LAMP

Author: Gary

  • The Lab for Advanced Media Production Legacy Site

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    This archive site is home to hundreds of projects and participants, links to hundreds of talks and slide presentations, bios of mentors and speakers who have gone onto greater things. Three years after LAMP was shut down it is a permanent memory of the legacy of Australia’s Laboratory for Advanced Media Production run through the…

  • The LAMP Years – People

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    Gary

    As we ended the last decade we were collating/archiving assets from the LAMP site and think it important to recognise the people that made LAMP the Australian icon in effective emerging media development. Many of the mentors and participants were beginning their own journey on these workshops and residentials and are now leading the industry…

  • SPAA 2009 Reaching Your Audience – LAMPicks

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    Gary

    Australia’s leading screen conference, run by SPAA, is in Sydney this week and many multi-platform folk associated with LAMP & AFTRS in the past are in force with a record number of panels and sessions. The heavily featured 360 Media (and by implication Social Media) track sits nicely in the theme of this years conference ‘Reaching…

  • AFTRSTalks – LAMP Seminars Now Up on Vimeo

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    Gary

    It is always hard to decide on a good video sharing network for longer format material as YouTube &  many others have time and quality limitations. LAMP has put up its videos via iTunes store since 2005 as well as running a JWPlayer on it’s own virtual server. So we also just started an AFTRSTalks…

  • Social Media Counts

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    LAMP’s Gary Hayes created, posted & paged (on his top 5 Australian AdAge blog, Personalizemedia) this simple flash app a few weeks ago to demonstrate the tsunami of content, communication and commercial activity across Social Media, Mobile and Games. The widget, embedded below, rather ironically went viral itself as it is was linked to from Wired,…

  • Speaking Transmedian – Kelly Chapman at SPAA

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    Gary

    AFTRS & LAMP’ers have been fortunate to know Kelly Chapman for a few years now. She is one of a handful of producers and creatives who actually walk-the-talk by ‘making’ & realising transmedia properties. From her work at Hoodlum on accessible web adventures, BBC Spooks, Emmerdale and Lost through to her own, slightly more spreadable,…

  • Jacobson Brothers Nov 16 Launch for World First Mordy Koots

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    Gary

    Jim Shomos, innovative Australian writer/producer and also LAMP mentor, is about to launch his latest collaboration Mordy Koots, on an unsuspecting public. Gary blogged about the project last month & prior to their shoot in a post entitled Thumbs-up for Aussie innovation live action film-in-game looking at Mordy as a new genre, other examples and…

  • GameJam 09 – Come Play Talk Pitch Listen Invent

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    Gary

    AFTRS in conjunction with the IGDA Sydney are running GameJam 09. An interactive event by gamers for gamers – a day of playing, learning about and making games. Come be a spectator, play to win, or get involved in the creative jam session.  This free one day event features gaming competitions, seminars, networking and creative…

  • State of Play – Building Creative Collaboration Online

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    Gary

    Profiling successful case studies, people and the latest techniques across multi platform media. FREE themed seminars running on the last Wednesday of every month at 5:30pm – 7pm. No need to register just turn up to Theatre 1 at AFTRS Sydney Upcoming FREE seminars: AFTRS, Main Theatre, 5:30pm – 7pm, Wed Sept 30 Wed Sept…