In collaboration with MEDIARS, Inglobe Technologies will sponsor the 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Media Art, Technology, Cultural Heritage to be held in Contigliano, Italy from July 10 to 23, 2010.
Inglobe will donate the Augmented Reality plug-in for Google SketchUp ($ 100 license value) to each participant at the full program.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
In the castle of this breathtaking, medieval town in the heart of Italy, student and professionals from all over the world are invited to study and experiment how to merge innovative interactive technology with history and culture. The workshop provides conceptual background and technical skills to develop interactive installations for arts, museums, facade projections and cultural exhibits. Also, previous works done by MEDIARS members will provide examples of the work process.
THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
It is a 2-week full-time course on visual arts, media theory and technology in their relation to the place. The workshop is designed for students, scholars and artists from architecture, design, media arts and science fields. Classes are in English with a high quality tutoring, they are thought for the students to produce at the end of the training, an interactive multimedia art work that will be exhibited in the Roman underground historic center. Moreover, this experience abroad has already established an ongoing and growing dialogue between international artists.
This workshop is organized by the non-profit association MEDIARS (Centro Sperimentale di Media Interattivi per l’Arte e lo Spettacolo) in collaboration with the local municipality and with nternational faculties and scholars from the University of Southern California, University of Florence, University of Berlin, University of California, Los Angeles and California State University.
With regard to the final work the students will use the technology owned by the Center, and they are free to bring theirs as well. The teachers would support and work as facilitators for the students to get the collective projects done.
July 10 – 23, 2010
The fee also includes housing, meals and transportation.
Deadline to apply April 30 – apply at info(at)mediars(dot)eu
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The voting for the bridge modelling challenge is now up, i recomend having a look if for no other reason than to marvel at the quality of the models: a remarkably high standard given the time constraint.
A cool walkthrough video was posted in the SketchUcation Community Forums Gallery by “bertb”. It is indeed amazing what you can do real time in SketchUp with LightUp after it has rendered your scene. Watch the video:
This week seems to have started well for the SketchUcation Community as “after months of silently enjoying so many of the members’ great works here, “Prisoner” has finally come out of his cave with his first renders“.
I have to add that it was high time – and if you have a glance at the images below (or the higher resolution ones in the topic), I’m sure you will agree.
A new member of the SketchUcation Community Forums, “artysmedia” (Roberto) is teasing us with his excellent models made in SketchUp and processed via 3D Studio Max and V-ray to render. Though he has not (yet) revealed much of his workflow in the forum topic, as I know the members of the community, it will not take long to squeeze the information out.
As was announced in the (cuurrently) latest SketchUpdate entry, on the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for locations around the world using Google SketchUp and Google Earth.
Artwork by community member Valkama.
Google SketchUp model rendered with Maxwell. See the 
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