FITC 2008 - Toronto

FITC Award Show Winners:
Take a look into what sites are winning in the interactive space.
The Science Museum (UK version of Science World) won for technical excellence.
http://awards.fitc.ca/main/finalists/

Interviews:
http://www.fitc.ca/video/2008/toronto/

Cut and Paste:
http://blip.tv/file/874458/

Speakers:

Zachary Lieberman: Making the Invisible Visible
-Works with C++ programming to generate amazing interactive experiences.
Most techniques make use of projected images and audio initiated engagement.

Grant Skinner:
Grant is a master of Flash Actionscript and has been able to generate amazing
interactive work within the Flash environment. Here is his presentation slides.
http://gskinner.com/talks/favthings/slides.html

Eric Natzke:
His work speaks for itself. Eric has developed code to generate impressive
art. Each piece come out different everytime. Truely amazing how code and visuals
can come together.
http://jot.eriknatzke.com/

North Kingdom:
The are the big guns when it comes to interactive agencies around the world. There work
speaks for itself and an insite into their process is shown it the Making of the Coke Zero Game.
The are a relatively small shop located in a small northern Swedish town. Check out their site
for other great work they have done as well as their blog ReformRevolution.
Making of CokeZero Game
http://reformrevolution.com/

Fuel Industries:
Another big player in the interactive agency grouping. Fuel are heavy into interactive production
and are homeground in Ottawa. With a crew of 100 employees, an audio lab, in-house video
production facility and stage. The can do it all. Really.

A little insight into their process between project managers and developers. Presented by
Bitch Who Codes.
Project Management

Barbarian Group

Adobe Air:
Adobe's new technology of Adobe Air is about to revolutionize how we access the internet.
No longer do you require a browser to access information. Adobe Air allows Flash files to
be packaged into a desktop application. If can be formatted to float within a normal finder window
or float right on top. Check out some demos of what capabilities lie ahead: