[iDC] The SL Unleashing.

[Lynn Hershman]

The original linden folks were committed to the arts and offered student
art competition with not only free land but $5000.00 prizes.  Also helped
in an installation at the Venice biennalle,
San Jose tech museum and my installation at sf moma.
I am not sure if this continued when the new administrators  came in.
Simon Biggs wrote:
> I am not aware of Linden sponsoring any academic institutions or research
> projects. However, they do make free land available for one off
> time-limited
> educational activities. I considered that as a taster to attract deeper
> (paying) involvement, but perhaps it is part of a larger marketing
> strategy?
>
> Best
>
> Simon
>
>
> Simon Biggs
>
> Research Professor
> edinburgh college of art
> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
> www.eca.ac.uk
>
> Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
> CIRCLE research group
> www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
>
> simon at littlepig.org.uk
> www.littlepig.org.uk
> AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk
>
>
>
> From: helen varley jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> Reply-To: <helen at creative-catalyst.com>
> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:22:04 +1300
> To: 'idc' <idc at mailman.thing.net>
> Subject: Re: [iDC] The SL Unleashing.
>
> linden must also benefit enormously from all the academic research
> that's been done into/around SL; i wonder, does linden fund/sponsor
> anything, or are the universities/researchers paying for their land etc
> as well as donating the research?
>
> helen
>
> ricardo at ambriente.com wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I'm not on Second Life although I'm one of those people who created an
>> avatar long ago and didn't return to it.
>>
>> I'm writing now, because when I read about critical artists using SL,
>> I'm
>> dumbfounded by the lack of criticality toward Linden Lab, their
>> treatment
>> toward employees and that artists using SL are uncritically contributing
>> to a commercial product with questionable ethics.
>>
>> I'm largely writing from the position of an educator who has seen
>> talented, young students eagerly take jobs with Linden Lab only to be
>> overworked and underpaid - taken advantage of for lack of professional
>> experience.  Linden Lab has a history of hiring young talented college
>> graduates, paying them a low salary and demanding well over 8 hours a
>> day.
>>  Kids stick with the job, because they think it will lead them
>> somewhere.
>> I find this treatment of young artists entirely unethical.  And it's
>> disappointing to here of critically engaged artists using a corporate
>> platform without a critical perspective toward the corporation that they
>> are playing tribute to by contributing to its environment and popularity
>> while it mistreats its employees.
>>
>> ricardo
>>
>>
>
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