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  • The Lab for Advanced Media Production Legacy Site

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    Gary

    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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    Gary

    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,…

  • The Social Media Campaign: Seminar & Workshop

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    Gary

    THE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN: CONNECTING & CONVERSING WITH YOUR AUDIENCE COMMUNITY Social media has exploded over the last 3 years,  the scale of this phenomenon means no one can ignore it anymore. For example mid 2008 there were over 113 million blogs, 200 million active Facebook users & over 1.1 billion twitter messages. Today over…

  • Art & Craft of Machinima – Seminar & Interactive Workshop

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    Gary

    VIRTUAL STORY: THE ART AND CRAFT OF MACHINIMA Three hour seminar – Thurs 14 May. Full day workshop – Fri 15 May Machinima is a dynamic new form of storytelling that will be explored in a seminar and interactive workshop at AFTRS this week. This unique event will feature leading international experts speaking about the…

  • Interactive Emmy Nomination LAMP Mentored Scorched

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    Gary Hayes

    This LAMP mentored project from Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox (of Firelight Productions) has been nominated in the Fiction category of the 2009 International Interactive Emmy Awards. These awards are held at Milia in Cannes each year and this year it is from 30 March to 3 April. The video below with a voice over…

  • Macbeth Goes Live in Second Life

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    Gary

    Early last year (2008) a LAMP initiated project called “Macbeth:What If” from the 7th residential received development/production funding from the NMC and the Australia Council (who also part funded the LAMP: Story of the Future residential) last year. Project creator Kerreen Ely-Harper teamed up with producer Kate Richards, Virtual World creator Angela Thomas and another…