Dr. Derek Lackaff recently joined the project as a Postdoctoral Fellow in RTF at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his doctorate in Communication at SUNY-Buffalo, where his work focused on social media, social network analysis and methodologies, and the social psychology of communication technology use. He is interested in crossdisciplinary approaches to [...]
We have had a very busy summer so far. The Summer Institute once again conducted classes in Lisbon and Porto for enrolled graduate students, individuals associated with our industrial affiliates, or interested individuals meeting the course qualifications. We offered two-week, intensive courses in the areas of Online Journalism (Rosental Alves), Screenwriting (Richard Lewis), Convergent [...]
Congratulations to Nuno Rocha, winner of the national ZON-sponsored multimedia competition in Portugal. The prize includes the opportunity to spend time at the University of Texas as part of the UT-Portugal program and also carries a 100,000 Euros award and the opportunity to air his work on television and movie theatres.
uno Rocha is interested in [...]
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
Many institutions worldwide are endorsing May 16th as the first International Day for Sharing Life Stories.
Bookmark www.ausculti.org to know about the events to occur that day as endorsing institutions get organized!
I quote from the site:
“ We invite you and/or your organization to endorse our joint call for Listen! – International Day for Sharing Life Stories, [...]
It was a great day for Austin when Scott Stark decided to swap San Francisco for the capital of Texas.
And it was a great day yesterday when a small crowd gathered at the Austin Film Society for the bold kick-off of a bimonthly Avant Cinema series, Getting Nowhere Slow by Scott Stark.
Stark is a brilliant [...]
ESTA SEMANA Residências ZDB * Portas abertas ao público
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Sábado e Domingo 19 e 20 de Janeiro das 16 às 22 horas.
António Bolota, Natxo Checa, Rita GT, Luísa Seixas, Eduardo Guerra, Inês Botelho, Mattia Denisse, Gonçalo Pena, Ivo, Ihosvanny, João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva, Carlos Godinho, Kiluanje Hia Henda, Francisco Vidal
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I like this blog… entitled “a source of inspiration”:
“Because the geography of post-digital art is based on continuous motion.
Because frontiers are just lines on a map.
Because OFFF is not about where. It is about when, what, who and how.
Because OFFF is a dynamic event.
Because the time is right for a change
And change means evolution
Because all [...]
Offf Lisbon takes offf on May 8, 2008 and runs thru the 10th. It ’s the first time Offf goes to Portugal. Confirmed guests are:
Andreas Philström aka Suprb, Bradley Grosh aka Gmunk, Trafik, Rob Chiu & Chris Hewitt aka Devoid of Yesterday, Aer Visual Studio, Régine Debatty from We Make Money Not Art, [...]
João Sàágua, João Mário Grilo and Rui Cádima will be visiting UT from the 15th thru the 18th of January, 2008. This is their first official visit to UT under the UT_Portugal partnership. The main purposes of this visit are:
- to meet with faculty that are already working or will soon be working [...]