Luncheon with Alexandra Samuel The first luncheon in the International Women in Digital Media Speaker Series (iWDMS) features Alexandra Samuel, Director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University and the co-founder and principal of Social Signal, one of the world’s most experienced social media agencies. Alex received a 2008 Webby nomination [...]
Help support CFC Media Lab alumnus and <stabletalk>’s Guest Editor Trevor Haldenby on his latest project, ZED.TO! ZED.TO is an immersive narrative experience that simulates the end of the world, and encourages participants to engage with the story through various media. These include original online content, pervasive live interactions, and performance events linked to major [...]
Creative Industries Panel at Cultivating and Sustaining Your Creative Economy Using the Arts and Cultural Industries as Catalysts to Grow Your Economy Fashion, media, and other cultural industries all have unique characteristics that contribute significantly to your region’s economic success. Take away key strategies to enhance growth in your community. Understand how creative industries spark [...]
Congratulations goes to CFC Media Lab alumnus James Milward and the team at The Secret Location, as well as Shaw Media and Thunderbird Films as they have been nominated for an International Emmy! They have been nominated for best digital program (fiction) for Endgame Interactive: Facebook Episode. We wish you all the luck in winning the [...]
Congratulations go out CFC Media Lab alumnus Ron Wild on his newly completed artwork! You’re all invited to celebrate with Ron at this incredible event, details are listed below! “The OncoMap” is the product of an eight month collaboration between a mathematical physicist, Joseph Geraci, who works in cancer research and an emerging digital artist [...]
The Social Media Remix: A Discussion with Marketers and Non-Profits The Remix Project and Blackboard Marketing bring you a panel discussion with marketers and non-profits using social media to further their organization’s goals. Moderated by Yasser Pervaiz of Blackboard Marketing this panel will investigate: “How social media can grow your exposure and capital fundraising.” “Current [...]
The CFC Media Lab is proud to announce that the Brototypes will be presenting tweet2hold at Social Media Week Toronto. Social Media Week is a global affair, taking place in multiple cities around the world simultaneously. Toronto participated for the first time in 2010, with a multi-day conference organized and produced by Entrinsic. For Social Media [...]
When I started my guest editorship of this blog almost a year ago, it was with a question about the relationship between tools and creations. Will new ways of doing things affect what it is that we do? To try and flesh out my feelings on that question, I’ve peeked into a number of fields [...]
Help shape Artscape Launchpad, a new creative sector entrepreneurship training and production centre. Over the past several months NetGain and Artscape have interviewed individual artists and met with dozens of groups and organizations about Launchpad with the intent of learning how to make a dynamic centre like this successful for the creative and cultural sector. [...]
GameChangers is a game design competition for diverse teams to collaborate, network, share and develop skills in software and game development. Join in at the Open House to get started! Participation is FREE and teams will be a mix of women and men studying or working in software development and game design. For anyone interested [...]
