MMD3306/MMD3308 ::: Crossmedia fictional worlds - final DEADLINE

hi all,
Thanks again for your presentations last night. We had a lively discussion with our two guest examiners immediately following your wrap-up.

Now the final deadline approaches. There are two tasks:
[1] AS A GROUP: Please submit ALL documentation and materials to my office. Details as follows:

Location: G2.13
Time: between 2-3pm
Date: Friday September 11th

[2] AS AN INDIVIDUAL: Each of you must complete a peer assessment exercise - outlined below.

Your team members and lecturers will grade your individual performance for the ARG project. You are required to give each member of your team (concept, video, web or print) a grading (between 1-5) and detailed comment which reflects their contribution in and to the project:

5: inclusive, proactive, worked very hard and participated in the group as much as possible
4: inclusive, proactive, worked hard, did not participate in the group as much as possible
3: did what was required on time
2: did what was required on time but missed meetings
1: missed deadlines, no/low attendance at meetings

NOTE: Failure to email the grades AND detailed comments by the required deadline means you have not met submission requirements and as such will incur a penalty for late submission. Non-submission of the grades and comments may result in a fail for the project.

Send this information to me by return email with 'peer assessment' in the subject line also by Friday September 11th.

thanks,
Troy & Mark

Crossmedia fictional worlds: final presentations

Time: Tuesday, September 8 between 5:00 - 8:00pm
Location: G1.04 lecture theatre

Both groups will have access between 5-6pm to setup / install software and so on. It is highly recommended that you access the space before this time to test and rehearse your presentation.

Presentations will commence at 6pm sharp when the second year students arrive.
Each group has a total time of one hour.
We will decide who goes first in studio on Monday...

Good luck!

Honours information session

hi all,
Following the presentation by current Honours students (Thuan, Jenny, Angela & Sherry) last week, there is a more formal information session on Thursday of next week. You will have already received the msg below but here is a reminder!

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Dear Student,

There will be Faculty of Art & Design information sessions for prospective Honours Degree students as follows:

Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Multimedia & Digital Arts

9am Thursday 10th September 2009
Art & Design Lecture Theatre (G1.04),
Art & Design Building
Caulfield Campus

Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Fine Art
Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Visual Arts (Theory)

Noon Thursday 10th September 2009
Art & Design Lecture Theatre (G1.04),
Art & Design Building
Caulfield Campus

Course Coordinators will be speaking and will be available to answer any questions you may have. The Honours Application Form for 2010 will also be available.
The closing date for Round One Honours Applications is 31st October 2009. The sessions are a great opportunity to find out more about the Honours year.

Best Wishes,

Karla

Week 5 ::: closure

In contrast to last weeks talk on game spaces we looked at the construction of narrative spaces in cinema and how these are resolved to bring closure in a story.






All of these films/anime have an aspect of alternate reality construction to them as well... once again, highly recommend that you view these as part of your life as a digital artist and/or multimedia designer.

Week 4 ::: game spaces

Digital games I have played; their space entirely different to that of an ARG.

[1] Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega MD) : gameplay [a] [b] *
[2] Super Mario World (SNES) : ref *
[3] World of Warcraft (MacOS) : world map : WoW<->reality collision
[4] Little Big Planet (PS3) : gameplay
[5] Spore (MacOS) : gameplay
[6] Rez (PS2) : info *
[7] Tomb Raider (PSone) : gameplay *
[8] Half-Life 2 (PC) : Portal *
[9] Ultima IV (Apple //c) : gameplay (c64) *
[10] Quake II (PC) : speed run *

biotope ::: opening tmrw night

experimental ecosystems colonise Cube37 public screenspace


Ollie Bown, Joel Collins, Alan Dorin, Alice Eldridge, Mark Guglielmetti, Indae Hwang, Troy Innocent, Jon McCormack, Gordon Monro, Ben Porter

Frankston Arts Centre : Cube 37 : 37 Davey St Frankston
Opening night drinks on Thursday 6th August from 6.30pm
Exhibition runs until Sunday 9th August

biotope is a collection of experimental ecosystems created as part of a international research project undertaken at the Center for Electronic Media Art, Monash University. The works were developed as part of an ongoing investigation into a systemic approach to electronic media art.

Week 3 ::: screening

After the fantastic work by all involved in the Alister in Wonderland / Cardboard Mayhem project we got back to work on the ARG brief.

I showed videos. Such as:
Denno Coil : cute anime that features a world in which Augmented Reality is everyday
Matthew Barney : The Order - excerpts from his 8 year conceptual video artwork The Cremaster Cycle
The Yes Men documentary : media pranksters promoting the recycling of McDonalds burgers for 'poor people' among other things...

And, in other news, Group A is back! NaT is the new perception altering Internet meme of 2009! (once they catch up on their research that is ^_^ )