Gurval Caer
CEO and President of Blast Radius. Presides over 400 people including passionate business strategists, creative designers, technology visionaries and architects. Blast Radius is a digital powerhouse with core expertise in customer experience and social marketing. Our mission is to help major consumer-facing brands revolutionize marketing and branding. Founded in 1997. Offices in Amsterdam, London, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver Read More….
Kim Cooper
Kimberly Cooper is the Managing Director of Prologue Films and head of its broadcast design division. Her work on the Academy Awards® has been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards. Prologue Films is a motion-graphics design company specializing in film and broadcast work. Educated at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA, Kimberly Cooper began her professional career as a designer with Imaginary Forces. She left the company …. Read More
R. Blank
R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank (http://www.almerblank.com), an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California, that specializes in video and application development on the Flash platform for clients including Apple, IKEA, Mattel, Microsoft and the House of Blues. He is also the Training Director at the Rich Media Institute (http://richmediainstitute.com), the Adobe Authorized Training Center that he co-founded,…Read More
Amielle Lake
Amielle Lake is the CEO of Tagga Media, a published author, dedicated foodie, and an aspiring chin up champion. She is a co-founder of TaggaMedia Inc (www.tagga.com), a company focused on delivering relevant and effective mobile marketing tools to professional marketers across North America. Tagga’s Agency Platform enables advertising and marketing agencies of all sizes to create and deploy a range of mobile marketing ….Read More
Alfred Hermida
Online news pioneer, social media scholar and journalism educator. Hermida is a 16-year veteran of the BBC and was a founding news editor of the BBC News website. Since 2006, he has been an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include emerging digital forms of journalism and social media, with his work appearing in Journalism Practice and M/C ….Read More
“EXTREME CLOSE- Up Panels”
The Extreme CU is a series of focused panels examining current issues from multiple perspectives. Join our exceptional moderators and a talented panel in a discussion format.
Extreme CU 1 – Digital Installation
Moderator: Conrad Gleber
Director, Digital Arts & Multimedia Design,La Salle University.
La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
http://conradgleber.com Conrad Gleber has had a long and distinguished career in art and new media design for communications. He exhibits digital artwork, sound and video installations and outdoor urban screen projections. Gleber and New York artist, Duff Schweninger, recently produced “Dialogues with Artists in Cuba,” a 60 minute, video documentary that reveals the life and work of five young artists in Havana, Cuba. He has ….Read More
Panelist: Fiona Bowie
Born in Vancouver BC, Fiona Bowie attended the University of British Columbia (B.F.A. 1990) and Simon Fraser Univ. (M.F.A. 1998). Fiona Bowie works with superimposition of time/still based media and sculpture to create narrative works that address subjectivity, the experience of time and consciousness. She is known for her 360 degree immersive environments and for the creation of unique image systems in the realization of her work. In ….Read More
Panelist: Julie Andreyev
www.animallover.ca
Julie Andreyev is an artist involved in two areas of practice: “Four Wheel Drift” examines the social and spatial character of the city using mobility, performance and participatory engagement; “Animal Lover” explores animal consciousness and creativity through interactive installation and video. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan in galleries and in media arts festivals. Andreyev’s work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Andreyev is Artistic Director of Interactive Futures, www.interactivefutures.ca.
Extreme CU 2 – Social Media
Moderator: Alexandra Samuel
Alexandra Samuel is the Director of the Social and Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University
Alex is an expert on social media and online participation. Her work at the Centre focuses on developing research projects, industry partnerships and community events that connect BC companies with ECUAD faculty and students. Alex’s current research projects address the personal and social impact of technology adoption, and the relationship between social ….Read More
Panelist: Adrian Allene
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), United Media Partners
Adrian Alleyne brings a unique combination of strategic, technical and entrepreneurial experience in the areas of Web 2.0, social networking and online and mobile (iPhone) applications and sites. This expertise has been built on years working with companies and inter-facing with clients to meet their strategic goals and deliver business solutions. ….Read More
Panelist – Monique Trottier
Founder of Boxcar Marketing (BoxcarMarketing.com)
Monique has over 12+ years experience in digital marketing and has trained hundreds of business people in how to drive results in their business activities. Monique is an adjunct professor of Online Marketing at Simon Fraser University. She is known for spearheading major online marketing campaigns, including the promotion of Harry Potter, and her clients include Intel, Namaste Publishing, and the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association. Monique has practical expertise in web design, email newsletters, search marketing (PPC and SEO), online media relations, and writing for the web.
Extreme CU 5 – Non Linear Storytelling
Moderator: Carol Gigliotti
Associate Professor in Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University
Carol is (http://www.carolgiglotti.net) a writer, educator, and artist, is an Associate Professor in Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University (ECU) in Vancouver, BC, Canada where she teaches Environmental Ethics, Critical Animal Studies and Interactive Media. She has been involved in new media, and writing about ethics and technology since 1990 and publishes and presents extensively. ….Read More
Panelist: Ian Verchere is a creative producer, writer and visual artist.
Vancouver-based Ian Verchere is a founder and the chief creative of Roadhouse Interactive, a production company that specializes in free-to-play multiplayer online (MMO) games that monetize through microtransaction and premium offerings. Since graduating with honors from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and ….Read More
Panelist: Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons
Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons, principals at The Goggles, are award-winning artists and authors who have produced magazines, books, and major international advocacy campaigns. They were the creative team at Adbusters Magazine for 6 years, co-authors on the book I Live Here (Pantheon, 2008) and creative collaborators on the …Read More
Extreme CU 3 – Interactive Sound and Music
Moderator: James Oliverio
Professor & Executive Director
Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida
James Oliverio is internationally known as an educator, creative artist and digital media producer, and is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant to education programs. He is currently Professor of Music, Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences and Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. ….Read More
Panelist : Gordon Durity
Gordon Durity has over twenty-five years experience in creating soundtracks, writing songs and producing audio in the areas of film, television, games, multimedia, and album production. He currently serves as a Studio Audio Director at Electronic Arts Canada, the largest developer of video games in the world. There Gordon designs and supervises the creation and implementation of audio for various titles, works with technical staff to ….Read More
Panelist: Kenneth Newby
Composer, performer and media artist
BA, MFA (Simon Fraser University), is a media artist and researcher whose practice explores the use of artist-designed software and media diffusion techniques to enable media performances and installations rich in aural and visual ideas. This practice includes works of participatory media performance and installation, infinite game design, electronic and acoustic music, software tools for composition of music and animation, as well as ….Read More
Extreme CU 4 – The Business of Transmedia
Moderator: Kurt Kratchman – ASB.tv
Colleen Nystedt
Founder/President/CEO, MovieSet™
As founder, President and CEO of MovieSet™, Colleen Nystedt blends her extensive experience in film production, finance, business affairs and creative development to guide MovieSet™, a movie marketing machine that provides movie fans with true “behind-the-scenes” access to the film-making experience by virtue of MovieSet’s platform and toolkit that brings production online. ….Read More
Panelist: Alan Sawyer
Alan Sawyer is a recognized expert on convergent content and interactive media. He’s passionate about finding new ways to extend narratives across multiple platforms to develop deep engagement while pushing the boundaries of technology, social behaviour and even time and space.
He has consulted about interactive media and convergence with organizations including the Canada Media Fund (CMF), the Canadian Media Production Association [formerly the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA)], the CRTC, the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), Interactive Ontario (IO), The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), and Telefilm Canada as well as numerous broadcasters, TV producers and interactive companies.
Alan has been an application evaluator for the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund since May 2007 including development, production and low-budget production applications, and has also contributed to the creation of three successful Bell Fund applications in 2010.
Prior to re-establishing himself as an independent consultant in 2006, Alan was a senior management consultant with IBM’s Business Consulting Services in both the Media & Entertainment and Digital Media practices.
Alan is asked to speak at many conferences every year on a wide range of subjects ranging from transmedia storytelling and telecomm-broadcasting convergence to government policy and Canada’s National Digital Strategy.
Alan also appears frequently in print and on radio and TV to share his insights and expertise on the changing media and telecomm landscape.
Narrative,Space, and the Geo-local
Jeff Ritchie
Jeff Ritchie is an associate professor and Chair of the Digital Communications department. He teaches courses in narrative across media, spatial narratives, interactivity, writing for digital media, multimedia, and principles of information design. He received a B.A. in Marketing from Indiana University, an M.A. in English from the University of South Carolina, and M.Ed. in Educational Media and Computers and a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University. His current research focus is digital narratives and the rhetoric of interactivity. He serves as an Assitant Editor for The International Media Arts Association (iDMAa) Journal and sits on iDMAa’s board.
Mary Agnes Krell
Mary Agnes Krell is the Head of Media Practice and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Media,Film, and Music at the University of Sussex. She has worked widely in theatre and as a digital artist (creating interactive media for the web, CD-ROM and installations) in the UK and internationally for over fifteen years. She is also an associate member of Forced Entertainment as a digital author and with them, she’s created a number of interactive works that have been exibited around the world at venues including ZKM (in Karlsruhe, Germany) the ICA (in London) and The Art Institute of Chicago. Nightwalks, an interactive virtual reality piece created in collaboration with the company won the Transmediale in 2000.
Sabine Gruffat
Sabine Gruffat is a French-American new media artist living and working in Madison, WI. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. In the past she had full time appointments at the University of Missouri and Wayne State University. Currenlty Sabine is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide. Her photographs and installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art in General, Devotion Gallery, PSI Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil. Currently she is working on a feature film about Dubai and Detroit, performing with Bill Brown in TIME MACHINE, and developing mobile media applications for iPhone.
Lunch Speaker
Tim Beekman
