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Motion Graphics Summit 2008

 

The summit is part of the Imagination College Program

Purchase a Green Educational Badge to attend the summit

   

Pre-Summit Media

    Bob Bennett on Surround Sound ( mp3 : 23min : 42mb )

    Rani Stack on Digital Signage ( mp3 : 13min : 12mb )

 

Summit Installation Artist Feature : Wed 10am - 5pm

     Joan Truckenbrod "Flashpoint" at the Betty Rymer Gallery

 


 

Summit Day 1 ( COMMUNITY )

 

Wed Jan 16 : 10am to 5pm

@ the SAIC Auditorium

280 S. Columbus Drive

2nd Floor

 

Over $9000 in raffle prizes!

 

Art in Motion Screening : 10am

• Artist Feature: Barry Dupree

 

Broadcast Panel : 11am

• dos and donts for submitting to broadcast

• opportunities and changes in the broadcast network

• panelists include: Mary Roland (Machete), Brian Willard (Radar) & Tim Frick (Mightybytes)

 

Broadcast Innovation with VisRT : 12pm

presented by Bernt Kåre Johannessen (VP of Operations, VisRT)

 

Adobe Webcast : 1pm

Develop Mobile Content Using Adobe Creative Suite 3

from Adobe Events + part of mgfest08 Online

 

Realtime Software for Motion Graphics : 2pm

• presented by Mason Dixon

• using realtime software, such as Arkaos, Ableton and Module8, to create broadcast-quality graphics & audio without keyframes

 

The Wonderful & Tragic Career of the VJ : 3pm

• moderated by Jon Satrom, SAIC

• road stories from working professional VJs

• panelists include: Nano (Warp Records), MFChicago (Lollapalooza) Shudder (Green Velvet) and Stoptime 341 (Tiesto)

 

Performance Feature: The Ontologist : 4pm

Chicago Musician and Video Artist Ontologist. Changing the way you view the way you view.

 

Post Summit : Outsider's Studio Tour & Industry Mixer

 


 

Summit Day 2 ( DELIVERY )

 

Thr Jan 17 : 10am to 4pm

@ Columbia College's Ferguson Hall

600 S Michigan Ave

 

Over $9000 in raffle prizes!

 

Conscious Motion Screening : 10am

• Motion Graphics with a message

• Artist feature: Zia Sunseri

 

Surround Sound for Dummies : 11am

• presented by Bob Bennett, ARU Chicago

 

Lunch Break-out Discussions : 12pm

 

Media Divergence : 1pm

• presented by Mason Dixon, SAIC

• rather than convergence, devices appear to be diverging; compression; device landscape; a new hollywood

 

Technology Circus : 2pm

• Digital Signage in Hospitality by Rani Stack (Rani Stack Studio for The Creative Effort) and David Alter (AVT Communiqué)

• Last Things First: Designing Software Applications for Hacked Hardware (Wiimote Video Mixer) by Eric Medine

 

Adobe Keynote Presentation : 3pm

 

Post Summit : Stash's Commercial Screening