This is now the third year that I’ve taken a student trip to the SXSW Interactive event in Austin, Texas. However, this year was a little different. The panel I put forward last year had been accepted, so I was going to be a speaker as well as an attendee. This was a pretty daunting […]
Some months ago, Ravensbourne was approached by the London Symphony Orchestra to create a promotional website for its St Luke’s venue, including videos explaining the use of the various rooms at the premises. I pitched the idea of a map-based interface using the plans of St Luke’s as the route to the videos for each […]
For the last two years, I’ve taken a group of Ravensbourne students to SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’ll be taking a group again in 2015, but I’ve also proposed presenting a panel about the live streaming events I have been working on over the last couple of years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether the […]
On June 6th and June 30th, Ravensbourne students managed two more live streaming events for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which I project managed on the Ravensbourne side, as with our Richard II event, and the I, Cinna event with which we began our relationship with the RSC. The two June events were so close together […]
On Friday 15th November, Ravensbourne hosted a milestone in online video distribution. A Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Richard II starring the increasingly ubiquitous David Tennant was streamed to more than 30,000 schoolchildren around the UK, with some in Australia, the US and elsewhere in the world as well. The Richard II performance had been […]
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be invited to Singapore to present a series of guest lectures at Nanyang Technological University‘s (NTU) school of Arts, Design and Media (ADM). This department of NTU is rather similar in focus to Ravensbourne, where I run the BA (Hons) Web Media course. Although ADM is a […]
One of my proudest moments of 2012 was the project I worked on with the Royal Shakespeare Company based around Tim Crouch’s play I, Cinna. A few months ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company contacted me again to help run a similar event, only this time even bigger. The new project will be taking place on […]
One of Ravensbourne’s key focuses of study is how stories are now being told across multiple platforms, generally called transmedia. There was a rather significant panel at SXSW on a new venture in this area, called Defiance, which is both a game and a TV series, developed at the same time, rather than one after the other, as is usually […]
SXSW Interactive is allegedly the greatest event in the world for anyone in the creative Web and technology industries. Sitting here on a plane containing select former colleagues from my previous life as a computer magazine editor, it certainly feels like we’re heading for something big and important, something that crosses over between genres and […]
For the second year running, the university where I (mostly) work has been host to Mozilla’s annual Festival. Mozilla hires the entire building – all nine floors of it – and fills it with the international luminaries of the open Web, who beaver away on a giant hackfest, key results of which can be seen […]
