arts and technology
W2′s Creative Technology Youth Summer Camps
W2 Community Media Arts Society is a Vancouver cultural institution dedicated to providing individuals and communities with access to technology, learning, production and distribution. W2 also operates creative spaces in Vancouver’s inner-city. Creative Tech Summer Camps are a fun way for young people to participate in art making, learning new skills, creating the future, and [...]
The big booooooom; How Jeff Hamada’s art blog made him an accidental — and highly influential — tastmaker
As the sole author and proprietor of the highest traffic art blog on the Internet, Jeff Hamada has his finger on the pulse of the creative world. In fact, these days, you could say he is the pulse. “Booooooom.com gets about two million hits a month now – it’s pretty crazy,” the 27-year-old Vancouverite says [...]
Opinion: How new technologies secure a place for the arts
The audience for the arts is declining, according to a recent study by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Attendance at live performances, museums and galleries dropped 15 per cent between 2002 and 2008, and the downward trend holds for all age groups and most educational levels. The predictable reaction: calls for enriched arts [...]
Okanagan’s largest multimedia production facility opens
Media Button Communications Inc. a leading Video, Web and Multi-Media Company announced, today, the official opening of its new 5,000 square foot production facility located on Tutt street in Kelowna. The Okanagan’s vibrant tech and multimedia community, known as the “Silicon Vineyard,” has never been stronger. With large-scale investment by industry giants Disney, the infrastructure [...]
Future fantasy: Pitching the arts in a digital universe
Denholm LaRoche, or Den, as his friends call him, is 18 years old, and, as he describes himself, pretty typical for his age.He works out at the gym regularly. He has a pretty girlfriend and, he admits, he texts her and his friends “constantly.” He watches The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Futurama. For [...]
