From Craig Newmark:
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those [...]

2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Bay Area Video Coalition
May 30 – June 8, San Francisco.
Nine documentary teams have been chosen to prototype innovative interactive, mobile, multimedia, and game projects to engage and build audiences for their social issue storytelling during the 2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Funded by generous lead support from [...]

Lecture/discussion with Lev Manovich, media artist/lecturer/theorist and co-author/creator of Soft Cinema and author of The Language of New Media, and Sean Cubitt, media theorist/historian and author of The Cinema Effect and Digital Aesthetics.
Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena, like the VJ scene, [...]

The Futures of Entertainment Conference is presented by the MIT Comparative Media Studies Dept—
This year’s conference will consider developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations, and mobile platform development.
Futures of Entertainment Conference
MIT Bartos Theater@MIT Media Lab
November 16-17, 2007
Cambridge, MA
Check out audio/video from last years conference.

An incredible list of presenters…
OOFFF New York 2007 November 2-4
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York
OFFF is a cutting-edge festival exploring the latest in digital aesthetics and software language. OFFF festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international [...]

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture’s 2007 Conference is in Austin, TX, Oct. 17-20, 2007. Featuring a keynote by Richard Linklater.
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of [...]

Art+Technology incubator/curator Eyebeam is now accepting applications for it’s 2007-8 Fellows, in the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, Production Lab and Education Lab. The Deadline is August 6, 2007.
Research themes for 2007/08 include (though will not be limited to):
* Energy, Technology and Sustainability
* Urban research, urban interventions and media in public space
Artists and creative technologists interested in [...]

The awesome, humorous data visualizations of music/concerts by Andrew Kuo, who posts his work at earlboykins.blogspot.com, were recently highlighted in The New York Times.

(from NYT graphic) Hat tip: Information Aesthetics

The Workbook Project interviews DJ Spooky about his “Rebirth of a Nation” project, where he “remixes” D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation“.
This Conference Is Being Recorded:DJ Spooky

Also at The Workbook Project: Filmmakers That Think Outside The Film.

Unhappy with the quality/quantity of the extras for The Fountain DVD, Darren Aronofsky has decided to release a downloadable commentary track in the near future. From Cinematical and Aronofsky’s Myspace blog:
“As many of you can tell it [the DVD] is light on extras as compared to my previous DVD releases. Everything at the studio was [...]

Photosynth Demo

Facebook announces that it’s opening up it’s platform to third party developers, effectively becoming the “Anti-Myspace” (or is Myspace the Bizarro Facebook?). Most notable is the ability of 3rd-party developers to serve ads.
Notable participants include: Amazon, Box.net, FeedBurner, Forbes.com, I Like, Localplatform, Microsoft, Mog, Photobucket, RockYou, Slide, Splashcast, Twitter, Veoh, Warner Bros Records, Washington Post, [...]

Video/animations set to the works of former Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

Flickeur is a film constructed of randomly-retrieved Flickr images in an “infinite” film loop.
Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random. Flickeur works like a looped magnetic [...]

Techtrek.tv covers the projects and happenings at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
iTunes video feed here.