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| The 2006 Machinima Awards Judging Panel | |||||
| Beth Coleman | Alex Colletti | Cathy Cook | Brad deGraf | ||
| Lars Fuchs | Carl Goodman | Steve Horowitz | Jake S. Hughes | ||
| Tim Kazurinsky | Friedrich Kirschner | Errol Korosine | Henry Lowood | ||
| Rod Maher | Michael Nitsche | Rob O’Neill | Tommy Pallotta | ||
| Leonard Paul | Ken Perlin | Joe Reinsel | Marilyn Rivchin | ||
| Asaf Ronen | Katie Salen | Eric Stuart | Alice Taylor | ||
| Ken Thain | Ethan Vogt | ||||
| Beth Coleman | Top | ||||
Beth Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. She is faculty director of the C3 game culture and mobile media initiative. Her fields of research interest include new media, contemporary aesthetics, electronic music, critical theory and literature, and race theory. Under the name M. Singe, she co-founded the SoundLab Cultural Alchemy project, established in 1995. Her scholarly and literary writings have been published by the British pavilion for the Venice Bienale, 2003; Broadway/Random House; Gagosian Gallery; Sammlung Goetz Collection; and New York University Press, as well as in journals including Artforum, Artbyte, and Nka: Journal for African Art. Coleman is a 2003-4 Rockefeller New Media Fellow and a 2004 Ford Foundation fellow. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Mirror's Edge exhibition, ARC/Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Gallery, among other venues. She has been working internationally as a sound artist since 1997, with her music appearing on various electronic music labels including SoundLab Records. Coleman received the BA from Yale University in 1991, and the Ph.D. in comparative literature from NYU in 2004. Before arriving at MIT, she was a 2004 artist-in-residence at the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam where she completed the art and architectural installation, Music Box. She is currently working on a mongraph entitled Difference Engines: Race as Technology. |
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| Alex Coletti | Top | ||||
Alex Coletti is an executive producer and director for MTV and MTV2. He is currently executive producer for MTV2 Video Mods as well as producer/director for the MTV2 $2BIll concert series. Alex has produced MTV Unplugged, from the pilot episode in 1989 to the most recent number one selling Alicia Keys Unplugged CD. He has also produced 5 MTV Video Music Award shows, and 2 Super Bowl Halftime shows for CBS. |
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| Cathy Cook | Top | ||||
Cathy Cook is an Associate Professor of Film/Video in Visual Arts at University of Maryland @ Baltimore County (UMBC.) She teaches Film/Video production, writing and aesthetics. She holds a MFA in Film/Video and Women Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as BFA’s in both Inter-Arts and Art. Prior to coming to UMBC, Cook worked in New York City for eleven years as an Art Director and Production Designer in the Film/TV industry. She has taught film/video production and animation at various New York area colleges. Cook has exhibited her award-winning work extensively in both solo and group shows including screenings at MOMA and the Whitney Museum. In 2001, Cook was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has also received fellowships and grants from the New York State Council of the Arts, The Experimental Television Center, The Jerome Foundation (Film in the Cities) and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Cook’s media works are in the permanent collections of the Donnell Library (NYC), Princeton University, National Library of Australia (Canberra) and the NYU Film Library, among others. In pursuing her personal research, Cook works in Film, Video, Poetry Films and Installation and is currently editing a thirty minute experimental documentary film that explores her responses to the poetry and life of Lorine Niedecker. |
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| Brad deGraf | Top | ||||
Brad deGraf has been an innovator in computer animation in the entertainment industry since 1982, particularly in the areas of realtime characters, ride films, and web cartoons. In 2000, Wired called Brad "an icon of 3D Animation," and it's been all downhill since then. Brad currently develops web-based social software [e.g. Books We Like (www.bookswelike.net ) and Smartocracy (www.smartocracy.net)] and acts in a variety of consultancy roles focused on next-generation digital media technology, particularly lately in international development work with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (www.ifc.org) and the US Agency for International Development (www.usaid.gov ), and with San Francisco State University’s Institute for Next-Generation Internet. Other recent roles include member of the San Francisco Mayor’s Digital Media Advisory Council, executive director of the Internet Bookmobile project (www.anywherebooks.org) , co-director for Moving Images at the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/movies/siggraph.php), and senior analyst for Jon Peddie Research (www.jonpeddie.com). Brad began his career in 1979 doing digital cartography for Science Applications International (SAIC); was Head of Technical Direction at Digital Production (“The Last Starfighter”, “2010”); co-founded deGraf/Wahrman in 1987, where, inspired by a collaboration with Jim Henson, he created the first live computer-generated character, and produced several “firsts” in computer-generated ridefilms; created and managed the Digital Media division at Colossal Pictures; and from that, spun off and ran Protozoa, a world leader in real-time character animation and Internet cartoons. Brad has a BA in Mathematics from UC San Diego, and studied sculpture and architecture at Princeton University. He has a patent for a chair design and was published in Fine Woodworking Magazine's Biennial Design Book. | |||||
| Lars Fuchs | Top | ||||
| Bio to come... |
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| Carl Goodman | Top | ||||
Carl Goodman is Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Among the exhibitions Carl has organized are Expanded Entertainment, a history of arcade and home video games, and <ALT> DigitalMedia, a gallery of software-based art. Carl also served as producer of the interactive exhibits in both the local and traveling versions of the Museum’s core exhibition Behind the Screen. Online projects produced by Carl include the video-based websites Sloan Science Cinémathèque and The Living Room Candidate. Carl is currently leading the Museum’s Collections Digitization and Access Initiative, the goal of which is to make the Museum’s entire collection of over 150,000 items accessible online. Carl sits on the Board of Directors of the arts organizations Creative Time, a producer of public art installations in New York City, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, which cultivates artistic talent through electronic and digital technologies. |
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| Steve Horowitz | Top | ||||
Steve Horowitz is a creator of odd but highly accessible sounds. As one of the most diversified and prolific musicians working today, Steve's output spans the worlds of film, TV, games, web and studio recordings. In addition to his original scores (Super Size Me, Spike TV’s Casino Cinema, MTV’s I bet You Will), he is also the founder of the cult musical group The Code International. His interactive work with Nickelodeon on-line earned him a Webby in 2003, he also has a Grammy award for his production work on the compact disc "True Life Blues, the Songs of Bill Monroe" (Winner Best Bluegrass Album 1996). Visit Steve on-line @ www.thecodeinternational.com "After attending the festival last year, I was completely floored by what I saw. This has to be one of the most talented, dedicated and creative group of artists working today. I am very honored & proud to have been asked to be a judge at this years festival..!" |
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| Jake Strider Hughes | Top | ||||
Jake Strider Hughes has problems convincing people that Strider is indeed his real middle name. He produced & directed the machinimas 'Anachronox: the Movie' which won Best Picture, Writing, & Technical Achievement at the 2002 Mackies & 'Whiplash the Game the Movie' which won Best Direction at last year's Mackies. He continues to work in the video game industry as a storyteller and cut scene director. Game Credits include 'Deus Ex 2', 'Blood Omen 2', 'Project: Snowblind', 'Tomb Raider: Legend'. He is puzzled when talking about himself in the third person. Only Michael Jordan can do that. |
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| Tim Kazurinsky | Top | ||||
Comic supporting actor and writer Tim Kazurinsky is best known for having been a member of the Not Ready for Primetime Players on the long-running NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1981 and 1984. Kazurinksy made his feature-film debut playing a bit part in Somewhere in Time (1980). He has appeared in three Police Academy films, playing the role of Sweetchuck. |
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| Friedrich Kirschner | Top | ||||
Friedrich Kirschner attends the University of Applied Sciences Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart for audiovisual media. His numerous films have garnered recognition and awards including Best Technical Achievement at the 2003 Machinima Film Festival and the winner of the Machinima category in the Make Something Unreal Contest, sponsored by Epic Games and NVIDIA. Friedrich was the winner of last year's Best Visual Design and Best Technical Achievement Mackies for his work on The Photographer. In 2006, Friedrich became a board member of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. |
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| Errol Korosine | Top | ||||
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| Henry Lowood | Top | ||||
Henry Lowood is curator for history of science & technology collections and Film & Media collections in the Stanford University Libraries. He is also a lecturer in the Science and Technology Studies Program, the History and Philosophy of Science Program, and the Film & Media Studies Program. He is principal investigator of How They Got Game: The History of Interactive Simulations and Videogames, a research project funded by the Stanford Humanities Laboratory (SHL), as well as co-director of SHL. He offers Stanford students a popular course on the history of computer game design and last year offered a seminar on the "Consumer as Creator in Contemporary Media" that included critical takes on the development of machinima. |
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| Rod Maher | Top | ||||
Rod is technical director at Beepa in Australia. While working hard on Fraps all day he still keeps a keen eye on the latest movements in Machinima. With the newest productions continuing to impress he is very much looking forward to seeing all that this year's festival brings. |
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| Michael Nitsche | Top | ||||
Michael Nitsche is an Assistant Professor at the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches courses on virtual environments and digital moving images. Michael is a member of the Experimental Game Lab and his research interests focus on virtual spaces, Machinima, and in-game visualization. Initially he was interested in effective dramaturgy for interactive media; then he discovered that the spatial form of 3D video games answered many of his questions. His research combines theoretical analysis and practical experiments. These experiments include collaborations with the National Film and Television School London, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Funatics Germany, Turner Broadcasting, EA, and educational institutions like Cambridge University. Michael has published on the use of cinematic language, machinima, and 3D game worlds as well as other issues of games research. In a former life he was co- author for a commercial video game, professional Improv actor, and dramaturgist. |
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| Rob O’Neill | Top | ||||
Rob O’Neill (www.morphometric.com) is an artist, programmer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and science. He is a Research Associate at the Digital Arts Lab at Pratt Institute in addition to being on the faculty of Digital Arts. Former professional experience includes Studio Technical Director at Eyebeam, a Character and Research Technical Director at Charlex/Launch, and a Character Technical Director at PDI/Dreamworks on “Shrek 2” and “Madagascar”. Rob recently presented work at Siggraph 2006, was a panelist at the Games for Change Conference, and is currently writing a textbook on digital character development. His upcoming talk at the 92nd Street Y is entitled: "Animation: State of the Art". |
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| Tommy Pallotta | Top | ||||
Tommy Pallotta received a degree in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT he met Richard Linklater and began his film career as an actor and production assistant on Linklater's directorial debut, Slacker (1991). After working on numerous films and commercials, Mr. Pallotta wrote, directed and produced his first film, The High Road (1997). He also produced several of Bob Sabiston's animated projects including: Roadhead (1999), which received the Best Animation award at the Aspen Film Festival; a series of interstitials for MTV; Snack and Drink (1999), a three-minute short about an autistic child in a 7-Eleven store, which is now part of the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art; and Figures of Speech (2000), a series of interstitials for PBS. He then connected his animation experience with Mr. Linklater in Waking Life (2001). Waking Life was the first independently financed and produced computer animated feature. The film was subsequently nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture. Mr. Pallotta also directed the first machinima produced music video, In the Waiting Line (2003), using the animation engine from the Quake 3 video game, and the rotoscoped MTV "Breakthrough Video" Destiny (2002), both for the band Zero 7. The Microsoft Research and Development team recognized Pallotta for his "penchant for innovation" where he helmed an interactive project based on Jonathan Lethem's novel Amnesia Moon (2004), which was an experiment that was not released to the public. He then returned to the film industry with his frequent collaborator, Mr. Linklater, to produce A Scanner Darkly (2006) based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick and starring Keanu Reeves. In June of 2006, he appeared at the 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium in Los Angeles, California, organized by Alex Jones. |
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| Leonard Paul | Top | ||||
Leonard Paul (VideoGameAudio.com)attained his Honours degree in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University in BC, Canada with an Extended Minor in Electroacoustics. He has been teaching video game audio at the Vancouver Film School for over two years and has a twelve year history creating music, sound effects and code for video games. Paul is a well-known speaker on the topic of game audio whose presentations have included GDC, DiGRA and a keynote at the Games 2006 Conference in Portugal. In film, he was the composer for the highly successful documentary The Corporation. |
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| Ken Perlin | Top | ||||
Ken Perlin is a professor in and was the founding director of the Media Research Laboratory, within the Department of Computer Science at New York University. He directed the NYU Center for Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 he received the NYC Mayor’s award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU. In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television. In 1991 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 1986, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, where the first feature film he worked on was TRON. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currentlyserves on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association. |
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| Joe Reinsel | Top | ||||
Joe Reinsel creates aural and visual art using digital and analog tools and instruments. He combines original media-- including video, sound installation, music and digital art-- to give form and substance to his vision. Transcending emotion and reality, his work questions the linkages of interpersonal relationships through allegory and real-time samplings of the environment. Reinsel’s background in music composition provides the perfect base from which to explore interests in a range of electronic media. Joseph’s works have been performed at national and international events including: the MAXIS Fesitval of Sound and Experimental Music (Sheffield,UK); University of Glasgow (Scotland); Pixelache2005(Helsinki, Finland); Roulette(NY); Deep Listening Space (NY); Galapogos Arts Space (NY); Tonic/subtonic ( NY); Engine27 (NY); Mobius (Boston, MA); Harvestworks Digital Media Center (NY); Also his projects have been supported by the Baltimore Museum of Art;. New York State Council for the Arts; and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(iEAR Studios), and a Master of Arts in Music Composition from Radford University. Reinsel is presently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. |
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| Marilyn Rivchin | Top | ||||
Marilyn Rivchin is an independent filmmaker, photographer and videomaker who has taught filmmaking and digital media at Cornell since 1979 in the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance. For seven years she co-taught the interdisciplinary digital Media Studio course with colleagues from Art, Architecture, Music, and Dance. Her own media work has spanned the contrasting modes of documentary and experimental filmmaking. Her many credits for film and video multi-projections for live stage performance include collaborations with choreographers, musicians and and for "The Elegance of Motion" on dragonfly flight for the Ithaca Light in Winter Festival, January, 2005, with Cornell physicist, Jane Wang and electronic violinist, Ritsu Katsumata. She created five projected video segments for the one-hour dance performance "Reflections in an Eye of Titanium," Cornell Spring Dance Concert in March, 2005, choreographed by Jumay Chu, Byron Suber, Joyce Morgenroth, Janice Kovar and Kathleya Afanador. Among her numerous directed and edited documentary films and videos are: AIDS in the Southern Tier: SEVEN STORIES (1999; NY PBS stations); Never Done: The Working Life of Alice Cook (1993); Kay Sage (1978); and St. Soleil: Art for a New Life (1976). She has also worked as a film editor for Borderline: The People vs. Eunice Baker (PBS, 2006), Saved by Deportation (work-in-progress), and other projects by Emmy-award winning producer/director Slawomir Grunberg. |
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| Asaf Ronen | Top | ||||
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| Katie Salen | Top | ||||
Katie Salen is an Associate Professor in the Design and Technology program at Parsons the New School For Design. Co-author (with Eric Zimmerman) of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (MIT Press 2004) and The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (MIT Press 2005), she is currently working on two game-related projects for the MacArthur Foundation and pursuing her interest in player produced economies and artifacts. Katie worked as an animator on Richard Linklater’s critically acclaimed animated feature Waking Life and has helped curate programs at the Lincoln Center, Cinematexas, ZKM, Exploding Cinema, and the Walker Art Center on machinima. |
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| Eric Stuart | Top | ||||
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| Alice Taylor | Top | ||||
Alice Taylor has a decade of experience working in new media, from early days developing the first Channel4.com in 1996 to recent projects at the BBC in digital media Strategy & Innovation. Alice specialises in sociable software and videogaming crossovers with television and radio: from in-game broadcasting and virtual music festivals to developing interactive fiction, 3D dramas and interactive cartoons for kids. Alice used to play semi-professional Quake in her spare time, and was on the first ever UK team playing international matches. She founded and co-edits the gamecentric blog Wonderland (wonderlandblog.com) and has written about gaming for sites and magazines, including BBC News, Kotaku.com, the Guardian and Paste magazine. |
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| Ken Thain | Top | ||||
Ken Thain has been involved with creating cinematic narratives within game engines for over 6 years. Recognized as a contributing pioneer in the art of Machinima, Ken has closely followed the convergence of animation, filmmaking and video games since its earliest conception. He is currently working as a Cinematic Designer with BioWare on the Xbox 360 title, Mass Effect, where he is involved in taking this convergence to new levels of realism. |
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