BBC R&D at NEM Summit 2010
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|18:30 UK time, Monday, 18 October 2010
The BBC is an active partner in the European 'Networked and Electronic Media' Technology Platform, an industrial consortium promoting the development of creative media in new digital formats across the EU. NEM is Chaired by Jean-Dominique Menieur (NEM Executive Director) and Vali Lalioti of BBC R&D (NEM VIce-Chair Liaison).
Last week we played a key role as co-Chair, together with Technicolor, responsible for the overall structure, format and activities of the 2010 NEM Summit, with presentations and demonstrations of many of our collaborative projects, chairing and presenting in sessions, and even participating in the new NEMart competition, bringing together innovative artists and technologies from across Europe.
The conference ran over two days at the Hesperia hotel and conference centre in Barcelona, with several parallel streams exploring the four main themes of environmental impact (Green NEM), Content Delivery, User Centric Content ,and New Content Services. In addition to these conventional conference sessions, we also joined in a Sandpit session driving forward these concepts through a 'World Cafe' format open conference format, hosted by the estimable Maja Kuzmanovic of foam.
Vali Lalioti and Maja Kusmanovic introduce the NEM Sandpit session.
On the show floor the BBC's own stand, showcasing various innovative projects including VSAR and MyMedia, was nestled amongst stands from across the continent. These included colleagues from the P2PNext and 3D4You projects.
The BBC R&D stand at the NEM exhibition
- On one corner of the showfloor was the new NEMart stand- this new initiative invited participants from across europe working on artforms that make creative use of technologies promoted by the platform. Five of the participants in this initiaitive were awarded a share of the prize, including our own trainees' project in cooperation with Charlesworth, Lewandowski and Mann, The Cut-Up, as first seen at the Anti Design Festival. Other winners were: mHashup by Michela Magas, Goldsmiths College, University of London, THIG by Willilam Robinson, Goldsmiths College, University of London,Livecell from Kingsley Ash, ArtLab from Cinzia Vigna
Winners of the NEMart Competition: Our own piece, 'The Cut Up', THIG, a piece exploring ideas of non-anthopocentric social networking, MHASHUP a music signature piece looking at congruences between music of different civilisations, LiveCell, an interactive generative music piece, ArtLab an project looking at bridging the digital divide in NEM
The Cut-Up crew will have a new film available online by the end of this week- they're working on it now.
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