Image ©Resfest Turkey - The Fall, courtesy VIEW

The tenth edition of VIEW, Italy’s premiere international event on digital cinema, 3D animation and computer graphics, kicks off on October 30 2009.

View is divided into two main events ViewFest 3 days of premiere screenings, workshops and open talks with leaders of the digital culture and View Conference that hosts 4 days of talks and panels with the world’s most influential personalities form the digital community. As with past editions VIEW continues to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds.

This years main topics are Medical Imaging, Design, 3D Cinema, CG Cultural Heritage and Gaming

ViewFest - Digital movie festival

Image ©Resfest Turkey - courtesy VIEW

This year celebrating its 10th anniversary ViewFest offers 3 days packed with premiere screenings, workshops and open talks with leaders of the digital culture with a new addition to the bill, ‘Urban Screen as a Digital Public Art Space’. By extending the festival to the ‘public space’ with films and live performances projected on Maxi screens for three consecutive days in the city’s main squares ViewFest offers to city dwellers the opportunity to explore the potential of urban space where information, culture and recreation interact and find new expression.

This initiative stems from a collaboration with Urban Screen Italia a Milan based company founded in 2007 with the aim of creating in Italy and Europe a network of interactive media facades. Urban Screen are committed to transforming permanent or temporary architectural structures by medializing their surfaces, while respecting the rules relating to energy consumption and light pollution. Indeed the technology allows the management of light power and transparency for the residents inside the buildings where it is installed.

Programme includes: for the first time in Italy, the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, Pixar Animation Studio features ‘Up’, ‘Partly Cloudy’ and Disney presents ‘A Christmas Carol’, all in 3D.
ItalianMix, DutchMix, Resfest Turkey, Siggraph ASIA

View Conference | Digital Convergency November 4 -7 2009

image Top-ix Consortium

The internationally renowned View Conference will be hosting an intensive 4 day programme of talks, lectures, panel discussions and workshops with the digital community’s most creative minds.

Keynote: Michael Giacchino - Emmy Award Winner Michael Giacchino, composer of music for ‘Up’, ‘’Partly Cloudy’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘Ratatouille’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Mission Impossible III’, ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Cloverfield.’ Michael also has the score for TVs ‘Lost’ and ‘Alias’ and a long list of hot game musical theme scores as well.

Speakers include: Glenn Entis on ‘The Gamification of Digital Media’, Rob Bredow on 3D Cinema and the technology of Stereoscopic Visualization, Bob Whitehill on the phenomenon of 3D Storytelling, Alessandro Bovero and Elena Biondi from the Center of Conservation and Restoration on the future of the past. Using immersive 3D and virtual reality to research and aid resoration.

Workshops:
Google : Mike Springerfield Google Inc. Software Engineer Mike Springer brings along the company’s latest API products and shows how SketchUp and StreetView can be used.

Notably the most significant change in this year’s edition is the introduction of the theme Open Source, thanks to the collaboration between the TOP-IX ConsortiumVIEW will be hosting a conference and 4 workshops aimed at exploring the use and potential of Free Open Source Software.

The conference ‘Open Source for Creativity’ and the four workshops organized by Top-ix and the faculty of Industrial Design of the Polytechnic of Turin are dedicated within the context of the festival to debate and knowledge sharing on the distribution and application of Open Source technologies and content based on the principles of sharing, participation and peer-to-peer exchange.

Conference: ‘Open Source for Creativity’ all day November 6 2009
keynote: Juan Carlos De Maritn, Nexa Centre for Internet and Society

Workshops: Top-IX Session, November 4,5 & 7 2009
How to use Blender the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation

How to use Cinelerra the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux

Full programme and all info at www.viewconference.it and www.viewfest.it