Luciferjones

The selection of Podcasts here are recordings taken from the numerous public lectures, conference and seminars Mike presents at each year and explore a range of topics related to cinema, digital media and cultural directions. Some of the presentations here in video format with accompanying slides or PDF files of the slides are provided as well..

All works here are licensed under Creative Commons; Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

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VANISHING POINT: SPATIAL COMPOSITION & THE VIRTUAL CAMERA

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Seminar presentation at the University of NSW school of media theatre and film looking the construction and perception of the virtual camera in gaming and cinema and its impact on cinematic spatiality.

The presentation slides are available here for download as a PDF.

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BLOGS, WIKIS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

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Lecture addressing a range of issues related to new forms of text and the impact on author, authority and ownership for NSW HSC English teachers.
Presented as part of the ScreenSpeak Seminar series at the Powerhouse Museum May 2006.

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YOUTH CULTURE
& THE LANGUAGE OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
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Presented as the keynote address of the NSW English Teachers Association Conference 2005. This lecture takes a broad look at a range of media forms, creative concepts and processes in re-examining literacy, communication and ‘text’ in light of the ‘re-mix culture’ and digital technology.

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SOUND AND SPACE: CINEMA SOUND & THE MACRO
MISE-EN-SCENE.

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Guest lecture presented at the University of NSW exploring the evolution of sound reproduction and the construction of aural cinematic space.

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BEYOND PLAY: GAMING AND THE CINEMATIC LANGUAGE.

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Presentation from the 2006 ATOM national conference at the Queensland University of Technology. This presentation examines the re-mediation of cinematic language in narrative-based computer gaming and the influence of the Virtual Camera on perspective and compositional thinking.

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CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION AND REMIX CULTURE

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Keynote presentation from the Leading Learning Conference, 15 October 2006, that examines a range of issues associated with remix culture and popular media forms; video games, Hip Hop and Machinima, along with associated issues of copyright.