91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø CMDC Students Honored at International Competition

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VANCOUVER, Wash. –Washington State University Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture students won an Honorary Mention at the eighth annual International Digital Media and Arts Association's annual conference and Student Showcase competition held Nov. 4 – 6 at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C.

Five projects created over the course of a year and representing the work of 33 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø CMDC students were presented at the 2010 iDMAa Student Showcase. Students Nick Hill, Aaron May, Reed Rotondo and Geoff Wallace attended the showcase and accepted the Honorary Mention on behalf of the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø CMDC program.

This is the first year the iDMAa has awarded the Honorary Mention. In the past there has been just one award—first place. The judges were impressed with the scope and breadth of the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø CMDC students' work and made a point of honoring it. The 2010 award for First Place went to a group of Ph.D. students from British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University.

The five projects presented at the iDMAa Student Showcase included:

"Between Rooms and Voices" is a performance incorporating iPods and choral music for a live performance that will take place in December at City Hall in Portland, Ore. Students in Digital Storytelling are producing "Between Rooms and Voices" with artist Ethan Rose. The documentation video shown at iDMAa was created by Aaron Hahn.

"XXI Brautiganism: A Visual Poem" interprets 1960s poetry using digital technology. Produced by Christina Broussard-Pearson and Mikhail Oparin, the project is a video installation originally used as a live performance on the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø campus and currently showing as an art exhibit at the Clark County Historical Museum through January.

"Downtown in 3D" is a 3D simulation of downtown Vancouver, Wash., created by Reed Rotondo and Ross Swanson. The piece was designed for the Vancouver Downtown Association's website. The project allows users to navigate the city from a "birds-eye view.â€

"The Fort Vancouver Mobile Project" uses mobile technology to promote rich experiences in cultural and historical places. Digital narratives are being created by students in the Digital Storytelling course. The documentation video shown at iDMAa was produced by Aaron May. The project involves video and sound-based narratives that highlight the history of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

"Media Scare" creates a virtual experience of a haunted house. Aaron May, Samantha Goelze, Nick Hill and Geoff Wallace used sensor-based technology to produce a multimedia and interactive version of the original scary dwelling.

91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø CMDC faculty in attendance at iDMAa included John Barber, Will Luers, Michael Rabby and Dene Grigar.

iDMAa was founded in 2004 by a group of 15 universities and is dedicated to serving educators, practitioners, scholars and organizations with interests in digital media. Each year the organization hosts a showcase of student work and presents awards to the most outstanding entries.

The Creative Media and Digital Technology program at Washington State University Vancouver integrates critical thinking, creativity and computing skills with course work in the arts, humanities and social sciences to offer a broad-based, interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for a culturally diverse, technologically complex 21st century.

Learn more about the CMDC program at 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø at

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