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5 unusual facts about Multimedia


Carleton School of Information Technology

CSIT, together with Algonquin College, offers a Bachelor of Information Technology undergraduate program with three streams of study: Interactive Multimedia & Design, Network Technology, and Photonics & Laser Technology.

Indian Ocean 2001

“Indian Ocean 2001” is a Multimedia presentation of geographical, oceanographic and fisheries related information of 35 countries around the Indian Ocean.

Mark Phooi

In 2006, Mark founded First Media Design School (FMDS), a boutique private design institution that offers diploma, advanced diploma and degree programs in the areas Graphic design, Multimedia and Fashion design.

Multimedia

In the Fine arts, for example, Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt brings two key elements of musical composition and film into the world of painting: variation of a theme and movement of and within a picture, making ModulArt an interactive multimedia form of art.

UNOVIS

The group was very active, working on numerous projects and experiments, in most if not all media available at the time.


20 minutos

20 Min Holding's majority stockholder is Schibsted, a Norwegian communication group that was founded in 1839, listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, and has a strong presence in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland, France, and Spain, where it is the owner of both paid and free newspapers, television stations, radio stations, multimedia, etc.

ABA Games

After leaving university, Cho contemplated professional games development but ultimately instead joined Toshiba to work in multimedia research and development.

Antonia Scarpa

Scarpa and Moni Ritchie founded the multimedia rock group “The Drummed” (which also featured Rob Campanella of The Quarter After and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Christian Hejnal of Scarling.) Scarpa played drums, and synthesizers as well as creating a visual projection show for the bands performances.

AU Herning

AU Herning's focus is on education excellence and offers six undergraduate and two graduate study programmes as well as a number of part-time studies all within engineering, business economics, management and communication and multimedia.

Bora Yoon

Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborative performances with electronics giant SAMSUNG, media philosopher DJ Spooky, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the America Project and multimedia swansong: The 51st (dream) state.

Bryan Weisberg

While attending a 1992 multimedia convention in San Francisco, Bryan ran into an old friend Hillman Curtis and together they formed a company called V2 Productions.

Cabin Fever Media

Cabin Fever Media specializes in graphic design of album artwork, however, Cabin Fever Media also does various other commissioned work that involves illustration and design such as t-shirt design, logo creation, image editing and retouching, typesetting, photography, web design (HTML and DHTML, Flash), and multimedia presentations.

CB Simulator

For example, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones held the first online multimedia conference using CompuServe CB from London on December 7, 1995.

Compo

Demoscene compo, a competition involving multimedia "demo" programs

Danijel Žeželj

Since 1999, in collaboration with musician/composer Jessica Lurie, he has created a series of multimedia performances merging live music with live painting.

ESPN Major League Soccer

On August 4, 2006, ESPN reached a comprehensive multimedia agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) for the rights to Major League Soccer through 2014.

Foung Hawj

Hawj was a series producer for Twin Cities Public Television in the 1990s before starting his own multimedia business in 1996, Digital Motion LLC.

Franz Schurmann

The service created New America Media in 1996, a multimedia ethnic news agency and a coalition of ethnic media.

Fratelli Fabbri Editori

They were also the first Italian publisher to market multimedia products; producing the new series "The Stories of Sound" and "The History of Music, which combines the book and the record, addressing issues unknown at the time. For example, for "The History of Music" in order to fall within the standard packaging industry, they commissioned Philips Records to produce 10 million of the LP Special, of 20 centimeters in diameter.

Gallon Drunk

In 1993, Johnston and Edwards collaborated with writer Derek Raymond on the Dora Suarez album and associated multimedia performance at the National Film Theatre the following year, based on Raymond's novel I Was Dora Suarez.

Global Multimedia Protocols Group

The Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik, Eric A. Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg.

Harpo

Harpo Productions, a multimedia company founded by Oprah Winfrey ("Harpo" is "Oprah" spelled backwards)

Hayward Medical Communications

The company also publishes multimedia products and services for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as for government agencies, charities and non-governmental organisations.

I. L. Peretz

Peretz's 1907 play A Night in the Old Marketplace has been adapted into a multimedia theatrical presentation, with music by Frank London and book and lyrics by Glen Berger, slated to open in 2007; the CD is already on sale.

If You See Him

The album was released as an Enhanced CD, featuring a multimedia presenatation that included behind-the-scenes videos and pictures.

International Open

International Tennis Open, a sports video game developed by Infogrames Multimedia and published by Philips Interactive Media in 1992

InterVideo

InterVideo HandHeld Business Unit developed multimedia software solutions in the mobile and embedded multimedia market.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Juan Carlos Lomonaco

Many pre-eminent soloists have performed under his baton, such as, tenor Juan Diego Florez, Alexei Volodin, Erika Dobosiewicz, Vadim Brodsky, Jorge Federico Osorio, Carlos Prieto, tenor Fernando de la Mora, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and the French multimedia group Art Zoyd, among others.

Kahootz

Kahootz is an education multimedia construction toolset created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Kinetic Communications

Kinetic Communications, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a website and multimedia development company.

Kjell-Ole Haune

In 2006, as part of the 100th anniversary for Henrik Ibsen, Haune composed music to Ibsen's poem "Terje Vigen" and turned it into a multimedia musical.

L'Isle-d'Abeau

It has 8 primary schools (1 is private), two middle schools, one high school and 2 IUT dedicated to informatic and multimedia jobs.

Martin Nisenholtz

In 1981, he invited prominent media artists including John Fekner, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring to create experimental art projects using Videotext.

Massaccesi

He is a multimedia artist, utilizing performance, installation, physical art pieces, experimental sound compositions electronic music, video & more, generally using the themes of recycling/re-usage and unique concepts (the sound of trash in refugee camps, building a city out of a city's recycling, performances based on the southern Asian sport of Buzkashi, sleeping, worshiping trash).

Maureen Fleming

Fleming has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborated in her multimedia works with playwright David Henry Hwang, composer Philip Glass, photographer Lois Greenfield, and ikebana artist Gaho Taniguchi.

Monty Adkins

The most notable of these have been Neurotransmission (1998), an hour-long acousmatic dance score written for Wayne McGregor and Random Dance in 1998, Still Time (2001) for the flutist Alejandro Escuer, Symbiont (2002) a multimedia collaboration with Miles Chalcraft, and nights bright daies (2003) for the Ictus piano and percussion quartet; the latter premiered in June 2004 at the Festival Agora No 7 at IRCAM (Paris, France).

Nettby

It was founded on September 14, 2006, and is fully owned by VG Multimedia AS, a Norwegian news company, and Nettby Community Holding AS.

New Italian Epic

In March 2009 the PhD programme Planetary Collegium M-Node, along with the School of Media Design and Multimedia Arts of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan organised the symposium ‘New Italian (Media) Epic’, with the presence of Wu Ming 1, Derrick De Kerckhove, Pier Luigi Capucci, Francesco Monico, and many others including film-makers, artists and media theorists.

Norman Pearlstine

After leaving the Wall Street Journal he launched SmartMoney and was later the general partner of Friday Holdings L.P., a multimedia investment company, prior to succeeding Jason McManus as editor in chief at Time in 1995.

Norwegian National Opera and Ballet

In 2008 Radio Marconi, an Italian company, installed a seatback multimedia system, allowing audiences to follow opera libretto in other languages in addition to the original language.

Ørestad Gymnasium

Apart from the regular subjects, students are offered a "creative subject" which can be Multimedia (mainly communication, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash), Media (production of films, commercials and a theoretical introduction to media), or Visual Arts (including use of Adobe Photoshop).

Partially Buried Woodshed

In her 1996 multimedia work Partially Buried, visual artist Renée Green explores the history of the shootings within a wider historical and cultural context.

Paul Coze

Settling in Phoenix, Arizona full-time in 1951, he founded an art school and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, including large multimedia installations at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and other civic landmarks, most with Native themes.

Self access language learning centers

The Multimedia English Learning Center at the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology in Taiwan has 60 computers, 2 service desks, 2 counseling rooms and discussion areas with sofas and tables.

Shaun Gregory

Before moving into mobile, he was Director of New media at Telegraph Media Group where he is widely credited for spearheading the transformation of The Telegraph from a newspaper into a fully integrated 24/7 multimedia group.

Sheila Chipperfield

This was created in April 2006 by Grammy nominated record producer, Andy Chatterley and multimedia artist Anna Mercedes and is a platform for live new acts to be seen online.

Songs from the Superunknown

The CD-ROM Alive in the Superunknown contains the first four tracks from Songs from the Superunknown plus a multimedia portion featuring photos of the band, a video game, four music videos ("The Day I Tried to Live", "Black Hole Sun", "My Wave", and "Fell on Black Days"), a performance/special effects video of "Superunknown", and a live video of "Kickstand", among other things.

Surf Reality

Most recently, Surf Reality produced 64 Paintings/64 Plays, a multimedia collaboration between playwright Timothy Braun, painter Jennilie Brewster, sound artist Tom Tenney, and animator Ashleigh Nankivell.

Think Tank Photo

Think Tank Photo is a U.S. based manufacturer that designs and sells camera bags and accessories designed for use by professional and advanced amateur photographers and multimedia producers, specially those who use digital SLR cameras.

Vasily Shumov

After a decade of artistic activity in the Soviet Union he moved 1990 to Los Angeles (California, USA), where he remains an active musician, making records (both, with Center and solo), playing live shows in USA and Russia, shooting short films and creating multimedia art.

Zachary Oberzan

Having bizarrely overdosed on the anxiety drug Xanax at approximately the same time and under similar circumstances as Whitney Houston, the multimedia piece resurrects Amelia Earhart, Serge Gainsbourg, Bruce Lee, Buddy Holly, and a host of others to examine, through pop culture, timeless existential quandaries.


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