The McLuhan Mashup Challenge is on and amazing prizes are up for grabs. From October 31st to November 12th, CBC invites you to remix, rework and recreate Marshall McLuhan’s message by creating your own McLuhan Mashup.

What’s a Mashup?

A mashup is media content containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work. You are also welcome to use content and elements you’ve created yourself; however, your work must be created from two or more separate pieces of digital content.

What do I need to do?

Start with an idea, gather your media, mash it up in any form you like and upload your most creative reinterpretation of McLuhan’s ideas. Video or Audio submissions must be no more than three minutes long.

More details are on CBC’s site!  Good luck to all entrants!

You may remember a couple months ago we showed Tentacle 1.0 at Doors Open Toronto, now Tentacle 1.0 is on display again! Tentacle 1.0 is on display at the Museum of Modern Art as part of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects. The exhibition takes place from July 24 to November 7, 2011.  Not only is Tentacle 1.0 beautiful but it’s extremely engaging and addictive, I encourage you all to see it if you are in the area.

Transmission Global Summit, 2011

For more details about this exhibit please visit: http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/home.html

Calling all aspiring actors: STITCH MEDIA (www.stitchmedia.ca) and SHOWCASE (showcase.ca) are hosting an online, Canada-wide talent search for their new comedy web series, Moderation Town. Quirky, crude, and awkwardly self-aware, Moderation Town satirizes the worst of Internet culture by revealing how online attitudes affect average, normal people in the real world.

We want to hear the most creative, hilarious stories people have experienced online. It could be an awkward Facebook encounter, an odd Chatroulette conversation, or the most atrocious message board flamewar. It doesn’t even have to be true. We just want to see what stories people have and search out new and aspiring actors through this open casting call.

- Mark Mullane
Co-writer & Director of Moderation Town

…why do I get the feeling the most embarrassing submission will be about a (first-and-last) Chatroulette experience?

nextMEDIA+Banff2010 will be chock-full of inspiring conversations and exciting keynotes!
Still trying to decide when to be where and where to be when? Check out the CFC Media Lab’s top picks!

To register for Banff2010, visit: https://registration.achillesmedia.com/delegate_registration/list_products?event_id=19

To check out the full schedule, visit: http://www.banff2010.com/schedule.dynamic.php?

nextMEDIA is proud to announce a new competition to find the hottest new ideas using iPad/tablet devices!

Submission: FREE

The Process:
Applicants must fill out the application form which will outline the following:

* goal of the application, and specifics of functionality
* audience target
* intentions for development
* information architecture or up to five screen shots

An expert jury will select five finalists to showcase their concept live at nextMEDIA and the
Banff World Television Festival on June 16, 2010.

The winning entry will receive a development deal worth $25,000 to make their concept a reality via leading interactive development agency Trapeze* and the Toronto-based Mobile Experience Innovation Centre**.

The winners will be announced at nextMEDIA.

Deadline for submissions is May 14th, 2010. Click HERE to apply now!

* CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Mike Kasprow, is Founder of Trapeze.
** CFC Media Lab Guest Faculty Member, Michele Perras, is Executive Director at MEIC.