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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Jan

Get your finance game on at GameON: Finance this January (plus get a discount!)

By: PeterK

Interactive Ontario’s 2013 edition of GameON: Finance is set for Jan. 29th & 30th – have you got yourself signed up yet? Maybe you hadn’t heard that Feargus Urquhart from
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Nov

By: PeterK

Difference Engine participant Hannah Epstein’s follow-up to her YouTube FMV game The Immoral Ms. Conduct, McMickey and Air Jordan’s Hyperspace Safari! (previewed at TIFF Nexus’ own mini-Arcade during the 2012
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Nov

Inaugural Toronto video game art fest, Vector, seeking submissions

By: PeterK

Toronto has no shortage of digital conferences, and festivals like Gamercamp have provided a much needed forum for the celebration of gaming culture, but with Vector: Game + Art Convergence,
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Sep

Download Cumulo Nimblers and get your cloud-hopping fix!

By: PeterK

Cumulo Nimblers, the infectiously cute and addictive game by Australian indie game designer Farbs and comic artist John Martz that was produced as part of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs.
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Sep

Tweets from the TIFF Nexus Arcade + Gallery Updates!

By: PeterK

Plenty of people had great things to say about their experience playing the assortment of TIFF Nexus games and projects that got showcased during the Toronto International Film Festival earlier
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Sep

21st Century Media Making: An Evening with Lance Weiler

By: PeterK

Our programming partners’ at Ryerson University sent us details on an upcoming talk that is bound to interest more then a few denizens of all things Nexus: 21st Century Media
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Sep

The [RENGA] Reaction

By: PeterK

Last weekend, the Toronto International Film Festival concluded with the last of the world premieres, red-carpet galas, star-studded parties, and not to mention TIFF Nexus’ own major contribution to the
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Aug

“Jeuxly” incubator produces great games made by dames

By: PeterK

Women’s game-making workshop collective Dames Making Games recently concluded their second game incubator, dubbed Jeuxly, producing six uniquely personal games from burgeoning female game designers and showcasing them to an
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Jul

TIFF Nexus supports Ladies Learning Code 3D Printing Workshop

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This weekend TIFF Nexus had the pleasure of supporting the Ladies Learning Code Series, “a women-run not-for-profit group working to empower everyone to feel comfortable learning beginner-friendly technical skills in
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Jun

Last chance to see Constructed Land @ Interaccess

By: PeterK

There are only two more days remaining to see the Constructed Land installation at Interaccess. The project involves the representation and transformation of images taken from a weather-monitoring webcam installed
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