Calling all digital artistes - Second Life creators Linden Lab have announced a $4,000 fellowship for aspiring and creative types to spend the summer working in SL to explore what kinds of new things can be made in the virtual world. From the release, sent out to educators week before last (I was away, please forgive me):
This $4,000 fellowship will provide a young artist with a chance to be free for a semester or summer to explore the use of the digital world of Second Life as an artistic medium. In doing so, we hope that we will see Second Life used to even greater potential in the expressive arts to the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.
This is a fellowship in the visual and performing arts or creative innovation, which means it covers everything from music performance (SL-based Gorillaz?), theatre (Hamlet in BDSM gear?), Photography, Poetry, Architecture, and others I've not even begun to consider. The mind boggles.
Interested parties should head to SL's Education site here. The deadline's 15 March. They've mentioned that this is the first fellowship. That suggests there may be more. This may be the beginning of something quite interesting.
