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Interactive Film Lab @ Synch Festival, Athens, Greece


Dates:
Sat Jul 01, 2006 00:00 - Mon May 22, 2006

Interactive Film Lab @ Synch Festival, Athens
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 July 2006

Around the upcoming Synch Festival, Athens will be swarming with audiovisual thrill seekers. The perfect event for progressive media makers to get involved with their audience in exciting new ways.
Film language has developed an enormous amount of local dialects. Videoblogs, interactive movies and digital theme channels have multiplied the ways in which the moving image is delivered and experienced. We don't watch TV anymore, we cut-and-paste our way through the dense media landscape around us.

That's why Mediamatic collaborates with Synch Festival on organising the Interactive Film Lab: a 5-day workshop where up to 16 film-, tv-, radio- and new media producers from Europe get to create an on-/offline interactive film using their own footage with the ever-evolving Korsakow System.

| TRAJECTORY |
Starting off with talks and presentations by inspiring current media makers like Frank Alsema (NL), Peter Greenaway (UK) (to be confirmed) and Florian Thalhofer (D), participants will subsequently develop their own project prototype during the next couple of days.
Participants should bring up to 40 minutes max. of their own footage to the workshop, preferably in Quicktime format. Skilled trainers will provide technical and theoretical support. On July 6 a selection of workshop projects will be presented to the Synch festival audience.

| HOW MUCH? |
The costs for participation are E 240 (Incl.VAT) for people from new EU member states plus Greece and E 360 (Incl.VAT) for people from other EU member states. This includes lunches, fully equipped Apple computers and technical assistance. There are some scholarships available.
For more information go to www.mediamatic.net/synch2006. You can mail your questions to workshops@mediamatic.nl, or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901. Online registration is possible at www.mediamatic.net/workshopregistration.

This workshop is made possible with the support of the MEDIA PLUS PROGRAMME of the European Community.


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Workshop Interactive Dance Film - Cinedans 2006 @ Mediamatic


Dates:
Sun Jun 25, 2006 00:00 - Fri Apr 28, 2006

Workshop Interactive Dance Film - Cinedans 2006
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 June @ Mediamatic | 1 July presentation of results

THE WORKSHOP
Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic organizes a workshop on interactive dance film. In this workshop, 16 international dance filmers, editors and choreographers make interactive online dance films or dance film installations, using their own footage.

Interactive film offers interesting new forms of contact between the film and its viewer, but also requires other ways of shooting and editing the material. The participants research the relations between the paths of the camera, the movements of filmed bodies, the dramaturgy of the viewer and its movements on the screen or through space (in case of an installation), that together make up the form of the interactive dance film.

TRAJECTORY
The workshop is an intense 5-day process. Starting off with a close study of several intriguing interactive dance film projects on the first day, the participants create the content, form and interactive experience of their project, discuss it with experienced trainers and participants, and build a working prototype assisted by technical assistants.

Participants can bring up to 40 minutes of material, on dvd, or on FireWire harddisk, preferrably in Quicktime movie format. Participants use an easy-to-learn tool, that allows the projects to be published online, or on dvd-rom. All participants are assisted personally in realising their workshop projects. Specific technical knowledge of new media is not required.

HOW MUCH AND MORE INFO
The workshop fee is E300 (incl. VAT) for participants from new member states of the EU and E420 (incl. VAT) for participants from other EU member states.

More info about this workshop can be found on http://www.mediamatic.net/cinedans. Registration is possible online. Mail any questions you might have to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.

This workshop is made possible with the support of the MEDIA PLUS PROGRAMME of the European Community


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Workshop RFID & Internet of Things


Dates:
Tue May 09, 2006 00:00 - Tue Apr 04, 2006

RFID & the Internet of Things
Workshop 9 | 10 | 11 May @ Mediamatic

RFID will play a pivotal role in fusing the physical world with the digital. RFID allows for the unique identification of objects, and any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's. Here is where the real world and the Internet become two faces of the same reality.
What are useful things to have online? How can the sharing of information between things yield us new meanings and experiences? What are important kinds of human agency that should be designed into an Internet of Things?

The participants of this workshop will develop critical, utopian or nightmarish scenarios for an Internet of things. Ideas can range from scripts for small new rituals to outlines of societal changes of epic scale.
The morning sessions are dedicated to lectures on current technology, theory and implementations of RFID. In the afternoons participants will develop their projects. Participants can use the workshop tool consisting of RFID tags, readers and an online database. Experienced staff will be present for technical assistance. The workshop ends with an informal presentation.

PRACTICAL
The workshop has room for 16 designers, artists, thinkers and makers who are interested in this technology and its possible effects. Participation fee is E350 per person, ex BTW. Lunches, technical equipment and assistance are included.

The workshop will take place in the seminar room of Mediamatic, at the 5th floor of the Post CS building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9212-en.html

If you want to participate in this workshop, please register at our online registration form:
http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9699-en.html

The reader for this workshop can be found here:
http://www.mediamatic.net/article-11186-en.html

For questions or more information, surf to http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-11183-en.html, mail to workshops@mediamatic.nl, or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.


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*reduced price!* Workshop Machinima - Making Films out of Games


Dates:
Tue Mar 14, 2006 00:00 - Thu Mar 02, 2006

**REDUCED PRICE: FROM 350 EUR to 250 EUR (ex. VAT)**

First Mediamatic Machinima workshop
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 March 2006 @ Mediamatic, Amsterdam

Machinima is making film in the 3D space of a computer game. By treating the game's point of view as a camera, the gamespace becomes the set, the game characters turn into film actors, and the gamer gets to be a director.

During this 4-day workshop participants create their own Machinima movie under the guidance of inspired game developers and award-winning machinimamakers like:

Mark Meadows (US): Artist, 3D animator and game developer who produced 3D animation and interactive design works for companies like Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures, and Microsoft.

Friedrich Kirschner (Germany): Prizewinning machinimamaker (at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival), editor for Machinimag, and teammember of the Ars Electronica Center.

Daniel van Gils (NL): Creative programmer who has built several interactive installations, and teaches Game Design and Machinima at the Design Academy in Breda.

Jonas Hielscher (Germany): Interactive / educative media designer, and co-founder z25.org.

They will take you through all the main technical, creative and cultural aspects of making Machinima. More info about this workshop can be found on http://www.mediamatic.net/machinima. Registration is possible online. Mail any question you might have to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.


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Workshop Machinima - Making Films out of Games


Dates:
Tue Mar 14, 2006 00:00 - Thu Feb 09, 2006

Workshop Machinima - Making Films out of Games
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 March 2006 @ Mediamatic

Machinima is the art of making film inside the real-time 3D virtual environment of a video game engine. By treating the in-game viewpoint as a camera, the gamespace becomes the set, the characters turn into actors, and the gamer becomes a director.

Because an in-game performance is first recorded in 3D, everything is highly flexible. In a 3D recording camera's can be added before it is turned into film. Moreover, you can change the camera paths, adjust the lighting, and change the appearance of the characters or make them disappear entirely. This brings high-end movie making possibilities into the hands of low-budget filmmakers.

In this 4-day workshop small teams of participants will make their own machinima movies, guided by experienced machinimamakers and animators. The trainers will cover all the practical topics, like designing 3D sets, creating character interactions, re-camming, virtual lighting and camera scripting. But also we will look at machinima as a wider cultural practice, investigating the impact of gaming on visual culture.

This workshop is intended for filmmakers, animators and gamers, who are interested in each others arts. Some experience with playing video games is helpful, but not essential. More information can be found on http://www.mediamatic.net/machinima. Mail your questions to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.