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 New Class Blends Digital Design with Improv TheaterThe worlds of technology and performance arts will come together next fall in a class college students will only find at Northwestern.Multimedia improvisation, a new class offered through the Center for Art and Technology, will use digital media design to complement comedic improvisation -- a topic that has generated interest among students. "There are plenty of universities that offer classes in digital media design and others which focus on teaching improvisational methods, but this is the only course in any university which combines both," said Kathryn Farley, a graduate student studying theatre who is one of the class instructors. more www.dai... (87) added by Dexigner Team |
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 10th Flashforward Conference and Flash Film FestivalNearly 1000 digital design pioneers will gather at the 10th Flashforward conference and Flash(TM) Film Festival in New York City, July 9, 10 and 11. Featuring Macromedia(R) Flash(TM) development, the industry standard for creating high-impact, vector-based Web graphics, motion, sound, video and interactivity.Flashforward has attracted in three years more than 15,000 Web developers and designers from more than 60 countries. Flashforward 2003 New York City features the world's best and brightest Flash experts showcasing their work in: 4 half-day workshops, 22 seminars, 20 question and answer sessions, 17 Ask the Experts sessions, and 11 Technology Showcase sessions. In addition, the three-day event includes a Flash technology exhibition area and a Flash Authors Book Signing Reception and Networking Party. On the evening of July 10, the 10th Flash(TM) Film Festival showcases 60 Flash projects and awards winners in 16 categories including best animation, motion gra more www.fla... (199) added by Dexigner Team |
 Farmers Expand Business with Web DesignWith his crops devastated by disease and insects, March Stevens needed to try something new.He became a cyber farmer. After designing his own Web page to promote his farm, Mr. Stevens was asked by other farmers and business owners to help them with Internet sites. Now it's a part-time business for Mr. Stevens, his wife, Marla, and daughter, Kim. They've created more than 50 Web sites. "Not bad for a dumb dirt farmer," Mr. Stevens said. "I guess it started out as stress relief from the real occupation." Most of his clients are in agriculture, although he has designed Web pages for a funeral home and the city of Glenburn, among others. He charges between $200 and $2,000, with the average Web site costing about $900, he said. "Some of them are pretty basic," Mr. Stevens said. He designed a Web site about four years ago for Curt Bjerke of Bjerke Brothers, Inc. in Buxton, a company that services grain cleaners and elevators. more www.glo... (54) added by Dexigner Team |
 ZICA Predicts 30 percent Growth for Indian Animation IndustryThe global animation industry has crossed the 30 billion USD mark in the year 2000 and is rapidly in rise with the key players being USA, Canada and the European Union demanding more content for Television, Internet and Feature Films.The focus of these countries is now on the Asian countries like Korea, Philippines, Singapore, China, Malaysia and India so that these countries can do the service jobs and also co-production with US and European countries. The Indian animation industry pegged to grow at an unbelievable rate of 30% annually .This very upcoming and popular field of artwork is one of the fastest growing industries, which has a very high commercial value. India is fast catching up with already established countries like South Korea and Phillipines and is garnering more service jobs in animation in the last couple of years. But still, the supply of animators in India doesn't meet the latest demand. The major reason for the same is very few established Animation Training more www.age... (247) added by Dexigner Team |
 Interactive Re-animation Brings Life to The DeadCyborgs are taking over the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon this summer.A new installation called The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture features lit up robot heads, pop culture cyborgs and Japanese anime. One of the strange exhibits features dead frog's legs that jerk in an electrical spasm. Garnet Hertz calls the piece Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Web Server. The Hertz work also has an interactive element. From a Web site, people can click on an icon to move either of the frog's legs. Custom electronics and motors grafted to the frog's bones animate its legs. The Saskatoon artist says he was inspired by 18th century experiments using electricity - the same experiments made famous by Mary Shelley in her definitive romance novel Frankenstein. more www.cbc... (114) added by Dexigner Team |
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