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Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

The little GPS Navigator that Could

The story of a GPS Navigator in training. A little inspiration for us, as future GPS cinema creators. =)

GPS from viscious on Vimeo.
PS. Annie! I emailed you yesterday afternoon and haven’t heard from you please email me back magdao@yorku.ca =)

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Sat, October 31 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments

The Poetics of the House

A brief poem to consider after when reading “The Poetics of Space”.
Note: Magda, please email me at avong@yorku.ca
The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the [...]

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Fri, October 30 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments

gps film article

Hi everyone
here is an interview to read on GPS film for next week:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4531079/GPS-Film-Nine-Lives-experimenting-with-new-forms-of

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Thu, October 29 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, class admin » 1 Comment

acclaimed film director, David Lynch, comments on cell phone cinema

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Wed, October 28 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » 1 Comment

ar iphone ap

an AR future as crowd-sourced sticky notes?
http://gizmodo.com/5372243/cyclopedia-augmented-reality-iphone-app-drenches-your-world-in-wikipedia

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Wed, October 28 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments

GPSQT – How to make GPS films in Max/MSP

Let me know if you have any problem with the instructions! Sorry for all the typos!
INSTRUCTIONS (gps quicktime player)
Max Application GPS films: GPSQT (gps quicktime player)
I will make my GiPS framework available but for now it’s too big for the server, I will find a way to trim it down!

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Tue, October 27 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments

Mobile event at MARS this coming Monday night

Mobile event at MARS:
“Mobile is the new frontier for video and film content. With more than 500 million video-capable mobile devices globally, the mobile platform is now the largest video and film distribution platform since the television.
This MobileMonday session will explore mobile video and film content from the point of view of both creators and [...]

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Tue, October 27 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, cell phone, events, locative media, mobility » No Comments

performing interactivity reading

Hi everyone
sorry, but I can’t update the main pages at this time. please find the Dixon reading ‘performing interactivity’ here.
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Tue, October 27 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, class admin » No Comments

seminar schedule

Week 5, October 20th Dart 2: Making Invisible Cities
1. Steve Dixon “Liquid Architectures and site-specific fractures in reality” Carter
2. Anne Friedberg “THE SCREEN Erin
Week 6, October 27th Mobile 1 Distributed Storyworlds/storyscapes
1. Adriene Jenik and Sarah Lewison Moving in Place: The Question of Distributed Social Cinema” Evelyn
2. Michael Longford: “Territory as [...]

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Tue, October 27 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, class admin, seminar schedule » No Comments

Territory As Interface: Design For Mobile Experiences

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Mon, October 26 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments