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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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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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.

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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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.

• Ama Avro (Strasbourg, France) - Utopia
• Asperix Asp (Zaragoza, Spain) - Infinite Landmark
• Bamboo Barnes (Osaka, Japan) - Rasen
• Blue Tsuki (Seattle, Washington, USA) - Event Horizon
• Charles Hera (Portland, Oregon, USA) - Adaption - Relationship
• Corcosman Voom (California, USA) - The Tribes Go Up
• Daco Monday (Italy) - Tango 12
• Danuc Landar (Orlando, Florida, USA) - Transcending Borders
• Dijodi Dubratt (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) - The Land Office
• Dusty Canning. (Perth, Australia) - The Yellow House
• Eifachfilm Vacirca (Zurich, Switzerland) - Materialised
• Elettra Beardmore (Caligari, Italy) - Over Human Transcendence
• Eliza Cabassoun (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) - Soul Of Heart
• Eliza Quinzet-Leijon (Wyoming, USA) - Free Flight Into The Wordless
• Elyyza (Alytus, Lithuania) - Meeting With A Conscience
• Frankx Lefavre (Sydney, Australia) - Ziggurat
• Ginger Lorakeet (Arizona, USA) - Transcending Borders
• Giorgio Nexen (Milan, Italy) - Sharing Ideas Face To Face
• Giovanna Cerise (Napoli, Italy) - Saudade
• Glyph Graves (Sydney, Australia) - Presence III
• Haveit Neox (California, USA) - PrimChords
• Igor Ballyhoo (Belgrade, Serbia) - Inside My Chests
• iSkye (Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA) - Nature Sees No Borders
• Jedda Zenovka (Byron Shire, Australia) - Universal Love
• Jesse Keyes (Dawsonville, Georgia, USA) - Virtual Stereoscope
• Jipe Loon (Annemasse, France) - Baculum murder
• Johnny Lane (Salem, Missouri, USA) - 4 Dimensions
• JointVenture Resident (Bremen, Germany) - Little Feet On Their Greatest Step
• Kicca Igaly (Milan, Italy) - Transcending Borders
• kjs Yip (Emsdetten, Germany) - Following Oskar
• Krystali Rabeni (Blackpool, Lancashire, UK) - Aoratos Synora (Invisible Borders)
• Lagu Indigo (UK) - Reach For The Stars
• Lalie Sorbet (Pondicherry, India) - Walking Trough Appearances
• Lilia Artis (Berne, Switzerland) - Crossing Borders
• Luko Enoch (Somerset, UK) - Borderless
• Misio2 (Melbourne, Australia) - Pendant "Planet Takni"
• Miso Susanowa (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) - 360 Degrees Of Freedom
• Misprint Thursday (New Hampshire, USA) - Transcend The Bomb
• Mistero Hifeng (Italy) - I... io
• Myhns Mayo (Venice, Italy) - Fix TIme and Dissolve The Space
• NaTaS Janus (Painfield, Indiana, USA) - Transverse Pandemonium
• Nino Vichan (New York CIty, USA) - Bob & The Box
• Pale Illusion (Berlin, Germany) - The Paper Empire
• Peli Dieterle (Cologne, Germany) - Zoom In / Zoom Out
• Penelope Parx (Rome, Italy) - Bookstair
• Pixels Sideways (Southern California, USA) - Transcending Borderz
• Pol Jarvinen (Saint Jean De Luz, France) - Transcending Borders
• Roc Furse (Den Bosch , Netherlands) - Set Yourself Free
• Ronin1 Shippe (New Mexico, USA) - The Lute Player
• Secret Rage (Dallas, Texas, USA) - Where do we cross the line?
• Seraph Kegel (Montevideo, Uruguay) - The Drawers We Fit
• Sharni Azalee (Perth, Western Australia, Australia) - "Never say Never" - Love Transcends Borders
• Sheba Blitz ( Northern Rivers NSW , Australia) - Android Ascension
• Shenn Coleman (Avignon, France) - Sunrise Spirit
• Silva Khandr (Porto, Portugal) - Union
• Slatan Dryke (Milan, Italy) - Quantum Shift
• Sniper Siemens (Siena, Italy) - Secret Border
• Soror Nishi (UK) - The Nature Of Unity
• Spiral Silverstar (Ponchatoula, Louisiana, USA) - Tranz
• Stardove Spirt (Wales, UK) - Mirrored Self Of Pixel
• Swann Jie (Paris/Hong Kong, France/China) - HuaKui Cube Wall Section
• Takni & Misio2 (Barcelona/Melbourne, Spain/Australia) - Offworld
• Talia Sunsong (Berkeley, California, USA) - Judgment, Blocking and Success
• VilleH (Milan, Italy) - Turbulent Kinetic Suggestions
• Wizard Gynoid (Seattle, USA) - The 5 Elements
• Xia Firethorn (UK) - Transcending
• Yepar Saenz (Martinique, France) - Transcending Borders: The Wall

Transcending Borders: 12b. Jesse, Krystali, Lagu, Lilia, Miso, Misprint, Penelope, Pixels, Seraph, Sharni, Stardove

N.B.: THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS POST.

As usual, a massive influx of entries arrived in the last few days for the UWA 3D Art & Machinima Challenge: Transcending Borders. We finished with 68 total entries and in my opinion this is one of the most impressive exhibitions of virtual art ever to be presented in SL. I could not be more pleased with the quality of entries. This show should go down as a landmark in virtual art.

A full list of artworks including TP links as well as instructions on the audience participation event  will be posted here within the next 48 hours.

There were so many entries since my last post, I am dividing them into TWO posts. Be sure to see the other one!

Jesse Keyes - Virtual Stereoscope

Krystali Rabeni - Aoratos Synora (Invisible Borders)

Lagu Indigo - Reach For The Stars

Lilia Artis - Crossing Borders

Miso Susanowa - 360 Degrees Of Freedom

Misprint Thursday - Transcend The Bomb

Penelope Parx - Bookstair

Pixels Sideways - Transcending Borderz

Seraph Kegel - The Drawers We Fit

Sharni Alazi - "Never say Never" - Love Transcends Borders

Stardove Spirt - Mirrored Self Of Pixel

Transcending Borders: 12a. Bamboo, Blue, Daco, Danuc, Dijodi, Eifachfilm, Elyyza, Frankx, Glyph, Igor, Jedda

As usual, a massive influx of entries arrived in the last few days for the UWA 3D Art & Machinima Challenge: Transcending Borders. We finished with 68 total entries and in my opinion this is one of the most impressive exhibitions of virtual art ever to be presented in SL. I could not be more pleased with the quality of entries. This show should go down as a landmark in virtual art.

A full list of artworks including TP links as well as instructions on the audience participation event  will be posted here within the next 48 hours.

There were so many entries since my last post, I will be dividing them into TWO posts. Be sure to see the other one!

Bamboo Barnes - Rasen ("Spiral")

Blue Tsuki - Event Horizon

Daco Monday - Tango 12

Danuc Landar - Transcending Borders

Dijodi Dubratt - The Land Office

Eifachfilm Vacirca - Materialised

Elyyza - Meeting With A Conscience

Frankx Lefavre - Ziggurat

Glyph Graves - Presence III

Igor Ballyhoo - Inside My Chests

Jedda Zenovka - Universal Love

UWA 3D Art & MachinimUWA VII - Last Day Surge, Lists being finalised

The regular final day rush materialised once again, and we are now in the process of finalising the lists for both art & machinima which  stand at 60+ & 40+ respectively.

Full lists including LM's will be posted on the blog for the art as well as all Machinima links as well.

New Machinima works in,  include by Sparrow Michigan, Haveit Neox, Valentina Tremont (3rd entry), Ultraviolet Alter, Elle Thorkveld, Aquaglo, Sophia Hines and the teams of Ormand Lionheart & Rachelle Raviprakash as well as Nyle Bakerly & Tyrus Core. Works by NicoleX Moonwall (3rd entry) & Friday Siamendes are KIV for the moment pending technicalities.








Sea and Mountain, for The University of Western Australia's MachinimUWA VII from Valentina Tremont on Vimeo.



transcending borders - the embryo from ultrasonne on Vimeo.



Frontiers from Elle on Vimeo.



Reading PrimChords from Haveit Neox on Vimeo.

MachinimUWA VII: Final 24 hours - Vilvi Rae, Arrow Inglewood, Mexi Lane, Elizabeth Spieler & Alfonso Garavito Olivar

No Man's Land from Vilvi on Vimeo.



ARROW INGLEWOOD - PAS DE DIGITAL


ELIZABETH SPIELER - TRANSCENDING BORDERS


ALFONSO GARAVITO OLIVAR - LA PROFESORA DE LENGUA CASTELLANA



MEXI LANE - MEDITERRANEAN

As we approach the final 24 hours before the close of entries, more works have come in from all over the globe. Vilvi Rae takes us back to one of the most remarkable days in the history of war with 'No Man's Land'. Mexi Lane shows how people try to cross borders to greener pastures with 'Mediterranean'. Arrow Inglewood attempts to transcend the space-time continuum with 'Pas de Digital'. Elizabeth Spieler's 'Transcending Borders' gives us an insight into the wonders of the human mind. Alfonso Garavito Olivar shows us how virtual worlds help with language teaching in a global interconnected world with "La profesora de lengua castella". Alfonso's work epitomises the global nature of virtual world collaborations, with himself hailing from Colombia, now living in the USA, the poet, Beatriz Giovanna Ramirez is also from Colombia but living in Spain, the musician, David Postigo Rodriguez is from Spain, the voice over actress, GLOR14 is from Argentina and the SIM designer, Kai Separis is from Japan. These films are the latest entries to the L$545,000++ MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders, the 7th UWA Short Animated Film Challenge. The 'Transcending Borders' theme was selected by Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct, UWA and who inspired the very first of the UWA art challenges in 2009. This theme is in honour of the 'Transcending Borders' exhibition at UWA's Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2014. CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 31st OCTOBER 2014.

You may interpret the theme as you see fit, however the average viewer would need to be able to appreciate how you fit this theme (alternatively, please indicate in the notes how it fits in the film notes on the web). Your machinima must be made specifically for this challenge, and this should be indicated in the opening credits 'For The University of Western Australia's MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders'. You do not have to film on the UWA sims, however this of course will be appreciated, and there is a Special UWA Prize which will be made available to a film which includes either Winthrop Clock Tower, The Somerville Auditorium or The Sunken Gardens.
 
ALSO, public viewing for TRANSCENDING BORDERS: The 5th UWA Grand 3D Art Challenge is now open (though the closing date for entries is the same as the Machinima - 31st October)

Special prizes are also offered for machinima that best portray one or a few of the artworks entered to TRANSCENDING BORDERS: The 5th UWA Grand 3D Art Challenge.

Do visit the UWA Challenge Gallery HERE to view the submissions so far

List of Submitted Machinima for MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders:
(In Reverse Klingon Alphabetical Order)

Glasz DeCuir (San Sebastian, Spain) - Guest Outsider

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" 

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

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

Arrow Inglewood (Toronto, Canada) - Pas De Digital 

Pepa Cometa (Andalusia, Spain) - Little Marie 

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

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

NicoleX Moonwall (New Orleans, USA) - Transformation, The Long Journey Home

NicoleX Moonwall (New Orleans, USA) - The Great Hunter of Tuna

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  

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

Misio2 (Melbourne, Australia) - Virtual Toy Island Plankton 

Glasz DeCuir (San Sebastian, Spain) - Disappear - Simulator Crossing

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

Valentina Tremont (Milan, Italy) - Dreaming
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MachinimUWA VII: Boris Twist & the Trinity of Lilia Artist, Haveit Neox & Mouehane Sandalwood - Deadline 31st oct

Striding - unknown Roads. from Collabartwood on Vimeo.
LILIA ARTIS, HAVEIT NEOX & MOUEHANE SANDALWOOD




BORIS TWIST - SORTIE...a film of the beautiful dark

The trinity of Lilia Artis, Haveit Neox and Muehane Sandalwood bring to us their powerful personal story of how Second Life helped them transcend the borders between them in real life, with "Striding - Unknown Roads". And Boris Twist, presents "SORTIE...a film of the beautiful dark" from the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. These films are the latest entries to the L$545,000++ MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders, the 7th UWA Short Animated Film Challenge. The 'Transcending Borders' theme was selected by Professor Ted Snell, Director of the Cultural Precinct, UWA and who inspired the very first of the UWA art challenges in 2009. This theme is in honour of the 'Transcending Borders' exhibition at UWA's Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2014. CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 31st OCTOBER 2014.

You may interpret the theme as you see fit, however the average viewer would need to be able to appreciate how you fit this theme (alternatively, please indicate in the notes how it fits in the film notes on the web). Your machinima must be made specifically for this challenge, and this should be indicated in the opening credits 'For The University of Western Australia's MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders'. You do not have to film on the UWA sims, however this of course will be appreciated, and there is a Special UWA Prize which will be made available to a film which includes either Winthrop Clock Tower, The Somerville Auditorium or The Sunken Gardens.
 
ALSO, public viewing for TRANSCENDING BORDERS: The 5th UWA Grand 3D Art Challenge is now open (though the closing date for entries is the same as the Machinima - 31st October)

Special prizes are also offered for machinima that best portray one or a few of the artworks entered to TRANSCENDING BORDERS: The 5th UWA Grand 3D Art Challenge.

Do visit the UWA Challenge Gallery HERE to view the submissions so far

List of Submitted Machinima for MachinimUWA VII: Transcending Borders:
(In Reverse Klingon Alphabetical Order)

Glasz DeCuir (San Sebastian, Spain) - Guest Outsider

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" 

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


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

Pepa Cometa (Andalusia, Spain) - Little Marie 

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

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

NicoleX Moonwall (New Orleans, USA) - Transformation, The Long Journey Home

NicoleX Moonwall (New Orleans, USA) - The Great Hunter of Tuna

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

Misio2 (Melbourne, Australia) - Virtual Toy Island Plankton 

Glasz DeCuir (San Sebastian, Spain) - Disappear - Simulator Crossing

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

Valentina Tremont (Milan, Italy) - Dreaming
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