Monday 24 July 2000 8pm Festival Club
meaning.com
The scope for content in new media
Is there anything more to CD-ROMs than our fascination with technology? This year's program contains titles that aspire to a more profound kind of meaning. They touch on childhood memories, cultural difference, and low life. How do these treatments compare to the grand tradition of novel and feature film? Can interactive titles reach the kind of profound experience tapped by psychoanalysis?
Speakers include Andre Czausov (artist, Interregnum), Neil Maizels (psychoanalytic psychotherapist), Nikos Papastergiadis (cultural critic)

Sunday 30th July at 3pm Festival Club
The new 'filmmaker' emerging from digital and interactive technologies
Panellists: Shane Walter and Matt Hanson from onedotzero, digital film festival in the UK; Chris Barker, Writer/director of computer animation Final Notice, and Alyssa Rothwell, digital artist of interactive CD-ROM Pretty Aprons

Monday 31 July 2000 8pm Festival Club
The Audience is Speaking
New paradigms for online interaction
As multimedia has evolved, interaction is usually conceived as a solitary activity like reading. The user clicks on the screen to navigate through its path. With online technologies, it is now possible for the user to interact with other users. How do you design spaces for this?
Speakers include Eric Zimmerman (designer SiSSY FiGHT 2000), Philippa Hawker (The Age film critic), Antoni Jach (writer), Linda Sproul (performance artist)

Tuesday 1 August 7pm Treasury Theatre
Presentation by Eric Zimmerman

Introduced by Helen Bowman, Executive Director of OPENChannel and Kevin Murray, co-curator of Chip, this presentation will be web-cast by Cinemedia and sponsored by Compuserve.

Eric Zimmerman is an accomplished game designer, artist and academic exploring the emerging field of game design. His multiplayer online game, SiSSYFiGHT 2000, was produced for word.com and cleverly uses the online medium to heighten social interaction. In this game, players are invited to enter the wild jungle of the schoolyard by forming alliances or enemies with others.

Festival Club is at Lower Melbourne Town Hall

Treasury Theatre is in Macarthur Place, Melbourne