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 [...]
An outcomes document from the Interface Design for Mobile Devices workshop is now available [5.7 MB PDF].
Teams developed projects in user interface design and information structures for using mobile devices to explore a physical location, the Serralves Foundation in Porto. The workshop was held October 7-9 at Serralves as part of the Future Places festival.
If you can’t be in Porto for Future Places during the second week of October, consider attending the Flow Conference at UT Austin instead.
The Flow Conference is organized as a set of roundtable discussions rather than as a traditional series of paper presentations. It is hosted by the graduate students and faculty of the [...]
Twitter, the microblogging tool, is not only a handy way to keep up with your friend’s breakfast, your friend’s cat, and your friend’s cat’s breakfast. Now you can also use it to keep up with activities of the UT Austin|Portugal Collaboratory, including the digital media program.
Check us out: http://twitter.com/UTPortugal
Mark Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Howard Shelanski of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology will be featured speakers at an event next Monday at the LBJ Library at UT.
The next President’s policy team will have the opportunity to shape a significant debate on the future development of what is clearly [...]
Starting April 24 and running weekly through June 12th, the Austin chapter of the Rice Alliance is offering a workshop on how to start and grow a digital media company. It will be Thursday afternoons from 4:00 to 6:00 PM and there is a fee. The Austin Technology Incubator is a sponsor.
Details are [...]
On the heels of SXSW Interactive 2008, it’s time to look ahead to other events coming up in Portugal and Austin.
Ana already mentioned Offf 2008, the “International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture” which is moving from its usual Barcelona location to Lisbon May 8-10.
Other major digital media events scheduled in Portugal:
Indie Lisboa, the 5th [...]
Last summer Karen Kocher of the UT Austin Dept. of Radio, Television and Film conducted a week-long short course in interactive documentary in Porto, Portugal. Sixteen participants produced seven short documentaries about Porto inspired by the silent-era “city symphony” tradition.
You can see the videos online as well as background about the process at: [...]