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For the second year, Americans for the Arts is cosponsoring the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation College Scholarship Award: Americans for the Arts Recipient to encourage the integration of the arts into economic education.

Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to college level students or students entering college, who come from an economic disadvantaged household, have attended a public school, can demonstrate a long term participation in the study of, creation in and/or performance in one or more art forms, including dance, music, theatre, literary, visual/media arts), excelled academically, and have formally declared the intent to study and apply economics in their pursuit of higher education and professional career.

Applications are due at close of business on Monday, September 14th, emailed or faxed to:

Marete Wester, M.S., Director of Arts Policy
Americans for the Arts
One East 53rd. Street, 2nd. Floor, New York, NY  10022
T 212 223 2787, ext. 1105
F 212 980 4857
Main Line 202 371 2830
Email mwester@artsusa.org

The final candidates will be selected by a scholarship sub-committee of the NABE Foundation Board and notified by end of September. Winner are announced publicly at the NABE Annual Meeting in October.

With questions, please contact mwester@artsusa.org.

Critical Hit: IAM’s one-and-only Gaming Podcast is LIVE

Episode #2 (Recorded 7/1/09)

Episode #3 (Recorded 7/7/09)

Once a week your hosts will bring you the best in gaming editorial, industry news and design talk with a healthy blend of humor, special guests, interviews and more!

Visit this very blog weekly to download the fresh show, and soon on iTunes as well!

Episode Two features special guest Anthony Sixto, who talks with us about 6 Days in Fallujah, Kodu, and our favorite features in video games.  Episode Three introduces IAM Faculty member Andrew Hicks, who brings to the table a discussion about games as storytellers, and how they SUCK at doing so!  Also in that episode John brings forth the question ‘Why do we have that ‘games as art’ talk? What’s the deal there?’”

Enjoy!

Special thanks to Jason Geistweidt, Greg Jenke, Uriel Brajas, Anthony Sixto, Mindy Faber, Terrence Hannum and Jeff Meyers for the help in producing the show!  Contact the show at josef.locastro@loop.colum.edu , leave a comment here, and let us know what you’d like to hear!  If you’d like to be a guest on the show, contact Joe for more information.

Thanks, and tell your friends!

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If you get this, I love you.

Building Challenge
Hosted by I AM Columbia and Hibiki Ochs.

Bring your best, most open and expanded mind and try your hand at building something fresh! Every Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm SLT!

Twice a week I’ll be picking the freshest new inspirations for you to build off of. Keep it under 50 prims and keep it incredible! Bring your friends, family, enemies, etc.

If you’ve never done a build challenge, here’s what we got going on:

I post a quote onto a billboard at the start of it.  You have 50 minutes tops to make something based of that quote, and then the onlookers vote on their favorite.  I’ll have a voting board, I’ll try to get some side games going for people not building (SLopoly or otherwise), and there’s always the island to explore!  Once the winners have been decided they will get ribbons, and their creations will be lauded until the next contest!

Hit me up in world anytime with questions and such, and while you’re here check out the freshest island in all of SL, the I AM Columbia Island!

-Hibiki Ochs

Interactive Arts and Media department’s Mindy Faber recently worked with a team of two dozen teens to build a collaborative interactive application using the online social utility tool called Google My Map.

The team worked across the globe (some of the teens were in Chicago, some in Barbados) to create “OurMap of Migrations”; a map that allowed the youth participants to add their own photos, videos, bios, travels and research.

Read more about the project at Google Maps: A Tool for the Youth Media Field!

Congratulations to IAM student Eric Boyer who has been awarded a $1500 scholarship from Leo Burnett for Fall 2009!

It is possible to make a ‘game’ (let’s just agree to call what we made a game) in 12 hours.

Thanks to everyone for making the first 12 hour game challenge a success. It was so successful rather than finishing early we decided to almost do the project twice.

Well anyway we didn’t quite finish with the design document but we did get something that resembles a game. I think most everyone had fun and I look forward to hosting more challenges in the future. Maybe a multi team challenge next. Or how about and alumni challenge,

You can get the ‘game’,the source, and see a bunch of pictures @

http://game.colum.edu/projects/GameChallenge/NOCHYS/

If your not quite sure what do next or COMMIT!

The Facilities will reopen on May 25th.

Portfolio workshops are being held in the IAM department over the next few weeks.

If you are interested in the BFA degree then you’ll want a great portfolio and application. We are here to help you. Please join us on one of the dates. We’ll be covering topics like:

- What pieces to include in your portfolio
- How to write an artist statement.
- What information to include along with your artwork.
- What the BFA entails, and what the department is looking for in a portfolio.
- How to submit your application and portfolio

Workshops dates are:
Wednesday May 13th 12PM in the Project Room (#111)
Wednesday May 20th 12PM in the Project Room (#111)

Meetings will be held in the Project Room. #102.

Deadline for application is Sunday, May 31st.

email questions to bfa@iam.colum.edu
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A few important attachments, requests, and updates for this week’s Eyebeam visit and workshop events.

First, the Screen Scraping workshop has been moved to Thurday morning. Next, there will now be only one section offered of the Urban Exploration and Prospecting workshop and this will be held on Wednesday morning. The updated schedule is attached.

You will need to bring your own laptop to any/ all the workshops held at the Innovation Center.

For the OpenFrameworks workshop, in advance of the workshop, you will need to download and install on your laptop: the openFrameworks development environment on your computer (whether mac or PC). All instructions and downloads are here: http://www.openframeworks.cc/setup and http://www.openframeworks.cc/download

For the iPhone workshop, it is strongly recommended that you also attend the Intro to OpenFrameworks workshop held on Wednesday morning. In advance of the workshop, you will need to download and install on your laptop: this openFrameworks package with the iPhone addon (click link below – for mac computers only). This is a developer’s kit put together by jeff Crouse just for the iPhone workshop: http://4u.jeffcrouse.info/blog/openFrameworks-iPhone.zip

- That’s it for now. See you all at the workshops!