In cooperation between CoLab’s academic and commercialization programs, a team from UT Austin will go to Portugal during the week of March 1-7 to meet with digital media entrepreneurs and startups. The team will offer expert feedback on products and business models and share information on the entrepreneur training opportunities of the University Technology Enterprise [...]
A number of folks associated with the Digital Media Collaboration are going to be participating in SXSW. I’m going to be on a panel interrogating the question, “Are Women Taken More Seriously on the Web?,” organized by Laura Roeder of Roeder Studios.
Ivan Franco of industrial affiliate YDreams is leading a panel on “New Interfaces for [...]
Two Digital Media research projects have been funded by FCT for the coming two years, one dealing with the Portuguese population’s experiences with computers and the Internet and another directly developing new DM applications. Dr. Cristina Ponte (UNL) and Dr. Carlos Guedes (INESC-Porto) are Principal Investigators for the respective projects.
Kinetic controller driven [...]
Rhizome at the New Museum is accepting submissions for their commissions program through April 2. This funding opportunity should be of interest to some of the folks involved in CoLab Digital media programs. From the web site:
The goal of the Rhizome Commissions Program is to support emerging artists by providing grants for the creation of [...]
EC pushes for standardized phone chargers
The European Commission is planning to force cell phone companies to standardize their cell phone chargers so that all phones will use the same style of charger. The goal is to cut down on the amount of waste caused by the variety of chargers currently used. Cutting down on e waste is great, but the [...]