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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 DIG.IT PANELS AND WORKSHOPS, 9:30AM-3PM MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 1501 HENNEPIN AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS For more information about the panels and workshops, call the Minnesota Film and TV Board at 612.332.6493. COMMERCE AND BUSINESS, 9:30-10:30 AM $8 ($6 Walker Members) The panel explores the effects of the changing media climate on business communications and advertising, exposing new challenges and opportunities in multimedia production. Panelists include representatives from local corporations and production companies. THE NEW MEDIA AESTHETICS AND THE ARTIST'S WORK, 10:30 AM-12 NOON $8 ($6 Walker Members) This panel addresses the future of digital video and takes a look at ways that the technology impacts storytelling and interactive media in art and entertainment. Panelists include: Brian Dehler, Benita Raphan, Rosto A.D., Tom Schroeder, Leon Grodski, Pearl Gluck, Sabine Himmelsbach, and Eva Ilona Brzeski. FLASH FORWARD WORKSHOP, 1-3 PM $8 ($6 Walker Members) This workshop examines Flash, a common tool in the creation of content in new media, and includes hands-on projects. IMPROVISATIONAL FILMMAKING WORKSHOP, 1-3 PM $8 ($6 Walker Members) Based on the Rob Nilsson "direct action" approach, this workshop for actors, writers, and directors centers on generating genuine emotion as a mechanism to drive performance and dialogue using mini-DV. Led by Dean Lincoln Hyers. LAST SEEN, 4 PM INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR EVA ILONA BRZESKI $7 ($5 Walker Members) Last Seen is a mystical coming-of-age story about the disappearance of Jennifer Langsam, a high school volleyball star. An investigative reporter is troubled by ghostly presences in this portrait of Jennifer's vanishing, where interviews with family, friends, and witnesses nestle uneasily with dreamlike visions and reenactments of Jenny's final days. 2002, U.S., color, video, 78 minutes. LECTURE/SCREENING: INTRODUCING LE FRESNOY, NATIONAL STUDIO OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, 6PM Free Le Fresnoy is an international postgraduate art and audiovisual research center in Tourcoing (France). To realize his or her project, each student is allotted a budget and given access to studios and postproduction equipment. As well as these individual works, students collaborate on the films of their fellows and on projects by visiting artists. Director Alain Fleischer will give insight into the daily creative life of Le Fresnoy and will document his presentation with outstanding works by its visiting artists and scholars. Program length 90 minutes. QUAKE! DOOM! SIMS!, 8 PM Transforming Play: Family Albums and Monster Movies Curated by Katie Salen http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/qds/index.html $7 ($5 Walker Members)
Inspired by last year's program of fan films entitled The Star Wars We'd Like to See, this year animator and gamer Katie Salen curates a series of digital narratives focusin on films made using the engines of popular games such as Quake or . These films range from shorts to feature-length works, from humor to drama to politics, from the absurd to the sublime. Katie Salen is an interactive designer and design educator interested in connections between game design, interactivity, and play. She is co-authoring a frightfully large textbook on game design with Eric Zimmerman for MIT Press and serves as a contributing editor for RES magazine, writing on games and digital culture. When she is not writing about or playing games she works at gameLab as a game designer and animator, making online games for clients such as Ragdoll (the people from the Teletubbies!) and Lego.com. Katie is also co-creator of Conduit, a forthcoming animated series on the Sci-Fi channel focusing on videogame cinematics and continues to work as an animator on projects that grew out of her work on the feature film Waking Life. She has taught visual and interactive design at RISD, N.C. State University, and the University of Texas and will teach a graduate course in game design at Parsons School of Design this fall. Katie lives, plays, and works in Brooklyn most days.
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