Cross-Media + Transmedia Entertainment

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss

BarCampSydney is here again!

Yes, that is right. Earlier this year I co-unorganised the first BarCampSydney (at the same time many BarCamps were held in Australia). I had a great time the first time around, as you can see from my write-up of the event. Now, due to popular demand (!) BarCampSydney is back! You can ...

DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

The DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts will be held on the 19th - 21st September 2007 in Perth, Western Australia. DIMEA 2007 is organised jointly by Murdoch University and ACM SIG CHI (Singapore Chapter). DIMEA 2007 is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring ...

PerGames 2007 + IperG Tutorials

The next PerGames conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria, on the 11-12th June.   The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. At the conference, IperG, the pervasive gaming design research group, are also running a series of tutorials: PIMP ...

CFP: 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution

Whew! What a title. AXMEDIS looks interesting. The conference is being held on the 28-30th November at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. In the Internet as well as in the digital era, cross-media production and distribution represent key developments and innovations that are fostered by emergent technologies to ensure better value ...

Conference: Imagine Media! Media Borders and Intermediality

I missed the CFP for this conference but for those interested here is some info: Nordic Society for Interarts Studies is pleased to announce its eighth conference, to be held at Vaxjo University, Sweden, 25-28 October 2007. What is intermediality? To answer this question, one must first ask: What is a medium, ...

Transmedia Interactions and Digital Games Workshop – Salzburg

Thankyou Sal for the heads up on this great event. The Human-Computer Interaction Design Department at School of Infomatics, Indiana University, are calling for workshop participants. The workshop 'Transmedial Interactions and Digital Games' is held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (http://www.ace2007.org/ ) ...

Cross-Media Event in Italy #2

Max Giovagnoli -- a long-time cyberspace and cross-media colleague and Head of Cross-Media.it, Link Campus, University of Malta Rome -- is running the Cross-Media event in Italy. This is Max's second cross-media event. It will be held in rome on the 24th of March and it looks like he has flown ...

CFP: Interactive Entertainment 2007

I'm on the Conference Management Committee of this wonderful event. I hope to see alot of you there... The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007 3-5 December 2007 Storey Hall, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au/ SUBMISSION DEADLINES: *Proposals for panels and abstract for individual papers: 30th May 2007 Full Papers (max 8 pages): 15th June 2007 Short papers ...

TV of Tomorrow, next month

  Tracey Swedlow, the lady behind the ultra informative [itvt] is holding an industry conference, TV of Tomorrow Show. I have mentioned this before, but thought a reminder post was due since it is being held on March 13-14th in San Francisco, California. The event will include the announcement of the ...

TransISTor 2007: cross-media gaming courses

TransISTor is a training initiative organised by CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies in cooperation with FAMU - Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union. TransISTor focuses on computer games technologies while opening ...

Death of a Blog, Birth of a Podcast

** SHORT VERSION: I'M NOW BLOGGING AT WWW.CHRISTYDENA.COM ** Well, not quite 'death' but an indefinite hiatus. I'm powering down this blog for a few reasons, one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I've tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work ...
October 17th 2007
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Dynamic Logic’s Latest Cross-Media Campaigns Study

Dynamic Logic have just released their latest study: Dynamic Logic, a Millward Brown company, releases new analysis of 32 cross-media campaigns across ten categories showing that media work best when used together. All three media platforms – television, magazines, and online – contribute incrementally to brand metrics, but at different levels, bringing ...
October 16th 2007
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David Varela on Writing for ARGs

David Varela, one of the writers who worked on Mind Candy's alternate reality game Perplex City , has an article on writing for the ARG in the September issue (36) of Scriptwriting Magazine. Check it out: http://www.scriptwritermagazine.com/

Primer for the CSI:NY & Second Life Crossover is Online

As I've mentioned before, the upcoming episode (Wed Oct 24th in the US) of CSI:NY will feature and continue in the online virtual world Second Life. A primer has been released on youtube, getting audiences excited and prepared for cross-platform traversal, which is good!: [youtube 3-ZmjA7GCzQ]
October 16th 2007
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Script Cops! If only there were real…

I found these on John August's blog. Priceless. From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 1: Domestic Disturbance From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 2: McKee Sting From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 3: Traffic Stop