“Interactive Screen provides an opportunity to truly develop and learn about the challenges and rewards of our rapidly changing new media landscape. It is rich in its conceptualization; the participants that attend from around the world; it’s accessible and helpful facilitation and organization; and, most of all, from the people and ideas that abound. An extraordinarily rewarding experience. Bravo!”

~ Charles Zamaria, Financial Director, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Independent Production Fund and Cogeco Program Development Fund and Professor, Ryerson University

Interactive Screen is a project development workshop, think tank and networking opportunity for new media and related arts and industry professionals. It combines formal and informal exchanges, a sense of play and intensive work to help participants hone their ideas and projects that explore the possibilities of interactivity. It looks at new forms of authorship and participation. It is peer based learning. We assume that all who are here have something special to exchange and that groundbreaking content and technologies could well arise from the mix.

Interactive Screen works with participants who have concepts for content and software but are not sure how to take them to the next stage. Our new media and project creation lab provides a forum for creative, technical and financing know how. Interactive Screen brings in international faculty and presenters who have expertise across the spectrum of creative, technical, production, and design fields. We help projects reach the next step in their development by working to build a coherent package and an appropriate funding strategy.

What does it mean to create provocative, transformative experiences involving people and technologies? How can we really build on the potential of interactivity? What can we learn and bridge from old media? When do tools become content?

During Interactive Screen 0.1, we delved into the creative design and practical challenges of convergent media, including interactive television, Web projects, platform games, DVD, wireless and location-based forms.

“I’ve been to many conferences and workshops but Interactive Screen has been without a doubt, the most effective, in terms of breadth of topics covered and practical insights offered. The group of participants was eclectic but without exception, was a professional in his/her field and the quality of feedback was exceptionally high, and very valuable. All in all, an energizing and inspiring week.”

~ Daniel Lutz, Interactive Media Concept Developer/Scenario Writer, Human Shareware

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