Tara Yeats at MMIF 2010
Chilbo resident Tara Yeats was one of 50 machinima artists taking part in the mixed reality event MMIF 2010. Her entry Torn Fields-war poets 1914-1918 Torn Fields on You Tube documents the very moving Frideswide sim in Second Life, an immersive exhibit by the First World War Poetry Virtual Archive, University of Oxford. This sim offers an amazing virtual experience of the Western Front trenches and British encampments of the Great War, and poetry inspired by the war. The machinima and the sim incorporate materials from The First World War Poetry Virtual Archive, University of Oxford, under the JISC Model Licence for educational use.
The MMIF 2010 MaMachinima International Festival took place on Feb. 20th , 2010 at the MMIF sims in Second Life and Planetart in Amsterdam. MMIF 2010 was the second edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with a screening in physical space. MMIF is a celebration of machinima, a new cinematic art form, created with virtual worlds and video games. On 3D Internet platforms like Second Life, any kind of movie set can be build for very low cost. The MMIF aims to bring machinima to a wider audience, online – and offline. Machinima artists from all over the world were present in real time at the virtual MMIF Theatre. The audience in Amsterdam followed the MMIF event projected live on a big screen at the Planetart Medialab Artspace. MMIF is a volunteer-run non-profit collaboration of MaMachinima with Planetart, UrbanResort, Meta.Live.Nu, Pop Art Lab, VMax, Ystreams.TV, Metaworld Broadcasting, MetaMeets, Gallery Fermate, and many volunteers. MMIF 2010 is financed by donations and gifts. Virtual land sponsored by Linden Lab. The MMIF was initiated by the Dutch Film maker Chantal Harvey.
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