Linden Lab Fellowship

Creative students take note of another fellowship competition involving virtual worlds. Linden Lab has announced a 'Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts'. Here is the announcement that Robin Harper of Linden Lab sent to educators who use Second Life as part of their teaching:

I'm very excited to announce that Linden Lab is offering its first fellowship in visual and performing arts for creative innovation in Second Life.

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.

I hope that all of you will take the opportunity to visit www.secondlife.com/education for more information, and please let anyone at your university who might be interested know of the March 15, 2006 application deadline. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished academics, and the fellowship recipient will be announced in mid-April.

Also, please feel free to share this announcement with any colleagues who may have eligible students.

Questions can be sent to [email protected].

Thanks! Robin

Comments

[[email protected]]

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Well, this is a lot better then just plowing it into a faceless corporation like Google AdWords.

[[email protected]]

2.

(trying a new style of posting, bear with me)

[graemephillipsuk]

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Hi, I followed the BOINGBOING post to take me here and think that this is a great idea indeed!!!

I have a blog and have posted this and credited yourself. As I feel people in the UK need to know and think about such things as this..

once again, thank you for this post!

GraemePhillipsuk
http://perspicacitycorruption.blog.co.uk

[Norman Maynard]

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Now I'll just be waiting around for the fellowship for the study of virtual economies.