Judge
Funding bodies, festivals and organisations, corporations and universities call on UC101 to be a judge and assess various trans/cross-media and new media art projects.
Pulcinella Award, Cartoons on the Bay, Italy, 2010
CHRISTY DENA, MAYA GOETZ, GARY GOLDMAN, NICOLE KEEB e DIANA MANSON. These are the names of highest international profile of the Jury of Cartoons on the Bay 2010. They will be in charge of assigning the Prestigious Pulcinella Award for the competing categories, for which the submissions are already open. “I have picked the most shining stars of Television and Multimedia Animation – says Roberto Genovesi, Artistic Director of the Festival – capable to judge the quality of the products also from a new and suggestive perspective, able to join together the sensibility of traditional scenarios with the suggestions of the future ones, in which the cartoon is called to compete”.
Whistler Film Festival Pitch Fest West, Whistler Film Festival, Canada, December 2009 (note: panel response only, not judge)
Drawing on innovation in technology and the changing landscape for content creation, this year’s Pitch Fest West will showcase film, TV and digital media producers who are in search of the knowledge, relationships and financing strategies required to successfully develop and exhibit their content across several platforms.
Call for entries
Coverage in The Vancouver Sun
Babelgum Pixel Pitch Award, Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, October 2009
Seven of the best UK and international teams have been selected to present their cross-media film projects to a select roundtable jury of international experts, decision makers and financiers. One lucky winner will walk away with the £6,000 Babelgum Pixel Pitch Award.
Details of projects selected and judges
Winner announced at ScreenDaily
ABC Excellence in Digital Media Awards, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 2009
The ABC Excellence in Digital Media Awards celebrate the achievements of ABC staff working with new media content whose contributions benefit the Corporation and, ultimately, our audiences. The ABC Innovation division established the awards in 2008 to recognise the best, brightest and smartest ways that the ABC is working across a range of platforms.
Making for Market Grants, Story of the Future, Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts, April 2008
Making for Market is a grant program to support the commercial development of digital projects as part of Story of the Future. Nine grants and five writing mentorships were awarded to projects in March 2008, with a total funding of more than $200,000.
MMUVE IT!, Inter-Arts, Australia Council for Arts, July 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts is offering up to $30,000 for a collaborative, embodied art project in a massive multi-user virtual environment (MMUVE). The grant aims to give Australian artists the opportunity to creatively and critically explore interactive, virtual worlds, with a particular focus on the body and interfaces facilitating ‘mixed realities’. The grant allows for a collaborative team of up to three artists (including a digital visual media practitioner) to develop inter-disciplinary artwork in a MMUVE of their choice.
Call for works
Recipients Announced
NPIRL covers the award
Portable Worlds 2nd Edition, The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Jan, 2008
ANAT believes technology and mobility can change habits and inhabitation of public spaces. Exploring connection and intimacy, portability and community, scale and distance, the artworks in Portable World’s 2nd Edition utilise mobile phones for both display and creation of the works. Presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Portable Worlds 2nd Edition is touring nationally in 2008 and 2009, bringing exhibition and workshop programs to urban and regional Australia.
Recipients listed at main website
Second Life Artist Residency, Inter-Arts, Australia Council for Arts, August 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts is offering up to $20,000 for a collaborative artist residency in the virtual world of Second Life.
The aim of the residency is to offer Australian artists and writers the opportunity to creatively and critically explore new interactive, virtual platforms.
The residency allows for a collaborative team of up to three people (including a writer, musician/sound artist and digital visual media practitioner) to develop inter-disciplinary artwork in Second Life.
Call for works
Recipients Announced
Press about the winning project and initiative
LAMP: Story of the Future Residential Lab, Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts in partnership with the Australian Film Television and Radio School, May 2007
It gives participants – especially writers – skills in digital media and cross art-form collaboration and support the development of commercially adaptable digital, interactive and multiplatform projects driven by Australia’s rising generation of creative writers.
The LAMP: Story of the Future Residential Lab, to be held at Freycinet in Tasmania between 20 and 25 May, will develop digital media projects for a range of internet, mobile, gaming and screen-based platforms.
Portable Worlds, The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Jan, 2007
Portable Worlds is a survey of contemporary Australian new media artists working specifically for the mobile phone screen. The selected works reflect on the changing shape of communication and community, utilise the mobile phone as a creation tool and a personalised viewing space, explore miniatures and reflect on movement through Australian spaces.
Call for works
Recipients Announced
Main website
Crossmedia Fictional Worlds, Multimedia and Digital Design, Monash University, Dec 2006
3rd year class in Multimedia and Digital Design at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. The project required students to create “crossmedia fictional worlds’, of which ARGs were an option. Both of the groups chose the ‘alternate reality’ design aesthetic. They had 5 weeks to conceive, produce and implement the worlds. They used numerous websites, emails, postcards, newsletters, forums, stickers and so on. Class conceived and run by Troy Innocent.
Multimedia & Digital Design Website
Troy Innocent
Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP) rapid-prototyping residentials, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Oct 2005 – May 2006
The Laboratory for Advanced Media Production is facilitated by the Australian Film TV and Radio School and is probably Australia’s premier emerging media R&D and production lab. Participants actually create proof of concept, develop strong presentations and evolve the business, technical and creative aspects of their property all leading to pilots, user testing and audiences.
October 2005 Projects
December 2005 Projects
May 2006 Projects
