Future Places. Porto, Portugal, 2009

Blogging from the MAPA meeting. Representatives from over 10 Portuguese Universities are addressing strategies for teaching and research in digital media – sharing experience and working out how to collaborate. Philip Dean will talk in a few minutes, sharing examples from MediaLab Helsinki.
The exhibition opens at 7 at Reitoria – a showcase of submissions related [...]

SMS sent via iPhone 10 Oct 2008 20:47 from Porto to Stockholm
“One of the most incredible KREV days ever in Porto. Full report when I get home…”

www.transmedia.be
web.ccre.arq.up.pt
ydreams.com
www.elgaland-vargaland.org

touchmusic.org.uk
bjnilsen.com
chriswatson.net
janawinderen.com
urbansync.wordpress.com
utaustinportugal.org
colab.ic2.utexas.edu/idporto2007
utaustinportugal.org/Events.aspx?event=167

We now have a second blog with photo, audio and video coverage of the Festival activities. Follow the updates by day:
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A few snapshots from the chill-out meetings at the end of the workday – but starting tomorrow we´re no longer meeting at the Mercure: Thursday at 6 we´ll be chilling to BJNilsen´s filed recordings at Casa da Música, and starting at 10 we´ll be at Passos Manuel watching two fine showreels from B&W and U.Frame.

Alex, [...]

Mónica Mendes and Nuno Correia hard at work. The outcomes of the workshop will be presented at the Friday conference.

(photos by Luís Barbosa)

A photo from this morning´s session. We´ll regularly upload documentation of all events. Notice Andrea´s bare feet, a testament to this morning´s downpour!

(photo: Karen Gustafson)

Washing up the city in time for the Festival opening. Porto, October 7, 10:30am. Photo by Aleksandar Zivanovic.

NEWSFLASH: After this morning´s wet start, weather is supposed to improve significantly!
Stephan Baumann is suggetsing we look into his blog as a preview of the areas he´ll be covering at the Friday conference (School of Fine Arts). Check it HERE.

Here is a message from Caroline Frick, director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, speaking on the Thursday session starting at 2:30PM:

Olá!!  I am excited to be finally here in Porto for the Future Places conference.
Far too often, digital media are seen and discussed solely as new, cutting edge technologies.  But what if [...]