And the winners are ... SL:MIMA Gala on 12. November 2008
Marcus Loper and Kamil Görlich win this year's SL:MIMA in the categories "Animation" and "Digital Film" respectively. Please refer to the SL:MIMA site for details.
"Music in Motion" - a new CD by NewAgePiano.net 12. November 2008
WIERZBICKI.ORG releases 'Music in Motion', the second compilation by NewAgePiano.net. The audio CD showcases the music of piano artists from North America, New Zealand and Europe, who offered their music for audio-visual projects at SL:MIMA. The music spectrum of the piano tracks on this audio CD spans from lyrical soundtracks and chillout solo piano through jazz colored, improvisation-driven pieces to ambient electronic tunes.
The release of 'Music in Motion' in November 2008 is significant in that it coincides with a change in American leadership, and the new hope this represents. NewAgePiano.net offers this music in the spirit of peace, and in the hopes that this music might nurture in some small way the hopes and dreams of our listeners.
"Watercolors" - a new CD single by Steven Cravis 12. November 2008
Robert J. Wierzbicki designs the CD cover for a new CD singe by Steven Cravis, 'Watercolors'. The track Watercolors will also be released on 'Music in Motion', a new audio CD by NewAgePiano.net.
Best of the SL:MIMA 2008 Choose your favorite project now!
Fourteen projects have been selected for the final SL:MIMA round. The SL:MIMA Jury will select the winners in 2 categories: "Animation" and "Digital Film". The nominees for this year's awards will be announced by the end of October. The winners will be awarded on November 13. in Mittweida, Germany. Please visit the SL:MIMA site for more details.
R.J. Wierzbicki ist Jury member at the NOKIA Ubimedia Mindtrek Awards.
The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.
The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:
• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments? • What are intelligent media environments like? • What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?
A few other examples are: • Pervasive and ubiquitous games • Ambient installations • Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation • Business models • Ambient and ubiquitous media technology • Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments • Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation • Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes • Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations • Ambient television • etc.
The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€.
The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.
All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2007 are eligible to take part in the competition.
Innovative ICT Business Models Conference 2nd October 2008, Warsaw, Poland
Polish mobile operator ERA together with Warsaw University of Technology will hold an international conference entitled: Innovative ICT Business Models driven by Customer Experience Management . The conference will tackle recently widely discussed topic of prosumption, customer participation, service orientation and customer centricity in ICT sector, social filtering, etc., in the context of mobile communications.
The featuring topic of the conference is a new management concept of Customer Experience Management (CEM). Some bits and pieces of the information about CEM are included in the attached tentative programme.
The conference will take place in Warsaw, Westin Hotel on 2nd October 2008.
EuroITV 2008 - European Interactive TV Conference, Salzburg, Austria, July 3-4, 2008 Thomas Schmieder form HTWM presents the GAMECAST (R) concept
The EuroITV conference in Salzburg, Austria, brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management.
Thomas Schmieder, a student of the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, presents a paper "GAMECAST®: A Cross-Media Game and Entertainment System", based on his original concept developed within the Cross Media module in the winter semester 2007/2008. Robert J. Wierzbicki and Artur L. Lugmayr from NAMU, the New AMbient MUltimedia research group,Tampere University, Finland, co-authored the scientific publication.
UWS Students getting animated at Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, UK 05 June 2008
University of the West of Scotland is holding its annual showcase of student work in animation, games development, multimedia and music technology at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Monday 9 June 2008.
The ‘Digital Futures’ event, which has attracted over 2,000 visitors over the past few years is the most varied presentation of students’ digital work in Scotland. It will see over 50 students, from across many years of study, showcasing their work to industry contacts, school and college-leavers, teachers and lecturers, and members of the general public.
For this year's event, the University has been successful in achieving the participation of Lukasz Pazera , animator on the Gorillaz’ top forty hit, ‘El Manana’ music video. The BAFTA award-winning animator will deliver his presentation 3D Pipeline and the making of Gorillaz ‘El Manana’ at the event.
Also attending is Robert McDowell, a senior programmer with RealTime Worlds, who will speak about the computer games industry. BAFTA-award-winning RealTime Worlds, who have offices in South Korea, the US and Scotland and are the creators of the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto'.
Robert J. Wierzbicki will deliver a talk at the showcase on animation, focusing specifically on digital art.
Digital Futures is co-ordinated by John Nixon of University of the West of Scotland’s School of Computing. Commenting on the event he said: “This is a really exciting event for us - the level of input from key players from the animation and computer games sector highlights our close industry links. “Digital Futures is the perfect opportunity for our students to showcase their practical expertise to industry and gain valuable feedback on what it takes to get ahead in the competitive animation and games sector.”
Digital Futures, which takes place on 09 June 2008 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, is open to members of the public from 10:30am-6:30pm. Anyone wanting further information on the event should call 0141 848 3330 or email www.uws.ac.uk/computing or visit www.uws.ac.uk/digitalfutures.
FILMART presents Best Foreign Picture Oscar Nominee "KATYN" by Andrzej Wajda Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 7:00 pm The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street (bet 5th & 6th Ave) New York, USA
April 2008, Munich Best of Corporate Publishing Award, 2008
Prof. Wierzbicki is jury member at the "Best of Corporate Publishing Award" in Munich.
This BCP Award honors Europe's best corporate B2B magazines.
In its 11th year, the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards will acknowledge the tremendous evolution of digital media in both business and entertainment by presenting awards in 9 categories and additionally the Inscape Special Award. The registration is open until June 30, 2008, so enter now and win, among many other prizes, all-inclusive trips to the EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival in November in Graz, Austria!
The Inscape Special Award is open for all interactive stories and projects which have been realized with the Inscape Authoring Software, available for the open community on http://www.inscapers.com or at inscape@icnm.net The awarded project will receive a brand new laptop with the final Inscape software package pre-installed. www.europrix.org Looking for an internship or a summer job?
Join the ICNM team as Project Assistant
The International Center for New Media (ICNM) is looking for a motivated, proactive interns for the time from September 1 until November 30 2008 who have a capacity to understand technology, are comfortable with MS Office and aren't content to simply "check off" tasks on their lists. We'd like to work with critical thinkers who have a passion for new media and ideas about how to promote and support our projects. Interns will be given a high level of responsibility and will receive much hands-on experience. This is an ideal opportunity for undergraduates studying marketing, communications, and/or e-Business looking to get experience with an international organization. The internship is based in Salzburg, Austria. For further information and application please contact: intern@icnm.net
January 23d, 2008, Los Angeles Marco Beltrami´s score for 3:10 to Yuma nominated for an Academy Award.
Russell Crowe, Christian Bale and Peter Fonda star in 3:10 to Yuma, a modern take on the classic western by Elmore Leonard from producing/writing/directing team Cathy Konrad and James Mangold ("Walk the Line"). Marco's score features bold melodies, textured ambience and western instrumentation. Out now on DVD.
MCCSIS aims to address two main subjects: Computer Science and Information Systems. The multi conference has different conferences according to several themes.
The functionality of visual communication has been underestimated as photography and cartoons claimed artistic autonomy rather than being submissive to the explicit message to be conveyed. Commercials and pervasive messages in ideological campaigns are early adopters of visuals. Since 3D image spaces in Virtual Reality have been introduced it is a must to meet between scientific researchers, art directors, photographers and illustrators.
“Creative industries” is the epitome for critical applications like social software, gaming and cultural documentaries. This conference will open the landscape for those who bring overlooked messages from theory and practice and those who have the intuition that the visual languages prevail in attitudinal and affective communication. Multi cultural projects demand a high of sophistication in semiotic awareness. Especially this aspect is a fast-growing domain for communication specialists.
Not at least we welcome media technologists who extent the conventions of images on the surface of the screen and are thrilled by 3D, tactile, haptic and immersive image “spaces”. The conference offers you a wide overview, exclusive demos and in-depth reflections. Besides Communication, the application domains are Educational, Corporate, Governmental, Medical, Military, Engineering, Commercials and Leisure.
Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
Visual Communication
Psychology
Photography
Technology
January 22nd, 2008 The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2008 June 29th - July 2nd, 2008 – Orlando, Florida, USA
Generated knowledge is usually communicated. Implicit or explicit management of knowledge generation and communications is usually required for both: knowledge generation and communication. Knowledge management requires as well knowledge generation and/or communication, i.e. meta-knowledge regarding knowledge management, which has been explicitly being addressed on the organizational level. These three knowledge’s dimensions are highly related among each other.
Information and communications Technologies are increasingly supporting the effectiveness and the efficiency on Knowledge generations, communication and management, as well as the relationships among them. Consequently, a main purpose of KGCM 2008 is to bring together researchers, professionals, academics, consultants and practitioners related to any of these three areas, to relationships among them as well as those who are related to the conception, design or implementations of systems, tools and technologies oriented to support knowledge generation, communications and/or management.
January 21th, 2008 3rd International Conference on e-Learning, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa, 26-27 June 2008
January 17th, 2008 Prof. Wierzbicki is reviewer for the International Journal of Computer Games Technology by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with more than one hundred journals in the fields of Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences. Hindawi is the only Open Access publisher with fully developed Open Access journals spanning such a wide range of subjects in Science, Technology, and Medicine.
The overall aim of the International Journal of Computer Games Technology is to bring together both the research and development aspects of games technology covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media. The focus will be on three research and development frontiers: first, to expand the technology frontier in terms of both hardware and software for games, second, to validate innovative procedures including algorithms and architectures for games, and finally, to explore novel applications of games technology both for entertainment and serious games.
