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2010, 06

X|Media|Lab: genius perspiring in public - from its own point of view by: Ellenor Cox

X|Media|Lab: genius perspiring in public - from its own point of view   by: Ellenor Cox courtesy of Screen Hub, Monday 21 June, 2010 With a pouch full of international experts, X|Media|Lab thumped its tail at the Sydney Opera House last Friday. Beyond the excitement and plans to save humanity, the pundits are beginning to prove that the world has not only changed because of the digital revolution, but is...

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Joy Mountford: interface design, with a small diversion to Bali

Joy Mountford: interface design, with a small diversion to Bali 
by: David Tiley From Screen Hub 
Wednesday 2 June, 2010 Joy Mountford is an eclectic communicator, a witness and creator in the evolution of personal computing. I have no idea what she will offer X|Media|Lab when she comes to Sydney, but the phone interview fizzed with interesting fragments.

 S. Joy Mountford is an interface designer, and hugely respected – once a friend of Douglas Adams, and supported by Doug...

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Digital Media and Television: Robert Tercek on audience participation, leadership and the fine art o

Digital Media and Television: Robert Tercek on audience participation, leadership and the fine art of a good storyboard by: David Tiley From Screen Hub, Tuesday 1 June, 2010 Robert Tercek is mostly coming to the X|Media|Lab in Sydney to talk about starting new companies, and creating new services. But he brings a feeling for simplicity, and a sense of history to wider questions about media change and new technologies. "Televisions dirty little secret - TV companies don't deal with audiences....

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X|Media|Lab names 16 innovative Australian digital projects to watch

Media Release 11 June 2010     X|Media|Lab names 16 innovative Australian digital projects to watch   Shortlists 16 of the best digital projects across Australia and New Zealand to be mentored by some of the biggest names in digital and entertainment media   X|Media|Lab Global Media Ideas International Summit as part of Vivid Sydney festival event Pro Day Conference June 18th (General Admission) The Studio - Sydney Opera House The Lab June 19-20th (Selected Projects Only) Sydney, June 11, 2010 ...

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Scott Halcomb - Head of International Business Development, SystemK - talks about the next big thin

Scott Halcomb is the Head of International Business Development at SystemK in Japan. He is responsible for discovering and localizing foreign technologies, turning great ideas in great businesses. Scott talks about the next big thing for mobile – contextually aware content. Q. What’s exciting about the mobile/digital media space right now? The potential for augmented reality excites me more than anything else. What a few years ago was the stuff of science fiction is now available on...

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Starz Vice President John Penney shares his insights on what underpins the worlds largest global med

John Penney is one of the US’s leading entertainment executives.  Currently the Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for Starz, John has held executive positions with HBO, Foresee Entertainment, IMG, Viacom, ACTV and Scient.  John will share his depth of experience and knowledge about the world’s largest media players at XML: Global Media Ideas ...

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