Comics vs. Games Jam Video Now Online

The latest video from Endlss Films sums up the adventures and exploits of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs. Games jam. Click to watch.

The RENGA Reaction

The 100-player laser co-op experience RENGA was presented by TIFF Nexus during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, click here to learn what the audience had to say about it!

Comics Vs. Games TCAF Panel Now Online!

The Comics Vs. Games Jam panel that took place at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which saw jam leader and Black Church Brigadange game developer, Miguel Sternberg, moderate select comic artists and game developers from the project, is finally online! Check out this hour of mirth and insight now!

Dr. Nichole Pinkard's Keynote presentation from New Media Literacies conference

Click the adjacant image to see Dr. Pinkard's talk on the success of the Digital Youth Network program at the TIFF Nexus New Media Literacies Conference on April 20th. Her presentation is followed by an onstage conversation with Debbie Gordon, the director of the kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

See the Youth New Media Literacy Jammers in Action

Click the adjacant image to watch a short documentary produced by Endless Films outlining the Youth New Media Literacy jam and the fantastic projects that came out of it!

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.

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!

News

© The Swarmanoid Project, Future and Emerging Technologies, 2011

Links of Interest: The Swarmanoid loves it when a plan comes together

By: admin

Spawned from a project led by Dr. Marco Dorigo of the Free University of Brussels, through funding by the European Commission, the Swarmanoid is not a single robot, but a
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© Garnet Hertz, 2011

Links of Interest: The Post-Modern Power-Wheels?

By: admin

What if your actions in a video game affected the real world? Furthermore, what if the real world affected the game world? Such questions were what drove Garnet Hertz to
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ORAFeatured

TIFF Nexus’ Top Five TIFF Picks

By: PeterK

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
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Mare SHeppard leading The Difference Engine (Image Credit: TIFF)

The Difference Engine: “Engaging with N”

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The six women selected for the first round of TIFF Nexus’ The Difference Engine project headed up by Jim Munroe and Mare Sheppard, met for the second time on Wednesday,
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WeBeJammin

The Peripherals Initiative: We be jammin’

By: admin

TIFF Nexus’ first Creative Jam, The Peripherals Initiative, is underway! Participants from a game design background and a hardware hacker/ DIY electronics background came together in the TIFF Bell Lightbox
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Atrium

Welcome to the TIFF Nexus Blog!

By: admin

Hello! 1UP! <Item Get Fanfare!> Welcome to the TIFF Nexus Blog – the collective voice of TIFF Nexus partners, speakers and participants, and a frequently updated repository for news, recaps,
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