NMC Campus Observer

Digital Media Symposium Photo Contest

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Oct 9, 2006 05:07pm

Attention photographers!

As part of the NMC Campus 12 Day Symposium on Impact of Digital Media, we are announcing here and elsewhere our photography contest on the conference theme. We have some serious Linden dollar prizes for the best images, but mostly, we just hope to gather a great collection to share and discuss over the next 2 weeks.

Prizes to be awarded (see below) are for both Real Life photos uploaded to Second Life, as well as photos taken in Second Life.

Images must somehow capture in still photography the power of digital media, some impact of digital media, on individuals, groups, society, etc. It must say, in visual form, this is why digital media is important today, addressing the conference themes:

• Identity and self-image
• Credibility and the reliability of Information
• Civic and social involvement
• The arts, creativity, and design
• Social networking
• Pedagogical potentials and implications

Images must either be photos taken in SL or uploaded real photographs. All submitted images must be SL textures, at least 800×600 pixels, preferably dimensions of typical 4:3 width to height aspect ratio. Note that uploaded images, as a texture, will be resized to a square dimension 256×256,512×512, 1024×1024, etc, but will resume proper aspect ratio when displayed on our screens. You may want to include the dimensions of your original in your notecard entry.

Please provide unique file names for your photo! Images must be set with permissions for copying. They should be dropped in Second Life into the inventory of CDB Barkley by 6:00 PM SLT Oct 18 (Under Edit, do a search on people, click name, and drag items from your inventory to the area adjacent to the “Give” label where it says “drop inventory item here”).

We will accept no more than 4 entries per photographer. Each photographer should also drop onto CDB Barkley a notecard containing the following information:

• Avatar’s Name
• File name of each photograph
• Title for each photograph
• Location where photo was taken
• Caption/description for each photograph
• Dimensions of original (pixels) if some other aspect ratio than 4:3.

All photos will be displayed on NMC Campus may also be posted as well as on the NMC Campus Observer, will full attribution to the photographer. Winning images will be selected by a panel of reknown, but shy, photo experts, and announced in an event on NMC Campus at 11:00 AM SLT/PST Oct 20, 2006, at the Gonick Amphitheater.

Prizes

• Best overall photo: L$5000
• Best of Second Life photos: L$2000
• Best of Real Life photos: L$2000
• Honorable Mention Second Life photos $1000
• Honorable Mention Real Life photos $1000

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