The IML’s Digital Studies Symposium presents Andy Merkin of the Venice-based transmedia studio Mirada on Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m., in SCA 112. Mirada was founded a year ago by Guillermo del Toro and members of the design firm Motion Theory as a “storytelling engine” and “imaginarium” dedicated to new forms of transmedia storytelling. The company’s first projects include “3 Dreams of Black,” a music video by Chris Milk for which Mirada assisted with the conceptual design, animation and technology. Merkin, a graduate of MIT and HEC-Paris, will talk about that project, as well as Mirada’s recent IBM Think exhibit (an interactive experience in New York’s Lincoln Center), and DHM, a web-based extension of del Toro’s horror series, The Strain Trilogy.
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