Will Indonesia produce a world-class company in the internet and mobile space that will be consumed by everyone in the world in the next 5 years?  Shinta W. Dhanuwardoyo, one of Indonesia's leading internet entrepreneurs and an International Keynote Speaker and Mentor at XML Global Media Ideas thinks so.... 1. When should you start a business? You start a business when you actually...

  Co-founder of WiReD Magazine, Ian Charles Stewart, says that entrepreneurship should be encouraged from primary school!  Although he's still making up his mind on what he will share  with us Down Under at X Media Lab "Global Media Ideas". 1. When should you start a business? As soon as you have an idea you believe in and are sure you...

Data and city doyen, Bonnie Shaw, gives a sneak peak into what she will be sharing with us at X Media Lab "Global Media Ideas" at the Sydney Opera House, part of Vivid Sydney. 1. When should you start a business? You should start a business when you have an all consuming belief, and know without a...

  Media Release: 8 May 2012   From a founding member of the Apple Multimedia Lab, to the co-writer/director of Happy Feet, to the entertainment lawyer behind will.i.am and Britney Spears, to the woman dubbed “the Oprah of the web”, some of world’s leading new media stars will converge on Sydney for X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas. X Media Lab today announced the star-studded line-up of speakers and mentors for its annual media ideas...

    Is Australia on the cusp of a design-led innovation boom?  Steve Baty, President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), thinks so. Read on to discover more about Steve in the lead up to X Media Lab "Global Media Ideas" at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Sydney. 1. When should you...

Media Release: 2 May 2012 X MEDIA LAB CALLS FOR CREATIVE PROJECTS FOR GLOBAL MEDIA IDEAS SUMMIT   The hothouse that helped nurture the digital media offerings of ABC’s Rage, The Chaser, The Loop and 99dresses, X Media Lab is offering digital and creative industry entrepreneurs an invaluable opportunity to workshop their projects with some of the world’s leading new media experts in Sydney from 8-10 June. X Media Lab...

Two outstanding project teams who, this weekend, participated in the internationally acclaimed think tank, X|Media|Lab, have been awarded $20,000 from the State Government, to develop their digital projects. ScreenWest would like to congratulate Anthony Sweet, Barbara Connell, Josh Hogan and Richard Kong for their project Grand City and Ethan Marrell, Paul Montague and Natalie Lewis for Super Dingo.   Grand City is a multi-platform mafia story-world told through an anthology of short fiction, a digital art gallery, a thematic...

MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2012   With a number of high achievers already descending upon Perth from X | Media | Lab (XML) in April, the city will extend its welcome to the influential China Film Group and light up the Perth Cultural Centre with the interactive and cultural works of celebrated Chinese artists. Rabbit God Goes South, the project of celebrated Chinese media artist Been, is inspired by the traditional Chinese three-section flipping pictorial book. This will bring the ‘Rabbit God’,...

Futurists, media pioneers, authors and award winning leaders in their field headline one of the world’s most creative and innovative event series   X | Media | Lab (XML) is a digital media think-tank and creative workshop that showcases experts from around the world, as part of a three-day event entitled "What's Your Story?" New Narratives | New Markets. The impressive lineup of 16 digital media experts will present at the Professional Conference Day on Friday 13 April and then provide...

From Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story to the controversial Lady Gaga, world renowned digital specialists head to Perth to share their experiences   X Media Lab (XML) - a digital media think-tank and creative workshop - is already shaping up to be one Perth’s most exciting events, as the lineup of speakers and mentors expands. With a stellar line up of 16 media experts from around the world descending on Perth for the three-day event entitled "What's Your...

  We caught up with Jeff Gomez, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Startlight Runner Entertainment, and the transmedia producer of Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Avatar, Tron, in the lead up to X Media Lab Bath "Digital Entertainment".   1. Where do you find your inspiration for ideas? I've had the great fortune of working with many extraordinarily talented people, in Hollywood, the gaming industry, in education, and especially...

  We met Howard Goldkrand at XML Sweden and he blew us away - not just his awesome intellect and creativity, but the way he so effortlessly moves across and between cultures/disciplines....and incorporates them into his very Being.   Read on and you'll see what we mean... it's poetry... and it's a taste of what you'll get when you do meet him at READ MORE

  Some of the world’s leading digital entertainment experts who have worked on films including Minority Report, Inception, Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean, played with international bands and founded creative businesses and technologies will be in Bath for four days in March to give their support and advice to aspiring creative businesses.   The mentors will be working as part of the internationally renowned digital creative event X...