The Australia Council Second Life Artists Residency recently awarded their AUD $20,000 grant to Christopher Dodds (aka Mashup Islander), Adam Nash (aka Adam Ramona) and Justin Clemens (aka S1 Gausman) of Babelswarm. First of all, I didn't know there was such a Residency program, and second of all, that's a pretty fair amount of money! This speaks well of Australia's devotion to promoting the arts in general, and SL in specific.The post referenced above also includes an example of their upcoming SL- related project, which sounds really cool: RL people speak into a microphone and their speech gets converted into letterforms that drop into a transparent well in-world. This is meant to be a metaphor for the Tower of Babel story, and it's particularly apt for SL.
Keep an eye out for The Australian Centre of Virtual Art (ACVA), in which this installation will manifest.
(Thanks, Elizabeth)
1. Meanwhile people can see his most recent work at the Library Gallery space on Info Island. (31,105,33)
This includes one of my all-time favorite SL artworks, the kinetic and interactive "Cantata Park", a collaboration between Mashup and Adam.
The opening for the exhibit is Friday 10/5 at 6PM - SLT.
Posted at 9:55AM on Oct 5th 2007 by Elizabeth Rookwood