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Keynote: Leigh Alexander

Gaming culture is beginning to embrace the idea that it needs more diverse perspectives both on the player side as well as in game development, and there are many positive examples - yet it still has further to go. Find out the where and how by watching Leigh Alexander's keynote presentation from the TIFF Nexus Women in Film, Games and New Media conference that took place on Dec. 9th, 2011 in partnership with WIFT-T. Click to watch.

The Peripherals Initiative Presentations

As the first in a series of four creative jams, The Peripherals Initiative paired hardware hackers with game developers in an effort to innovate in areas of interfaces. Check out the project results as they were presented by jam participants at the TIFF Nexus Locative Media Day conference.

Women in film, games and new media

Friday, December 9, 2011 TIFF Nexus, an exciting new series at TIFF Bell Lightbox, is bringing together the worlds of Film, Games and New Media through events designed to foster cross-sector creativity. Following our SOLD OUT Locative Media Innovation Day, TIFF Nexus, in partnership with...

TIFF Nexus Locative Media Day keynote presentation

Design guru and author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Bill Buxton discusses how the three rules of digital are more-or-less the same as those for real-estate: location, location, location. Click the adjacent image to watch his entire presentation on Whereable Media now!

BLOG:TIFF Nexus-y Films from TIFF'11

The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing and while TIFF Nexus’ presence skews towards the Industry side of things during the festival with a panel on the film and video game adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and a swanky networking reception, that doesn’t stop TIFF’s fantastic film program from yielding a few titles that I think are particularly TIFF Nexus-y.

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TedTalks

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Feb

Disruptive Wonder

By: Mark Rabo

“Disruptive Wonder,” isn’t that a great phrase? I love how it marries change together with playfulness. It’s how Kelli Anderson describes what she tries to realize in every one of
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Band of Creative Misfits

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Feb

The Band of Misfits

By: Mark Rabo

When I was a kid, my parents would pack us into the car each summer and set-off down the I-75 towards Florida. Tennessee was easily the best part of the
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Feb

Young Teachers Less Likely to Embrace Technology

By: Mark Rabo

Among other interesting insights around youth and new media literacy, Mizuko Ito talks about how younger teachers are less likely to incorporate technology in the classroom. Original post
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Feb

Game Jam The Documentary NEEDS YOUR HELP!

By: admin

Game Jam The Documentary: check out this link for more info on how to contribute! http://www.indiegogo.com/Game-Jam-The-Documentary Our Story I attended my first game jam without knowing what to expect, only
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The New Media Literacies

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Feb

What are the New Media Literacies? (and why should you care)

By: Mark Rabo

The new media literacies are a set of social skills critical to living, working, and participating in today’s connected world. Media literacy used to be about interpreting what we saw,
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A Digital Bar Mitzvah

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Feb

A Digital Bar Mitzvah

By: Mark Rabo

The Bar Mitzvah in Jewish culture represents the moment when a 13 year old boy (Bat Mitzvah for a 12 year old girl) becomes responsible for their actions in the
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Feb

Interactivity rules at TIFF’s February edition of Packaged Goods

By: PeterK

TIFF’s fantastic Packaged Goods series continues its stellar programming of the latest and greatest music videos, commercials and short-form cinema with an evening on February 15th that is so positively
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Feb

Richard Lachman on The New Media Literacies

By: PeterK

During an information session for the Youth New Media Literacy Jam, an enthusiastic throng of soon-to-be jammers got an opportunity to hear Ryerson University’s Richard Lachman, an Assistant Professor in
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Feb

What Do You Get When You Cross An…

By: Mark Rabo

Illustrator, film maker, producer, photographer, writer, psychologist, youth worker, educator, hacker, maker, motion graphics artist, animator, web designer, sculptor, programmer, musician, video game maker, board game designer, pilot, break dancer,
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Jan

XMG Founder and CEO Ray Sharma to speak at Rotman

By: PeterK

As part of the Rotman School’s Mobile Technology Experts Speakers Series at the University of Toronto, Ray Sharma, the founder and CEO of the successful Toronto-based mobile gaming developer XMG
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