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Category Archives: Festivals
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Computer Animation Festival
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Computer Animation Festival is now accepting submissions. The Festival, which will take place December 15-18, 2010 in Seoul, is taking submissions until July 15. The full text of the call is below.
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Future Places Recap
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 … Continue reading
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6th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2009
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 … Continue reading
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Registration Now Open for U.Frame
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 … Continue reading
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SXSW Interactive on the horizon
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 … Continue reading
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Additional ZON Prize Winners
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 … Continue reading
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Festival Workshop Evaluations Reflect Enthusiasm, Success
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 … Continue reading
Outcomes from the Interface Design for Mobile Devices workshop
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 … Continue reading
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Back from Portugal
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 … Continue reading
U.Frame Prizes
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 … Continue reading