Japan Media Arts Festival – call for entries

July 15th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

14th Japan Media Art Festival

Japan Media Arts Festival – call for entries dates:

Thursday, 15 July 2010 − Friday, 24 September 2010 (Arrival no later than the deadline date)

Art Division
Art works using new media and digital technologies
Interactive Art / Installation / Movie / Digital Photograph / Still Image / Website, etc.
Entertainment Division
Entertainment works using new media and digital technologies
Game / Play Equipment / Movie (VFX, CM, MV, etc.) / Character / Website, etc.
Animation Division
Feature Length Animation / TV Animation / Original Video Animation (OVA) / Short Animation, etc.
Manga Division
Story Manga / Comic Strip Manga / Non-commercial Manga / Digital Manga, etc.

More info about prizes and entry rules here: http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/

48 Hour Film Festival in Buffalo (Aug. 6-8th)

July 13th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

48 Hour Film Festival in Buffalo  (Aug. 6-8th)
Early Bird Team Sign-up Deadline: Monday, July 12, 2010.

The 48 Hour Film Project comes to Buffalo on the weekend of August 6th. Filmmakers from all over the Buffalo area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world. Enter today! Space is limited. Early Bird Registration is $135. Teams must register on or before Monday, July 12, to get this special rate. Afterwards, registration is $155. http://www.48hourfilm.com/buffalo

Google I/O 2010: Introducing Google TV

July 9th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

This series of videos from Google I/O 2010 Developer Event introduces new platform Google TV and many of its features. Scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2010, Google TV promises seamless integration of the Web and TV based on Google’s Open Source platform called Android and many hardware manufacturers.

Check out the videos: http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers#p/c/B09682344C2F233B

Competition “Arte Video Roma Festival”

May 16th, 2010 carma No comments

Arte Video Roma Festival

Open Call

C.A.R.M.A. – Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center – announces an open call for “ARTE VIDEO ROMA FESTIVAL” to take place in Rome, Italy.

The Festival intends to select and present to the public a selection of audiovisual works conceived and produced as pieces of contemporary art.

The Festival welcomes any digital production technique focusing on the expressive and conceptual potentialities of the chosen medium.

There are no particular restrictions about the subject of the work, but a thematic area is suggested through the reference to the “Beyond appearance”  (“Oltre l’apparenza”) umbrella title.

During the Festival, selections of guest works will be shown from the five editions of “Magmart – videoart international festival”,  from Italian works joining “Fish Eye Festival”, and from “Schio Glocal Digital Fest”, as well as a short retrospective on video art.

Rome, March 15th 2010

“ARTE VIDEO ROMA FESTIVAL” – SELECTION CRITERIA

C.A.R.M.A. – Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center – announces an international open call for the 1st Edition of “Arte video Roma Festival”, a two-days festival to take place in Rome (Italy) at the beginning of July 2010.

Submission of art pieces is free. The following categories are accepted:

Video Art, Experimental Video Animation, Video Research, Video Dance, Abstract Video, Experimental Music Video.

Every artist can submit an unlimited number of works for a maximum duration of 15 minutes each. Dvd format is required.

The works submitted must be sent along with the following documentation:

  • ·synopsis of the work(s),
  • ·technical data,
  • ·Author(s)’s curriculum vitae and bio-data,
  • ·one CD containing 3 or more still of each work, jpg/300 dpi format required,
  • ·written declaration of the artist who declares s/he agrees to donate C.A.R.M.A. the work(s) sent, for exclusive cultural purposes, i.e. s/he allows the Center to show the work(s) without charge, but not to sell it/them (please see attachment).

All the works displayed will be added to C.A.R.M.A. Archive to be freely consulted by the public.

The works sent can be eventually shown in future events to be held by C.A.R.M.A. with the only purpose of spreading digital works of art, and the relevant names of the artists active in this field.

The copy of the work submitted for pre-selection will not be returned.

Deadline for receiving the works is June 5th 2010.

Dvd must be sent to the following address:

C.A.R.M.A. (Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate)

c/o Casa dei Popoli

Viale Irpinia n.50,

00177 Roma, Italy

The works will be selected by an appointed Committee whose decisions are based on artistic, aesthetic and content values,  and cannot be controverted. The Committee will examine and evaluate all the works received by the deadline, according to the above described criteria.

The Committee is entitled to assess each work and is not obliged to justify the exclusion of works which are not selected.

The number of works to be selected is not fixed and is set by the Festival Production Team.

For further information, please contact:

C.A.R.M.A. – Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate

Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center

Contact person: Frine Beba Favaloro

E-mail: ass.carma@gmail.com

frinebeba@gmail.com

Mobile: +39 349 1753657

To learn more about C.A.R.M.A. – Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center, please visit:

http://carma.qblog.it

Can Flash on Android 2.2 Change Mobile Landscape?

May 13th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

Check out this article from Geek.com: “Watch Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 using a Nexus One” and watch a presentation of Flash performing on the upcoming version of Android 2.2.

Next Round in the Adobe-Apple Fight – NYT Article

May 13th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

It seems that the Adobe-Apple fight will never end.

Click here to read “Next Round in the Adobe-Apple Fight” by Nick Bilton (The New York Times article).

Enemy Following the Player – Unity3D Tutorial

May 4th, 2010 PJ Moskal 2 comments

In this tutorial I’m combining various scripts that ship with Unity3D with my own script to make an enemy character follow the First Person Controller (the player) once he/she get closer to the enemy.

Click here to watch this 5min tutorial (.mov 20.4 MB)

Click here to download my script (read the comments before applying it)

If you have any questions about this tutorial e-mail me at moskalp@canisius.edu

Good luck!

PJ Moskal

Polish-American Photo-Workshop Exhibition 2010

April 23rd, 2010 PJ Moskal 1 comment

The Polish-American Photo-Workshop Exhibition 2010 opens on Ignatian Scholarship Day at the Alumni Hall, which connects Old Main and the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library. The exhibition will continue for the remaining of the semester.

Participants from Canisius College: Michael Belfatto (DMA – ’12), Christina Constabile (DMA, COM – ’10), Kelly Jackson (DMA – ’11), Jenna Milne (DMA – ’11)

Participants from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw: Cisowska Katarzyna, Ćwiertniewski Krzysztof, Faryno Dominika, Grela Magdalena, Grochowska Joanna, Jerzynowski Grzegorz, Knur Tycjan, Kochnikiewicz Małgorzata, Kostrzewa Wojciech, Mielcarek Marta, Mikołajczuk Natalia, Milun Ewa Marta, Musielak Michalina, Muszyńska Magdalena, Nowicka Anna, Smogorzelska Małgorzata, Tomsia Szymon, Wojciechowska Maria

Faculty Mentors: Przemyslaw J. Moskal (Digital Media Arts Program, Communication Studies Department), Dr. Justine Price (Art History Department)

Photography has come to shape our culture and the way we see the world. Until recently it was inconceivable that the line separating disciplines such as painting and etching from photography could ever be crossed. The wealth of possibilities photography has to offer was explored by the participants of this year’s Polish-American photography workshop in Monastir, Tunisia (January 7-14, 2010), lead by Dr. Mariusz Dąbrowski from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland and Dr. Justine Price from Art History Department at Canisius College.

Polish-American Photo-Workshop

Polish-American Photo-Workshop

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In Remembrance Of Katyn

April 14th, 2010 PJ Moskal No comments

A screening of Katyn, a film by Andrzej Wajda, will be held on Friday, April 16 at 3 p.m., in Regis Room North to celebrate the lives of the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and more than 90 political, army, church, and community leaders killed in the plane crash on April 10, 2010.  The official delegation was on their way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn and other nearby regions, where the Russian Secret Police murdered over 20,000 Polish Army officers and intellectuals at the beginning of the World War II.

The event has been of utmost importance because recently the Russian government admitted to committing the crime which for a long time was attributed to the Germans.  For additional information about the film, please contact Margaret Stefanski, PhD, at stefansm@canisius.edu.

Katyn

Katyn

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Great Unity3D Tutorials by Will Goldstone

April 13th, 2010 PJ Moskal 1 comment

Will Goldstone presents a series of video tutorials for Unity3D on his website and his book “Unity Game Development Essentials” is a great resource for those who are interested in jumping into the world of game development.

Click here to view the tutorials.

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