University Newswire
Monday, March 17, 2008
UNCP presents 6th Digital Content Consortium on Saturday, April 5
The 6th annual Digital Content Consortium (DCC) will be held on Saturday, April 5, at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Illustrator Frank Ippolito at work |
DCC 2008 is a free, day-long conference featuring demonstrations, presentations and hands-on workshops on creating art, animation, graphics, video, cinematography, music, audio, journalism, photography and more with professional digital tools.
The DCC 2008 also focuses on teaching and learning and offers opportunities for educators to learn to use digital tools in the K-12 and college level classroom. Teachers seeking Continuing Education Credits should contact their school districts directly. For more information, please contact Margie Labadie at 910-775-4275 or email margie.labadie@uncp.edu.
The day begins at 8:30 a.m. in Locklear Hall and spreads out across UNCP’s campus for nearly 20 workshops. Events continue through 5 p.m. The complete conference agenda will be posted on the DCC 2008 Web site later in March.
Lunch and the Keynote Address are at the University Center Annex with
speaker Frank Ippolito, Senior Artist & Principal Scientific Assistant at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (http://research.amnh.org/~esg/).
For more information or to download registration forms, visit the Digital Content Consortium web site at www.uncp.edu/digital_academy/dcc_2008/conf_index08_text.htm
“This year promises to be the most exciting consortium yet,” says coordinator Margie Labadie, a UNCP art professor. “The public is invited to join with educators, university students, and production professionals for a day of inspired learning and thought provoking sights and sounds.”
Copyrighted illustration by Ippolito that appeared in the New York Times science section |
There will be demonstrations, presentations and workshops on the still image, video capture, audio recording and all the things it takes to make digital viewing and listening content.
“There will be an exhibition of incredible scientific and natural imagery from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. These are some of the world’s most accomplished image makers whose organization is based in the Smithsonian Institution” Labadie said. A panel discussion by Guild members will address issues surrounding digital work whether made for artistic purposes or scientific use.
“We are also excited to announce the first joint UNCP student and “digital alumni” forum featuring videos made by current students and discussions with alumni who are working professionally using digital tools.
Our sponsors this year include Apple, Inc. who is providing support, workshops and a luncheon.
Also sponsoring is Computer Tree of North Carolina, which will hold a series of eight different software workshops from Computer Tree, a consultant and resource to the publishing, entertainment, new media and education industries.
Other presentations include Nautilus Productions co-founder Rick Allen, who is the videographer of the Blackbeard Shipwreck Project, who will show exclusive footage of his latest project coming out in 2008. Also presenting is “The Studio” of Chapel Hill founder John Santa, Teddy Award winner in documentary film, who will be demonstrating audio techniques and music recording.
Keynote Speaker Frank Ippolito is from the American Museum of Natural History.
“We are very excited to have Frank Ippolito as keynote speaker,” Labadie said. “A renowned illustrator, his works have high visual impact, are scientifically accurate and are extraordinarily beautiful. Some of them can now be seen in the North Carolina Museum of Natural History.”
His keynote address to the conference, “A Move Toward Time-based Illustration” is about the changes from still imagery toward the moving image to which we’ve all become accustomed.
Twenty-four years as scientific illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Ippolito’s digital works have appeared in the New York Times, Science Times, Scientific American and in many other publications. His work is on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History, the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institute and other institutions.
Ippolito states, “Where we once employed a single image, we now find motion graphics, video, and interactive interfaces. Today the use of ‘moving illustration’ is becoming more commonplace. However, the true potential of this dynamic medium is only now coming into focus.”
With stakes in traditional arts and the digital realm, Ippolito demonstrates how a picture is still worth a thousand words.
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