Month: July 2006

If you’ve got mobile content and are in Australia, send it in; if you don’t, send this on to people who do have and are!: 

Portable Worlds Call for Works
Deadline August 7 2006
 
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is seeking expressions of interest from Australian artists creating work for mobile phones for inclusion in   ‘Portable Worlds’; a touring exhibition proposed to travel for 12 months to 8 regional and major centres nationally.
 
Artists will receive and artist fee of  $500 for the right to non–exclusive showing of their work and may be offered further fees and travel to some venues to be involved in artist talks or workshops.
 
Expressions of interest are being sought for existing works, or works to be completed before Jan 07. Works under development will need to show substantial prior development at the time of application in order to be successful.
All works need to be appropriate for general viewing and will be assessed on artistic merit and suitability for tour.   
 
Applications will be assessed by:
Claudia Sagripanti is Chair of the AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Development Group (MCIDA), ANAT board member and runs VentureOne.
Christy Dena is a cross-media entertainment consultant, creator and researcher and on the board of dLux  Media Arts.
Leslie Nassar is on the board of  dLux Media Arts and runs mojourno.com.
Sasha Grbich is the ANAT project manager for ‘Portable Worlds’.
Hugh Davies is international digital media artist, educator and ANAT board member.
 
Expressions of interest due 7 August 2006
For further information and criteria, email Project Manager Sasha Grbich at Australian Network for Art and Technology sasha@anat.org.au

Artists will be notified by September 06
‘Portable Worlds’ is subject to funding and the program will be confirmed Jan 2007

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 TV – Al Gore’s superb cross-platform iTV initiative
• a seriously important delegation from China’s illustrious Beijing Film Academy (including the Dean of Animation, the Head of Digital Media, the Head of Mobile Content, and the Director of New Media and Technlogy at Harbin Institute of Technology, one of China’s nominated world-class
  institutions)
• the Georges Pompidou Centre’s Forum des Image (Mobile Movies) 
• the Founder and CEO of Bollywood’s biggest entertainment portal 
• the Editor of Singapore Press Holdings brilliant new STOMP (“Straits Times Online Mobile Print”) and which are proud to say is the first project accepted into the Lab! 
• the Creative Director of London’s biggest advertising agency 
• the Chair of the Producers Guild of America’s Interactive Media Council 
• the Entertainment Technology Center at CMU (and formerly Head of Research at Electronic Arts) 
• Nokia Research Centre in Finland, and more. 
• Australian Mentors and Speakers include: Kim Dalton, Director of TV at the ABC (in his first public address since taking up the position); Geoffrey Atherden, Australias most respected TV writer; Paul Daly, Director – Innovation, M-Net; Brad Keeling, Co-founder Slice Wireless; Tom Kennedy ,CEO MediaZoo and Chair of Commonwealth Govt.s Digital Media Industries Action Agenda; Rohan Lund, CEO Yahoo!7; and others.

X|Media|Lab brings together the worlds outstanding digital media
practitioners together with local companies and project teams to work together directly on their local project ideas, helping them get to market, and achieve commercial success.

The theme of this X|Media|Lab is Media Mobility, and focuses on the key changes to digital media content production arising from the emerging dynamic mobile media models. The Lab will select 8 great “Media Mobility” projects to join this awesome network of digital media stars.

The point of the Lab is that these Mentors work with you one-on-one on your own project idea (on creativity, technology, business models, and markets). It’s a unique, incredibly valuable experience.

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 podcast and my upcoming industry talks. So, the information will still be out there, just not through this informal medium. I have also taken down my wiki with the links to cross-media practitioners and events and researchers and terms. You can still get this information through the official publications I’ll be making and if you send me an email! My clients will still have access to everything. I’ll still put in relevant announcements and things I think you’ll find interesting. So, the information will still get out there, just through different channels. I hope you understand. 🙂