The FuturePlaces multimedia festival took place in Porto, Portugal last week. Supported by the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Program, the festival consisted of a series of workshops, concerts, and panels, as well as a juried art exhibition. The theme of the festival is how digital media intersects with local cultures, but of course [...]
SMC 2009 is the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference. After previous editions in Paris, Salerno, Marseille, Lefkada and Berlin, it will be held between 23 and 25 July 2009 at the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal.
The Sound and Music Computing Conference is a privileged forum in Europe for the promotion of international exchanges around Sound [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most of the evaluations are in for the Future Places Festival workshops Interface Design for Mobile Devices and Introduction to Arduino, and so far they show a unanimously positive response from workshop participants.
People taking part in the workshops were asked to fill out brief forms which included questions about how the sessions met the participants’ [...]
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.
Just back from Portugal and 16 hours of sleep. Oporto rocks all day and all night. It was tough to keep up. I don’t know how those who had to be in school today did it.
But it was a blast.
As we were a particularly large group (both of the Ryans, Molly, Keith, [...]
Here it is, the Prizes list at U.Frame – International Academic Video Festival, organized by University of Porto between 01 and 05 Oct:
MediaLight Prize
“15 Frames”, Rui Coelho, Portugal
Audience Prize
“Red Wednesday”, Nazanin Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Fiction
Experimental Prize
“Alkhass”, Vasco Portugal, Restart, Portugal
Special Mention / Experimental
“Echo”, Benjamin Moritz Gronau, Filmakademie Baden-Wutenberg, Germany
Animation Prize
“Solos”, David [...]
Yesterday Andrew Shea made a great presentation in the master class “The border between fiction and narrative in student filmmaking”, at U.Frame – International Academic Video Festival, in Porto.
We had the opportunity to see and comment some UT students fictional and documentary films, and think about the blurred boundaries between those paradigms (if it’s possible [...]