Two key events that address cross-media entertainment from an industry and academic perspective are happening this year. One is in Italy, the other in Amsterdam. Cross-Media #1 is being held on March 21st in Roma. Here are the details (in Italian!):  Cross-media #1 è il primo evento in Italia dedicato alla comunicazione cross-mediale. Una giornata di

Mediamatic are running a machinima workshop on the 14-17th March and lecture on the 16th March in Amsterdam. workshop: In this workshop traditional film making techniques are combined with real-time scripting within a virtual environment. Participants will be guided through Machinima production process by experts from the fields of gamedesign and animation. Besides technical instructions

I love Google Earth, for what it could do, and I love maps, for what they do. Using technology and location representations as well as RL locations is big. Location, location, location. Whether it is virtual or real, you have to at least contextualise yourself according to some real or virtual grid. Here is a round-up of