Media, Communication and Design Podcasts from MEDEA

Capturing Affect With a Handful of Techne

MEDEA, Malmo University — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:32:00 CET

Jeannette Ginslov, performer, choreographer and artistic director, talks about the developmental stages of the AffeXity project, the interdependence of the collaborators, the relational and dynamic formation of technical and human intervention, the encounters of the carnal and the digital, the dialogic and temporal scaffolding of encounters of techne and the hands that attempt to capture affect.

A Human Centered Approach for Design for Services

MEDEA, Malmo University — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:37:00 CET

Anna Meroni, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability, with a specific focus on food and housing systems. In her talk she introduces and discusses a framework of how design for services can operate in conjunction with other disciplines and competences.

How Electronics Connect Us to the World

MEDEA, Malmo University — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:36:00 CET

David Cuartielles is a researcher at Malmö University and one of the founders of Arduino. His talk focuses on the history of Arduino and the concepts and projects envisioned by people around the world.

Asta Wellejus at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:45:00 CET

Asta Wellejus is an experienced cross-media producer and developer and has worked with Lars von Trier in 1997 in developing new ways of combining film, theater, roleplaying and games in Zentropa Interaction in 1999. She is now running her own company ”Die Asta Experience". In her presentation, Asta talks about the transmedia universe as a storyworld that is bigger than any of its individual parts. She also talks about marketing, about expanding the screen and creating a multiplatform experience and creating interactive stages for participatory storytelling.

Martin Ericsson at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:44:00 CET

Martin Ericsson is a game designer, participation writer and transmedia content producer. Over the years he has designed, written and game-mastered more than twenty pieces of participative entertainment and art. In this talk, Ericsson says that producing transmedia is like being a party organizer: you set the stage and make sure there are beverages, snacks and a good DJ but you can't really control if the participants have fun or not.

Matt Costello at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:43:00 CET

Matt Costello works across all media has meshed game play, technology and story. He has scripted dozens of best-selling games such as Shellshock-Nam ’67, Bad Boys 2 and Doom 3. In this presentation, Matt talks about the concepts that are important to him when going into transmedia projects: 1. to go into projects openly, being Wagner's "perfect fool", 2. tap into people's passion, 3. create a vision of the story universe, 4. experiment and avoid paradigms.

Christian Badse at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:42:00 CET

Christian Badse is Creative Director at the Interactive Department at the Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR). In his talk he talks about the working conditions of being a "transmedia hobo" and introduces the key concept BCC (beer, cigarettes and coffee) that, allegedly, is what make Danish screen writers tick.

Hans von Knut Skovfoged at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:41:00 CET

Hans von Knut Skovfoged is the Creative Director of PortaPlay, a company specializing in developing interactive media focusing on games and entertainment. In this talk, he talks about accessibility and the challenge of keeping the user interested after the first touch-point in a universe that consists of multiple platforms and branching content.

Frank Boyd at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:40:00 CET

Frank Boyd is the creative director of Crossover and has been a new media pioneer since founding the Arts Technology Centre in 1989. He has worked as producer, funder and trainer on a series of innovative creative and economic development programmes in the arts, broadcast, and in education in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. In this talk, Boyd talks about how important it is to develop the five stories: the story-story, the user story, the platform story, the impact story and the money story.

Jason DaPonte at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:39:00 CET

Jason DaPonte is the managing director and executive producer of a small digital company called The Swarm. In this lecture, DaPonte talks about how you can use “big data” or the “internet of things” as building blocks in storytelling.

Marc Goodchild at The Courage Generator Workshops

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:38:00 CET

Marc Goodchild works across TV, web, mobile applications and IPTV and has a long history working with the BBC. In this lecture, Goodchild talks about that television is the result of the industrilization of storytelling and that we need to reinvent what television is good for, just like we have found out that the mobile phone is good for much more than being used as a telephone.

Restoring Information's Body: Remediations at the human-machine interface

MEDEA, Malmo University — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:31:00 CET

Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Methodologies for Remediation and Creation

MEDEA, Malmo University — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:31:00 CET

Mapping Media Design

MEDEA, Malmo University — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:31:00 CET

Media and Social Change

MEDEA, Malmo University — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:31:00 CET

Visualizing Sustainability

MEDEA, Malmo University — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:31:00 CET