UT Portugal Collaboration 2010Advanced Digital Media

Where we’re going, where we’ve been

The Mediated World

The new cultural literacy

Media restructuring

Declining revenues in newspapers, television

Social media

CONVERGENCETechnology Innovation

Ubiquity

mobility

Semantic web

Strategic Areas of the Collaboration

• Digital Media Content Creation• Evolving Media Industries• Interactivity: New Horizons for Technology,

Software, Interface• New Research Approaches• Creating a Climate for Creativity in Digital

Media in Portugal

Digital Media Content

• Examining opportunities to restructure media content (video, radio, audio, web-based)– Stories are stories, but the way we tell them

changes….– Are new genres available in a post web 2.0 world?– How do participatory media alter storytelling?

Digital Media Content

– Creating new Doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)

– Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects

2009 Intensive Courses

LISBON Digital Documentary

Screenwriting

Technology & Culture

Convergent Media

Online Journalism

PORTO Writing for New Media

Sound & Audio

Digital Media and Archiving

Interactive Documentary

Animation & Digital Effects

Computers, Sound & Music

Online Journalism

Digital Media Content

– Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)

– Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects

– Intensive workshops (Future Places festival)

Future Places Workshops Examples

Arduino taught by Tinkerit! in 2008

Golan Levin Workshop2009

Valentina Nisi, Locative media 2009

Digital Media Content

– Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)

– Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects

– Intensive workshops (Future Places festival)– UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development

Laboratory

UT-Portugal/ZON Laboratory

• ZON, UT-Austin, Portuguese universities• Graduate, post-graduate and newly graduate

students• Objectives: develop script writing, direction

and producing skills; write script for 10-minute narrative

• 10-14 students at UT-Austin June-July 2010• Portugal productions August-September 2010

Universidade de AveiroUniversidade da Beira InteriorUniversidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto)Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa)Universidade do MinhoUniversidade Nova de LisboaUniversidade do Porto

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

Digital Media Content

– Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree) – 33 doctoral students

– Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects

– Intensive workshops (Future Places festival)– UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development

Laboratory– Long semester courses in new media theory,

interactivity, others

Media Industry Organization, Challenges

– Web content is both threat and opportunity– Advertising support for traditional industries

falling– Viewers/readers turning away from conventional

media– New ethos around making media & social media

Media Industry Organization, Challenges

• FCT Research call, December 2009– Exploratory Projects– Strategic Projects (journalism, digital TV)– Blend computing and digital media

• Industry-oriented courses, opportunities– Online Journalism course; New Hollywood course– International Online Journalism Symposium– Interactive Advertising (summer 2010)

• Internships

501 Post Film post productionAction Figure Post productionAmaze Entertainment Video game designArkane Studios Video game designBioware Austin Video game designCompass Learning Educational applicationsThe Digital Media Collaboratory

Multimedia

Enspire Learning Educational applicationsHarry – Film Dept. ArchiveNCSoft Game designKUT Public radioL337 Media Video game designPangaea Software developmentPowerhouse Animation AnimationPulse Interactive Mobile gamingSkateland Independent film

production

Sony Online EntertainmentInteractive

Spacetime Studios Video game designSuper! Alright! MultimediaUT Documentary productionVia Vivo Educational applicationsYdreams interactive

Interactivity

• Interactivity course, spring 2011• Kinetic Controllers research (Guedes,

Pennycook, others)• Intensive exploratory forum: ISDT

International School for Digital Transformation

A residential school bringing participants together to explore digital tools for improving civil society

Research Approaches

• Research methods and approaches course, 2010

• Social media research class, 2009• ISDT: Project focus in summer 2010

– Example: Free Culture Portugal project

Climate for Creativity

• How do we cultivate creativity in digital media?– Hardware and software dimensions– Social dimensions: social capital

• Beyond participation

• Creative Cities Conference: how does place interact with creativity & creative industries? What government policy is effective?

• Future Places Festival• Public events – Digital cinema @ Cinemateca Portuguesa

Future Places 2009 1st Place Prize Winner

Expanding and Recentering

• Created a strong doctoral program across campuses, with 100+ applicants

• Building social capital: networks of researchers, business, scholars

• Collaborate with CMU program, with c.s. initiatives• Mediaground: physical spaces for doctoral students• Exploratory and Strategic research projects• Post docs, internships, exchanges• Additional universities

Radio-Television Film DepartmentChair: Sharon Strover

• Large undergrad program (950 students)

• 160 grad students in Ph.D., M.A., and MFA programs; highly selective admissions in Ph.D. and MFA

• About 28 faculty members plus 10-15 lecturers

• Strong links to – Area Studies centers – Music, Theatre & Dance– Center for Women’s and Gender

Studies – School of Information and – LBJ School of Public Affairs – Interdisciplinary programs e.g.,

Bridging Disciplines Programs, Michener Center for Writers, etc.

http://rtf.utexas.edu/

Collaborating departments:School of InformationJournalism DepartmentAdvertising DepartmentComputer ScienceMathematicsLBJ School of Public Affairs

Radio-TV-Film Department:

Other Program Materials

Digital Media Blog:

http://colab.ic2.utexas.edu/dm/

Program Website:

http://utaustinportugal.org/