SECOND LIFE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
In September this year Dr Melinda Rackham, ANAT’s Director and 3D world author and theorist, was invited to join a 6 member international Jury assessing the Annual Second Life Architecture & Design Competition, a first of its kind, held at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. The jury deliberated over the 126 submissions before a live audience at the Architekturforum Linz, while being simultaneously streamed into Second Life. Four outstanding projects, that took advantage of both the artistic and technical possibilities afforded by Second Life were selected as finalists, Tanja Meyle’s “Living Cloud”, DC Spensley’s “Full Immersion Hyperformalism”, Adam Nash’s “17 Unsung Songs” and Max Moswitzer’s “White Noise”. The selected projects were presented online where the public were invited to vote for their favourite. The winner, Tanja Meyle, was announced on October 25 and received a 1,000-euro grand prize. Dr Melinda Rackham will be contributing an article based on the -empyre- Second Life discussion to the upcoming book, an outcome of the competition, entitled “The Space Between People”.