As part of their involvement in this year’s Digifest, OCADU’s South Campus will host a 1-day academic conference on Saturday 29th October 2011. All Our Digital Futures takes as inspiration the Digifest themes of play, touch, build and watch.

Creativity is the source of all innovation. It is the convergence of original thinking, theoretical knowledge, creative practice and business acumen on display here and now in Ontario that makes Digifest possible. This event hopes to bring together academics and artists to develop and share new knowledge; whether practice-based, applied, theoretical or conceptual. The one-day event will bring together theorists from across the city and beyond to develop thinking around the Digifest themes of play, touch, build and watch. A common connection across these areas will be in how digital creativity is manifest through these core human actions.

All Our Digital Futures Schedule

10:00   DFI Research Labs Pecha Kucha

• e_Motion (e_MRP) (Barbara Rauch)
• sMAC Lab (Judith Doyle)
• Art Research Centre (Michael Page)
• game:play Lab (Emma Westecott)
• sLab (Greg Van Alystyne)
• Social Body Lab (Erin Lewis)

11:00   Brunch

12:00   Paper Session

• Jonathan Belman, NYU/Tiltfactor, "Designing Games to Foster Empathy"
• Steve Engels, University of Toronto, "Designing Games for the Blind"
• Andrea Gunraj, Susana Ruiz and Ashley York, METRAC, "Power to the People: Anti-Oppressive Game Design" 
• Joanne McNeish, Ryerson, "Paper Bills –Artefacts From the Past, Present and Future"
• Fanny Chevalier, OCADU, TBC

14:00   Break

14:30   Paper Session 

• Luigi Ferrara, Jean-Paul Amore, Nick Crampton, George Brown, "SIMS (Scalable Interactive Modulable System) Furniture: An interactive user-centric system for furniture design"
• Michael Page, OCADU, "Hybrid Auto-Stereoscopic Experiments in Manufactured Environments"
• Isabel Pedersen and Luke Simcoe, Ryerson ""I am Iron Man": Myth, Discourse, Participatory Culture, and Invention in the Era of Network Society"  
• Nicholas Packwood, George Brown, "Collaborative writing for digital media"
• David Owen, York University, "The Avatar as the Locus of Narrative Immersion and Aesthetic Experience"

16:30   Wrap-up

17:00   Visit the TOJam Arcade at OCADU Great Hall

We are excited to be hosting this research symposium for colleagues across the city in our new lab spaces and look forward to the dialogue and the collaborative possibilities growing out of this event.

Links:

http://torontodigifest.ca/2011/digital-futures/