::fc-announce:: X|Media|Lab Singapore Update

[Geert Lovink]

> From: "Brendan Harkin" <brendan at xmedialab.com>
>
> X|Media|Lab Singapore Update
> 	1 	More International Mentors and Guests Announced
> 	2 	First Projects Announced for Singapore Lab
> 	3 	IBM Studentships
> 	4 	X|Media|Lab Media Coverage
> 	5 	Interactive Emmy Awards 2007
> 	6 	Animation and Gaming India 2007
> 	7 	X|Media|Lab Partners
>  
> 	1 	More International Mentors and Guests Announced
>  
> The “Learning from Games” Singapore Lab is shaping up as probably the 
> strongest Lab line-up yet. Now confirmed:
>  
> -     Professor Lin Hua, the Dean of Continuing Education at Beijing’s 
> ultra-prestigious Tsinghua University (“the MIT of China”), a 
> tremendously influential educator in China who is looking to 
> incorporate game-play into Tsinghua’s Continuing Education program. 
> Tsinghua license their courses to more than 70 other Chinese 
> universities;
>  
> -         Katie Salen, author of ‘Game Design Fundamentals’ and 
> Director of the Technology and Design Program at Parsons School of 
> Design in NY;
>  
> -         and Professor James Kakalios, author of “Everything I Know 
> about Physics I Learned from Comic Books” (Do a Youtube search 
> on “Kakalios” and watch some of his brilliant presentations!).
>  
> 	2 	First Projects Announced for Singapore Lab
>  
> The first five international projects have been accepted for the Lab – 
> and are lying in from all over the world: the Disney Internet Group 
> (Tokyo), Windfall Digital (London), Australian Centre for Interaction 
> Design (Brisbane), Straylight Studios (New Zealand), and the 
> University of Technology (Sydney).
>
>  The successful Singapore-based projects and teams will be announced 
> on Nov 30th.
>  
> You can still make yourself a part of it by nominating your project 
> idea and project team on the website for inclusion in the Lab now.
>  
> 3.   IBM Studentships
>
> Because of the ‘education and games’ focus of this Lab, for the first 
> time we will be accepting ten “IBM Studentships” into the Lab. This is 
> for Singapore-based higher learning students in Interactive Media, 
> Computer Science, Arts and/or Games-based courses to meet with all the 
> international guests and experience firsthand the process of creative 
> ideas development that is the central feature of the Lab process.
>  
> Applicants should simply apply on the website “Projects” page by 
> designating their project name as “IBM Studentship”, and nominating 
> one of their lecturers as a referee.
>  
>  
> 	4 	X|Media|Lab Media Coverage
>  
> The “Learning from Games” Lab will be covered by: Media Corp who are 
> filming the Pro Day Conference; the Australian Broadcasting 
> Corporation’s digital channel, ABC2, whose “Good Games” TV show is 
> covering the Lab; and journalists from Animation ‘Xpress, India’s 
> biggest game and animation network, China GC Networks, China’s biggest 
> games portal, and Game Axis, the best and most popular computer games 
> magazine in the Asia region.
>  
> 	5 	Interactive Emmy Awards 2007
>  
> XML has again been proudly appointed as a member of the International 
> Jury for the Interactive Emmy Awards, winners to be announced in 
> Cannes at a Gala Ceremony at MIPTV 2007.
>  
> This is the second year in which The International Academy of 
> Television Arts & Sciences is recognizing excellence in interactive 
> television produced outside of the United States with three 
> International Interactive Emmy Awards: Interactive Program, 
> Interactive Channel and Interactive TV Service.
>  
> The deadline for entries is December 11, 2006.
>  
> If you have a program or service you wish to nominate please visit www 
> [dot] iemmys [dot] tv.
>  
> 	6 	Animation and Gaming India 2007
>  
> XML has also been invited to create and moderate a panel for India’s 
> prestigious “Animation and Games 2007” hosted by NASSCOM, the leading 
> industry body, in Hyderabad January 10-11th 2007.
>  
> As with our recent successful Amsterdam delegation, we will be taking 
> a bsuiness mission with us in partnership with NASSSCOM, and members 
> are guaranteed of VIP meetings, preferential pricing, and hard 
> partying (apparently!).
>  
> If you wish to join us on this business mission to Hyderabad in 
> January, or especially want a place on the panel (theme: the business 
> of mobile gaming), please contact us: info [at] xmedialab [dot] com.
>  
> 	7 	New X|Media|Lab Partners: AMD and Playware Studios
>  
> X|Media|Lab is proud to welcome two important new international 
> partners: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) the leading global provider of 
> innovative microprocessor solutions, renowned for their superior 
> solutions in Digital Entertainment and Gaming hardware, and their 
> attention to energy efficiency; and Playware Studios Asia, one of 
> Singapore’s leading game-based learning games developer.
>  
> We are very excited by their support, along with our other 
> international partners, the Media Development Authority of Singapore 
> (MDA) and IBM, with international supporters the British Council and 
> the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
> Brendan Harkin