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CineGrid 2012 Workshop Registration Open

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:36:02 +0000

CineGrid International Workshop 2012 at Calit2/UCSD

Please mark your calendars.

MON 12/10/12 CineGrid International Workshop 2012
TUE 12/11/12 CineGrid International Workshop 2012
WED 12/12/12 CineGrid International Workshop 2012

To REGISTER: http://cinegridworkshop2012.eventbrite.com/

CineGrid International Workshop 2011 (6th annual)

International Digital Cinema Microscopy Project Wins CENIC’s 2012 Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental/Developmental Applications

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:00:01 +0000

LA MIRADA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An international collaboration to stream live, ultra-high-definition, 60 frame per second microscopic video at the Tokyo International Film Festival has been honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) as recipient of the 2012 Innovations in Networking Awards for Experimental/Developmental Applications.

CineGrid Announces: FGCS - Special issue out now

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:12:25 +0000

Future Generation Computer Systems has a special issue out.

There are 14 articles selected for inclusion in this publication and Cinegrid members may download free copies for a limited time.

[Download the issue]

International Conference on Audio Networking

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:14:09 +0000

Hello!

As I'm sure you know, one of the primary research areas in the CineGrid community is professional media networking. Every year at the Workshop, we have several sessions devoted to ultra-high-definition streaming video, with ever higher bandwidths and more distant sources. However, integrating audio into this equation has proven difficult for many. In fact, one of the comments I often hear among people developing media networking systems is how hard it is to deal with both video and audio in a single stream. For those of you interested in this important topic, I'd like to tell you about an upcoming event.

This November 18-20, 2011 the Audio Engineering Society is holding an international conference on the topic of Audio Networking in San Diego, CA.

CineGrid @ Amsterdam 2011

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:26:44 +0000

CineGrid @ Amsterdam 2011 - September 9, 2011

"CineGrid Amsterdam" took place on September 9, from 13:00-18:00. Held at Pakhuis de Zwigjger, "CineGrid Amsterdam" was sponsored by CineGrid members in Amsterdam including WAAG Society, University of Amsterdam, SARA and SURFnet. Speakers included: Philippe Vié (Camalot), Lieven Bertels (Holland Festival), Pieter Wilson (European Digital Cinema Forum), Harry Schreurs (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie), Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam), Laurin Herr (CineGrid.org), Frank Kresin (CineGrid Amsterdam, Waag Society), Tatsuya Fujii (NTT), Maciej Glowiak (PSNC), Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Essex), Kunitake Kaneko (Keio University), Richard Weinberg (USC School of Cinema-Television), Jasper Claus (ONE CAMERA), Michal Krsek (CESNET) and Ton Roosendaal (Blender).

Program available by clicking here

CineGrid.org @ Rio 2011

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:51:21 +0000

"CineGrid Rio" will be sponsored by CineGrid members in Brazil including RNP, MacKenzie University, and CPQD. Aimed at the digital film community, the CineGrid @ Rio event will feature the latest technologies in video streams of super-high-definition (4k - 3-D) through networks. This activity will be broadcast live over the Internet.

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Schedule information follows below and additional details in English will be available soon.

CineGrid @ Rio

Date: 15 September 2011

9.00 to 19.50

Venue: Museum of Modern Art
Cinemateca Theater
Av. Infante Dom Henrique 85
Parque do Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
State of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

More Info: http://www.cinegrid.org.br

Details: Ciuffo Ciuffo <leandro.ciuffo@rnp.br>

CineGrid Member Cyberport Announces First Hong Kong Steroscopic 3D Competition

lisa@cinegrid.org (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:15:10 +0000

We're proud to announce that CineGrid member Cyberport is holding their First Hong Kong Stereoscopic 3D Competition starting from June to September 2011. The competition is open to anyone capable of producing a stereo 3D video.The stereoscopic video can be produced in either native 3D live action or stereoscopic animation.

Net Works: An evening of telematic music

grabfred@gmail.com (Fred Davis) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:24 +0000

Net Works: An evening of telematic music featuring pianist Myra Melford, bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Michael Dessen

Date & Time:
Wed Apr 27th 2011, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley and Experimental Theater, UC San Diego, 7 pm, free!

Telematic music is live performance between musicians in different geographical locations using high speed/high bandwidth internet connections. This special Net Works concert features virtuoso ensemble playing by prominent artists in jazz and improvised/experimental music — pianist Myra Melford in Berkeley with bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Michael Dessen in San Diego — in an exciting evening of co-located performance conceived for the medium.

Real time musical interaction over the internet is a growing phenomenon, and this experienced group has been pushing the boundaries of the art to explore the performance of intricate, tightly integrated music from distant locations. Their collaboration is enabled by CNMAT’s advanced research in live, net-based audio and video transmission.

This concert is supported by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in collaboration with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Cal Performances and CineGrid member, Meyer Sound.

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CineGrid Receives 2011 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award

grabfred@gmail.com (Fred Davis) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:03:40 +0000

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), which operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, honored CineGrid, the international research consortium for networked media arts, with a CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award at its annual conference in Irvine, Calif.

March 8, 2011 — La Mirada, CA — CineGrid was recognized for the innovative use and expansion of high-performance networking by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) which bestowed its Innovations in Networking Awards in the Experimental/Developmental Applications category.

CENIC’s Innovations in Networking Awards are presented annually to highlight exemplary innovations that leverage ultra high-bandwidth networking, particularly where those innovations have the potential to revolutionize the ways in which instruction and research are conducted.

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CineGrid Takes Digital Cinema Into Next Dimension

grabfred@gmail.com (Fred Davis) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:24:04 +0000

January 20, 2011

By Tiffany Fox

Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, remarked that high-definition, real-time collaboration is possible at Calit2 because "we have made the necessary human and technical resource investments to drive applications of the optical network revolution."

For the members of CineGrid, who assembled recently at the University of California, San Diego, for their fifth annual conference, experimenting with “extreme” digital media has increasingly become a finely tuned balance of “3D in support of collaboration, and collaboration in support of 3D.”

“Interest in 3D is being driven by scientific visualization, by consumer electronics and by digital cinema,” remarked Laurin Herr, president of the consulting company Pacific Interface, Inc., and one of the founders of CineGrid, the non-profit international membership organization.

“This year, we put together a rather extensive program looking at all these issues, right down to the first principles about how 3D stereo is perceived by human beings. There was also some really impressive work being done this year in our second main thrust, remote collaboration for cinema post-production, both 2D and 3D.”