Author: Christy

If you haven’t already noticed, Europe is the place to be if you’re creating, researching or experiencing CME. It is not surprising considering the technology available in the home (and therefore the services then supplied to audiences). Here is a list of some of the sites about CME by those living in Europe:

Monique de Haas’ blog, Netherlands

Jill Walker’s blog, University of Bergen and her research into “distributed narratives”

Lizbeth Klastrup’s blog: Klastrups Cataclysms, IT University of Copenhagen (did a paper with Tosca on “transmedial worlds”)

Susana Tosca’s blog: Thinking with my Fingers, Volda College, Norway (did a paper with Klastrup on “transmedial worlds”)

Anja Bechmann Petersen’s PhD research site, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Valentina Rao’s blog: Bad News Live, who has found is (i think) looking for a supervisor in Copenhagen

Daphne Dijkerman’s blog: Something New, University of Amsterdam? Saxion Academy of Arts & Technics (Enschede)

Theo Meereboer’s blog: Commedia

Indira Reynaert’s blog: Crossmedialog

The Cross Media Group’s blog: Interactivity: “the cross-media idea”

HvA Cross-Media Students blog, University of Amsterdam students?

X-Media Club: blog & streams provides presentations by convergence experts (including Monique de Haas) in a casual lounge environment.

Dutch Cowboy’s Tech blog: crossmedia thread

Marcel Houtman’s blog: Houtwatch, Netherlands

Crossmedia Forum

I will definately be going to the Netherlands and around sometime in the next couple of years to see everyone! I’d come over for Cross Media Week if there was english speaking talks going on…

I attended a conference on Digital Storytelling recently and picked up some good UGC (user-generated content) projects. Digital Storytelling, for those who like me who get confused by the term, is the term used to describe stories that are created by amateurs about themselves, using digital equipment. They are not often interactive, usually films shot on digital cameras. Here is a mix of the UGC websites mentioned at the conference, ones I know about and new ones:

Jay Ryan vlog [single-person, but is perhaps “the” vlog];

Rocket Boom vlog [single person, was featured on CSI & just auctioned advertising space on eBay for $40,000];

Sticky (Aus)

Knot at Home, SBS (Aus)

Strait Up, SBS (Aus)

Zed TV (Canada)

Terminus 1525 studios (Canada)

Seed Collective (Canada)

And here are some pivotal Digital Storytelling sites:

BBC Capture Wales

Center for Digital Storytelling

I haven’t listed sites that just provide the function of uploading without a content coating. A helpful listing of such sites is provided by Gary at Personalize Media. 🙂

Apparently, according to all the hype, the first feature film, shot entirely on mobile phones, has been created. SMS Sugarman (the site is down) is by Aryan Kaganof of Virus Films. It is a film that follows one night of a pimp (played by Kaganof) and his two prostitutes, in Johannesburg. Kaganof shot 60 hours of footage on a Sony Erikson W900i over 12 days. But it wasn’t just one mobile with a single POV, one scene used 8 mobiles (can I say cameras?). He is now editing the film to be released at cinemas, DVD, TV, the Net and mobile phones.

[source: The Age, 4th Feb, 2006]