Sarah Halbauer and Kristin Hentschel will produce the SL:MIMA 2010/2010. This year a students team from Scotland will support the SL:MIMA management. Please refer to the SL:MIMA site for more details.

Thomas Schmieder's project "Swan Lake Games" was awarded the official EUROPRIX Quality Seal at Eurorpix Multimedia Awards 2009.

The achievement is outstanding because 333 entries from 31 countries were evaluated by the jury team of the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards.
Only 69 projects received the quality seal.

The project was evaluated in two rounds by two different panels of jurors.

The EUROPRIX Quality Seal is proof that theproject is highly innovative and creative.

A new paper by T. Schmieder and R.J. Wierzbicki will be presented at this year's Mindtrek Conference in Tampere, Finland: "Competitive Acting - Issues on Action, Interaction and Acting in Converged Media".

'Competitive Acting - Issues on Action, Interaction and Acting in Converged Media' by T. Schmieder and R.J. Wierzbicki

Prof. Wierzbicki is head of GAMECAST, a cross-media project based on a unique idea by Thomas Schmieder, a media student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida. The project runs from 1. March 2009 till 31. December 2010. The project is funded by the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts (Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, SMWK).

More about GAMECAST at www.gamecast-tv.com.

Awards
The EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards are Europe’s contest for young professionals and students who work on innovative projects in the field of e-contents and design - using whichever multimedia channel or platform. Projects can be submitted in 9 categories and one special award.

Festival
The EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival showcases and promotes young professionals and top students and honours them for their outstanding achievements. Over three days, this event frames the platform for networking, exchange of ideas, experiences and business contacts between the multimedia newcomers, instructors, the European IT-industry and IT-media editors and journalists. 

Projects
The EUROPRIX winning projects are the best of young multimedia contents and design in Europe. The projects and products are the top selection from all entries to the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards. They show that the new developments are not isolated, but that from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from small towns to the European capitals, young media designers have taken charge of the technologies to create new applications and contents that work in the real world.

WIERZBICKI.ORG is Associated Partner of EUROPRIX.

EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards

The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a global student online marketing competition open to any higher education institution, anywhere in the world. Developed by professors in collaboration with Google, the Challenge is a great opportunity for students to gain practical, real world online marketing experience. Students also get the excitement of competing on a global level, with the overall winners and their professor/lecturer receiving a trip to the Googleplex in Mountain View. In addition, regional winners and their professor will receive a trip to their local Google office.

The 2008 Google Online Marketing Challenge saw more than 1600 student teams from 47 countries around the world taking part in this global competition.

How does it work?
Student teams receive US$200 of free online advertising with Google AdWords and then work with local businesses to devise effective online marketing campaigns. Teams outline a strategy, run a campaign, assess their results and provide the business with recommendations to further develop their online marketing. Teams submit their reports and are judged by a panel of independent academics from all over the world.

Johannes Schatz is Captain of the Google Challenge Team at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida. The team consist of Cathleen Diedrich, Tina Straßburger, Hagen Lindner, Andreas Zaehr, Julia Rittig and Karolin Röbsich. Johannes has proven himself to be a great team leader and expert in online marketing. He could have already gain international experience in business at the International Business School at the Vilnius University in Lithuania.

www.google.com/onlinechallenge

Prof. Wierzbicki is head of a new research group at the Faculty of Media, University of Applied Sciences   - Ambient Media.

S T A F F:

• Thomas Schmieder,  GAMECAST productionr
• Tina Straßburger, GAMECAST production
• Philipp Neumayer MA, research scientist
• Stefanie Wünsche, assistant to Prof. Wierzbicki

In cooperation with Chris Hales, an artist and specialist in the 'interactive moving image', a new SL:MIMA category has been set-up – the "Interactive Movie". By "interactive" we mean that a substantial and integral part of the final piece is the role of the interactivity. The role and use of interactivity will be one of the principal judging criteria of works entered in this category. The result of the user interaction is expected to be more substantial than just mixing/controlling audio tracks or selecting from a menu. Interactive Movies submitted for SL:MIMA can be composed either of traditionally filmed or computer generated imagery.

SL:MIMA is now open for submissions. More information at. www.swan-lake-award.org.

The New York Polish Film Festival, NYPFF, celebrates its 5th Annual! The Festival will be held May 5-10, 2009 at the Anthology Film Archives and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. NYPFF will showcase Poland's most riveting cinematic feats. It is the largest festival on the East Coast of the United States promoting and presenting Polish films.

To date NYPFF has shown over one hundred Polish feature films, shorts, and documentaries, which were widely viewed by both the Polish and American public in New York City. Thanks to NYPFF a few thousand persons watched Polish cinema in New York! As in previous years, in May 2009 an array of the best Polish feature films, shorts, and documentaries will be shown.

Robert J. Wierzbicki is conference programme committee member for ICEL-2009.

The International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL-2009) invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in areas of work where education and technology intersect. The conference brings together varied groups of people with different perspectives, experiences and knowledge in one location. It aims to help practitioners find ways of putting research into practice and researchers to gain an understanding of real-world problems, needs and aspirations.