::fc-announce:: X|Media|Lab Melbourne "Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile"

[Megan Elliott]

X|Media|Lab Melbourne August 10-12th "Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual,
Mobile"

 

Newsflash: Shekhar Kapur and Beijing's Cyber Recreation District 

XML Melbourne "Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile" 

XML Melbourne Mentors and Speakers 

2007 Labs: Mumbai, Melbourne, Singapore, London, Beijing 

X|Media|Lab International Partners

 

1. Newsflash: Shekhar Kapur and Beijing's Cyber Recreation District 

 

One of the world's most famous filmmaker's, Shekhar Kapur, the Director
of 'Elizabeth' (9 Academy Award nominations), and co-founder of Virgin
Animation and Virgin Comics, is coming to Melbourne as a Keynote Speaker
and International Mentor.

 

A delegation from the Beijing Cyber Recreation District, the largest
digital media industry development initiative in China, is also
participating at XML Melbourne. 

 

The Founder and CEO, the Chairman, and the VP of Technology, from CRD
will be keynoting and mentoring at the Lab. They are also exploring
potential commercial relationships and joint ventures with digital media
companies. A reciprocal delegation is being planned to participate at
the X|Media|Lab Beijing in December 2007 on "Games and Animation".

 

2. XML Melbourne "Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile"

 

XML Melbourne focuses on digital media's spectacularly emerging
platforms of what are essentially new forms of community-building.

 

Traditional media has been organized around a single principle: that
"Content is King". Whoever owns and controls the production and
distribution of content therefore rules. 

 

XML Melbourne explores the shift from the primacy of "content providers"
to the primacy of "community creators", in which the community members
themselves are active providers of their own content. 

 

Beyond the traditional provision of tin-canned content and its regulated
consumption, what is emerging now are self-creating and self-organizing
communities and audiences who speak for and between themselves. This can
take the form of social networking interaction, game play in virtual
worlds, web video sharing, mobile and instant messaging, etc 

 

XML Melbourne summarizes these digital media dislocations under three
broad headings: social networks, virtual worlds, and mobile communities.

 

The Melbourne Lab focuses on exploring how best to make sense and engage
with these developments that are dramatically filling the time and
interest that once, so recently, belonged solely to film, TV, print, and
books.

 

And there are many more myriad facets to this unfolding drama than
simply having access to the latest "smash hit" USA television show
faster than a network can screen it; or buying up some virtual real
estate in a deserted virtual world.

 

X|Media|Lab is bringing the very best practitioners from all around the
world to Melbourne to present on the best, the most instructive, most
promising, and the most exciting indications of these developments.

 

As always, we promise that you will "update yourself in a day" by
attending the Professional Day Conference (August 10th - General
Admission); and if you make it to the Lab, you'll have direct access to
the amazing international array of creative geniuses, innovators, and
power-brokers as your Mentors (August 11-12th - Selected Projects Only).


 

3. XML Melbourne Mentors and Speakers

 

Shekhar Kapur - the world famous filmmaker (Director of "Elizabeth", and
the up-coming sequel "The Golden Age"), also co-founder of Virgin Comics
and Virgin Animation with Richard Branson, and all-round genius. Shekhar
will be visiting Cate Blanchett's and Geoffrey Rush's hometown for the
first time. 

 

Dale Herigstad - America's No. 1 guru of interaction design and 4-time
Emmy Award winner. Dale could spend his entire life traveling the world
speaking at conferences - but he's got serious work to do, like
attending X|Media|Lab as a Mentor (Melbourne, Singapore, Mumbai) and
producing ground-breaking interface design work for Comedy Central, MTV
Overdrive, XBOX Live, CNN, and countless others. 

 

Dr David Liu (Dr. Liu Yan) - the Founder and CEO of Beijing's Cyber
Recreation Development Corporation, the largest Government digital media
initiative in China, and director of the world's most ambitious virtual
world project (being developed with Entropia Universe).

 

Kevin Anderson - Head of Blogging and Interaction at The Guardian
newspaper

 

Martha Ladly -for ten years, Senior Producer at Peter Gabriel's Real
World Multimedia; and currently the Director of Toronto's Mobile
Experience Lab

 

Kay Grunwoldt - the Worldwide Manager of Developer Programs, Nokia. 

 

Marcelino Ford-Livene - Head of Interactive Advertising for Intel's
Digital Home Group 

 

Francisco Cordero - General Manager of Bebo, one of the big three social
networking sites 

 

Brian Gruber - Founder and CEO of Fora.tv

 

Liz Heller - Founder and CEO of marketing innovators Buzztone 

 

Jason Romney - Telstra BigPond's General Manager of Innovation

 

Lizbeth Goodman - Director of London's SMARTlabs 

 

Jennifer Lewis - Editor, Strait's Times STOMP 

 

Tom Kennedy - Director of Digital, Belong Group, and Australian Film
Commissioner

 

Bruce Joy - Founder, VastPark, Australia's own virtual world's platform

 

See the website for full details and the bios.

 

www [dot] xmedialab [dot] com

 

4. 2007 Labs: Mumbai, Melbourne, Singapore, London, Beijing

 

X|Media|Lab will also be held later in 2007 in Singapore on "Media
aRt&D"; London on "Sounds Digital"; and Beijing on "Games and Animation"

 

5. X|Media|Lab International Partners

 

X|Media|Lab is proud to acknowledge our International Partnership with
Nokia. Both X|Media|Lab and Nokia are "Connecting People".

 

X|Media|Lab Melbourne is made possible by the Victorian State
Government.

 

X|Media|Lab is internationally supported by the Australian Centre for
the Moving Image; the British Council; Nanyang Technological
University's School of Art, Design and Media; Singapore's Media
Development Authority; FICCI-Frames; the Beijing Film Academy; and
London's SMARTlab Digital Media Institute.

 

X|Media|Lab Melbourne is supported by Film Victoria; the Australian Film
Commission; ABC TV; and Holding Redlich.





 

 

 

Megan Elliott

Director

X|Media|Lab

e: megan at xmedialab.com

vox: +61 414 573 336

skype: themegangirl

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