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CineGrid @ Amsterdam 2011 - September 9, 2011

"CineGrid Amsterdam" took place on September 9, from 13:00-18:00.  Held at Pakhuis de Zwigjger, "CineGrid Amsterdam" was sponsored by CineGrid members in Amsterdam including WAAG Society, University of Amsterdam, SARA and SURFnet. Speakers included: Philippe Vié (Camalot), Lieven Bertels (Holland Festival), Pieter Wilson (European Digital Cinema Forum), Harry Schreurs (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie), Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam), Laurin Herr (CineGrid.org), Frank Kresin (CineGrid Amsterdam, Waag Society), Tatsuya Fujii (NTT), Maciej Glowiak (PSNC), Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Essex), Kunitake Kaneko (Keio University), Richard Weinberg (USC School of Cinema-Television), Jasper Claus (ONE CAMERA), Michal Krsek (CESNET) and Ton Roosendaal (Blender).

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"CineGrid Rio" will be sponsored by CineGrid members in Brazil including RNP, MacKenzie University, and CPQD. Aimed at the digital film community, the CineGrid @ Rio event will feature the latest technologies in video streams of super-high-definition (4k - 3-D) through networks. This activity will be broadcast live over the Internet.

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Schedule information follows below and additional details in English will be available soon.

We're proud to announce that CineGrid member Cyberport is holding their First Hong Kong Stereoscopic 3D Competition starting from June to September 2011. The competition is open to anyone capable of producing a stereo 3D video.The stereoscopic video can be produced in either native 3D live action or stereoscopic animation.

Net Works: An evening of telematic music featuring pianist Myra Melford, bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Michael Dessen

Telematic music is live performance between musicians in different geographical locations using high speed/high bandwidth internet connections. This special Net Works concert features virtuoso ensemble playing by prominent artists in jazz and improvised/experimental music — pianist Myra Melford in Berkeley with bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Michael Dessen in San Diego — in an exciting evening of co-located performance conceived for the medium.

Real time musical interaction over the internet is a growing phenomenon, and this experienced group has been pushing the boundaries of the art to explore the performance of intricate, tightly integrated music from distant locations. Their collaboration is enabled by CNMAT’s advanced research in live, net-based audio and video transmission.

This concert is supported by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in collaboration with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Cal Performances and CineGrid member, Meyer Sound.

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The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), which operates CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, honored CineGrid, the international research consortium for networked media arts, with a CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award at its annual conference in Irvine, Calif.

March 8, 2011 — La Mirada, CA — CineGrid was recognized for the innovative use and expansion of high-performance networking by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) which bestowed its  Innovations in Networking Awards in the Experimental/Developmental Applications category.

CENIC’s Innovations in Networking Awards are presented annually to highlight exemplary innovations that leverage ultra high-bandwidth networking, particularly where those innovations have the potential to revolutionize the ways in which instruction and research are conducted.

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January 20, 2011

By Tiffany Fox

Larry Smarr, director of Calit2, remarked that high-definition, real-time collaboration is possible at Calit2 because "we have made the necessary human and technical resource investments to drive applications of the optical network revolution."

For the members of CineGrid, who assembled recently at the University of California, San Diego, for their fifth annual conference, experimenting with “extreme” digital media has increasingly become a finely tuned balance of “3D in support of collaboration, and collaboration in support of 3D.”

“Interest in 3D is being driven by scientific visualization, by consumer electronics and by digital cinema,” remarked Laurin Herr, president of the consulting company Pacific Interface, Inc., and one of the founders of CineGrid, the non-profit international membership organization.

“This year, we put together a rather extensive program looking at all these issues, right down to the first principles about how 3D stereo is perceived by human beings. There was also some really impressive work being done this year in our second main thrust, remote collaboration for cinema post-production, both 2D and 3D.”

 

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This year marks the 23rd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). As the only Japanese film festival accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations...

November 4, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA – CineGrid representatives join the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) to share their perspectives on the development of a global digital media repository for access and exchange of extremely high resolution media content via advanced networks through the development of the CineGrid Exchange (CX).

Session: “The Digital Motion Picture Archive Framework Project” to be held Thursday, November 4th, 9:00am - 12:00pm.
Chair: Andy Maltz - Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Sci-Tech Council and CineGrid partner.
Event information: [http://www.amiaconference.com/2010/03-Thursday.htm]

HONG KONG – 19 July, 2010 – Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport) announced that Cyberport has become first CineGrid member in the Greater China Region (GCR) and just completed its first demonstration of CineGrid’s 4K live streaming technology in Hong Kong at Cyberport’s Speaker Series.

The event themed CineGrid: Streaming 4K Motion Pictures from Around the World attracted over 130 industry professionals to attend, making the Cyberport Training Theatre crowded with enthusiasm.

After the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing in March, CineGrid encouraged and assisted Cyberport to attain CineGrid membership for further collaboration. Joining fellow Asia members in Korea and Japan, Cyberport signed on to bring unprecedented opportunities in high-quality digital media to Hong Kong professionals, strengthening its position as Hong Kong’s technology innovation leader.  [Read more]