The South by Southwest festival and conference is now accepting panel proposals through its online panel picker system through July 10. Potential presenters can submit proposals for panels for each of the three conferences, Interactive, Film, and Music. The Digital Media program has hosted presenters at SXSW for the past two years, and we encourage [...]
The seventh annual International Symposium on Interactive Media Design invites proposals for the event hosted by Yeditepe University in Istanbul from October 13 to 15 2009. Proposals for papers, workshops, and art must be submitted in English and are due by September 14, 2009.
The full text of the call is below the fold, and you [...]
Many users have tried to post to the DM-CoLab blog using Microsoft Word. Generally, this is not recommended for formatting reasons, but it turns you can post to this blog using Word 2007. If you use this word processing package and would like to post directly to the blog with Word, you can follow these [...]
U.Frame, an international academic film festival sponsored by U.Porto, has opened registration for competitors. The festival will take place from September 30th to October 4th 2009 in Porto. Registration will be open until May 30th, 2009, and submissions of competition works will continue until July 30th. The festival accepts entries in four categories, Documentary, Fiction, [...]
The Digital Media Program congratulates additional winners in the ZON Multimedia Creativity Prize. These winners come from a variety of multimedia fields and each of the winners will receive support to study at UT Austin.
In the applications category, the firm Comm Together won first prize for its “Astrolab 0.1” application, a multimedia multi-platform display that [...]
With Richard Garriott making headlines for his trip to the International Space Station, readers may be interested in learning more about his past. Last Fall, veteran video game executive Warren Spector invited several industry luminaries to come to UT to speak in his video game master class.
Video podcasts of several of the sessions are now [...]
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU suite of applications celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. To commemorate the anniversary, British comedian Stephen Fry appears in this video, titled, “Happy Birthday to GNU”, which also provides a nice introduction to the principles behind Free Software. (I came across this on Larry Lessig’s blog.) For more [...]
The National Science Foundation recently posted a Flash-based multimedia presentation titled ” NSF and the Birth of the Internet” that describes the agency’s role in developing the decentralized communication system. Clearly it represents the institutional voice in the internet’s history, but it could provide an interesting learning tool for students or those who lack a [...]
Virtual Campaign
This week, US citizens began noticing billboards promoting Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. This would be nothing new, except the billboards appear in the XBox 360 game “Burnout Paradise.” The Obama campaign has sunk a portion of its funds into advertising in online games. The skeptic in me doubts that these ads would have much [...]