Time: Wednesday, November 17, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122 Wearing Multiple Hats & Your Guest’s Shoes: Designing & Producing Interactive Experiences for Public Venues Andrew Sacher is the principal of SacherCreative and an alum (2006) of the Interactive Media Division’s MFA program (2006). He has more than 20 [...]

HASTAC Tent = THREE of top FIVE PROJECTS Barcelona, Spain. November 5, 2010. I just returned from participating in the Mozilla Foundation’s DRUMBEAT Festival on “Learning, Freedom, and the Open Web” held in Barcelona, Spain, Nov 3-5, 2010. I presented two sessions as part of the HASTAC tent called “Storming the Academy.” 1) Storming the Cloud/Crowd : An improvisation and [...]

Time: Wednesday, November 3, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122 Please join us for discussion with Tom Frisina, Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners who will discuss aspects of games, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Joining EA in 1997 as Vice President of EA’s affiliated label business, then called [...]

Time: Wednesday, October 20, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122 Please join us for discussion with Joseph Garlington who leads the Creative Interactive Attractions group at Walt Disney Imagineering. The topic of his talk and discussion will focus on “Big Games for Big Places.” As he notes: his [...]

Speakers: Brenda Brathwaite and John Romero Time: Wednesday, October 6, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122 John Romero “Masters Among Us” Artists in other mediums look back upon their masters and, intrigued, inspired or challenged by their methods and works, they innovate upon them in dramatic ways. Just as Cubism [...]

Bang Bang, You’re Dead Speakers: IMD Students Time: Wednesday, September 29, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 116 Please join us for PechaKucha presentations by nine IMD students. PechaKucha Nights were first developed in Japan in 2003 as an event for young designers to show work and network with other [...]

Speaker: Scott Rogers, THQ Time: Wednesday, September 15, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 116 44 Things You Should Know about Making Video Games Scott Rogers, video game designer, THQ creative manager and author of Level Up! The Guide To Great Video Game Design, shares with you 44 things he’s [...]

Speaker:  Don Levy, Sony Pictures Imageworks Time: Wednesday, September  8, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 116 Crewed-Source Production: Collaborative crowd-sourcing with a professional edge

Please join us for a presentation by visiting scholar Don Levy.  He is working out the pieces of a new approach to crowdsourcing, that he refers [...]

Speaker: S. Joy Mountford, Osher Fellow, Exploratorium Time: Wednesday, April 7, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Visualizations of Our Collective Lives The lines between art, design, and information are dissolving as we experience new places and objects. Consider, for example, the organic flow of [...]

Speaker: Alan Gershenfeld, Games for Change Time: Wednesday, March 24, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Please join us for a presentation by Alan Gershenfeld who is the Chairman of Games for Change, the founder of E-Line Media and former Senior Vice President at [...]

Speaker: Norman Hollyn, Associate Professor, Editing Track Head, School of Cinematic Arts, USC Time: Wednesday, March 3, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Please join us for a talk by Professor Norman Hollyn who is Head of the Editing Track in the Production Division [...]

Speaker: Casey Reas, Digital | Media Arts, UCLA

Time: Wednesday, February 17, 6-8 pm

Location: KERCKHOFF HALL

734 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 90089

Speaker: Simon Penny, Professor of Arts and Engineering, UCI Time: Wednesday, February 10, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Designing Embodied Interaction: Aesthetic, Technical and Theoretical Issues Please join us for a talk by Professor Simon Penny, who is an artist, engineer, and designer of [...]

Speaker: Professor Milind Tambe Time: Wednesday, February 3, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Multiagent systems: Lessons learned from putting theory into practice Milind Tambe Teamcore research group http://teamcore.usc.edu/tambe http://teamcore.usc.edu How do we build multiagent systems? Today, within the agents and multiagent systems community, we [...]

Speaker: Neil Leach, USC, School of Architecture Time: Wednesday, January 27, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Please join us for a presentation by Professor Neil Leach titled: “Swarm Urbanism.” In his book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Cities and Software , Steven Johnson presents [...]

Speaker: Mark Allen, Machine Project Time: Wednesday, January 20, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator based in Los Angeles. He is the founder and executive director of Machine Project , a non-profit performance and installation space investigating art, [...]

Speaker: Jesper Juul, New York Game Center Time: Wednesday, January 13, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) The Rise of Casual Games It seems like only yesterday that video games were considered the province of males between 12 and 35. Yet with the launch of the [...]

Happy New Year! We have an inspiring list of speakers for the Spring 2010 IMD weekly Forum. Time: Wednesdays, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) (NOTE: Location changes will be announced on a weekly basis) Jan 13: Jesper Juul, New York University Game Center Jan [...]