The ETC's Executive Director Don Marinelli was selected to be a keynote speaker at SIGGRAPH. Congradulations Don!
To read the story online
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/siggraph-selects-carnegie-mellon...
CHICAGO - (Business Wire) ACM SIGGRAPH announces the selection of Don Marinelli, a leading Carnegie Mellon scholar and educator, to give one of its keynote presentations at SIGGRAPH, the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Sunday 25 July – Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
Marinelli is the executive producer of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, a joint initiative between the College of Fine Arts and the School of Computer Science, where technologists and non-technologists work together on projects that produce installations intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience, guest, player, or participant.
“With each passing year, the boundary between artists, scientists, and graphic experts becomes more blurred,” stated Terrence Masson, SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair from Northeastern University. “To truly have the highest quality final product, whether that is a film or an interactive installation, collaborators from different fields must understand each other. Marinelli is an expert at bridging these different disciplines for the best end result. In essence, this is an underlying theme throughout SIGGRAPH’s history and his insights will be enlightening to all working professionals and students.”
For the past 29 years Marinelli has served different roles at Carnegie Mellon including co-creator of the Master of Arts Management Program, co-creator of the Master of Fine Arts in Acting degree program with the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia, and co-founding the Master of Entertainment Technology Degree Program with Randy Pausch. Marinelli is also a tenured professor and holds degrees from the University of Tampa, Duquesne University, and a Ph.D from the University of Pittsburgh.
Marinelli’s upcoming book, The Comet and the Tornado, is being released this spring and recounts the six years he and Pausch shared an office creating the center that has become recognized internationally as Carnegie Mellon’s “Dream Fulfillment Factory.”
Please note: Conference dates for SIGGRAPH 2010 have been changed from their original Monday through Friday pattern, to Sunday, 25 July 2010 through Thursday, 29 July 2010. SIGGRAPH Exhibition dates have remained Tuesday, 27 July 2010 – Thursday, 29 July 2010.
About SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH 2010 will bring approximately 25,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents to Los Angeles, California, USA for the industry's most respected technical and creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation, music, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web from Sunday, 25 July through Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. SIGGRAPH 2010 includes a three-day exhibition of products and services from the computer graphics and interactive marketplace from 27-29 July 2010. More than 200 international exhibiting companies are expected. More details are available at www.siggraph.org/s2010
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ETC Alum Eben Myers ('04) along with Vincent Aleven (CMU HCII), Matthew Easterday (CMU HCII), Amy Ogan (CMU HCII) submitted a paper based upon a course taught at Carnegie Mellon.
Congratulations to Eben!
DIGITEL 2010
The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning
http://digitel2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Dates: April 12-16, 2010
Title: Toward a framework for the analysis and design of educational games
Authors: Vincent Aleven (CMU HCII), Eben Myers (Etcetera Edutainment and CMU ETC), Matthew Easterday (CMU HCII), Amy Ogan (CMU HCII)
Abstract: We describe and illustrate the beginnings of a general framework for the design and analysis of educational games. Our students have used it to analyze existing educational games and to create prototype educational games. The framework is built on existing components: a method for precisely specifying educational objectives, a framework for relating a game’s mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics, and principles for instructional design grounded in empirical research in the learning sciences. The power of the framework comes from the components themselves, as well as from considering these components in concert and making connections between them. The framework coordinates the many levels at which an educational game must succeed in order to be effective. We illustrate the framework by using it to analyze Zombie Division and to generate some redesign ideas for this game.
In October 2009 Don Marinelli, ETC Executive Director, spoke to Fred Rogers Center Advisory Council Annual Meeting on the video games revolution, edutainment and the ETC.
To see the speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JF21jVg-Y8
More information on the Fred Rodger's Center:
http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/
To see some of the ETC projects with the Fred Rogers Center:
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Students At Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center
Recreate Italian Futurist Puppetry Ballet, Balli Plastici
PITTSBURGH—Depero Futuristi, a student team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is re-imagining the Futurist puppet ballet “Balli Plastici,” or the ‘plastic dance.’ Using a puppeteering software toolkit called ToyBox Futuristi, the group has digitized the ballet’s original marionettes while developing a means for others to create their own Futurist-inspired ballets.
Under the direction of Franco Sciannameo, director of the interdisciplinary degree programs at Carnegie Mellon, the group hopes to move the marionettes beyond mere appreciation and propel them forward as living art. The group designed ToyBox Futuristi using arrangements of original and re-imagined “Balli Plastici” puppets, set pieces and backdrops in an attempt to adapt and modernize Depero’s pieces to the digital age while still keeping the artist’s original vision alive. ToyBox Futuristi also features an intuitive user interface that is artistically consistent with Depero’s work.
Created by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero in 1918, “Balli Plastici” uses geometric, fantastical, multicolored marionettes to encapsulate the Futurist ideal of machinery striving to break free of human control. The machine-like puppets were intended to replace human actors and dancers while establishing a new way to present art. “Balli Plastici” has been featured on Performa 09, TimeOut New York, MeFeedia and Parson’s Illustration department blog.
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Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center and University of
Pittsburgh Team Up To Create A New Form of Interactive Theatre for Kids
PITTSBURGH— Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and the University of Pittsburgh have teamed up as part of Shakespeare-in-the-Schools (SITS) program to bring a new, interactive, touring theatre production titled, “Darwin and the Kid,” to area youth. A performance of “Darwin and the Kid” will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 4:30 p.m. at the Charity Randall Theatre on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus.
Written by SITS founder and University of Pittsburgh Professor Attilio Favorini, “Darwin and the Kid” is a play about evolution for middle and high school students that combines live theatre, video images and an interactive website. The production is the SITS program’s second venture into science education. Coming on the heels of “Rachel Carson Saves The Day,” a play about the pioneering environmentalist and the dangers of chemical pollution, “Darwin and the Kid” addresses key points of evolutionary science as prescribed by the Pennsylvania Standards for Science and Technology for grades 7-10.
After incorporating a sophisticated audiovisual package into “Rachel Carson Saves the Day,” SITS members were convinced that school audiences would welcome a rich audiovisual environment to supplement the play’s text. ETC was invited to help create key audiovisual elements including video image of Darwin, audio and visual representations of the voyage of the Beagle, projected hypertext definitions of key terms and a website.
“We hope it’s just the first of what could be a new genre of theatre,” said Favorini. “In any case, it’s a nifty way to enliven the study of science for our school kids.”
Department of Media Relations
Carnegie Mellon University
Alumni House
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-2900
Fax: 412-268-6929
Contact: Eric Sloss For immediate release:
412-268-5765 Jan. 20, 2010
ecs@andrew.cmu.edu
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About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu.
