by Peter Giles
There’s certainly a groundswell of interest in emerging media from TV and radio broadcasters, telcos, converged media companies, digital agencies and even the funding agencies. A lot has changed in three years and there is now much more openness to considering content propositions which aren’t limited to a single media platform or format. But I [...]
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MIT has put students to work creating mobile applications for the iphone and android platforms among others. The results look impressive after a 13 week development period. They’re predicting that creating this kind of application is only going to get easier over time. Read the article and see a selection of the applications featured here. [...]
Read More...Fresh, compelling and rapidly developed. De Blob was created by a group of students at the HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts) and Utrecht University. The game was subsequently bought up by THQ and is now being developed as a new Wii title by Blue Tongue games in Melbourne. This is a great example of [...]
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Designers, digital artists, documentary producers and directors joined up for the first AFTRS emerging media design lab. Teams formed around four creative projects which morphed into compelling new media services in a rapid development process. Mentors Gary Hayes, Catherine Gleeson, Belinda Bennetts and Gary Hayes led the workshop which will result in four prototypes of [...]
Read More...I visited the new Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Centre campus in Adelaide last week and can report that their program is very forward thinking and innovative. I met with faculty members who were both from computer science, animation, writing and editing backgrounds – all had extensive industry experience in computer games, film or other areas [...]
Read More...A new course has been scheduled in Emerging Media Design – beginning in late May. Taught by multi-talented designer Catherine Gleeson the course will explore some of the frontiers of future media – from navigation interfaces to cross media branding and enhanced television. The course has been inspired by many of the major changes taking [...]
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