Second Life Artists Residency
Application closing date: 27 July 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts is offering up to $20,000 for a
collaborative artist residency in the virtual world of Second Life.
The aim of the residency is to offer Australian artists and writers
the opportunity to creatively and critically explore new interactive,
virtual platforms.
The residency allows for a collaborative team of up to three people
(including a writer, musician/sound artist and digital visual media
practitioner) to develop inter-disciplinary artwork in Second Life.
Applications will be accepted from teams who fulfil all the residency
requirements, including having the necessary artform experience.
Artists or writers who have professional experience in more than one
of the required artform areas can include this as part of their
submission.
Program purpose
The Second Life artist residency is an initiative of the Literature
Board, Music Board and Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council.
The residency is in-world and requires artists and writers to
explore the possibilities of inter-disciplinary literary, music/sound
art and digital visual media practices.
The successful team will develop new artistic in-world practices and
comment on the social and cultural layers that have evolved in Second
Life.
Key requirements of the project are a clear strategy for harnessing
both in-world and real life audiences and developing public
exhibition opportunities for the artwork in Australia.
The main objectives of the program are to:
* Provide opportunities for artists and writers to develop art that
challenges and explores the aesthetic, social, political and cultural
realities of Second Life
* Encourage collaborations between artists and writers working across
literature, music/sound art and digital visual media to develop high
quality, experimental arts practices in Second Life
Applications will be selected that best demonstrate:
* artistic and literary merit of the proposed activity
* calibre of the collaborating artists/writers and their capacity to
successfully deliver projects of this nature across literature,
music/sound art and digital visual media
* evidence that the proposal is well planned
Client Meetings
Client meetings can be arranged in Second Life through IMs to
Ricardo Paravane (Ricardo Peach), or by contacting the Inter-Arts
Office on (02) 9215 9110 or toll-free: 1800 226 912
For further information visit: http://www.ozco.gov.au/rez