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Interactive Media Forum for 4/29/15: Virtual Fieldtrip

Speakers: Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Julian Bleecker, Flint Dille Time: Wednesday, April 29, 4-6pm Location: USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media Building(SCI), Room 108

For the final seminar of this semester, we will experiment with a prototype learning experience designed to flip the idea of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Whereas MOOCs bring students from outside the university into the academy through a virtual learning experience, we are developing a platform that enables students within the university to venture off-campus and into the most exciting, demanding and provocative worlds of professionals in their field. The prototype uses available technology to create a series of two-way conversations between students on campus and professionals in the field using Google Glass and a customized interface designed to facilitate clarity and intimacy between the students and the professional. The seminar will start with a brief history of Telematics and Telepresence by iMAP PhD candidate Joshua McVeigh-Schultz and then connect to the viewpoint of a guide who will tour us through the remote location.

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Manga Recommendation: Children of the Sea

If you love all things related to marine life, then you might just love this Japanese manga series by Daisuke Igarashi (published by Viz Media in North America). Mr.Igarashi paints a beautiful and touching story that revolves primarily around 3 children, who are very much in touch with the sea and all the living beings in it. You’ll find it hard to not fall in love with the plot and beautiful watercolour artwork!

Plot Summary

“Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora’s special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys’ power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.” (Anime News Network)

Where to find?

Some locations of Indigo/Chapters, and various graphic novel/manga stores in Toronto. Locate store here.

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IM Forum for 2/12/14: Tu Uthaisri, Google Creative Lab

Speaker: Tu Uthaisri , Google Creative Lab Time: Wednesday, February 12 , 4-5:50pm Location: USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media Building (SCI), Room 108

Tu Uthaisri is a filmmaker currently working at Google Creative Lab NY. He has directed many of the films that Google has released to describe the Google Glass experience including the original “GLASS: One Day” design fiction and the recent brilliant stopmotion film made with GLASS, “CATCH: A Handimation through Glass“. Originally from Bangkok, Thailand, he has a background in design and motion graphic and has been in production on TV commercials in the past. Total boredom from the east brought him to New York. He earned an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School for Design with his short film SURFACE : A FILM FROM UNDERNEATH.

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IMD Forum for 10/16/13: Kristina Woolsey

Speaker: Kristina Woolsey Time: Wednesday, October 16, 4-5:50pm Location: USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media Building (SCI), Room 108

Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey is an American scholar and cognitive scientist known as the “mother of multimedia” for her pioneering work at the Apple Multimedia Lab and Atari Research Labs, which she directed. Woolsey was a founding member of the Apple Human Interface Group. She was named a Distinguished Scientist by Apple Computer in acknowledgment of her pioneering work in multimedia in education, and an NMC Fellow[1] by the New Media Consortium for her lifetime of contributions to the field. As a postdoctoral fellow in architecture in the 1970s, she explored the connections between “movies,” e.g. film and video, and physical spaces. As an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz she explored geographic information systems, working on the Aspen Movie Map as a visiting faculty member at MIT. She has served in a myriad of roles, including executive producer of a range of critically acclaimed multimedia titles, including Life Story, the Visual Almanac, and Voices of the Thirties. Woolsey is author of many articles, chapters, and books, including VizAbility,[2] from Ceengage Publishers, which she coauthored with Scott Kim and Gayle Curtis. She served as co-editor with Sueann Ambron for Learning with Interactive Multimedia[3] from Microsoft Press. In 2009 Woolsey was the Project Director for a Capital Project at the San Francisco Exploratorium. She was also a member of the Emeritus Board[4] of the New Media Consortium, an organization she has worked with since its inception, and Head of the Advisory Board for the Learning, Design and Technology Program at Stanford University. Her most recent projects include the not-for-profit Golden Age of Multimedia, which she authored, and New Media Thinking, in which she served as Director.

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IMD Forum for 9/4/13: IMGD/MAP/SCA Research

Speakers: Profs. Anderson, Bolas, Fullerton, Gotsis,  Hoberman, & Stein. Time:          Wednesday, September 4, 4-6pm Location:   USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media Building (SCI), Room 108 Title:           Research in SCA, MAP, and the Interactive Media & Games Divisions

The program for this 511 session will showcase a wide variety of research projects in development by the Interactive Media Division and their various collaborations. It will include brief presentations by SCA faculty and Staff members in the context of their research demonstrations; the objective is to introduce IMGD and MAP faculty, their research interests, and potential opportunities for student participation.

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IMD Forum for 4/24/13: Sean Stewart & Maureen McHugh

  Speakers:        Sean Stewart & Maureen McHugh Time:               Wednesday, April 24, 6-8pm Location:       USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 122

Maureen McHugh’s first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), won the Tiptree Award, and was acclaimed for its nuanced and sensitive portrayal of diverse characters in a Chinese-dominated future world. Her subsequent novels include Half The Day is Night (1994), Mission Child (1998), and Nekropolis. Her writing is emotionally powerful and politically engaged; she has become one of the most prominent authors of her generation. Her short fiction includes “The Lincoln Train,” which won both Hugo and Locus Awards. Her stories have been collected in Mothers and Other Monsters (2005) and After the Apocalypse (2011). Publishers Weekly named After the Apocalypse as one of its ten best books of 2011 (in any genre). In recent years she has worked on a number of alternate reality games (ARGs), including Year Zero and I Love Bees, and is a partner at ARG company No Mimes Media.

Sean Stewart is one of the most influential digital storytellers in the world.  As the lead writer on projects such as The Beast for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Halo 2’s I Love Bees and Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero, he co-created the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) genre, and was instrumental in exploring what “web-native” story can be.   As a Founder and Head Writer at Fourth Wall Studios, he helped develop the Rides.TV platform; Fourth Wall’s first show, Dirty Work, won a Primetime Emmy for Online Programming. Stewart is also an accomplished sci-fi and fantasy writer, winning numerous honors, including the World Fantasy Award for his novel Galveston.  His two careers came together with the New York Times and internationally best-selling Cathy’s Book transmedia novels, now published in more than twenty countries around the world.