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01/21/2008	Local architects offer their visions of S.F. 100 years hence in a competition (01-20) 21:05 PST San Francisco: The jury has spoken - and it wants San Francisco in 2108 to be a place where forests of towers grow algae as well as house people, and where geothermal steam baths sprout atop Twin Peaks. Those elements are part of the proposal by IwamotoScott Architecture, selected Sunday as the winner of an eight-team competition to imagine how San Francisco could change during a century likely to be defined by global warming and the search for new forms of energy.
01/17/2008	Berkeley Center for New Media Gets Endowed Professorship Heidi Benson, Chronicle Staff Writer UC Berkeley is announcing Thursday the establishment of the first endowed professorship in the 5-year-old Berkeley Center for New Media. The $3.1 million endowment was seeded by a $1.6 million gift from Craigslist. The additional funds will come from a landmark $113 million gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
11/24/2007	The iPod Lecture Circuit: Learning On the Move Prof. Hubert Dreyfus, BCNM Affiliated Faculty Member, featured in LA Times Story on Releasing University Lectures on iTunes
11/01/2007	Feature article on BCNM in California Magazine What's New About New Media? The Center for New Media is less concerned with whiz-bang technologies than with old values—truth, depth, reliablitity, authenticity, aesthetics, and public service...
10/12/2007	UC Berkeley goes face to Facebook in 'Continuous City' workshops BCNM co-sponsored new media theater project featured in SF Chronicle: UC Berkeley goes face to Facebook in 'Continuous City' workshops at Berkeley Art Museum. Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic, SF Chronicle Tuesday, October 2, 2007 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/02/DDH1SGFAT.DTL for details on tickets and Oct 12, 2007 symposium, visit: http://continuouscity.org
07/07/2007	Game Recreates Lost Oakland Music Scene For the past two years, students in the Graduate School of Journalism have been working with graduate students in the Architecture department to create a three-dimensional rendition of Oakland’s vibrant Seventh Street jazz and blues club scene of the 1940s and ’50s. This virtual reality game aims to revive a long-lost Oakland music scene and the cultural identity of the area.
04/05/2007	International Remix This year the San Francisco International Film Festival wanted to ask directors if they would allow excerpts of their films to be put on the web and remixed. They approached me to ask if Yahoo! Research Berkeley could build a web-based tool to enable this. 2 months later, it's up: http://fest06.sffs.org/remix/ Try it out, and send your feedback to: remixer-feedback@yahoo-inc.com
02/15/2007	Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle Technical difficulties: Two hundred or so revelers celebrated the 10th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Art, Technology and Culture lecture series at the Hearst Atrium on Tuesday night, an event that featured Matmos, recently returned from touring with Björk. When Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, both internationally known sound artists, got up to speak to the digerati, however, there was terrible feedback on the sound system. Instead of fumbling along, says lecture series founder Ken Goldberg, Daniel and Schmidt moved around the stage with the mikes off, played a water bottle and fooled around with other objects, and, in keeping with the theme of the event, "the talk turned into a performance.'' ...
02/02/2007	New Media & Social MemoryInternship Openings at Industrial Light and Magic On January 18, 2007, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presented New Media & Social Memory, a public symposium to discuss strategies for preserving digital art and digital culture. The video of this symposium is now available online for watching, downloading, and sharing. If you missed this event in person; catch it in bit form. Go to this page and click on the names in the symposium program to see each panel/talk: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about_bampfa/avantgarde.html
05/05/2006	Internship Opening: Summer 2006 Internship Openings at Industrial Light and Magic Position Summary: Under direction of Training Staff, review and edit existing on-line technical documentation for ILMs proprietary applications. Learn the fundamentals of various software packages used at ILM. Desired skills: * Two plus years in graphics or film production environment preferred. * Familiarity with 2D and 3D software packages, such as , such as Maya, XSI, or 3D Studio * Ability to synthesize highly complex technical information into concise and easily comprehensible text. * Demonstrated facility in learning of new technologies. * Exceptional organizational ability. * Excellent writing skills * Strong ability to convey complex information in a clear and appealing form. * Extremely self-motivated and self-sufficient * Strong interest in film and computer graphics Education, Experience and Skills: · Undergraduate students or recent graduates with a computer science major preferred * Experience with XML a plus * Editing experience a plus To Apply: If you or someone you know is interested in this position please submit a resume online at www.ilm.com. You may also send a resume to Industrial Light + Magic Attn: Recruiting, Job # 11-06, P.O. Box 29909 San Francisco, CA 94129-0909.