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Well, this is the obligatory SXSW Panel Picker Post. There are lots of great Transmedia/ARG panels up for voting this year (including three by NMM partners), and here are our favorites, for your consideration:

FILM:

• Transmedia Production: Making the New Frontier – Behnam Karbassi (No Mimes Media)
• Documenting your Transmedia Project: The How and Why – Brooke Thompson

INTERACTIVE

• Your Life is a Transmedia Experience – Jenka Gurfinkel
• ARGs Don’t Work: The Future of Transmedia Stories – Maureen McHugh (No Mimes Media)
• Battlestar Galactica and Transmedia: A Case Study – Craig Engler
• Transmedia Artists Guild: New Media Needs New Representation – Jay Bushman
• Hoax or Transmedia: The Ethics of Pervasive Fiction – Andrea Phillips
• Audience Engagement in the Transmedia Age – Steve Peters (No Mimes Media)
• City as Platform: Gameplay in the Third Space – Sara Thacher

If you’re a transmedia fan, please take a look and vote!

ETA: Sara Thacher’s panel

Let’s study, with objectivity and curiosity,
the mutation phenomenon of forms and values in the current world.
Let’s be conscious of the fact that although tomorrow’s world
does not have any chance to become more fair than any other,
it owns a chance that is linked to the destiny of the current art [...]
that of embodying, in their works some forms of new beauty,
which will be able to arise only from the meet of all the techniques.
(Francastel 1956, 274)
Translation by Regina Célia Pinto, emailed to the empyre mailing list,
Jan 2, 2004.

This is the epigraph that begins Christy Dena’s PhD thesis, available online. Christy is one the sharpest, most thoughtful, and yet still accessible thinkers on transmedia out there. I will be pouring over this document in the next few months. I am sure it will make me see things I hadn’t seen before.

I suspect that if you want to enter the discussion of transmedia, this is going to be a seminal text.

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Last month, Maureen and I were honored to be part of a day-long series of panels put on by USC and UCLA Film Schools called Transmedia Hollywood: S/Telling the Story.

Now, videos of the entire day have become available. You can download our panel, ARG: This is Not a Game…. But is it Always a Promotion? (Jordan Weisman, Will Brooker, Ivan Askwith, etc.) directly from their site, or go here to catch all the videos from the entire day (they’re still in the process of adding all the videos).