christy The next X|Media|Lab is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and will be be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) August 11-13th. X|Media|Lab features an elite international network of the worlds outstanding digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. Mentors for this Lab include: the VP of Business Development from Current … Read moreThe next X|Media|Lab is coming up
Just to let you all know that I am changing the way I run this blog. I will no-longer be putting my ideas about cross-media design on here. Instead, you can find out about them through the various publications I’ll be putting out, through my thesis which will be out in a year (!), my upcoming … Read moreSwitching Channels
CFP – REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVERSING NARRATIVE MEDIA The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding narrative in cinema, television and new media. We invite a variety of approaches and topics, but are particularly interested in essays that explore new areas and objects of narrative study, or offer new perspectives … Read moreA Couple of Relevant CFPs
Last night I was playing around with ologies (the study of something) and wondered what would denote research into entertainment that crosses media. I looked up a latin dictionary and found ‘trans’ (as in across, beyond, through etc) and after some looking, ‘modi’ (plural of modes, of mediums). And there it is, our beautiful field … Read moreWe're Transmodiologists!
Andrew McKenzie, a cross-media researcher who is specifically looking at how narrative changes on mobiles (posted about before here), has finally (hehe) changed his site to a blog: Vector TV. Now we call all share in his insights. Yay Andrew! I look forward to reading it.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have started an Emmy for Outstanding Original Programming Created for Non-Traditional Delviery Platforms. Entries for this award must be original material made-for-broadband or made-for-mobile. These platforms include video blogs, website programs including journalistic reporting, event coverage or event analysis, mobisodes (short episodics created for mobile devices), video-on-demand … Read moreNew Mobisode Emmys honouring "cross media" approach
Thought I’d do the “normal” thing and call up a shop assistant (a human) at a local store (remember bricks and mortar?) and ask if they have a DVD in (remember tangible goods?) I could buy (remember…). Well, I called up and guess what she did? She looked up www.imdb.com.
This is very cool. iPerG (Intergrated Project on Pervasive Gaming) have put out a secret invite to watch a test cross-media game over the web. Epidemic Menace is the first prototype by the IPerG Crossmedia group. Wohoo! On July 6th and 7th there is a game event on campus Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin where we … Read moreiPerG "crossmedia game" YOU can be a part of, NOW!
I just clicked the send button on the email that delivered the ARGs and Academia section I wrote for the IGDA ARG SIG whitepaper. *sigh* and *yay*
Okay, I’m going to try an unusual form of constrained writing. I am only going to blog about MySpace sites & stats etc AT MY MYSPACE blog. And, I’m only going to blog about SecondLife events & things I do in SL AT MY SNAPZILLA. The latter is a bit unusual too as Snapzilla probably wasn’t … Read moreServer-based Constrained Writing