Posted on June 16, 2010, 9:22 am, by francesco d'orazio, under
Tv,
arg,
cinema,
events,
social media,
storytelling,
virtual worlds.
How storytelling and narratives are changing in a digitally connected world, at The Book Club in Shoreditch, tonight.
Guests for the night are Dan Hon, co-founder of award-winning multi-platform storytellers Six To Start, who have made everything from treasure hunts for the band Muse to Channel 4’s social networking game/cautionary tale Smokescreen; Jade Tidy, producer of [...]
T_Visionarium 360 3D Installation from Karel & Sjaak on Vimeo.
T_Visionarium was created for the UNSW iCinema Centre’s Advanced Interaction and Visualisation Environment (AVIE), and it offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information, allowing viewers to explore and actively edit a multitude of stories in three dimensions. For T_Visionarium, 28 hours of digital free-to-air Australian [...]
Posted on February 11, 2009, 5:34 am, by francesco d'orazio, under
cinema.
Posted on January 26, 2009, 1:22 pm, by francesco d'orazio, under
cinema.
Every immersive technology is literally ob-scene because it shatters the scenic relation between the audience and the representation, which is typical of frontal non-immersive media. So in a way, 3D porn has always been one of, if not the most obvious match for immersive media, and yet probably the latest one to be seriously put [...]
I love theme/amusement parks in virtual worlds and being able to experience rides that would be impossible to experience in a real amusement park. Or maybe what I really love is the idea of an immersive medium simulating another immersive medium. But I’m also fascinated by the fact that virtual amusement park rides really leave [...]
Posted on January 16, 2009, 2:42 am, by francesco d'orazio, under
cinema,
events.
On Jan 22 at noon, 5D’s founder Production Designer Alex McDowell (Watchmen, Fight Club) will moderate a panel of top film industry innovators in a discussion on how new technologies have redefined cinematic storytelling. Alex will be joined by 5D|08 panelists Habib Zargarpour (Electronic Arts) &, Tracy Fullerton (USC Interactive Media Division), as well as [...]