Scott Fisher

Title: "Big Game Design Challenge"
Speakers: Bernard David & Jerry Schubel
Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Tonight's Seminar will present a Design Challenge to IMD and serve as the kick-off meeting for a new project collaboration with the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Future of Life Organization. Presentations will be made by Jerry Schubel, President and CEO of the AOP, Bernard David, Director of FOL, and by Steve Mayer, to outline the vision and aspirations of their respective organizations. Professor Tracy Fullerton will then describe the scope of a sponsored "Big Game" project in the Game Innovation Lab that will attempt to address these needs through this spring and summer.

The project will be an exploration of the connections between people and their coastal oceans, with a design goal of raising awareness and deepen understanding of the way in which human activities on land stresses the coastal environment. Big Games and social games of this type have proven to be a rich source of community growth and activism and The Aquarium of the Pacific is the perfect platform for implementing such a game, where it can provide a playful, thought-provoking experience for participants and serve as an example of using interactivity to engage players in important dialogues about critical issues. Please attend this meeting if you have any interest in joining the project team.

Backchannel log of presentation here: Download file

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Notice anything new here ?

Boris finally figured out an elegant way to recover some IMD blog history, and has implemented a "recent entries" feature that points to previous posts in monthly clumps all the way back to April '03 (!). The hair-raising technical details of how he pulled it off are on his blog here.

Probably not going to be able to put those posts under the original author's site given the current structure. But still talking about how to implement tags and tag cloud in the near future. Any other critical features we should be thinking about?

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"Sunset: 200 MHz in a 35 MPH Zone" (1997)

Title: "Fast Forward In Reverse: Adventures in Intermedia"
Speaker: Jon Winet
Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Abstract:
Jon Winet, University of Iowa School of Art & Art History Associate Professor and Intermedia Area Head will discuss his work -- "past, present and there up ahead" -- in the broader contexts of relational aesthetics, hybrid practice, and the comparative cultures of collaborative creative art and technology research.

Links to recent work:
2004-America & The Globe http://www.2004atg.net
“The Street” http://www.the-street.net
“Monument” http://www.locusplus.org.uk/monument

Backchannel log here: Download file

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Clifford Ross with his camera, which makes 9-by-18-inch negatives that can be digitally scanned to produce extremely detailed pictures. (Image by Keith Bedford for The New York Times)

Title: "The Reality Quotient/The New i3 Media: Information, Immersion, Interactivity"
Speaker: Clifford Ross
Time: Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Abstract: A slide lecture covering the invention of the R1 camera system to capture Colorado's Mt. Sopris in a single shot gigapixel image, and the subsequent development of the highest resolution display system in the world. An artist at play in the world of science and computing.

Backchannel log here: Download file

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From Digitalmediawire:

Director James Cameron ("Titanic," "The Terminator") plans to produce a sci-fi film that will first be introduced to consumers through an online multiplayer game before it debuts in theaters, BusinessWeek Online reported. "So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level," Cameron told BusinessWeek Online. "We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world." Cameron is reportedly already at work on the screenplay for "Project 880," which he said is still at least two years off.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_07/b3971073.htm

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During Mimi and Daisuke's forum this week, a couple questions were asked about the transition from moblogging to more pervasive lifelogging. Here's a summary of a provocative talk on this topic by Jamais Cascio called "The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon". And an earlier article on "The Personal Panopticon" by Anil Dash here. And some ancient posts here.

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