Program GPS Forum / Masterclasses
Coming up is a masterclass for film / documentary makers and digital media producers. The masterclass provides an overview of the creative and technical aspects of producing original digital media content for GPS enabled smart phones. We see GPS enabled devices as a significant emerging media platform, capable of delivering rich screen content including video, audio and animation to a broad audience base.
GPS units and other mobile devices such as iPods / iphones / smart phones etc, have become sophisticated media players, and new markets are emerging that provide users with short audio/visual content which is location related. Like any other new media or communications technology, GPS enabled media players require engaging content. The issue is: where are the content creators and project producers?
This masterclass and forum aim to create a potential pool of content producers at an early stage of the technology uptake and provide linkages to future clients and project partners.
This 2.5 days masterclass with cover topics such as:
- The grammar of the small screen and episodic narratives;
- Cross platform production;
- The virtual audio world in the physical space;
- Pacing the narrative, moving with the story;
- Writing for cross-platforms;
- Tools and Technologies for GPS creative content;
- Technical & business environments;
- Emerging markets;
- The production cycle.
Location: Thinkspace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Start Date: 1 July 2009, 10am
Finish Date: 3-July-2009 12noon
Hours: 10am-5.00pm
Course Fee: $220
Masterclass presenters include:
Therese Fingleton: Therese is a project manager, web producer and digital consultant with close to 15 years experience in ICT. Most recently as the Digital Strategy Project Manager at the Australia Council for the Arts, Therese developed a national strategy on support for arts content in the digital era; managed 'Story of the Future', an initiative to support writers and producers to develop new media projects for commercial take up and co-authored a guide to the craft and business of new media writing, The writer's guide to making a digital living (2008). Therese sits on the national Steering Committee of the Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance (MEGA) and is the producer of 'The TEN Project', a global project developing an arts-driven social networking game about the future of cities with after-school groups worldwide from Sydney to São Paulo to New York.
Nigel Helyer: (a.k.a. DrSonique) is an independent Anglo-Australian sculptor and sound-artist. He is the director of a small multi-disciplinary team “Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture” with an international reputation for large scale sound-sculpture installations, environmental public art-works, museum inter-actives and new media projects. His activities include; the development of a powerful virtual audio reality mapping system, “Sonic Landscapes” in collaboration with Lake Technology (now Dolby Australia) and he is the Artistic Director of the AudioNomad Research Group developing location sensitive environmental audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
Mike Pelletier: Canadian artist Mike Pelletier works in the realms of new media, digital fabrication, art and technology. His work includes location-based cinema, game modifications, generative artworks and physical installations using rapid-prototyping technologies. His artworks have been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design's Media Arts and Digital Technologies program. He spent 5 years working in the Banff Centre's Creative Electronic Environment working with artists helping them overcome numerous complex technological hurdles. Currently he lives and works in the Netherlands where works at Fablab Amsterdam exploring the emerging world of Digital Fabrication.
Kylie Robertson: Kylie Robertson is a multi award-winning practitioner, expert and sought-after speaker in the field of interactive and cross platform media. Kylie originally trained as a scientific photographer and progressed to international recognition as an interactive filmmaker with her film 'Silent Passages' which won a spot at MILIA 2000 Cannes and festival screenings around the world. Kylie worked as a senior interactive designer and studio manager at Digital Pictures where her work spanned both broadcast and interactive platforms. Alumni of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & TV, Kylie lectured at VCA in visual effects and screen design from 2002-2005, and Imaging Theory to Creative Media students at RMIT.
Kylie has held key roles as Concept Creator, Co-Writer and Project Director for pioneering interactive projects Jupiter Green and Girl Friday. Kylie has won numerous Australian and international awards for innovation and artistic achievements and has had her work exhibited around the world. Kylie is now a principal of Ish Media and holds the position of Creative Director.
Shane Williamson has worked in both the information technology and mobile industries in various technical, marketing, strategy and management roles. Shane’s extensive experience has included roles within the South Pacific and South East Asian regions, working for companies such as Microsoft, 3 Australia and Optus. Active in industry development, Shane is a committee member of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) Mobile Industry Group (MIG) (http://www.aimia.com.au/mobile) as well as co-founder of the Sydney chapter of Mobile Monday (http://www.mobilemondaysydney.com). Convergence and innovation of mobile technologies are Shane’s passions and he has established a Blog called Shane’s Place to publish his findings and articles written on these subjects and discuss them with the global community. Shane is currently on the board of directors of a Brisbane based mobile company called Orange.Dot who are developing an innovative mobile phone for people who have disabilities that prevent them from using new technologies.
http://shanewilliamson.spaces.live.com/
The Forum
The half day forum at the conclusion of the masterclass is designed to draw together both creators and potential adopters of this content to learn about GPS as an important new technology, extending the delivery platform of a traditional documentary or fictional project, and create original content specifically for the locative media device.
Forum Speakers :
Grainne Brunsdon (executive director, British Council), Therese Fingleton (cross-platform specialist), Richard Fox (designer and developer), Mike Pelletier (artist/designer/developer), Shane Williamson (co-founder: Mobile Monday), Daniel Woo (Research and development in user experience).
Forum Location: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Date: Friday 3 July 2009, 2 – 5pm
Fee: $20
(Free to workshop participants)