The Australia Council for the Arts (lovingly called OzCo), the main arts funding and advisory body for Ozlanders, is offering a $20,000AUD (about $16400USD) artistic residency in Second Life.

The application is offering funding for a team of up to three people "including a writer, musician/sound artist and digital visual media practitioner" to create an inter-disciplinary artwork.

The application stresses that this is an artistic residency - if you're interested, you'll have to prove to them that you're an artist or artistic group of some kind, with some sort of inter-disciplinary artwork in mind, presumably. For twenty grand, you need to be pretty convincing.

The residency is funded out of the "Inter-Arts" department - that's the cutting-edge new-media bunch - with the aim of encouraging a collaboration across literature, music/sound, art and digital visual media. Apparently they're after an installation that "challenges and explores the aesthetic, social, political and cultural realities of Second Life". Whew.

Applications (usually fairly lengthy affairs - OzCo is a government body, after all) close on 27 July. The project will be considered on artistic merit, planning and the calibre of the artist involved.

[Thanks SLOz]