Pittsburgh Art + Technology

Visit the New Art + Technology Blog on the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s ‘Tech-burger’

Admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:43:39 +0000

Click here to visit the new blog at the
Pittsburgh Technology Council site.

The Art + Technology Initiative is now affiliated with the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Creative Technology Network. Creative Technology is a leading-edge trend in the global marketplace. The Council is proud to launch a new network focused on promoting our region’s specific creative technology related capabilities. The network spans the creative tech gamut, including design, gaming, filmmaking, robotics, new media advertising, industrial design, architecture, animation, production, fine art, education, digital media and much more.

For more information, visit the Creative Technology Network.

The Art + Technology Blog is Moving!

Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:55:59 +0000

Greetings, fellow Art and Techies!

Exciting news: The Art + Technology Blog is moving to be incorporated as part of the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s TechBurger blog. As a Google-approved news source, Techburger will open our work up to a far greater readership and opportunities for Pittsburgh artists and companies.

Please update the following url in your browsers and information:
Creative Tech-burger: http://techburgher.com/category/creative-tech/

You can also find more information on Art + Tech at the Council’s website, at these links:
http://www.pghtech.org/events/art-and-technology/default.aspx
http://www.pghtech.org/networks/creative-technology/default.aspx

We look forward to seeing you there!

Happy creating!
The Art + Tech Team

MakeShop Announces Micro Grant Opportunity

Admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:40:49 +0000

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, with funding from the Grable Foundation and support from The Sprout Fund and The Pittsburgh Foundation, will provide “Maker” micro grants to organizations who work with children and youth.

Micro Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support programs that engage Youth Makers, children aged 7 to 17, in the hands-on design and production of objects that respond to two themes: Wearables and Rideables. Youth Makers will be encouraged to think broadly about the themes and create items as diverse as a wearable gaming system or cupcakes on wheels.

Download a Micro Grant Application and get started on your MakeShop idea today!

Micro Grant applications are due on Monday, January 30, 2012.

Micro Grants will be awarded through public selection using an online voting process developed by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The general public will have the chance to vote on their favorite projects and thereby select the final Youth Makers for grants.

The Fred Rogers Center Accepting Applications for 2012 Early Career Fellows Program

Admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:25:21 +0000

The Fred Rogers Center is announcing a special competition for the 2012 Early Career Fellow in Early Literacy. This Early Career Fellow, to be selected from the southwestern Pennsylvania region, will be awarded a $10,000 stipend and will work with a team of videographers and an established expert in early childhood education to create a series of videos designed to demonstrate best early literacy and digital media literacy practices, in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children (PAEYC).

Since 2009, the Early Career Fellows program has supported 12 new and aspiring creators of children’s media, who have produced an array of creative projects—in robotics, interactive sculpture, media-based curriculum development, assistive technology, web blogging, and mobile gaming. The program provides a unique career development opportunity for new and aspiring professionals who demonstrate a commitment to the same principles that guided Fred Rogers in his work.

Qualified candidates should submit applications for the 2012 Early Career Fellow in Early Literacy. The announcement and the application form are attached and also are available through the Fred Rogers Center’s website.

The submission deadline for applications is December 22, 2011.

For background information on all of our work at the Fred Rogers Center, including past years’ Early Career Fellows, please see our Center video on YouTube.

Check out “Puzzle Clubhouse” on Kickstarter — A Cool New Project by Schell Games

Admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:21:26 +0000

ABOUT PUZZLE CLUBHOUSE

Crowd-designed?

That’s right. We’re trying for something a little crazy. The idea behind Puzzle Clubhouse is an online community for a new kind of game development process, one that is crowd designed, and crowd supported. It’s a creative experiment and we need your help to get it started!

Want to know more? Keep reading!

Each Puzzle Clubhouse episode is a combination of an animated story and a short, quirky game. You can play a prototype episode at Puzzle Clubhouse.com to get the idea.

Why are we going episodic instead of one big game? Good question. Here are three of our reasons:

We want to involve as many people as possible as much as possible as often as possible.
Who wants to wait 12 months for their texture, dialogue, or concept to be released in a game? We’re leaning towards short episodes with short turnaround. Our hope is that we can do at least one episode every month to start and more as we get the hang of things.
The Puzzle Clubhouse collaborative design process will require iteration. We’ll try some things, learn from them, try some more. Having an episodic structure gives us a natural iterative loop.

For full details, visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schellgames/puzzle-clubhouse-crowd-designed-episodic-game-dev