Media Release

Second Life Architecture Awards

The constructed architectural spaces of Second Life share a commonality
with the exotic invisible cities of Italo Calvino. They are at once
familiar yet completely otherworldly: inverted, fantastical, corrupted,
baroque and barren, unexpected, startling and compellingly seductive.
They are both our present and our future.

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: