The International School on Digital Transformation wrapped up a few weeks ago in Porto, and by all accounts it was a great success. The program featured five days of discussion among 50 students and professionals and presentations by 30 academics and practitioners. Students came from places as far as East Timor and as near by [...]
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’ [...]
Several University of Texas at Austin students have been accepted into U.Frame, an international film and video festival taking place from October 1-5 in Porto, Portugal. Accepted entries of fiction include Gabriela Yeper’s Danzak, Nazanin Shirazi’s Red Wednesday, Molly Green’s That’s Not Funny, and Sergio Carvajal’s Un dia de anibal. Marianela Vega Oroza’s conversations [...]
The Future Places festival will host three workshops addressing technical and theoretical aspects of digital media production.
The first, occurring on October 7-8, will introduce 20 participants to Arduino, a flexible physical computing platform used by artists and designers to create digital music and interactive environments, hack electronic household items, and explore the possibilities of robotics. [...]
The UT Austin|Portugal Program is accepting proposals for three-month residency programs at the University of Porto and the New University of Lisbon. These residencies are intended to support creativity and exploration in the digital media field, encouraging the production of works that will impact local and global communities.
Successful applicants will receive benefits including access to [...]
Festival planners are concluding negotiations with Tinker.it, a technology and design consultancy based in London and Milan, to offer a workshop on Arduino. This open-source electronics platform is known for its flexibility—allowing the creation of a wide range of interactive objects and environments—and for its accessibility, in that Arduino is simple enough to be used [...]
The new Future Places website is up and running, and festival plans are progressing! The Future Places digital media festival will take place at the new Edifício Douro (Fundação da Juventude), in Porto, Portugal, from October 7th to October 19th. Future Places kicks off with two workshops on October 7 and 8, bringing together members [...]
We’re getting ready to inaugurate a new, month-long program of several workshops with the New University of Lisbon. Several UT faculty members are gearing up to teach a variety of film, journalism and TV-related classes including screenwriting; digital documentary; online journalism; music for film, video and games; digital Hollywood; and advanced graphics rendering and [...]
Source: Edificio Douro’s blog
After the success of the Digital Media Festival in 2007, the UT-Portugal partnership is organizing a new edition. For 2008 the title will be “Future Places”.
With Future Places the partnership wants to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. The call for entries is addresses to those who are blurring [...]
Television spot on the exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFPYjzQJyk
March 26 – April 12, 2008 | Gallery Plano B, Rua Cândido dos Reis | Porto, Portugal
This post mostly in Portuguese…
Citação do site oficial: “A Exposição ACTION IN THE BOX, redescobre a relação entre acção e a sua documentação apresentando vídeos de participantes do AdA festival em acção.[...]
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