
Turning the Tides by Nish Mip
Faun Androgyn Trinity by Claudia222 Jewell
Strange Tree by Claudia222 Jewell
Not Everything is Plain Black & White by Fuschia Nightifre
Real Life paintings by Nina Camplin (a.k.a Fuschia Nightfire)
Music by Obisdia featuring CoMa

In Fuschia's words:
My idea for this machinima was to take some of the installations at UWA that I found most aesthetically appealing and to deconstruct them and reconstruct them into RL paintings, then to use the actual painting process in the machinima.

With thanks to Cherry, Sledge, Nish and Claudia for giving up their time to do their 'walk through' bits for me!
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UWA & University of Kentucky Collaboration

Winthrop Professor Grady Venville

In October 2011, the first joint lectures between the University of Western Australia and the University of Kentucky took place. This came about via collaboration between UWA's Winthrop Professor Grady Venville, the inaugural Professor of Science Education at UWA and Dr Jennifer Wilhelm, Associate Professor of Science and Maths Education of the UK's College of Education.

The collaboration is beautifully described by Grady as follows:

I participated in my first second life lecture a month ago. I have been collaborating with a colleague, Jennifer Wilhelm, from the University of Kentucky for a number of years as we are both science educators and both present curriculum and methods courses for students who are preparing to become science teachers.

We try to incorporate innovative teaching methods into our courses to ‘practice what we preach’. For example, for the past few years we have my students in Western Australia and Jennifer’s students in Kentucky concurrently observe and record the phases of the Moon for a month. We then provide them with opportunities to communicate with each other through email or some other electronic medium to compare their observations. This enables them to recognise the similarities and differences in the way that people in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres see the Moon and to deductively work out the path the Moon takes as it revolves around the Earth and the relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun that causes the Moon phases. We hope they can see the value of using similar strategies when they become teachers themselves.

This year Jennifer is delivering most of her lectures for this class at Kentucky University in second life. She invited me to do a combined second life lecture. Intrigued, I coerced my science education colleague here at UWA, Christine Howitt, to join me in Jennifer’s second life class. The plan was to enable ‘live’ discussion about what we were observing ‘down under’ with the Moon and Jennifer’s students could ask us questions.

Christine and I both created Avatars and Jennifer sent us both invitations to enter the University of Kentucky second life island. We practiced entering the University and teleporting to her classroom before the day of the combined lecture.

On the day of the lecture, Christine and I both woke early in the morning and logged onto second life from our homes at 6am while Jennifer conducted the class at 6pm Kentucky time. When we entered the class we could see Jennifer’s 12 students sitting on pods in the teaching space. On the ‘whiteboard’ were photographs of the Moon that I had taken from Perth and previously emailed to Jennifer next to photographs Jennifer had taken in Kentucky on the same day. The students asked us interesting questions and we discussed relevant issues such as whether the Moon is in the same phase at the same time in each hemisphere, which part of the sky the Moon traverses and the direction the Moon waxed and waned. 

The lesson was a great success because it enabled ‘live’ discussion across the hemispheres which is an enriching experience when trying to understand and explain the phases of the Moon. Our goal is for these pre-service teachers to see the ‘added value’ that platforms like second life can bring to teaching, whether they become primary, secondary, or tertiary teachers. 

Our next step is to have our students from Perth join the students in Kentucky for a joint lecture or workshop. We can see that as I have about 30 students in each of my workshops this will be a challenge to manage. We will have to think of creative ways of clustering or grouping the students to find an optimal number of Avatars in the same place.

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MachinimUWA IV: Giannis Piaggio's 'Theatre of War'

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'Theatre of War', by Giannis Piaggio, is a soulful rendition is Miso Susanowa's artwork of the same name, an award winning creation, part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

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MachinimUWA IV: Veruca Vandyke's 'Dual'

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'Dual', by Veruca Vandyke, is a chilling creation that features a number of award winning artworks that had been part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artists featured in the machinima include:
Bryn Oh
Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook
Typote Beck
Anley Piers
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