Frank Alsema
He is specialised in virtual reality, digital effects
and interactive television. In September 2000 Frank
joined IJsfontein Interactive Media. Producing games,
educational software, installations, Mixed Media, formats
for iTV and Internet. Frank Alsema gives trainings in
integrating TV with WEB, games, special effects, Virtual
Studio, interactive writing, Ai, motion capture, interaction
design, etc.
Sohvi
Sirkesalo
Having a background at the Finnish Broadcasting Company
both in radio and TV and also being a project manager
in a multimedia company, she is now Senior Lecturer in
Interactive Media in Tampere Polytechnic, teaching mainly
interactive storytelling and drama, project management
and media culture.
Jak Boumans
(NL)
is Principal Consultant with Electronic Media Reporting,
a consultancy specialised in content strategy since
1990. Boumans brought in 1984 the first daily electronic
newsletter in Europe online and is presently involved
in research on publishing for mobility and electronic
books. jak@euronet.nl
Damien Marchi
(FR)
is Cross-Media Project Manager for Streampower, in Paris.
In his function he consults producers and develops new
ideas to add more interactivity in TV programmes and
to generate new revenue streams around TV shows. Investigating
Cross-Media for almost 3 years, recent professional
successes include the interactive adaptations of several
reality TV shows for the Swedish, English and French
markets (among them is Loft Story 2, french Big Brother)
and the production of the worldwide first pre-concert
interactive SMS-TV show for the Star Academy Tour 2003.
damien_marchi@yahoo.com
George Apostolopoulos (GR)
He has many years of experience on the audiovisual reality
in Europe, currently in Media Desk Hellas.
Eku Wand
Co-Founder, Manager and producer of Pixelpark Multimedia
Produkionsgesellschft mbH in Berlin, producer and Designer
of various interactive new media projects, Now Professor
at the Braunschweig School for Art in New media design.
Hanna Puro
Hanna Puro has a wide range of experience in several
media (newspapers and magazines, radio, TV and public
relations, the new media) as a journalist and a producer.
She has outlined, planned and actually carried out TV-programs.
Hanna Puro now works as producer, being in charge of
the Nicefactory web and other digital media brands and
productions but also participating in marketing, public
relations and in the organisation and management of
the company’s work processes.
Geska
Helena Andersson (SWE)
is research facilitator at the Interactive Institute
in Sweden. A specialist in interactive storytelling
and complex, non-linear AV narratives, she also worked
with high-end media productions in a commercial context,
as Creative Director of Scandvision Mediahouse in Malmoe
and at the web agency Moonwalk Sthlm. geska@kaospilot.dkChristian
Fonnesbech
(DK)
is an accomplished producer of interactive entertainment,
advertising and educational content. He has directed
and written for TV mainly in Denmark and Scandinavia,
created short films and worked as a script consultant
for both TV and film companies. From 2000-2002, he co-founded
and ran the interactive content studio Sjuzet. He acts
as an advisor to the Danish Ministry of Culture and
the Danish Presidency in the EU on the future development
of the interactive media industry. content@fonnesbech.dk
David Wood
David Wood is Head of New Media at the EBU Headquarters
in Geneva, Switzerland. The EBU is the collective organisation
of national European broadcasters, and has Associate Members
throughout the world. The EBU coordinates and encourages
its members' activities in digital television and multimedia.David
Wood is responsible for a range of groups, and studies,
conducted by the EBU in Multimedia and New Media. He is
the former Chairman of ITU-R Working Party 6P and the
current chair of the European Community IST E3 Concertation
Group on interactive multimedia. Formerly with the BBC
and the IBA in the United Kingdom, David Wood is a graduate
of Southampton University in the UK, and an AMP graduate
of the Harvard Business School in the USA.From 2001 to
2003, David Wood has been jury coordinator for the Prix
Europa multimedia activities.
Gregory Ferrell Lowe, USA/FIN
He is the Managing Chair
for YLE Programme Development in the Finnish public service
broadcasting company and a Docent in the Department of
Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of
Tampere. Lowe investigates transformation processes with
focus on media and management development in European
public service broadcasting. Before immigration to Finland
in 1997, Lowe was Professor at the University of Kentucky
and at the George Washington University in D.C.
Takis Kyriakoulakos (GR)
is Managing Director of the 3D visualisation and animation
facility "Post Reality SA" and teaches New
Media Design at the University of Aegean at Syros Island.
Since 1997 he has been researcher at the Hellenic Audiovisual
Institute (IOM). Prior to that he was Professor in Computer
Animation at Paris I University. post@animbase.enet.gr
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