TORONTO, ONTARIO, Sep 22, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) ?On the eve of October 1, a diverse group of fourteen artists,producers and contributors from the latest installment of CFC MediaLab?s TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) willtransform the Bata Shoe Museum into a space of collaborativeexploration and play. The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is once againthrilled to be an official part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, theall-night, interactive, cultural extravaganza celebratingcontemporary art in Toronto.
CFC Media Lab Exhibition 2011: Technological Displacement invites theaudience to re-imagine game play and consider their ever-evolvingrelationship to communications technologies. Inspired by MarshallMcLuhan?s theory of the global village and his influence onscreen-based media, this year?s exhibition features five inventive,interactive and thought-provoking projects: Alone together, CatsBreaking Antiques, Heart of Stars, Quetzal and tweet2hold. come andexplore these groundbreaking installations.
?????????????????????????- CFC Media Lab Exhibition 2011: Technological Displacement Sneak Peek Media/V.I.P. Reception: Friday, September 30, 2011 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at The Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor Street West, Toronto R.S.V.P. by Thursday, September 29, 2011 to communications@cfccreates.com ?????????????????????????-
The following projects will be on display:
Alone together is an ?art-app? designed for the BlackBerry Playbookthat uses poetic wordplay and expressive videos to ponder questionsof selfhood and explore the meaning of relationships betweenindividuals. Creative Team: Shawn Kerwin, Laurel MacDonald.
A fun, irreverent and visually rich environment to discover on aBlackBerry Playbook, Cats Breaking Antiques pokes fun at pop culture,media and our digital lives. Users explore this environment as amodernized version of Felix the Cat, destroying traditional mediacontent and objects by engaging with a variety of mini arcade games,quizzes and animated film clips. Creative Team: Hannah Epstein,Monica Law, John Watson.
Using groundbreaking Microsoft Kinect technology, Heart of Starsturns users into 3D avatars made of points of light that floatthrough space. Combining high resolution images of deep space withgesture-triggered operatic electronica, Heart of Stars entices usersto defy gravity and attempt to fly through the cosmos. Creative Team:Vanessa Shaver, Tsu-Ching Yu.
Quetzal is an interactive story that harnesses the latest inconsumer-level EEG technology to weave 2D illustrations and 3D gameplay into a rich narrative tapestry. Through the power of thought,users become actors in Quetzal, resulting in an engaging, emotionalexperience that is the future of interactive cinema. Creative Team:Michael Evask, Ryan Rizzo, Mark Thoburn. Produced & Written by:Michael Evask and Mark Thoburn.
tweet2hold asks strangers to share a secret about the future viaTwitter before converting responses into unique paper keepsakesthrough a combination of technology and graphic design. tweet2holdalso leverages the sophisticated analysis engine, Lymbix to determinethe emotional tone of each secret and assign it an appropriate colourpalette. Creative Team: Ryan Bigge, Edwin Lara, Dylan Reibling, RonWild.
also on display during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is The Movie StudioPlayhouse, a collaboration between CFC Media Lab and TIFF, the MovieStudio Playhouse is an interactive installation that allowsparticipants to make and play with moving image stories in real time.as participants act in spontaneously-created films, the images theycreate will be projected live onto various surfaces at TIFF BellLightbox. VJs will then mix, manipulate, mash, and multiply theselive video streams and turn them into moving digital paintings.
Harnessing a wide range of creative skills and knowledge, the CFCMedia Lab?s TELUS Interactive Art and Entertainment Program (IAEP) isCanada?s first post-graduate program for new media training andproduction, based on the philosophy that compelling content iscreated through a collaborative process. this team-based approachencourages residents from a variety of backgrounds, including:design, filmmaking, production, writing, visual art, music andprogramming. an internationally acclaimed facility, CFC Media Lab hasproduced award-winning new media prototypes ranging fromsimulation-based interactive documentaries, to wireless storytellingnetworks, to interactive short films and narrative-driven mediainstallations.
For event details and project photos, please visit: cfccreates.com/exhibition .
For a selection of high quality, downloadable images, please CLICKHERE.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: Saturday, October 1, 2011 ? Sunday, October2, 2011 ? Open to the public from 6:59 p.m. ? sunrise.
CFC is Canada?s leading institution for advanced training in film,television and new media. A charitable not-for-profit organization,CFC is committed to promoting and investing in Canada?s diversetalent; providing exhibition, financial and distributionopportunities for top creative content leaders from coast to coast.CFC makes a significant cultural and economic contribution to Canadaby launching the country?s most creative ideas and voices in film,television and new media to the world. CFC Media Lab is Canada?sacclaimed institute for digital media that provides a uniquetraining, research and production think-tank environment for emergingnew media artists, content developers and practitioners. CFC MediaLab has been experimenting with the interactive narrative form since1997 and in the past ten years, has produced over 60 prototypesranging from web-based interactive documentaries to ?shuffle videos?-the creation of randomly generated movies on the i-Pod. For moreinformation please visit: cfccreates.com.
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Contacts: For more information, to arrange an interview or to book a guided tour of the CFC Media Lab Exhibition 2011: Technological Displacement, please contact: Brian Mullen 416.445.1446 x463 bmullen@cfccreates.com Sabrina Jeria 416.445.1446 x247 communications@cfccreates.com
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