Digital Technology and Culture

A blog for students and friends of Washington State University Vancouver's Digital Technology and Culture Program

Advising Heads Up

Imagine that it is November 12 and you are a senior thinking about graduating and needing a core course in order to do so, or that it is November 14 and you are a junior wanting to take that cool digital animation course. Imagine that you DID NOT GO TO ADVISING. Guess what? The University automatically places on advising hold on your registration. This means you still need to be advised in order to register.

Here is what you need to do in order to register if you have the dreaded Advising Hold:

Make an appointment with me. I will begin advising those students who missed Advising Week advising on Tuesday, November 18. Come by my office at VMMC 102G and sign up. The sign up sheets will be outside my door.

I look forward to seeing you!

--Dene Grigar

posted by: grigar at 16:46 | link | comments |

Internship Possibility

Dandy Warhols seek Interns for Video/Web/Management

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Date: 2008-10-19, 5:56PM
Hey all
The Dandy Warhols are seeking interns to help out in various capacities at their studio here in NW PDX. Ideally you are a college student seeking credit for an internship program (this way we can keep you accountable and not just have another body hanging out).
We are seeking help in the following realms...
Video - We have an onsite video suite and in house editor that needs help logging footage for our breathe easy benefit project (www.myspace.com/breatheeasybenefit). Assist in posting videos to web, digitizing footage, even some editing if you've got the skills. Prior experience with Final Cut and Aftereffects preferred
Web - We're in the midst of redeveloping our entire platform and could use a couple light lifters experienced with general design and CMS concepts plus knowledge of HTML and PHP. Music savvy and dialed in.
Management - Interested in the music industry? Come help out in our Management office. We're in constant communication with a team of 120 people all across the world. Lots of opportunity to learn the ins and outs of what goes on behind the scenes in the life of a band. Our management office is run out of the band's studio so you'll see and be involved hands on with the numerous bands that come in and out of here daily.
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Compensation: COLLEGE CREDIT - please be in school and need this for credit
This is an internship job
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Original URL:http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/med/885662284.html

posted by: grigar at 10:44 | link | comments |

Cloud Eye Control's "Under Polaris"

DTC students are invited to join Dene and John at a very cool digital media performance coming up on Sunday, October 19 at 2:30. We are holding tickets for interested DTC students. Contact Dene by email if you are interested. Here is some info about the event.

From PICA.org
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UNDER POLARIS
Cloud Eye Control with special guest Janet Pants

Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:30 & 6:30 pm (All Ages), 8:30 pm (21+)
Tickets $10 / $8 PICA members at Leftbank: 240 N Broadway
For advance tickets (recommended) call: 503.242.1419 x221
Tickets also available at the door.

Cloud Eye Control presents their not-to-be-missed animation/performance piece filled with darkness and light with wandering mystical beasts surrounded by a haunting icy atmosphere. Standing room only crowds were enchanted by their work at TBA:07 and at they were a stand out at the 2007 Platform Animation Festival. This special commission by PICA and Leslie B. Durst (with additional support from REDCAT and NPN) debuts right here in Portland before heading out into the world. Please join us for one of three shows at Leftbank, this Sunday only! While you are there, be the first to preview The Butterfly Effect an exhibition celebrating Durst's decade-long commissioning project, featuring the work of ten past and present Portland-based artists.

ABOUT CLOUD EYE CONTROL

Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. They create original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live performance.

Miwa Matreyek is an animator/director and multimedia artist. She is a recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Film. Her solo performance work, Dreaming of Lucid Living, won the Student Grand Prix and Audience Choice Award for Best Installation at the Platform International Animation Festival, 2007.

Anna Oxygen is a multimedia artist and musician. She has toured both Europe and the United States, performing dance pop recitals and fantasy-science performance pieces. She has released several albums of electronic music, most recently This is an Exercise on Kill Rock Stars. In addition to her work with Cloud Eye Control, she has presented her solo work at P.S. 1, The Seattle Art Museum, The Armory Center for the Arts and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.

Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles-based theater director and digital media artist. His work has been featured at REDCAT (Los Angeles), New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, PICA's Time-Based Arts Festival (Portland), and the Platform International Animation Festival. Recent projects include the world-premiere staging of composer Sandeep Bhagwati's Vineland Stelae, conceived as a theatrical concert at REDCAT.

www.cloudeyecontrol.com

posted by: grigar at 02:27 | link | comments |

Internship Possibilities

Internships at OPB

While the DTC Program is not a journalism program or sees itself preparing students for careers in the broadcast industry, you guys will find opportunities to undertake all kinds of multimedia work like video, animation and web design for TV and radio organizations. The one listed below at OPB is a case in point:

OPB’s college internship program provides students with the opportunity to observe and participate in the daily activities of a broadcast center, as well as develop strong organizational and management skills.

Please click on the links below for the OPB internship program guidelines and descriptions of the internships that are available. Please acquaint yourself with the guidelines of the program to ensure you meet the eligibility requirements.

You should be aware that there may be more applicants than internships. Submitting an application does not guarantee selection for one of the OPB intern positions. Internship terms begin in September, January, March and June. Applicants should apply by the 1st of the month prior to the term start date. Applications are due in hand, not post-marked, by Aug. 1st, Dec. 1st, Feb. 1st, May 1st.

Internship Guidelines
Internship Opportunities
Download Internship Application (PDF)
Feel free to contact us with any questions: internships@opb.org

http://www.opb.org/insideopb/careers/internships/

posted by: grigar at 18:54 | link | comments |

Motion Graphic Artist (After Effects)

Motion Graphic Artist (After Effects)

Reply to: anon-864572212@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-10-03, 12:01AM
WHO WE ARE
Tour Anything builds product and service "tours" - which is a simple name for interactive demonstrations. We use Flash as our delivery tool while the individual tour "chapters" are assembled in After Effects and encoded into FLVs. We also build micro-site, store showcases, virtual "hands-on" interfaces, and other cool online displays. Our clients include Altec Lansing, Brother, Canon, Casio, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, Netgear, Panasonic, Pentax, SanDisk, and many more. We like our clients and they love us. We pride ourselves on being talented, fast, and affordable.
We are new to Portland, just relocating here a few months ago from San Francisco. The town is great and we look forward to settling here and we hope to find more people to join our team that match our artistic quality and personality. The staff here is great, beyond artists we are actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, one of our artists is even an internationally renown rafting guide on the side - at this very moment he is in India running a river no one has ever rafted before.

WHO WE NEED
Do we need to say talent? Obviously we want someone who can match the quality of work we produce. The tools you must know are: After Effects, and Photoshop. And you will also need to make your way around Flash, and Illustrator confidently. We will be presenting you with assets from still pictures, PDF documents, box art, motion video, 3D assets, and well, if the client gives us a dog we might need to walk it around the block.
Beyond your master of design and the tools, we expect reliability. We assemble a 2 minute tour in 4-5 days of artist time working standard hours and once you are up to speed we expect the same. You get to keep your own hours, work with the methods you like the most and even work where ever feels best to you. We only expect tours to be done on time, attendance to team meetings, and responsive to communication if you happen to be off-site.
We don't require years of experience nor do we discriminate in any way. Your talent will speed for itself. We particularly want someone who like experimenting with visual design and the tools we have on hand. We are always challenging ourselves in making the tours look better and better while finding new ways to speed up the assemble process.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
About 98% of the time you will be building tours with the final compensation being in After Effects CS3. Every now and then we have a need to build a tour entirely in Flash (our old-school way) so we might apply your skills there too.
You will get a script, some light visual directions, photographs, video, logos, stock photography, and more. You take those and create the tour using the client's current marketing material as design inspiration.

WHAT YOU WILL GET PAID
Starting, you will be a contractor. For every minute of tour you create we compensate $650. As your skills grow that amount goes up as we can assign you to some of the more demanding clients. Also, a transition to full-time salary is available as well. There are also various opportunities for bonuses on the occasional job. Salary or Contract, we value our artists and want to see them paid as much as possible. To that end we do increase our rates on a regular basis and pass that on to the staff. As Tour Anything is founded by freelance artists, we know how great it is to have a company that looks out for their team.

HOW TO GET HIRED
Show us your stuff! When you email your resume and link to your demo reel be sure to also clearly tell us what you personally created on your reel. If you appear to have the skills, then we might ask you to assemble a 10 to 15 second chapter of a sample tour so we can see what you can do in practice.
The best thing to do is look at our work and show us something similar or demonstrate your skill at motion graphics that could apply to this type of work. Please take a look at a few of these links for some of our latest work:
http://www.touranything.com/clients/pentax/K20D/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/netgear/networkingOverview/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/fujifilm/underwater45/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/alteclansing/T612/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/brother/MFC-7840W_v5/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/pentax/W60/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/casio/EX-S10/
You can reply to this ad or send your resume to jobs (at) touranything (dot) com - obfuscated for spambots.






Location: Portland
Compensation: $1300-$1500 for a typical job.
Telecommuting is ok.
This is a part-time job.
This is a contract job.
OK to highlight this job opening for persons with disabilities
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Original URL:http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/med/864572212.html

posted by: grigar at 19:00 | link | comments |

Cool Job

Search # 5169 - Web Communications Manager

WSU Vancouver is seeking a Web Communications Manager who will take a leadership role in the development and implementation of our Web strategy, as well as the management of our web site, ensuring that the site meets the needs of the institution and its constituents with attention to usability and accessibility issues. The successful candidate will work collaboratively in a team environment, interacting with diverse internal constituents.

Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree in information science or related field and 3 years of progressively responsible experience in web site design, development and maintenance, including hands-on web site technical production using Web editing software, and proficiency coding (X)HTML and CSS. Applicants must also have experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, search engine optimization, Web analytics, basic Web scripting languages and databases, and Content Management Systems, including implementation of a CMS to an existing web site.

WSU Vancouver, located in Vancouver, Washington, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Educator and Employer.

For complete job posting and information on how to apply, visit our web site at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/adm/hrs/adminpro.html or call 360-546-9599.

Salary is $45,000 per year.

posted by: grigar at 01:59 | link | comments |