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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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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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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Mar

Links of Interest: The name’s Bot, Swarm Bot…

By: PeterK

A few months ago I gushed about how about a project that saw a gang of autonomous robots worked together to pull off a book heist. Well the swarm bots
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Feb

Disruptive Wonder

By: Mark Rabo

“Disruptive Wonder,” isn’t that a great phrase? I love how it marries change together with playfulness. It’s how Kelli Anderson describes what she tries to realize in every one of
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Feb

Game Jam The Documentary NEEDS YOUR HELP!

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Game Jam The Documentary: check out this link for more info on how to contribute! http://www.indiegogo.com/Game-Jam-The-Documentary Our Story I attended my first game jam without knowing what to expect, only
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Sep

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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Sep

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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Sep

Links of Interest: The Post-Modern Power-Wheels?

By: admin

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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