Exploring Books & Transmedia - Futures of the book
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Exploring Books & Transmedia - Futures of the book
Free drinks, food and world class discussions!
"The one thing that is certain is that the introduction of new technologies will be accompanied by a dispersion of the cultural and communicative functions we associate with the book.
It leads us to a view of the future that is far from the determination of the visionaries: when everything is possible, nothing is forgone."
Geoffrey Nunberg - The Future of the Book
The world is changing - there is no doubt. The claim brought by novelist Annie Proulx (cited by James O'Donnell) that:
"Nobody is ever going to read a novel on a twitch little screen. Ever!" are now nothing more than laughable...
What will the book evolve into now that we have all the means at our disposal to create content far more engaging than ever before? Do we even still call this a book?
This evening's event is a part of a full week of exploring what the Futures of the Book will be - including exhibits, conferences and discussions about the future of reading and writing in the digital age. It is organized as a partnership between the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Books in Browsers Conference, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Goethe Institute, and swissnex San Francisco
In tonight's presentations, we will discuss the future of the books from a writer's, publisher's, academic's and digital media expert's perspectives and showcase some wonderful new takes on storytelling in our transmedia age.
This meetup is part of the Futures of the Book, a week of discussions about the future of reading and writing in the digital age, a partnership between the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Books in Browsers conference, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Goethe Institute, and swissnex San Francisco.
Agenda:
6:00pm - doors open for networking, drinks, food and exploring The Book Lab exhibition
6:30pm - expert panelists present their perspectives
7:20pm - open panel discussion with audience
8:00pm - formal presentaions end - resume networking, drinks, food and exploring The Book Lab exhibition
9:00pm - evening closes
Speakers:
- Venus on Mars
- Professor of Cinema, SFSU
Jan Millsapps is a pioneering digital filmmaker, an early web innovator, and a versatile and accomplished writer. She has produced films, videos, digital and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues. As professor of cinema at San Francisco State University, she teaches courses in digital cinema, interactive cinema, web cinema and short format screenwriting. She earned her B.A. with honors in Creative Arts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; her M.A. in English at Winthrop University; and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of South Carolina. She also holds an academic certificate in cosmology and has just applied to go to Mars with the Mars One mission, set to launch in 2023.
- Founding Publisher, Jaded Ibis Productions
- Prose Editor, Jaded Ibis Press
- Multi-genre multimedia Writer
Debra Di Blasi’s books include The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions; Drought & Say What You Like: Novellas; Prayers of an Accidental Nature: Short Stories; Skin of the Sun: Five Iterations Toward the Human as a Novel; and What the Body Requires: A Novel. She has been favorably reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and elsewhere.
Awards include a James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Thorpe Menn Book Award, Cinovation Screenwriting Award, Diagram Innovative Fiction Award, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and Best of the Web Fiction. Her books are taught at colleges and universities across the country, and have been the subject of doctorate studies abroad. Debra’s short fiction is included in a many leading anthologies of innovative writing and has been adapted to film, radio, theatre, and audio CD in the U.S. and abroad. Her essays, art reviews and articles can be found in a variety of international, national and regional publications.
In addition to current publisher duties, past corporate experience includes advertising, ad production management, graphic design and executive assistantship.
Debra taught experimental narrative forms for eight years at Kansas City Art Institute, including hyperfiction, mixed media and multimedia fiction, experimental writing and the new memoir. She frequently lectures on topics related to 21st Century narrative forms. Past and future lectures include Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Associated Writing Programs Conference, New York, Washington, DC. Denver; &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing, San Diego, Buffalo, Notre Dame University, Chapman University; Kansas City Film Festival; Louisville Writers Conference; Mark Twain Writers Conference, and elsewhere.
- Prof. Dr. Martin Zimper
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Head of Cast/ Audiovisual Media at the Zurich University of the Arts
Prof. Dr. Martin Zimper is Head of Cast/ Audiovisual Media at the Zurich University of the Arts, Departement Design. His students learn how to produce audiovisual content for online and mobile media and tablets (animations, web documentaries, webisodes, interactive infographics) and how to reach and develop online-audiences.
He lectures and reflects on multiplatform storytelling since 1996. International Keynote-Speaker (Sydney, Shanghai, London, Brussels, Vienna). Conference Chair „The future of magazines on the tablet“ 2011 (in cooperation with Europe’s largest publishing firm Gruner & Jahr) He holds a PhD in communications and has a successful track record as programme director, managing director and media entrepreneur in Austria. Produced script writer (Primetime TV movie and documentary) Published Author. Award winning journalist. http://cast.zhdk.ch
- Prof. Etienne Mineur, ENSAD of Paris, ENSCI and H.E.A.D in Geneva
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Transmedia Artist, Producer and Digital/Tangible Expert
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