Month: January 2007

sagasnet have put a call out for projects to participate:

sagasnet organizes each year a Developing Interactive Narrative Content seminar in which lectures and intense workshops cover essential subjects to be considered during the development/pre-production phase for interactive entertainment projects.

During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation on media, genre or target audience) will be provided in parallel with high-profile face-to-face consulting sessions (on financing, project management, marketing, story structure, game play…). Consultants will be chosen according to the needs of the selected projects.

sagasnet selection board 2007: Greg Childs (UK), Raimo Lang (FIN), Anthony Lilley (UK), Peter Olaf Looms (DK), Mark Ollila (S/AUS), Lee Sheldon (USA), Brunhild Bushoff (D)

In 2007 the Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar will take place in Stuttgart, Germany parallel to and in cooperation with the fmx/07 from April 29 – May 5 2007.
Application deadline for the seminar plus consulting sessions will be February 10 2007. Applications for attending the seminar, only, are welcome until April 24.

Andy Kessler, a hedge fund manager, has written this interesting but sceptical account of the state of media: Media 2.Uh-Oh.

On Feb 15-17 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, the first Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction will be helld.

Tangible and Embedded Interaction ’07 will be held February 15-17 (just before the famous Mardi Gras festival) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. TEI’07 is the first international conference dedicated to research in tangible and embedded interaction. Work addressing interaction, design, tools, use, and art are all welcome, especially including interdisciplinary submissions across these themes. The conference is taking place in cooperation with ACM. The proceedings will be published electronically on the ACM Digital Library. The conference will be held this year as the 14th Annual Mardi Gras conference at Louisiana State University, to be followed with an optional day trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

The range of presentations looks so inviting. I look forward to reading the papers and hopefully seeing some podcasts. Check out the site now.

Source: WDL