Performances & Panels

PERFORMANCES

TERMINAL TIME
(LARGE AUDIENCE PERFORMANCE VERSION)
CREATED BY MICHAEL MATEAS, STEFFI DOMIKE, PAUL VANOUSE, PATRICK LICHTY
Thursday, March 13, 7:15 PM at Enzian
Terminal Time is a cutting-edge, audience-powered history engine, combining mass-participation, real-time documentary graphics and artificial intelligence to bring you the history you deserve. Each cinematic experience is custom made to YOUR values, biases, and desires and covers one thousand years of human history. Through an audience response-measuring device (applause-meter) connected to a computer, viewing audiences respond to periodic questions reminiscent of marketing polls. The loudest applause determines the winning answer. This way, history is in your hands! Experience the excitement of changing history to the version you prefer.

MACHINIMA BY ILL CLAN
Sunday, March 16, 2:00 PM at Enzian
For the 1st time, a Film Festival presentation allows the audience to engage in filmmaking! Never seen before, the Machinima presentation at Enzian will feature the ILL Clan's improv/animation team performing a live 3D animated show, using audience participation to create an entirely new film. The ILL Clan will demonstrate the real-time computer animation process known as Machinima-a hybrid of cinema and 3-D game technology, using graphic techniques originally developed for computer games to generate visuals. A filmmaker with a home computer can now create feature-length epics that would cost millions of dollars using traditional CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) techniques. The Machinima filmmaker can make his or her film in real time, rather than painstakingly animating frame by frame. The ILL Clan helped to pioneer Machinima with their Award winning short, Hardly Workin', which will be screened during the performance. The program will include screenings of comedy shorts and a brief talk by Paul Marino, Executive Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences and Emmy Award-winning 3-D animator. The name "Machinima," is derived from the words Machine and Cinema.

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MAGIC MIRROR
Magic Mirror is the latest incarnation of the Entertainment Technology Center's Audience Interaction Project, which provides interactive experiences to large audiences in a movie theater setting. Audience interaction uses sensors to detect the behavior of the audience to affect a computer-generated experience and uses images of the audience as a background for the interactive experience.

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INTERACTIVE MEDIA FORUMS
Free and Open to the public

"Provocations" Creators Gathering
Thursday, March 13, 11:30am-1:00pm
Bush Auditorium, Rollins College (Courtesy of The Arts at Rollins College)
Moderator: Marc N. Weiss
Digital technologies add a powerful and often unpredictable ingredient to the artistic stew: the chance to break out of the producer/consumer relationship and enlist the audience as active agents who can add something of themselves to the mix --and sometimes even affect the outcome. What pressing issues are the new digital artists exploring and how are they exploiting and expanding the potential of a medium still in its infancy?

Breathing Life into Digital Media: Why Artificial Intelligence should (or should not) be a subset of Animation rather than of Computer Science.
Thursday, March 13, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Winter Park City Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor
Moderator: Dr. Bill Tomlinson: Award winning animator, autonomous character designer.
Panelists: Rebecca Allen: Professor, UCLA Design/Media Arts, internationally recognized designer, artist; Dr. Ken Perlin: Director, Media Research Lab, NYU, Computer Graphics Technical Achievement Oscar Award Winner.
New directions in the study of artificial intelligence call into question the status of AI as a subdiscipline of computer science. Join experts in computer science and animation as they debate one of the basic assumptions of the field of artificial intelligence.

Media Art Centers: "If you build it, they will come" . . . and perhaps make some really cool films.
Friday, March 14, 11:00am-12:30pm
ProStage Cinema at Enzian Theater
Moderator: Richard Grula: Director Operations and Public Programs, UCF Department of Film. Freelance arts writer, musician, recording engineer, and producer. Panelists: Peter Mitchell: Communications Director/Program Manager, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle; Jeremy O'Neal, Associate Executive Director, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco; Bill Horrigan: Director of Media Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University.
Would you like to have a media clubhouse to call you own? A place to create your own independent films and video projects? Imagine pushing open the door of a building to find a cutting edge screening facility and a post-production viewing lounge! Could it really happen? Right here in Orlando, available for your use, open to the public? This forum brings together executives from around the nation to discuss how to make it happen.

A Conversation with Visual Effects Wizard George Merket: "They'll Make Psychos Of Us All!"
Friday, March 14, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Winter Park City Councils Chambers
Hosted by Michael Moshell
George Merkert has an extensive history of involvement in innovative media. He was one of the original creators of Music TV (MTV). He was employed at Sony Pictures Imageworks and at Pacific Data Images. He has produced visual effects for feature films and over 100 TV commercials, music videos and has been working in the industry for over 20 years. His work in visual effects includes As Good as It Gets, Starship Troopers, Virtuosity, Godzilla, James and the Giant Peach, Johnny Mnemonic, Total Recall, and many other films. He was also the first International Gravity Sports Association US Champion in Inline Downhill Skating.

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UNIVERSITY ROUNDTABLES: WORKSHOPS ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND ARTS IN ACADEMIA

Sponsored by the
University of Central Florida and Ball State University
with panelists representing twenty Digital Media programs throughout the United States.
Location: Winter Park City Council Chambers
(Some gallery seating is available to the public. However, the public will be asked to observe the proceedings only, without participation.)

UCF and Ball State University will meet with national academics to discuss the current state of digital media instruction from the perspective of curricula, research, professional development, and academic/industry relations. What are we teaching? What should we be teaching? What are the core concerns of digital media instruction? What projects are cutting-edge? Can we assign them? What more do we, as academics, need to develop in the program and in our own skills? How do we enhance networking between academia and industry? How do we get our graduates into the market? If you are interested in what should be taught, how, and to what end, witness our academic panelists as they hash out the future direction of university digital media instruction.

Thursday, March 13
8:30 AM-9:00 AM Opening Session: University Roundtable.
Co-Chair: Dr. Mike Moshell: Director, Digital Media Program, University of Central Florida; Dr. Ray Steele: Director, Center for Information and Communication Science, Ball State University.

9:00 AM-10:30 AM Insights into Digital Media Curriculum: A review of the Digital Media curriculum (graduate and undergraduate): What are we teaching? What should we be teaching?
Co-Chairs: Dr. Robert Kenny: University of Central Florida;
Dr. Dominic Caristi: Ball State University;
Dr. Michael Holmes: Ball State University.

11:00 AM-12:30 PM Insights into Digital Media Curriculum (continued)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Present and Future Research Projects: A discussion of current and future research as well as creative activities: What are the core concerns for our discipline?
Co-Chairs: Dr. Mike Moshell: Director, Digital Media Program, University of Central Florida; Dr. Scott Olson: Dean, College of Communication, Information, and Media, Ball State University.

Friday, March 14
8:30 AM-10:00 AM Present and Future Research Projects (continued)

10:30 AM-Noon Digital Media Professional Association Development: Should we create a formal organization at this time and host a periodic conference?
Co-Chairs: Dr. Patrick Murphy: Chair, Department of English, University of Central Florida;
Dr. Ray Steele: Director, Center for Information and Communication Science, Ball State University.

1:00 PM-2:30 PM Organizational Structure: Potential association formation and industry relations. (Council Chambers)
Co-Chairs: Dr. Patrick Murphy: Chair, Department of English, University of Central Florida;
Dr. Ray Steele: Director, Center for Information and Communication Science, Ball State University.

1:00 PM-2:30 PM Communication Mechanisms: How do we enhance networking and communicating opportunities, such as refereed journal, newsletter(s), and listserv? (Conference Room 200)
Co-Chair: Dr. Craig Saper: Director, Texts and Technology Program, University of Central Florida.

2:30 PM-3:30 PM Closing Session: University Roundtable.
Co-Chairs: Dr. Mike Moshell: Director, Digital Media Program, University of Central Florida; Dr. Ray Steele: Director, Center for Information and Communication Science, Ball State University.

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