Comics vs. Games Jam Video Now Online

The latest video from Endlss Films sums up the adventures and exploits of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs. Games jam. Click to watch.

The RENGA Reaction

The 100-player laser co-op experience RENGA was presented by TIFF Nexus during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, click here to learn what the audience had to say about it!

Comics Vs. Games TCAF Panel Now Online!

The Comics Vs. Games Jam panel that took place at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which saw jam leader and Black Church Brigadange game developer, Miguel Sternberg, moderate select comic artists and game developers from the project, is finally online! Check out this hour of mirth and insight now!

Dr. Nichole Pinkard's Keynote presentation from New Media Literacies conference

Click the adjacant image to see Dr. Pinkard's talk on the success of the Digital Youth Network program at the TIFF Nexus New Media Literacies Conference on April 20th. Her presentation is followed by an onstage conversation with Debbie Gordon, the director of the kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

See the Youth New Media Literacy Jammers in Action

Click the adjacant image to watch a short documentary produced by Endless Films outlining the Youth New Media Literacy jam and the fantastic projects that came out of it!

Keynote: Leigh Alexander

Gaming culture is beginning to embrace the idea that it needs more diverse perspectives both on the player side as well as in game development, and there are many positive examples - yet it still has further to go. Find out the where and how by watching Leigh Alexander's keynote presentation from the TIFF Nexus Women in Film, Games and New Media conference that took place on Dec. 9th, 2011 in partnership with WIFT-T. Click to watch.

TIFF Nexus Locative Media Day keynote presentation

Design guru and author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Bill Buxton discusses how the three rules of digital are more-or-less the same as those for real-estate: location, location, location. Click the adjacent image to watch his entire presentation on Whereable Media now!

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Vids of Interest: Chiptunes Orchestra Nuit-Blanche Recipe Remix!

By: PeterK

A handy video-recipe courtesy of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Content Capture Department on what it takes to make a rockin’ Nuit Blanche project. Featuring the music of Jeff The World
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Aesthetec @ Nuit Blanche

By: PeterK

After you’ve had your fill of chiptunes and big-screen gaming at the TIFF Bell Light Box, head over to Fort York to check out a very cool interactive light installation
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The Great Canadian Appathon² Interview with Andrew Kamondy of XMG Studios

By: PeterK

Mobile Games developer XMG Studios and the National Post are holding the second edition of The Great Canadian Appathon this weekend and TIFF Nexus sat down with Appathon organizer Andrew
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Jack In to the TIFF Nexus Neuromancer Panel

By: PeterK

Two weeks ago, during the Toronto International Film Festival, a room full of Industry Delegates met with an audience of Gaming and New Media experts and aficionados to listen in
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Events of Interest: The Music of the Video Game @ Nuit Blanche

By: PeterK

It is less than a week from the 2011 edition of Toronto’s all-night-art-thing Nuit Blanche, and those scrambling to sort out a schedule for “the-best-excuse-to-stay-up-all-night” would be wise to take
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Links of Interest: Foldit – A game where winning means saving lives

By: PeterK

A small detachment of gamers are being lauded for their part in producing an accurate model of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that will allow scientists to better understand
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Links of Interest: The Swarmanoid loves it when a plan comes together

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Spawned from a project led by Dr. Marco Dorigo of the Free University of Brussels, through funding by the European Commission, the Swarmanoid is not a single robot, but a
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Links of Interest: The Post-Modern Power-Wheels?

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What if your actions in a video game affected the real world? Furthermore, what if the real world affected the game world? Such questions were what drove Garnet Hertz to
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TIFF Nexus’ Top Five TIFF Picks

By: PeterK

The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing and while TIFF Nexus’ presence skews towards the Industry side of things during the festival with a panel on the film
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The Difference Engine: “Engaging with N”

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The six women selected for the first round of TIFF Nexus’ The Difference Engine project headed up by Jim Munroe and Mare Sheppard, met for the second time on Wednesday,
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