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COLAB UPDATE - Moving Onward and Upward
We are very pleased to announce that CoLab and the Interdisciplinary Unit of the Faculty of Design and Creative technologies at AUT will be merging to create a new entity - called CoLab. The co-directors are Associate Professor, Charles Walker and Associate Professor, Frances Joseph.
The new CoLab and will engage with research and development, teaching, learning and building relationships with industry and community stakeholders in areas of creative technologies, design and innovation, creative entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary practices.
We are very excited at the potential of bringing these two organisations together and building on existing momentum. In December 2012 CoLab, including the Marker workshop programme, will be moving to new accommodation on levels 10 and 11 of the new WG building in Mayoral Drive.
EVENT - Auckland Creative Morning at Digital Art Live
For those in the creative know, you may have attended one or more Creative Mornings sessions early on a Friday, arriving bleary-eyed but leaving inspired. Creative Mornings is a global monthly breakfast lecture series that is free of charge and includes a 20 minute talk, plus free coffee (which is always greeted with affection at 8am on a Friday)!
The next Auckland Creative Morning will feature Fiona Milburn and Mark Schafer from Unguarded Intersection, as they discuss their interactive artwork and game, Rollercoaster. The event will be held at Digital Art Live, Level 2 of the Aotea Centre, at 8am on Friday 24th August. Tickets to Creative Mornings usually sell out within an hour so make sure you’ve signed up the Auckland CM newsletter on their website and book your free seat in advance. The morning is sponsored by AUT’s Marker Workshops.
MARKER WORKSHOP - Motion Capture for 3D Animation and Visual Effects
Sat 25 August | 9am - 4pm | AUT City Campus | $90 Regular / $50 Student
This one-day workshop will provide you with a practical introduction and overview of the motion capture process, from the physical recording of mocap data, through to the post-production process of applying this data to 3-D characters with software such as Autodesk Motion Builder and Maya.
Gain a practical understanding of how to record motion capture data and apply it to 3D characters, using AUT's modern motion capture suite and graphics programs. The hands-on workshop is taught by digital artist Shea Melville.
Register now on the Marker website.
MARKER WORKSHOP - Two Day T-Shirt Challenge
Thurs 22 & Fri 23 November | 9am - 4pm | AUT City Campus | $350 Regular / $280 Student
Wear your originality on your chest in this hands-on workshop that will equip you with all the basics from design to the production of screen printed T-shirts.
You will learn how to develop your creative ideas and design skills using Adobe Illustrator, and follow the production pathway by preparing film work, screens, exposures and inks before printing your original design onto your own customised T-shirt.
NEW DIGITAL ART LIVE EXHIBITION - Crowd Control by Gregory Bennett
Crowd Control
By Gregory Bennett in association with Johann Nortje
Digital Art Live | Level 2, Aotea Centre
Crowd Control gives the audience the opportunity to interact with real-time 3D animated figures that are walking, running and gesticulating. A floor sensor detects the audience’s movement and triggers the variations of movements of the figures on the screen.
From seemingly random movements to highly choreographed formations, the work reflects on issues such as the individual versus group dynamics, crowd behaviours and figures as automaton.
Gregory Bennett is an artist engaged with digitally generated and animated groups of moving 3D generic figures, and Johann Nortje specialises in video-based production design for installations, theatre and live interactive performance media.
Read more about the exhibition and the artists.
RECAP - IE2012 Conference
IE2012 was the 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, held on July 21-22 at Auckland's Aotea Centre. It was a successful cross-disciplinary conference that brought together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies,and drama. Also included were HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment-specific technologies, or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.
To see photos from the event, view the IE2012 album on CoLab's Facebook page.
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CALL - Proposals for Digital Art Live: Emerging Pixels #2
Call for Applications
CoLab and THE EDGE are working collaboratively to present Digital Art Live (DAL), an exciting initiative to showcase interactive art in an interactive space on Level 2 of the Aotea Centre in Auckland.
The DAL Committee is calling for applications from creative students interested in presenting interactive works in this space during the exhibition, Emerging Pixels #2.
We invite students to take this opportunity to create work that supports engagement with a public audience through technological experience and that explores new forms of digital expression, particularly in the field of behavioural works.
Expressions of interest are due by Monday 1st October, 2012. Find out how to apply on the DAL website.
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CALL - 'Out of Balance' Design Competition
Humantific is delighted to announce an international competition collaboration with Magazine ARCH+ and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation:
OUT OF BALANCE - CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT: Information Design after Otto Neurath.
The Topic: "Societal processes are presently emerging that make a balancing of social inequalities ever more unlikely and that pose a serious danger that society will drift apart, both on the global and national level and on the regional and local level. People are born into socio-spatial circumstances. Their chances in life vary in the extreme because of this “randomness”. In the interest of social integration and in accordance with democracy’s postulate of equality, modern societies embody the promise of an equalization of living circumstances. This is a guarantee for the political stability of a community. So it is not only permitted, but clearly necessary to ask about the fulfillment of this political desideratum..."
Prize Money: 20,000 Euros!
Registration deadline: November 20, 2012.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2013.
To find out more about this exciting design competition, visit the Humantific website.
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CALL - Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award
Call for Applications
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Ars Electronica launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award.
The winner will receive a fully-funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with the world of science.
Online submissions must be received by Wednesday 26th September, 2012. For more information on the residency check the details online at Collide@CERN.
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CALL - 2nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium
Call for Papers/Projects
November 23 - 15, 2012 | Massey University, Wellington, NZ
As part of the BLOW Festival 2012, the International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium will take place in the College of Creative Art’s magnificent new Te Ara Hihiko building. The symposium is organised by Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa (MINA) , an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media.
The symposium will provide a platform for filmmakers, artists, designers, researchers, ‘pro-d-users’ and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in art and design environments and the creative industries. Find out more about submitting a paper.
CALL - 2nd International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012
Call for Mobile Films
November 23, 2012
MINA in partnership with IdN and the National Film Archive presents the 2nd International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012.
The event will showcase short films produced on and with mobile devices by international filmmakers at the National Film Archive in Wellington, New Zealand. Selected mobile films will be featured in the IdN (International designers’ Network) Magazine v19n6 issue DVD.
The MINA program is curated by Karen Curley, Benoît Labourdette, Dr. Max Schleser and CoLab's Laurent Antonczak. Find out more about submitting a mobile film.
The submission deadline for the both papers and mobile films is: Wednesday 15th August, 2012. Apply today!
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