Deets on IBM100 - Immersive Film/Data Viz THINK exhibit

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From the site:

"Located on Jaffe Drive at Lincoln Center in New York, the THINK exhibit combines three unique experiences to engage visitors in a conversation about how we can improve the way we live and work.

Data wall

Visitors approaching the exhibit are drawn in by striking patterns displayed on a 123-foot digital wall. The wall visualizes, in real time, the live data streaming from the systems surrounding the exhibit, from traffic on Broadway, to solar energy, to air quality. Visitors discover how we can now see change, waste and opportunities in the world’s systems.

Immersive film

Inside the exhibit space, visitors step into a media field composed of 40 seven-foot screens. As the screens come to life, visitors discover a 12-minute immersive film. A kaleidoscope of images and sound surrounds them. They are enveloped in a rich narrative about the pattern of progress, told through awe-inspiring stories of the past and present. They are inspired to think about humankind's quest for progress, and about making our world work better, today..."

Via The Lavin Agency Speakers Blog (For Toronto’s all-night public art party next...)

For Toronto’s all-night public art party next month, Lavin speaker Natalie Jeremijenko will help citizens reclaim public space—and public airspace!—by lifting hundreds of citizens into the air to provide them with a pigeon’s-eye view of our city hall. A radical lesson in urban infrastructure! From Nuit Blanche:

Inspired by the birds of Nathan Phillips Square, Flightpath Toronto is a participatory spectacle inviting the public to rediscover the possibilities and wonder of urban flight. For Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011, the square hosts an urban flightschool, an interactive visual airscape, and fly-lines that enable hundreds of people, enwinged, to re-imagine the city and the way we move through it.

By exploring the square through the eyes of its primary inhabitants, urban birds, can we reinvent our relationship to the city we build together? By reclaiming airspace as public space, can we consider other forms of transit, rediscover the ‘sport’ in ‘transport’, and excite imaginative possibilities for our urban infrastructure? Are we game to experience, through flight, a city that is fluid and three-dimensional?

Flightpath Toronto’s swarms of flying people experiment with an urban-scale participatory proposition: one that demonstrates the pleasures of emissionless urban mobility and creates a shared memory of a possible future.

Flightpath Toronto is a collaboration between Usman Haque, architect/artist and Natalie Jeremijenko, engineer/artist, uniting his expertise in participatory urban spectacle with her expertise in bird flight and urban natural systems.

Simon Staffans on : From Transmedia to… Intermedia? | MIPBlog

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Photo: Beyoncé at the VMAs, with NIcki Minaj (left): prologue to the ultimate crossmedia moment?

"As people who have read my previous blog posts here will attest to, I tend to look at matters from a transmedia point of view. The reason is simple; I firmly believe that using transmedia methods when developing media content, be it drama, news, formats or documentaries, will make the end result more compelling and the audience more engaged.
Recently I feel that the discussions on the transmedia (or cross media, or multiplatform, or even intermedia) business world has become more mature and given rise to a number of great thoughts. As I stated in my earlier post here (Can Transmedia Be A Cash Cow), I am of the opinion that transmedia projects, as any other, need to make money, simply because otherwise the project will be discontinued in favor of some other project that does make money. Nuno Bernardo from BeActive had a good post here last month about how to fund a transmedia project, drawing on the experiences of his own projects such as “Sophia’s Diary”.
But looking from another angle, what are the latest thoughts on how to make the most of the finished product?..."

read the full post here:

http://blog.mipworld.com/2011/09/simon-staffans-from-transmedia-to-intermedia/

Popcorn - The Secretly Awesome Things About to Transform Web Video - Atlantic Mobile

The Secretly Awesome Things About to Transform Web Video

When I decided to go to the Open Video Conference in Manhattan this weekend, I really had no idea what to expect. Open Video is an unusual cause, belonging to no specific interest group, in that we are all makers and/or consumers of web video (usually both). What other issue can bring together a diverse crowd of hackers, academics, filmmakers, human rights activists, and lawyers to gleefully design and debate the future of technology? The third annual Open Video Conference, held this past weekend at New York Law School, felt like a mini SXSW Interactive loosely dedicated to "making video more open." Topics of discussion included everything from "visual anonymity" to robot lawyers (seriously). Dozens of workshops provided enough food for thought to inspire another year of innovation, not just in technology and policy, but in modes of visual storytelling.
 

The Documentary Cloud


A central challenge of documentary filmmaking is wrangling the wealth of information and footage amassed in the process of researching and shooting into a three-act structure. The Connected Documentary workshop tackled, among many topics, how a documentary can live and grow online, beyond the boundaries of the feature format. Amir Bar-Lev, the director of The Tillman Story, explained how, like most documentaries, the story he was telling continued long after he finished the film. At the same time, he had amassed an archive of over 300 documents related to the Tillman case and countless interviews that would never fit the film, but were a powerful part of the story. So he decided to put them in the cloud. He used Document Cloud to make the documents available and is working on making an interactive version of the film so that viewers online can brows the supplementary content in synch with the film. This interactive layer (more on this in a second) lets you pin any kind of content that can live in a web page to specific sections in the film, so that the video becomes an entry point for a whole archive of information. A "transmedia" approach to filmmaking certainly isn't new, but the direct linking of content to a linear story, with opportunities for audience participation, is pretty exciting. 

Interactive Layering


We tend to think of video as a static block of content that has to be experienced in a linear manner, but this is increasingly not the case, as HTML5 developers work to integrate video more seamlessly with web pages. The workshop about Popcorn.js was an exuberant introduction to an open source tool that essentially allows you to synchronize non-video content to a video. Sounds simple, and Rick Waldron from Bocoup went out of his way to present it in terms that would feel intuitive to non-developers. Without going into too much detail, it's an HTML5 media framework that can link the behavior of a web page to time code (or any metadata) in the video. Remix artist and conference keynote speaker Jonathan McIntosh has an awesome example of how this can be used to add dynamic context to a video on his website. First, if you haven't seen it, check out his Donald Duck-meets-Glenn Beck remix, an artful edit of Disney footage and Beck's radio and television audio:
 

As McIntosh points out on his site, some of the subversive power of remix is in recontextualizing content, which can be amplified by letting an audience see the source material in its original context. There is also incredible value in being able to attribute each clip to its source, especially in a fair use case like this, where the creator is at risk of a DMCA takedown notice from a content owner (e.g. Disney or Fox). 

I've recently been exploring ways to contextually present the audiovisual sources, notes and references used in my remix videos. I'm especially interested in the exciting possibilities of the HTML5  video element combined with the Popcorn.js framework to visually annotate the metadata in my more complex remixing projects. With that in mind I've put together anHTML5 video demo which dynamically displays a layer of data referencing the original source materials as the video plays. I have long been an advocate for remixers to transparently cite their sources as part of promoting open video, claiming our fair-use rights and as a way to make it easier for others to remix the same material in alternative ways ...


Check out the demo here. McIntosh explains the layout:

While watching the demo you will see related data dynamically appear in the boxes surrounding the remix, triggered by the video's time code. If you click on any red text it will link you back to source materials in their original context. (1) Displays the current visual clip info. (2) Displays the current audio clip info. (3) Displays relevant wikipedia articles. (4) Displays production and factual notes.

Back at the Popcorn workshop,

read the full post here:

http://m.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2011/09/the-secretly-awesome-things-ab...

Grazie! A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 58 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information

Digital Directors Guild- assists educators with their digital storytelling projects 
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom- from Microsoft Education

Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators- 120 page pamphlet (download) written by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)

Making Stopmotion Movies- information on how to create stopmotion and claymation movies

Aniboom- animation studio

Animoto- create video slide shows

Big Universe- for younger children

Chogger- create comics

ClassikTV- create a movie by adding subtitles to old movie scenes

Creaza- suite of creative tools, including cartoonist, movie editor, audio editor and mindmaps

DigiTales- create 3-5 minute stories from these types: living memories, beyond words, itza wrap

Do Ink- create Flash-style animations using a "simple and friendly vector editor

Domo Animate- free animation website offers characters with dialogue, backdrops and special effects

Glogster- drag and drop text, images, audio, video drawings and more; premium edition has no ads

Google Search Stories- uses YouTube, so if your school blocks it you're out of luck

see the full list on

http://mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com/2011/08/58-sites-for-digital-storyt...