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Download It Now: Herd.fm

January 25, 2012 | Andrea Mallozzi | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

Herd.fm is back and better than ever!

The application delivers best in-app music sharing, discovering and listening experience with API integration from top music services: Last.fm, Songkick, SoundCloud and YouTube!

Herd.fm promises to be the new standard for music sharing and discovery on mobile devices. As phones have become the heart of a person’s music collection, the ability to share songs with others has remained difficult. The new Herd.fm is customized for mobile devices and provides a user-friendly, streamlined experience that makes connecting people through meaningful songs and playlists simple and fun.

HERD.FM was conceived at the CFC Media Lab’s NBC Universal Multiplatform Matchmaking Program where co-founders Romeo Candido (2010), Davin Lengyel (2010) and James Milward (2010) challenged themselves to find a new way to share music.  Herd.fm welcomed David Nam as an executive team member and the vision of the product grew from being a geo-locative music discovery tool to a mobile service that solves the problem of sharing and discovering meaningful music in a fun, and easy way on the mobile platform.  Nam is the former VP of Product and Marketing at MXP4 and former Head of Marketing at Last.fm.

Details:
What is it: Music Discovery App
Platform: iOS, iPhone device
Download Now: http://bit.ly/herdfminstall
More Information: https://herd.fm/about
Follow: @herdfm
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Amazing Toronto-Based Company in the Spotlight: GestureTek

August 4, 2011 | Andrea Mallozzi | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

In 1983 Vincent John Vincent and Francis MacDougall decided they would embark on developing technology to allow body gestures to control computers in a number of ways.  As these advancements were largely ahead of their time, Vincent and MacDougall would find themselves waiting for a number of advances, in both societal beliefs and technology that would enable them to produce this new technology.

After some success in producing gesture-based technology, GestureTek licensed it’s patents to Microsoft; where it is part of the Kinect, and they have also licensed their technology to Sony and Hasbro.

GestureTek has recently sold it’s mobile and consumer department to Qualcomm hoping to focus more on the healthcare and educational areas of the business.

They were profiled in The Grid TO this past week, GestureTek’s full story can be read here: http://www.thegridto.com/culture/gaming/control-freaks/3/

Images from: http://www.gesturetek.com/

 

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OCAD University and CFC Media Lab Launch New Graduate Program in Digital Futures

April 21, 2011 | Andrea Mallozzi | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

OCAD University and The Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab announce their partnership in the launch of a new and innovative Graduate Program in Digital Futures, with a part-time Graduate Diploma and full-time (MA, MDes, and MFA) Master’s Degrees.

This unique, practice-based graduate program is aimed at future innovators, leaders, and creators of digital media and new technologies. The program is situated within the Digital Futures Initiative (DFI) at OCAD University, a set of cross-disciplinary programs in practice-based research and innovation in digital media and emergent technologies.

The program has a key partnership with CFC Media Lab, the acclaimed think tank and production environment at the forefront of incubating and accelerating Canadian digital media companies.

“Students in the Graduate Program in Digital Futures will contribute to creative innovation and the application of new knowledge in digital technologies, practices, content, systems, and experiences, providing insight into sustainable development in a technologically mediated world.”
Martha Ladly, Associate Professor, Digital Futures Graduate Program

“Together, OCADU and CFC Media Lab have created one of Canada’s best digital media programs, with highly experienced faculty, inter-disciplinary teams, diversified industry and cultural partnerships, as well as key cross-sectoral expertise.”
Ana Serrano, Director, CFC Media Lab


We would like to invite you all to our information session on Thursday May 5, 2010, 6:00-7:30 pm. This session will be held at the CFC Media Lab in MaRS Discovery District (101 College Street, Suite 245).  Faculty and staff members of the CFC Media Lab and OCADU as well as graduate alumni will be in attendance to talk about the graduate program and answer any questions you may have.

Please RSVP to amallozzi@cfccreates.com if you wish to attend.

Apply now for September 2011 admission! http://www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies/digital_futures/how_to_apply

For Further information please go to: http://www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies/digital_futures/

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New voices on stabletalk

March 11, 2011 | Ana Serrano | Posted in Ana's Pen: A Letter from the Director > CFC Media Lab > News

Hi all,

It’s been a while since I last posted on <stabletalk>. There are, in fact, lots to report; big changes are planned for CFC Media Lab in the next year or so and in terms of productions our dance-card is pretty much full until mid-November. But, today’s post will not elucidate further on these matters. Today’s post is all about new additions to <stabletalk>.

First, I’d like to thank Kimberly Dean for shepherding this blog during her tenure with us at CFC Media Lab. She has come to represent the “voice” of <stabletalk> for many of you and will be missed. Right now, though, she is likely in 30 degree weather in deep Ecuador sizing up the land where she hopes to install a wellness centre. (Some people design their careers properly right from the start!)

But I’m happy to say that Andrea Mallozzi has agreed to be our new IAEP Coordinator and will be one of the new voices on <stabletalk>. Andrea has been with us for the past year as our stellar IAEP Teaching Assistant so she is no stranger to the Media Lab. She will be your go to person for official news, alumni updates and industry events.

Second, next week we will be welcoming <stabletalk>’s first Guest Editor, Trevor Haldenby. Before I introduce Trevor, let me explain what the Guest Editor position means:

  • An appointed, rolling position whose term is four months long (Thus, we shall have 3 Guest Editors a year.)
  • The appointments will come from CFC Media Lab alumni or faculty from all of our programs
  • They will post once a week on any topic of their choosing related to “new media” (sorry to use this antiquated term, old habit)
  • Their posts will not reflect any official position by the CFC Media Lab or the CFC and is made up entirely of the Guest Editor’s own research, ideas and opinions
  • Platforms for the Guest Editor’s voice include <stabletalk>, and other CFC Media Lab social channels such as Facebook and Twitter

And now it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Trevor Haldenby — photographer, thinker, writer, graduate student, social media analyst, emerging foresighter (sp?), and most importantly, a good guy who gives a really, really good read.

I hope you enjoy his posts in the next coming months, and I urge you all to concur, challenge, discuss, and argue with him as much as you can.

All the best,

Ana

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We hope you had a Cheer-ful Holiday!

January 14, 2011 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

CFC Media Lab would like to send a very big THANK YOU to everyone who purchased some WagJag “Cheer” during this holiday season. With your help, we raised $361 for Make a Wish Foundation and the CFC Media Lab Scholarship Fund!

A glimpse of the fun…

Check out the original post here: stabletalk.cfccreates.com/?p=3963

Thank you for your support!
…and yes, that was indeed Fred Penner.

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OUT MY WINDOW WINS IDFA DOC LAB AWARD!

November 30, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

Really… Was there ever any doubt? CONGRATS TEAM!
(Check out our original post here: stabletalk.cfccreates.com/2010/11/26/out-my-window-nominated-for-idfa-doc-lab-award)

More deets on the Highrise blog: highrise.nfb.ca/2010/11/omw-wins-idfa-doclab-award

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Out My Window Nominated for IDFA Doc Lab Award

November 26, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

Congrats to NFB/Interactive and Gerry Flahive, Kat Cizek, Branden Batuhin, Heather Frise, and the hundreds of photographers and researchers that made HIGHRISE: Out My Window happen! You deserve this nod!

IDFA presents a new documentary award: the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. The prize (Canon 5D Mark II camera, made available by Canon) is awarded to the DocLab project that uses digital technology in the most creative and effective way to tell a documentary story.

The award winner will be determined by an international jury consisting of Alexandre Brachet (Gaza-Sderot.com, Prison Valley 2009), Antoinette Hoes (Leylines) and Zach Wise (The New York Times).

Check out DocLab: the official new media program of IDFA, showcasing new forms of documentary storytelling, digital technology and media art.

The judging happens today! Best of luck, team!

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KENK Makes Quill & Quire’s Book Of the Year 2010 Non-Fiction List

November 25, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

HUGE congratulations to Alex Jansen (Pop Sandbox) and his fabulous team for making Quill & Quire‘s Book of the Year List 2010 with their graphic novel KENK: A Graphic Portrait. (Check out the other top dogs who made the list.)

KENK: A Graphic Portrait is a ground-breaking 304-page journalistic comic book detailing the life and times of Igor Kenk, “the world’s most prolific bicycle thief” (The New York Times and The Guardian). In summer 2008, Kenk was arrested and nearly 3,000 bicycles were seized in one of the biggest news stories of the year. Built from more than 30 hours of never-before-seen intimate footage taken over the year leading right up to his arrest, KENK is a thought-provoking and surprisingly funny portrait of an outsize neighbourhood figure and a city in flux.

DIVE INTO KENK HERE.

UPDATE! KENK’s on a roll! Check out Quill & Quire’s Covers of the Year 2010 List: www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2010/11/25/books-of-the-year-2010-covers-of-the-year/5/

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“CFC Media Lab is a world pioneer in digital interactive media” – Yonge Street Media Feature

November 8, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

Yonge Street Media Feature:

Our fearless leader, Ana Serrano, talks prototypes and the direction of the CFC Media Lab in Yonge Street Media‘s feature article by Joseph Wilson:

Get your read on here:
TELUS IAEP Spring 2011 INFO SESSION IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO

ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT: RSVP TODAY!

If you want to learn more about the CFC Media Lab and be a part of the future of interactive art and entertainment, please join us!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:30 PM

Please RSVP to medialab@cfccreates.com for location details.

Applications for the Spring 2011 session are due by December 15, 2010. Download your application package now at: www.cfccreates.com/what_we_do/cfc_media_lab/telus_interactive_art_and_entertainment_program/apply

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Tune into GreenHeroes on TVO

November 4, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > News

GreenHeroes on TVO:

Tune into this!

GreenHeroes: “In My Backyard” (Episode 2)

Tuesday, November 9th, at 7pm ET
Repeats Saturday, November 13th at 4:00 p.m. ET

http://www.GreenHeroes.tv/
http://www.tvo.org

GreenHeroes, a smart, sexy and dynamic Web/TV crossover produced by CineFocus Canada in association with TVO and SUN TV which tells remarkable stories of people who acted on their ideas and heroically “ventured forth” to protect our planet. From the celebrity to the everyday person, each story details the different paths and interests the GreenHeroes have taken in their quests to help save the world.

Episode 2 introduces us to GreenHeroes with a lot in common. They are protecting the places they call home from industrialization and pollution of our fresh water sources and they are using the arts to get their message out to the masses.

Sarah Harmer: An internationally recognized singer/songwriter who flexes her musical muscle to protect a world biosphere site.
Sarah grew up with the Niagara Escarpment in her backyard. Today, she is dedicated to its preservation, and to achieve this goal, she co-founded PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land) and mounts a concert each summer featuring renowned musicians like Bruce Cockburn and Feist.

Gord Downie: The Tragically Hip front man turned environmental activist.
Gord jumped to the front lines of a battle against an unfair polluter when a cement company was experimenting with burning tires as an alternative fuel source. He joined forces with the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper after hearing a speech by Robert Kennedy Jr. and put a halt to the unsafe practice in the lakeside village of Bath, Ontario.

Annabel Slaight: Publisher of “Owl”, the popular nature magazine for kids.
Annabel turned her corporate and organizing know-how to found Ladies of the Lake, an organization dedicated to saving Lake Simcoe. Their Naked Truth calendar released in 2006 didn’t hurt their cause either. The Ladies of the Lake’s efforts contributed to the provincial Lake Simcoe Act and federal funding to aid in the Lake’s clean-up and preservation.

Check out the CFC Media Lab Alumni behind GreenHeroes!

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