Xbox Chief Design Officer Elan Lee to deliver keynote address at Power To The Pixel
- Projects by Gruff Rhys, Lance Weiler and Stan Douglas to be showcased in this event in association with the BFI London Film Festival
The 7th Power To The Pixel Cross-Media Forum (October 15-18) returns to London in association with the BFI London Film Festival and this year’s keynote speaker is Elan Lee (photo), Chief Design Officer at Xbox Entertainment Studios. Under the banner of My Mother Has No Idea What I Do For A Living - our story-telling journey through Cross-Media, Second Screens, and Interactive Narratives, Lee will be talking about “some of the best and worst ideas that have gotten us here, and why the world (and my mother) struggles to keep up.”
Highlights include musician Gruff Rhys who will be performing American Interiors, a multimedia psychedelic travelogue incorporating a film, music, book, live performance and interactive project; technology pioneer Lance Weiler who will present a new collaboration with filmmaker David Cronenberg, called Body, Mind, Change that will take audiences through a Cronenbergian story world inspired by the film Videodrome but re-imagined for the 21st century and brought to life across three platforms – online, mobile, and the real world; and renowned Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker Stan Douglas who will present Circa1948, a 3D historical augmented reality app that captures the stories and architecture of a transitional post-war era Canada, with Loc Dao, Head of Digital Content and Strategy for the National Film Board of Canada.
Other speakers include Radha Agrawal, founder and CEO of Super Sprowtz, a children’s media company focused on nutrition education, Paula Zuccotti, founder of The Overworld and Francesca Panetta, Multimedia Special Projects Editor for The Guardian.
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