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 IML’s Digital Studies Symposium tonight presents video producer Eve Marson, who has worked on both feature films and short documentary videos, many of which are featured on the Good website. She will talk about tactics for creating highly effective web-based projects starting at 6:00 p.m. in SCA 112.

LA-based media artist Chandler McWilliams, co-author of Form + Code: In Design, Art and Architecture , will present a lecture, followed by a short screening of computational videos, on Monday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m. in SCA 112. Sponsored by the Visions and Voices Arts and Humanities Initiative and presented by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, the [...]

The IML’s Digital Studies Symposium presents Dan Goods, Visual Strategist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Goods’ work includes large, pubic interactive media projects that communicate scientific ideas, as well as more personal art projects. For his upcoming presentation, Goods will focus on a new interactive installation, Beneath the Surface: NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter, currently [...]

The Digital Studies Symposium presents Alex Braidwood on Monday, September 19, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in SCA 112. Braidwood is a designer, media artist and design educator whose work centers on play, experimentation and research through making. In recent efforts, Braidwood has explored methods for transforming the relationship between people and the noise in their [...]

Artist, designer and new media scholar Andreas Kratky will present a talk titled “The Poetics of the Database” for the Digital Studies Symposium on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in SCA 112. Kratky’s award-winning work has been exhibited internationally, and includes the interactive installation and DVD “Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles [...]

The IML’s Digital Design Symposium kicks off this semester on Monday, August 29, 2011 SCA 112 at 7:00 p.m. with media designer Anne Burdick and a presentation titled “Micro Mega Meta.” Burdick will talk about a design-driven inquiry that took place this summer exploring the future of humanities research and scholarly production. Through the creation [...]

Also from Holly’s Media Arts Preview for KCET: The Mods & Hackers show at YoungProjects gallery offers an amazing show of video game inspired art work, including projects by Eddo Stern, Joseph DeLappe and Palle Torsson. The show weaves a combination of recent and now “classic” game/art work into a history that includes net art, Fluxus, generative [...]

Holly’s LA Weekly article on the Marco Brambilla show “The Dark Lining” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art includes interviews with artists and luminaries of stereoscopic 3D including Ray Zone, Zoe Beloff and IMD’s own Perry Hoberman. Brambilla actually claims that his amazing centerpiece 3D projects Civilization (Megaplex) and Evolution (Megaplex) constitute the first use of stereo [...]

After a spectacular performance Friday night, artist, designer and engineer Toby Harris of the VJ collective D-Fuse will talk about his research and artwork related to “liveness” in this semester’s final Digital Studies Symposium presentation tonight at 7:00 p.m. “In the 1970s, cinema was expanded,” he explains, referencing Gene Youngblood’s seminal exploration of avant-garde film [...]

Slashdot reported that Google’s April 1st prank announcing a gestural interface for Gmail dubbed Gmail Motion received a same-day response from IMD’s own Mixed Reality lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies, highlighting its own, very real gestural control system “Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST)” developed for Kinect. Slashdot sez: “In this tongue-in-cheek video, researchers at [...]

On April 4th, the IML Digital Studies Symposium presents media artist and scholar George Legrady. Legrady’s talk will focus on exploring the intersections of data, art and interaction design. George Legrady is an artist whose interactive installations and web-based artworks make use of data collection, data processing methodologies and data visualization. “I have integrated digital processes [...]