Matt Hanson - Improving Reality
Channel: Lighthouse Arts
Date: 2011-10-24

Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton

A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world. 

Matt Hanson
Matt Hanson is a film futurist; a cultural innovator and creative strategist, described as an "international film visionary" by Screen International and listed by Forbes among 'Ten people who could change the world'. An expert in new moving image forms, Matt's first book, The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age, was a prescient manifesto on the evolving landscape on media production and content forms, written after he left as founding director of the onedotzero digital film & arts festival. His open source film project, A Swarm of Angels, pioneered concepts related to open source content, co-creation, and social production. He acts as a cultural consultant, speaker and workshop leader to apply this research knowledge on media, architecture and brand projects, and is an Academy Member of IADAS (International Academy Of Digital Arts & Sciences, New York).

Talk Synopsis
Matt's presentation will examine the term 'beyond cinema', exploring how artists and filmmakers are taking cinema beyond its black-box screen context into urban situations, bringing a sense of the cinematic to the everyday. He will also ask how the principles of the network - mass collaboration, crowd-sourcing, and crowd-funding - are disrupting and changing the way film is produced and seen. 

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"Improving Reality" is part of the PARN project (Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives) which designs, develops, creates, exhibits and analyses contemporary forms for storytelling in a pan-European context. PARN as well as "Improving Reality" is made possible with the support of the Culture Programme (2007-2013) of the European Union.