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REVIEW - Report on UX2012
 
CoLab co-director, Associate Professor Frances Joseph recently attended the UX Australia 2012 Conference in Brisbane. The industry-focused event included two days of workshops and two days of presentations about designing experiences for people.

Topics covered included design strategy, user-centred design, interaction design, mobile design, trans-media design, branding, service design, information design and content creation. While primarily concerned with the digital, the conference also addressed the design of physical objects, environments and events.
 
Amongst many outstanding presentations were Bronwyn van der Merwe’s talk on Creating a Global Experience Language for the BBC and Joe Lamantia’s Designing Interactions for Big Data in the Age of Insight, Using the Language of Discovery.

CoLab's workshop programme, Marker, will be running some workshops next year inspired by the topics and (hopefully) led by a few of the speakers from the conference. Details to come.

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CALL - Proposals for Digital Art Live: Emerging Pixels #2



Call for Applications

The deadline is near for this very exciting opportunity! The Digital Art Live (DAL) Committee is calling for applications from creative students interested in presenting interactive works during the exhibition, Emerging Pixels #2.

Students are invited 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.

Digital Art Live is 
an exciting initiative to showcase interactive art in an interactive space on Level 2 of the Aotea Centre in Auckland, and is a joint collaboration between CoLab and THE EDGE.

Apply before Monday 1st October, 2012 on  the DAL website.


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OPPORTUNITY - Postgraduate Scholarships and Projects
 
In October, CoLab will be announcing a formal call for applications for project-related postgraduate scholarships that are associated with ongoing CoLab research and development initiatives.

Topics include Documenting Interactive Art, New Formats for Online Academic Publishing, and Transmedia Strategies for Promoting Arts Events.

If you have been thinking about postgraduate study and any of these topics are related to your area of interest, please contact Charles Walker  or Frances Joseph.

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OPPORTUNITY - Research and Development Opportunities with Industry Partners
 
CoLab invites industry partners and associates in the creative technologies and innovation sector to contact us to discuss R&D needs and opportunities.

Subject to criteria, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s education fund can be accessed by innovative businesses to involve postgraduate students in their R&D programmes.
This can be used to help develop new knowledge leading to the commercialisation of a new product, process, or service.

Please contact Charles Walker  or Frances Joseph and see the Ministry website for more information.

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COLLABORATION– Interrupt Collective and NOP to Create Interactive Installation
 

Interrupt Collective, an artistic collective based in Wellington and NOP, New Zealand’s only joystick orchestra, are the successful recipients of the Creative New Zealand Quick Response Grant. They will be working collaboratively over the summer months to create an original interactive work: JeuPlay
 
The work will be a digital art and music installation which the audience will have open access to explore, perform and interact with. The installation will have the ability to change “mode” to a New Orchestra performance space when the conductor invites a group of the audience to play together as an orchestra by following instructions.

JeuPlay will be showcased during the Performance Arcade Festival in Wellington in February 2013.

WORKSHOP - Crowdfund Your Creative Projects

Tuesday 2nd October | 5 – 6:30pm
AUT City Campus

$15  Regular Fee
Free for tertiary students & AUT staff

Discover how to fund your creative and business projects through crowdfunding. 
 
Presented by Anna Guenther and Camilo Borges, co-founders of New Zealand’s first crowdfunding website PledgeMe.co.nz. They  will be discussing the history of crowdfunding locally and internationally, how to make a good crowdfunding pitch, as well as showing successful crowdfunding examples, and soundboarding your ideas. Enjoy a free drink afterwards and the opportunity to network with other creatives and entrepreneurs.
 
Places are limited. Register now on the Marker website!
 
NEW DIGITAL ART LIVE EXHIBITION - Crowd Control
 
Crowd Control 
By Gregory Bennett in association with Johann Nortje

September  4 -  November 4, 2012
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.

CONGRATULATIONS - Alex Lee elected Deputy Chair of Film Auckland 

CoLab would like to extend warm congratulations to Alex Lee, from the Documentary NZ Trust, on his election as Deputy Chair of Film Auckland at the recent AGM for the 2012/2013 year. 
 
Alex was also invited to serve as an international juror at the world's largest documentary festival and event: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).  He is the first New Zealander ever to be invited to take on this prestigious honour and this appointment testifies to the great work being done by Documentary NZ Trust and its two directors, Alex Lee and Dan Shanan.
 
The CoLab team has had the pleasure of working with Alex and Dan during the hosting of the 2012 Screen Edge Forum and Doc Lab, and we look forward to working together again in 2013.  

SOMETHING TO PLEDGE FOR - WIFT Young Woman Film-makers Award

Be a part of The Outlook for Someday’s first crowd-funded special award – the WIFT Young Woman Film-maker Award
There are some great rewards offered for pledging; including DVDs, signed posters and invitations to their red-carpet awards ceremony.

The Outlook for Someday is New Zealand’s sustainability film project for young people. 
 
WIFT NZ (Women in Film and Television Incorporated) is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting women and others working in film, television and associated industries.
 
Head to the WIFT Young Woman Film-maker Award PledgeMe page to find out more and donate to the cause

WORKSHOP - Prezi for Learning, Teaching and Collaboration

Wednesday 3rd October 6 - 9pm
or Saturday 6th October 1 - 4pm
AUT City Campus
Regular Fee $20 / Students $10

 
Prezi is a new tool for creating engaging presentations that enables you to collate rich media, and collaborate in real time to showcase your content like never before. The web-based zoomable canvas breaks away from the static rectangular frame to give an overview of the big picture and zoom into the details.

This three-hour course offers a hands-on guide to mastering the use of Prezi with a focus on use in an education context
Taught by Judit Klein, Creative Technologies researcher, and staff member at AUT.
 
Online registration is essential through the Marker website:
 Wednesday evening workshop or Saturday afternoon workshop.

 

DOCUMENTARY FUNDING –  Joint Submission to NZ On Air

On Friday 3rd of August, twenty-four documentary makers met at AUT University to prepare a joint submission for the NZ On Air Documentary Discussion Paper on the future of funding for New Zealand television documentary.  
 
The diverse group included producers, directors, members of the Screen Directors Guild of NZ and Nga Aho Whakaari, as well as commentators and researchers with specific interests in documentary policy. The meeting was coordinated together with Documentary Edge.
 
Dr. Geraldene Peters, on behalf of CoLab, was instrumental in facilitating the joint submission and if you would like to read it, the submission is available online on the Documentary Edge website.

CALL - Taipei International Digital [Content] Awards

Call for Digital Content

This competition has been organized to encourage digital artists in Taipei to generate creative, international, and marketable digital products. By holding international competitions, this project seeks to select outstanding creative works, raise the quality of the creations, and develop marketable products with the aim of stimulating the development of the digital content industry.

The three categories are: Digital Graphic Award; Video / Animation Awards; and Mobile Apps / Games Awards
 
People of all nationalities are invited to enter and the submission deadline is Monday October 1st, 2012.

For more information on the entry details, and prizes visit: http://tidca.org/.

CALL –  Transmedia: Storytelling and Beyond

Call for Conference Papers
Janurary 31 - February 1, 2013
Sydney, Australia
 
The term 'transmedia storytelling' has enjoyed particular currency within academic circles while the media industry speaks in terms of multiplatform experiences. Much has been written on the subject in the academic and industry press, though new technologies and the pressure to do something innovative with the digital medium mean that the idea and practice of transmedia are in flux.
 
This call for presentations represents an invitation to introduce, highlight or clarify key questions concerning issues such as models for benchmarking, techniques for user engagement, value measurement, pedagogy and curriculum design, and evaluative techniques for complex and dynamic user engagement.

Proposals are sought for presentations, papers and panels on a variety of topics relating to transmedia. The deadline for abstracts and proposals is Friday 19th October, 2012.
 
To find out more about the submission guidelines, visit the Inter-DisciplinaryNet website.  
 
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