Please find attached and below details of our ‘Call for Content’ for next year’s exciting ICCI360 Arena events as part of the ‘Maritime Mix’, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea, in Weymouth & Portland for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 ICCI are seeking exciting and innovative video, film, animation, photographic, design and performance based ideas and content for inclusion in our series of ICCI360 festivals and events and as part of the Maritime Mix, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea, in Weymouth & Portland for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012.

Inspired by the dynamism, elegance, power, technical expertise, beauty and challenge embodied in the Olympic spirit and pursuit of sporting excellence, ICCI360 has established the theme of ‘in Motion’ as the catalyst for creative endeavours and the focus for our Call for Content.

Interpretations of the theme can, and will, be many and varied and we look forward to receiving a wide range of exciting project proposals.

The Igloo Vision 360 Cinemax arena, consisting of a huge 21m diameter geodesic dome incorporating a 62m x 6m high projection screen and integrated performance space, provides a fantastic immersive 360 panoramic digital experience for audiences of all ages.
A programme of innovative screen based media and performance work from leading international panoramic film makers, photographers and performers is developing and the arena will also provide a wonderful showcase and platform for community based projects through music, visual arts, new media, theatre and performance.
This is an amazing opportunity to create and present work on a massive scale, alongside other emerging and established international and local talent. The arena has the capacity to host events to audiences of up to 750 people standing or 350+ people seated, creating a truly spectacular, immersive experience.

If you have a project or proposal please email icci@plymouth.ac.uk with your:

· Name
· Contact details and email
· Project/Production title
· Outline description of project
· Medium/Format (Film, video, animation, photography, performance, dance, etc)
· A limited amount of funding is available and may be able to support projects. Please provide a brief outline of your project budget.

Proposals will be considered by ICCI360 curatorial groups Deadline for Call for 360 Content Proposals: 7th November 2011 Technical advice will be available throughout the project as well as access to 360° video technologies if required. If you have any questions, or would like to find out more about the 360 process and potential please do not hesitate to contact a member of the team.

For more information please contact ICCI.

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A warm welcome back to all Digital Media Production students for the start of the 2011/12 academic year. This site is intended to allow you to access information, timetables, news, tutorials, unit handbooks and blogs relating to the course. This on-line resource will grow over the coming weeks and months as we add content to give you the student experience we think you need. If there is something you think is missing or you want to make suggestions to improve the site please let us know. Check back here regularly for updates and new content. We wish you all a successful year here at AUCB and hope you enjoy your stay with us.

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Here’s a good opportunity for a live brief for a Specialist Project, click on the images above to go to the site:

“SHOWstudio invite you to collaborate with Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen and PUMA in a unique competition designed to push the boundaries of filmmaking and fashion imagery creation to the very limit.

Our Raw Power competition offers young filmmakers, artists and directors the chance to create a video short by splicing their own unique film material with footage captured during Nick Knight’s ‘Crane Vs. Tiger’ shoot for the Alexander McQueen PUMA S/S 2010 campaign.

One winning filmmaker, chosen by Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen, will be commissioned to direct the Alexander McQueen PUMA Spring/Summer 2010 art movie, previewed on major fashion websites and visible in key fashion department stores and boutiques worldwide from January 2010.”

We are pleased to announce that Moth TV will be coming in to talk about their work and run a workshop on Monday 12th October after all at 13.30. The workshop will go on until 8.00 in the evening so we are able to do projections outside. This is an essential session for all second years studying the Future Cinema unit and is also open to any interested third years.

“MOTH formed in November 2008 in the shadows of East London warehouses, flyovers and canal towpaths. Comprising digital artists Ed Firth and Shaun O’Connor, MOTH is united by a passion for experimental technology and for pushing the boundaries of traditional VJing. MOTH bridges the divide between video mixing and street art, generating site-specific video graffiti designed in response to the morphology, texture and ambience of the spaces and structures of the outside world.

In freeing projected visuals from the confined interior, the rectangular screen and the static projector, and introducing the dimensions of time and motion to street art, MOTH aims to develop a new discipline by exploring and exploiting the possibilities of roaming projection and the concept of psychogeography. Two wireless, wearable projection units connected to media tablets allow the artists to move freely around their environment, selecting and relaying pre-produced film and animation designed specifically for that arena.

MOTH’s approach is to explore a space, a structure or an area and respond to its shape, history, context and connotations through projected film and animation, treating the surfaces not just as a screen but as an element of a cinematic and theatrical installation. Recent commissions have revolved around exciting architecture and interesting, unloved fixtures of London’s urban landscape, from the Bow Flyover and Ladbroke Grove’s West Way to Heritage-Listed national treasures such as the Trellick Tower and the V&A Museum, and the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-On-Sea.”

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