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:: 2009 Motion Graphics Festival :: conclusion & beyond

The Washington DC Motion Graphics Festival 2009 tour has recently concluded and we'd like to extend a special thank you to everyone that made the 2009 MGFest possible. With a continuing focus on creating experience through film, music, art, design, technology and culture... We personally think this year was quite a success. We'd love to hear your thoughts on MGFest 2010 and receive suggestions for expanding next year. Below are some additional ways to keep involved: *) MGFest Announcements --&… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on November 26, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Creating Unique Event Experiences

Written by Jameson Wallace
Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Advertisers designing retail spaces have coined the term "Experience Design" to describe the full coordination of the digital technology used in the store.

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Added by Jameson Wallace on October 13, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Keep Chicago Wild!

Urban food gardens : fastest green strategy for Chicago neighborhoods to keep Artists in the face of the Olympics : http://bit.ly/mEG16 A Growing Movement: Urban Farming In Chicago http://www.progressillinois.com/2008/09/09/features/growing-movement About Chicago ARTillery http://chicagoartillery.org/ Chicago ARTillery is a collective and network of mostly Logan Square Artists whose works are based on community involvement, education, and the democratic process. The works made are either in a… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on September 18, 2009 at 7:31pm — No Comments

Vote for Motion Graphics at SXSW :: 5 panel proposals

http://mgfest.com/spread_the_word/ Motion Graphics Panel Proposals at SXSW need your vote to become a reality: + Artware and the Future of Soul Visualization leads software design, yet the tools for visualization are primarily designed by engineers for business purpose. How can Artist’s re-envision ways of creating with computers that are more appropriate to their practice? How can technology help us to preserve those thi… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on August 20, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

.: MGFest09 :: Atlanta Georgia :: July 11-12 :: New Motion + New Sound + New Code

Motion Graphics Festival 2009 New Motion + New Sound + New Code Atlanta, GA :: July 11-12 http://www.MGFest.com

On July 11th and 12th the Atlanta Motion Graphics Festival showcases explosive artists and motion picture creators. Artists being showcased include: Shepard Fairey, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Addictive TV, Digital Kitchen, The Mill, Passion Pict… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on June 18, 2009 at 6:31pm — No Comments

The Chicago Public School

Wanted to point out this project: http://chicago.thepublicschool.org The basic premise of the school is that there is no pre-determined curriculum... instead people propose classes that they would be interested in taking. After that, if more people want to take the class, then The Public School will organize and offer it. It seems like it has application to all sorts of local spaces. Imagine if threeWalls, Messhall, Chicago Art Dept, student groups were all contributing? The cultural center, n… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on June 12, 2009 at 4:04am — No Comments

███{ (◣◢) }███ Dr. MD’s Tech Injection

███{ (◣◢) }███ Dr. MD’s Tech Injection David Lobser Visiting Artist at Harvard VES this year: http://www.dlobser.com/ Flash CS4 Distributable at Desktop Application with AIR http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ PDF can now contain data-driven content designed for the financial industry, not artists http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/ Microsoft designs collaborative computing, multi-touch surface http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Augmented Reality & Artware come to iPhone: http://crea… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on June 4, 2009 at 4:03pm — No Comments

A Brainstorm on Ning; Colloquially delivered through the MAGICAL INTERTUBES

"While images and sounds are no more or less accurate than words, all mass media based on images and sounds are heavily regulated to restrict the audiences' ability to record, catalogue, reference, organize, subset, recontextualize, quote or share the content of the medium. Yet these are essential parts of the process of establishing truth-value in written scientific or legal paradigms." "If the Internet can do one thing for US culture, it can give us back what Television stole: a sense of Trut… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on April 22, 2009 at 4:04am — No Comments

MGFest Releases NASA's "Money"

See co-director Paul Griswold's presentation on the Making-of "Money." http://MGFest.com/09/Chicago/screenings/paulgriswold.php

Director/animators Syd Garon and Paul Griswold, recently co-directed a music video for the band NASA (North America South America). The song, titled Money, features Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe winning singer/songwriter David Byrne and Chuck D, leader of the rap group Publi… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on April 18, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

frieze Writer's Prize 2009

frieze Writer's Prize 2009 http://www.frieze.com frieze writer's prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. The award will be judged in 2009 by critic and art historian James Elkins, novelist and critic Ali Smith, and co-Editor of frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie. •Entrants must submit one previously unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition, approximately 700 words in length. •Entries must be submitted in English, but may be a translation… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on April 17, 2009 at 6:20pm — No Comments

Why does Barter feel so Good?

Part 1 : Why does Barter feel so Good? By Hannah Davenport and Mason Dixon, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Why does Barter feel so good? In the moment of exchange, Barter feels refreshing in a way that nothing on Main Street ever does. The experience of bartered exchange provides something currency-based exchange does not, and cannot. And yet, Barter could not replace Money on a large scale. Barter can, at best, be a temporary supplement for Money, a perversion of our more civilized sy… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on March 31, 2009 at 1:14am — No Comments

~ Motion Graphics Fest comes to Boston ~

--- The Cambridge Motion Graphics Festival begins March 5th, 2009 in Harvard Square with 4 days of Workshops & Art Showcases by internationally recognized artists, including: Shepard Fairey, Nine Inch Nails, Addictive TV (Slumdog Millionaire), The Mill, Digital Kitchen, Dvein, Trollback & Co, Robert Rich, Passion Pictures, Animal Logic, David Lobser, Peter Kirn, superDraw and more. This 4-day conference in the fast moving field of design technology has opened it's Art & Entertainmen… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on February 23, 2009 at 1:03am — No Comments

Austin MGFest Call 4 Entry : Deadline April 24th

http://mgfest.com/09/medium/ Send us your finest minutes, your dreams realized, your fictions animated, your adventures recorded, your sweat and passion woven into something of beauty, and we will take it to audiences across the country. Selections will be screened during the 6th annual Motion Graphics Festival tour in Chicago, Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Washington DC. Entry Deadline: Friday, April 24th, 2009 Austin screenings happen May 14-17, 2009 Entry Fee: $7 http://mgfest.com/09/medium/ Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on February 16, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Call: The Best of Flash on the Net

Deadline: 2 March 2009 Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artictic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media an… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on January 16, 2009 at 3:11am — No Comments

MGFest.com : 6 Workshops Added : Adobe 3D, Maxon, Digital Sound & more

http://mgfest.com/09/Chicago/workshops.php Tuesday, Jan 20th Adobe 3D with Photoshop & After Effects Presented by Mason Dixon @ Columbia College Wednesday, Jan 21st Maxon Cinema 4D R11 + Mograph @ Columbia College Field Audio and Introduction to Digital Sound Presented by Alan Strathman @ SAIC Saturday, Jan 24th Introduction to Digidesign's ProTools Andrew Twiss, Harold Washington College Post-production Workflows with Final Cut S… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on January 8, 2009 at 11:40pm — No Comments

23rd Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts

The 23rd Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts is open for entries. From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been conceived as an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. More than 3,000 submissions in 2008 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts. The aim of the competition is to c… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on January 8, 2009 at 4:46am — No Comments

Only in Chicago: The Legendary $7 Festival of 2009

With MacWorld recently announcing they are closing their doors for good and Midway Games laying off 150 full-time employees... the recession of 2009 is beginning to infect the minds of the creative industry with decreasing budgets and bottom lines. However, there is still cheery news for the holidays; the Chicago Motion Graphics Festival (a 7-day conference in the fa… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on December 22, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Join us for an Online Dance Party

MGFest09 Online Dance Party Dec 6th, 9pm - 11pm CST SOLANGE LIVE FROM CHERRY POP @ CLUB ULTRA SUEDE - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA The Top Floor invades one of the hottest club nights in Los Angeles, with a very special live performance from Solange at Tom Whitman's Cherry Pop Saturday Night. It all takes place at club Ultra Suede in West Hollywood. Join us LIVE online and get ready to turn up the heat on those webcams. We want to see you dancing! The Top Floor is a live online dance event where audien… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on December 1, 2008 at 9:17pm — No Comments

Daily Motion Graphics: Add links, Watch Videos, Vote for the Winners.

The "Daily Motion Viewer" acts as a window into motion design's finest minutes, dreams realized, fictions animated, adventures recorded, sweat and passion woven into something of beauty. No fee, just fun. MGFest09 Online http://MGFest.com/09/Online/ Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on November 25, 2008 at 11:01pm — No Comments

This Sunday @ Rodan: Performance art + live electronics

Content Theory: Augmented Makeup, Leo 123 October 30th, 2008 Sunday, November 2nd: starting off the night (get there early!): An audio-visual performance by Vivian Caccuri (Rio/Sao Paulo): Augmented Makeup following are Live PA performances by: Leo123 ( 1/2 of Darkparty - downtempo analog synth wizardry) Garo (man vs lfo) Jay Schroeder (smooth jammin) +Mr Slava on the record-turning machines and VJ Mason Dixon working the projections Rodan 1530 N Milwaukee 10pm | 21+ | FREE Full Info: htt… Continue

Added by Jameson Wallace on November 1, 2008 at 1:01am — No Comments