Author Archives: dmcolab

Future Places - the Digital Media Festival 2008 is underway!

Source: Edificio Douro’s blog
After the success of the Digital Media Festival in 2007, the UT-Portugal partnership is organizing a new edition. For 2008 the title will be “Future Places”.
With Future Places the partnership wants to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. The call for entries is addresses to those who are blurring […]

Fernando Zamith to present at the International Symposium on Online Journalism on April 4-5

Fernando Zamith (University of Porto, Lusa, and student of the very new PhD under the UT-Portugal partnership) will be presenting a paper in the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It’s coming up: April 4-5!!
Fernando’s presentation - A Methodological Proposal to Analyze the News Websites Use of the Potentialities of The Internet - will be part […]

Rosental Alves on Online Journalism

Rosental Alves, professor at the School of Journalism at the College of Communication and lead faculty in the area of online journalism - not only at UT but arguably in the world - was in Portugal in February to speak for journalists and scholars in Lisbon and Porto in the context of the UT-Portugal partnership.
Rosental […]

“Action in the Box” - Screenings of AdA video festival

Television spot on the exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFPYjzQJyk
March 26 - April 12, 2008 | Gallery Plano B, Rua Cândido dos Reis | Porto, Portugal
This post mostly in Portuguese…

Citação do site oficial: “A Exposição ACTION IN THE BOX, redescobre a relação entre acção e a sua documentação apresentando vídeos de participantes do AdA festival em acção.[…]
ACTION IN THE […]

Collaboration in international communities

At SXSW Interactive 2008, yours truly (Ana Boa-Ventura) will be along with Prentiss Riddle (CoLab, UT-Portugal partnership) in the panel strangely entitled:
Redrum in the Rue Morgue: collaboration in international communities
Besides the obvious nods to Jack Nicholson and Edgar Allan Poe, what is this panel about? Read about it and if you’re in Austin, join us […]

International Day for Sharing Life Stories

Many institutions worldwide are endorsing May 16th as the first International Day for Sharing Life Stories.
Bookmark www.ausculti.org to know about the events to occur that day as endorsing institutions get organized!

I quote from the site:
“ We invite you and/or your organization to endorse our joint call for Listen! - International Day for Sharing Life Stories, […]

Scott Stark kicks-off a new Avant Cinema series, with “Getting Nowhere Slow”

It was a great day for Austin when Scott Stark decided to swap San Francisco for the capital of Texas.
And it was a great day yesterday when a small crowd gathered at the Austin Film Society for the bold kick-off of a bimonthly Avant Cinema series, Getting Nowhere Slow by Scott Stark.
Stark is a brilliant […]

ZBD - artists in residency “residências ZBD”

ESTA SEMANA Residências ZDB * Portas abertas ao público
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Sábado e Domingo 19 e 20 de Janeiro das 16 às 22 horas.
António Bolota, Natxo Checa, Rita GT, Luísa Seixas, Eduardo Guerra, Inês Botelho, Mattia Denisse, Gonçalo Pena, Ivo, Ihosvanny, João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva, Carlos Godinho, Kiluanje Hia Henda, Francisco Vidal
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Taking offf

I like this blog… entitled “a source of inspiration”:
“Because the geography of post-digital art is based on continuous motion.
Because frontiers are just lines on a map.
Because OFFF is not about where. It is about when, what, who and how.
Because OFFF is a dynamic event.
Because the time is right for a change
And change means evolution
Because all […]

ok Portugal is definitely on the Digital Media international map

Offf Lisbon takes offf on May 8, 2008 and runs thru the 10th. It ’s the first time Offf goes to Portugal. Confirmed guests are:
Andreas Philström aka Suprb, Bradley Grosh aka Gmunk, Trafik, Rob Chiu & Chris Hewitt aka Devoid of Yesterday, Aer Visual Studio, Régine Debatty from We Make Money Not Art, […]