30 Oct
The Alternate Reality Gaming Network has started a podcast, well, netcast. It looks like they will be delivering ARG commentary every week, which is great news. Although the style of the show is casual, subjective chat, there are some gems for would-be ARG designers, researchers and marketers out there. So far there are two episodes […]
Posted in ARG, Culture, Industry, Cross-Media Design by: christy
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30 Oct
When I started in the digital effects industry as a producer I noticed that the best people in the business were distributed across companies, states and the world. You never had more a couple in the one company. I remember working discussing with AIMIA back then in the early 90s about how they can group […]
Posted in Virtual Worlds, Marketing, Advertising by: christy
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28 Oct
I found out about an ARG that had been created by some educators in Queensland and covered their research in the forthcoming (I hope it comes out soon) IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper. Well, just yesterday I flew down to Melbourne to be the external assessor for a class that had the project of creating an […]
Posted in ARG, Academia, Creative, Cross-Media Design by: christy
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27 Oct
A colleague of mine, Peter Giles, Head of Digital Media at AFTRS, has written an interesting post on how animation lends itself to cross-media strategies.
Posted in Cross-Media Design by: christy
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24 Oct
On Friday night/Friday morning I presented my first inworld lecture inside the virtual world Second Life. Drawing from my articles in Slate Night Magazine, I spoke about the ‘Remediation of the Art Space in SL’. This lecture was part of a special session Anya Ixchel, the editor of Slate Night arranged for the New Media […]
Posted in Media Usage, ARG, Culture, Virtual Worlds, Academia, Event, Research by: christy
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20 Oct
Apologies for the late notice, but there has been an amazing week of events happening in Second Life. The New Media Consortium has been holding a 12 day Impact of Digital Media Symposium. The pic you see is an event I attended last night for the MacArthur Foundation press conference in to announce their $50 […]
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17 Oct
The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58, Fall 2006), spotlights film and TV narrative. There is a wonderful selection of papers with one by Jason Mittell:
Keating, Patrick. Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives
Newman, Michael Z. From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative
Mittell, Jason. Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television
Kerins, Mark. Narration […]
Posted in Writing, Film, TV, Academia, Research by: christy
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16 Oct
DAC, the premier international digital arts conference, will be in Perth next year with Beap. They have just announced the first stage of acceptances:
The reviewing of the 230 abstracts has now been completed, and many thanks to the reviewers for the enormous task. In a process that turns out to have been highly competitive, 48 […]
Posted in Media Usage, Culture, TV, Film, Digital Games, Internet, Virtual Worlds, Event, Industry, Research, Creative, Participatory Design, Academia, Audiences, Cross-Media Design by: christy
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16 Oct
I’m way too busy again, so apologies for the lack of posting about interesting things happening around the world. Here is an update on what I’ve been doing though:
Last week I did my first video skype lecture to students at the University of Western Australia on cross-media entertainment. It was for the Masters and Honours level […]
Posted in Virtual Worlds, Event, Academia, Research by: christy
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10 Oct
Here are two projects by wonderful colleagues of mine:
Is Your House Killing You? was my team for LAMP. It will be on SBS soon, but at present there is a call for people to be on the TV show!:
Put YOUR home under the microscope in our groundbreaking new science show ‘Is Your House Killing You?’
We’re looking for […]
Posted in Mobile, TV, Creative, Industry by: christy
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