Linden Labs, the operators of the synthetic world "Second Life" is offering a $4,000 "Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts" to one undergraduate or graduate student. Application deadline is March 15, 2006.
According to an announcement from Linden Lab representatives, this "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."
According to the information in the Fellowship Application on the Second Life website: "The fellowship will be made available to an undergraduate or graduate student in the visual and performing arts (including music, film, video, new media arts, and architecture) who has shown through his or her work a commitment and talent in innovating using digital media. The fellowship is not intended to support study, but to allow a student the free time to fully explore the potential of Second Life as a creative medium."
More information is available at www.secondlife.com/education. The application deadline is March 15, 2006. According to Linden Lab, applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished academics, and the fellowship recipient will be announced in mid-April.
Thanks for this tip to Terra Nova: Linden Lab Fellowship
According to a recent third-person article on the current status of the population, economic statistics and "look and feel" of Second Life, the user-created synthetic world sees peak simultaneous users online over 5,000 and recent growth at around 15% per month. For more, see Pham Neutra's weblog entry in "SLOG, a Second Life resident blog" The SL Economy in Review -- 2006 January - SLOG
Posted by dougsimpson at February 2, 2006 02:42 PM