Diana Antunes, a student at the University of Coimbra, was honored earlier this month as an Adobe Design Achievement Awards finalist. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards is a competition of over 2700 students from 33 countries. Antunes created muxicall, a Flash-based site facilitating collaborative musical composition, which was noted in the Browser-based Design Category. Muxicall, […]
Several University of Texas at Austin students have been accepted into U.Frame, an international film and video festival taking place from October 1-5 in Porto, Portugal. Accepted entries of fiction include Gabriela Yeper’s Danzak, Nazanin Shirazi’s Red Wednesday, Molly Green’s That’s Not Funny, and Sergio Carvajal’s Un dia de anibal. Marianela Vega Oroza’s conversations […]
The Future Places festival will host three workshops addressing technical and theoretical aspects of digital media production.
The first, occurring on October 7-8, will introduce 20 participants to Arduino, a flexible physical computing platform used by artists and designers to create digital music and interactive environments, hack electronic household items, and explore the possibilities of robotics. […]
The UT Austin|Portugal Program is accepting proposals for three-month residency programs at the University of Porto and the New University of Lisbon. These residencies are intended to support creativity and exploration in the digital media field, encouraging the production of works that will impact local and global communities.
Successful applicants will receive benefits including access to […]
Festival planners are concluding negotiations with Tinker.it, a technology and design consultancy based in London and Milan, to offer a workshop on Arduino. This open-source electronics platform is known for its flexibility—allowing the creation of a wide range of interactive objects and environments—and for its accessibility, in that Arduino is simple enough to be used […]
The new Future Places website is up and running, and festival plans are progressing! The Future Places digital media festival will take place at the new Edifício Douro (Fundação da Juventude), in Porto, Portugal, from October 7th to October 19th. Future Places kicks off with two workshops on October 7 and 8, bringing together members […]
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas site now features links to videos and Powerpoint presentations from the Ibero-American Colloquium. The Colloquium, which immediately followed the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism last month, provided a venue for journalists and researchers to examine digital journalism in the Americas, Spain, and Portugal. A video of […]
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FTC Reviews Behavioral Targeting Practices
An article today on the Washington Post site—FTC Wants to Know What Big Brother Knows About You–discusses the United States Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing review of behavioral targeting practices among companies such as Yahoo! And Microsoft. While many ad-supported websites have used content-specific advertising—displaying ads for dog food when a user performs a search for […]