Paul Moran
March 31st, 2003, 05:43 PM
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X|Media|Lab (“cross media lab”) is a ground-breaking thinktank, concept laboratory, and production workshop for new media people in film, interactive media, games, entertainment, arts, media, music, advertising, communications and information technology.
- X|Media|Lab: June 7-10th: Museum of Contemporary Art
- X|Media|Lab Conference: June 11th: Museum of Contemporary Art
- Streaming Media Workshop: June 10th : Sound Stage, Fox Studios
Official Site: www.xmedialab.com.au
X|Media|Lab will be held as part of the 50th anniversary Sydney Film Festival in June 2003 with a roster of specially selected international mentors including
· Frank Boyd, Director of Creative Development from the BBC
· Matt Costello, the author of DOOM 3
· Glorianna Davenport, Founder of I-Cinema at MIT Media Lab
· Femke Wolting, the creator of the “Exploding Cinema” Digital Media Festival
· Steve Mack, the author of the Streaming Media Bible
· TNC Net from Paris
as well as special guests from the Sydney Film Festival as mentors to Australia’s outstanding new media creators and practitioners.
The primary focus of X|Media|Lab is on helping to explore and create successful interactive new media projects. The Lab assembles international and local mentors to work with Australian content creators combining the conceptual, the creative, and the technological, to produce exciting new interactive media projects.
The Lab and Public Forum will give participants opportunities to explore developments in content production, connect with other outstanding local and international professionals, and learn about the most exciting innovations in creativity and digital media from around the world.
The Lab focuses on increasing the quality, value, and likely commercial success of Australian digital media content projects by mentoring selected projects at the Pre-Production Stage (i.e., the creative, conceptual, technical, and proto-typing stage). The primary focus of X|Media|Lab is on the production of commercially successful interactive digital media projects.
People are encouraged to nominate themselves, projects and their project teams now to be selected for inclusion in the Lab.
The X|Media|Lab will also stage a major Public Day conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art with an emphasis on the practical, creative, commercial, and technological aspects of developing commercial and cultural interactive media and broadband content; and a Streaming Media Workshop for the Film and Music industries at the Sound Stage, Fox Studios focussing on introducing people to the technical and strategic possibilities of streaming media.
The Lab, the conference on “Creativity and Content”, and the Streaming Media Workshop are presented by Sun Microsystems and the NSW Film and Television Office and supported by the cream of Australia’s media, arts, and industry bodies including the Sydney Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fox Studios, Office of Information Technology, the Australian Film Commission, and the British Council, with major industry partners AIMIA, IIA, SPAA, FIBRE, and Broadband Xchange, and with the assistance of the Biennale of Sydney, the Sydney Writers Festival, Brainwaave, Apple Computer, MIT Media Lab, the BBC, and Baker & MacKenzie.
The Lab has also been assisted by the French Consulate General, the Netherlands Consulate General, the Goethe Institut, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
For all information on nominating your project for inclusion in the Lab, supporting the Lab, or to attend the public sessions, see www.xmedialab.com.au
For other details please contact:
Brendan Harkin
+61 438 001 551
+61 2 9380 5811
info@xmedialab.com.au
X|Media|Lab (“cross media lab”) is a ground-breaking thinktank, concept laboratory, and production workshop for new media people in film, interactive media, games, entertainment, arts, media, music, advertising, communications and information technology.
- X|Media|Lab: June 7-10th: Museum of Contemporary Art
- X|Media|Lab Conference: June 11th: Museum of Contemporary Art
- Streaming Media Workshop: June 10th : Sound Stage, Fox Studios
Official Site: www.xmedialab.com.au
X|Media|Lab will be held as part of the 50th anniversary Sydney Film Festival in June 2003 with a roster of specially selected international mentors including
· Frank Boyd, Director of Creative Development from the BBC
· Matt Costello, the author of DOOM 3
· Glorianna Davenport, Founder of I-Cinema at MIT Media Lab
· Femke Wolting, the creator of the “Exploding Cinema” Digital Media Festival
· Steve Mack, the author of the Streaming Media Bible
· TNC Net from Paris
as well as special guests from the Sydney Film Festival as mentors to Australia’s outstanding new media creators and practitioners.
The primary focus of X|Media|Lab is on helping to explore and create successful interactive new media projects. The Lab assembles international and local mentors to work with Australian content creators combining the conceptual, the creative, and the technological, to produce exciting new interactive media projects.
The Lab and Public Forum will give participants opportunities to explore developments in content production, connect with other outstanding local and international professionals, and learn about the most exciting innovations in creativity and digital media from around the world.
The Lab focuses on increasing the quality, value, and likely commercial success of Australian digital media content projects by mentoring selected projects at the Pre-Production Stage (i.e., the creative, conceptual, technical, and proto-typing stage). The primary focus of X|Media|Lab is on the production of commercially successful interactive digital media projects.
People are encouraged to nominate themselves, projects and their project teams now to be selected for inclusion in the Lab.
The X|Media|Lab will also stage a major Public Day conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art with an emphasis on the practical, creative, commercial, and technological aspects of developing commercial and cultural interactive media and broadband content; and a Streaming Media Workshop for the Film and Music industries at the Sound Stage, Fox Studios focussing on introducing people to the technical and strategic possibilities of streaming media.
The Lab, the conference on “Creativity and Content”, and the Streaming Media Workshop are presented by Sun Microsystems and the NSW Film and Television Office and supported by the cream of Australia’s media, arts, and industry bodies including the Sydney Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fox Studios, Office of Information Technology, the Australian Film Commission, and the British Council, with major industry partners AIMIA, IIA, SPAA, FIBRE, and Broadband Xchange, and with the assistance of the Biennale of Sydney, the Sydney Writers Festival, Brainwaave, Apple Computer, MIT Media Lab, the BBC, and Baker & MacKenzie.
The Lab has also been assisted by the French Consulate General, the Netherlands Consulate General, the Goethe Institut, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
For all information on nominating your project for inclusion in the Lab, supporting the Lab, or to attend the public sessions, see www.xmedialab.com.au
For other details please contact:
Brendan Harkin
+61 438 001 551
+61 2 9380 5811
info@xmedialab.com.au