Inter-Action

Inter-Action July - Toronto

Finally, we’re back. Apologies it’s been a busy summer full of conferences and vacations. We’re back for Inter-action Toronto on July 29th.

We’ll have the same fun format, featuring chips and beer. Some things never change.
Hosted by The Biz Media

Directions:
Entry Instructions:
1. Arrive at 155 Dalhousie st. (The Merchandise Building)
2. Hit intercom buzzer
3. Say you’re here for 650 and the event on the roof
4. Once inside, go to the elevators
5. Press L
6. Once in the lobby, the concierge will assist you

We’ll also have someone to help guide and direct people.

Please join us for inter-action July.

Presentation: The Biz Media

Justin and Guy will talk through their business model and their offerings, Dan will walk through a project for Fujifilm. Jonathan will discuss the Microsoft Make Web Not War Project
http://www.thebizmedia.com/

Dissection: Red Urban, Sunday Drive
Red Urban will be joining us to discuss the production of their Sunday Drive microsite for Volkswagen.
http://vwsundaydrive.ca/
http://redurban.ca/

Would you like to host or present at an upcoming inter-action? Email us Amy@thisislunch.com

Looking forward to seeing you all!

inter-action via FITC

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a special Saturday night inter-action during FITC.

On Saturday April 24th We’ll be bringing you a special installment at The Spoke Club sponsored by Lunch,Fatbox, Pixelpusher and Stem

600 King Street West
From - 9pm-1am

With special contributions/installations from Fatbox, Pixelpusher and STEM

inter-action march

Hi Everyone,

Once again inter-action hits Toronto on March 25th - 6-8pm
This month Inter-action is hosted by our friends at Imported Artists! http://importedartists.com/
171 east liberty street suite 246

Presentation: Kerry Williams, Lawyer - Creative Legal
Kerry Williams is a former Bay Street Lawyer, he’s recently started his own practice centering on new media. Why? Because he loves the people, and our work. Kerry is on the board and serves as General Counsel for POP Montreal, and is committed to helping artists, and companies protect their work. He’ll be talking about how you can protect your ideas, IP, and general commercial law. But he doesn’t sound like a lawyer.

http://www.creativelegal.ca

Innovation: InteraXon

Some of you may have seen some of the amazing work InteraXon has been doing for the Olympics. We’re pleased to have them at inter-action fresh from their experiences in Vancouver. Thought controlled computing… Yes. It’s real, and it works.

http://interaxon.ca/

inter-action is a bi-monthly thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. So, this is a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.

inter-action toronto March

Hi Everyone,

Once again inter-action hits Toronto in March. Location to be announced this week, as well as speakers. For now, it’s in your calendars.

Presentation: TBA

Innovation: TBA

Dissection: TBA

inter-action is a bi-monthly thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. So, this is a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.

January 28th, inter-action Toronto

Inter-Action hits Toronto again on January 28th 2010 - 6-8pm

This installment will be hosted by Mighty!
http://mighty.ca/
420 Wellington Street West
6-8pm.

Presentation: Mighty

http://mighty.ca/
Tiny Content. Mighty will be presenting the Hyundai parking response video and makememighty.ca

Innovation: Futurist Richard Thomas (Rescheduled!)
Details:”As a consequence of pervasive computing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_computing> , interaction design is poised to become one of the main liberal arts of the twenty-first century.” Malcolm McCullough <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McCullough>

Generally, Richard will be demonstrating that interactivity, “interaction design” is the amalgam of several disciplines, and today well surpasses the digital media space. The skills nurtured in IxD are sought after in all facets of human creation, use mechanics of financial transactions, product design, new forms of social technologies, architecture, City planning, urban computing and beyond. ” Interaction” is swallowing the world whole as hard things begin to adopt soft qualities. Are we prepared?

This talk will centralize around the several emerging forms of interaction, and the role interface and interaction plays in the social construction of reality and the creation of new value within human architectures of desire and motivation.

Dissection: Relish Interactive

http://www.relishinteractive.com

Details TBC

Looking forward to seeing all of you.

Following Inter-action at Narwhal (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240826638895&ref=ts) Gary Taxali’s new show “THE TAXALI 300″ will be opening at Narwhal. Stop in, and check it out. it’s stunning.

Inter-action Toronto November

Thanks to everyone who came out to Inter-action September, though it was a tight squeeze we’re close knit. So hopefully everyone had a great time. Our next event will take place on November 25th and will be co-hosted by Fatbox and Indusblue.

135 Liberty Street Suite 200
Toronto, ON

Well it’s the Winter Installment of inter-action.

Our friends at Fatbox and Indusblue will be co-hosting. This location was the site of the first inter-action and we’ll be introducing something new for the first time. Figured it was fitting.

Well it’s the Winter Installment of inter-action.

Our friends at Fatbox and Indusblue will be hosting. This location was the site of the first inter-action and we’ll be introducing something new for the first time. Figured it was fitting.

Presentation: Indusblue will be showing us their newest iPhone application for Much Music

Innovation: Richard Thomas, of Idea Futures talking about, well, the future.
Richard directs his foresight research initiatives toward recognizing and interpreting disruptive behaviors and technologies and mapping their future potential. He is a passionate creator and speaker, who seeks to understand how culture and meaning is negotiated through the desire, conception and use of products and technology. Richard began his career as an artist and industrial designer, sketching products, circuit bending, writing short scenarios and designing his own electronic instruments. Before joining Idea Futures, Richard was a key research associate at the Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity within OCAD, where he collaborated in the development of strategic foresight tools, and conducted research in to the future of media. He seeks to understand underlying behavior in people in order to foresee future product and service opportunities.

Dissection: Angry Whopper
Pixelpusher will be discussing and dissecting their production work for TAXI 2’s Angry Whopper site, from presentation of a technology solution to creative campaign.

If you’re interested in hosting or presenting at a future inter-action. Email us.

Hope to see you there

inter-action is a bi-monthly thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. So, this is a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, learn, talk about where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.

If you’re interested in hosting or presenting at a future inter-action. Email us.

Hope to see you there

September inter-action - Toronto

Well, since September is a short month and/or we’ve been so busy our next Inter-action will actually be on Wednesday September 30 2009.

Our friends at Magic Pony are having a very special opening on October 1st. Those of you who know me know i’m a very huge fan of Kozyndan. They will likely be in attendance at Inter-action. So we’ve changed the date of inter-action to a Wednesday night -  September 30th

The next Inter-action will be hosted by our friends at sociMedia. www.socimedia.com
@ 569 King Street West, Toronto - 6-8pm

Presentation: Alchemy will be presenting their recent production of a short film for an online film festival for Girl Guides. Handmade sets, illustration by Nathan Jurevicius and tiny miniatures.
http://www.helloalchemy.com

Innovation: Moving beyond the marker.
Helen Papagiannis has been working with AR since before most of us knew what it was.  Her video AR work is jaw dropping. She’ll be coming to Inter-action show her work, discuss her creative process, and discussing ways we can move beyond the single white square on a piece of paper….
http://www.aliceglass.com

Dissection: Our hosts, Socimedia Will be presenting YeahoYeah.com and discussing the idea of integrating and mashing APIs for traditional co-promoted and direct marketing.
http://www.socimedia.com

See you there!

inter-action toronto july.

Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Traffik Edit
Street: 35 McCaul Street Suite 305
City/Town: Toronto, ON

Inter-action July comes to Toronto again on Thursday July 23rd at 6pm.

July’s installment of inter-action is hosted by our friends at Traffik http://www.traffikedit.com

Presentation: Nick Goso
Nick will be joining us live where he will take us through his groundbreaking WSIB work. Nick is an interactive director with an incredible sense of motion and technology. He’ll show us some behind the scenes details on how these amazing pieces came together.
http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-truck
http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-fire
http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-chemical

Innovation: Secret Location
Secret Location will be presenting a recent project, it’s AR, it’s a Game, and they’ll be discussing the execution.
http://www.thesecretlocation.com/

Dissection: Jam3
Jam 3 will be presenting a project they just completed with the NFB called Waterlife. It’s for a documentary that won the special jury prize at Hot Docs.
Papervision? Yes.
http://www.jam3media.com

Come by, eat chips, have a beer. Collaboration. We like it.

Inter-action Calgary

We’re excited to announce the upcoming Inter-Action Event on June 25th at 6pm hosted once again by STEM limited. Hey, their space is big
Inter-action Calgary
Collaboration - Because we like it.
Date:
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Time:
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
STEM limited
Street:
201, 1215 - 13th Street SE

inter-action is a thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. It’s a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.

Don’t know much about interactive, but want to learn? Or just like chips and Beer? Join us.

Inter-action is informal and done in 3 parts, with inter-action before, during and following. We like to keep it, well, interactive.

Presentation: Lunch
What is it? They’re excited to tell you.
Lunch will be served.
http://www.whatislunch.com

Innovation: Mark Gervais.

The one the only Mark Gervais. Illustrator, and Animator presents his work
www.markgervais.com

Dissection: Nick Goso
Nick will be joining us live via Skype from Toronto where he will take us through his groundbreaking WSIB work. Nick is an interactive director with an incredible sense of motion and technology. He’ll show us some behind the scenes details on how these amazing pieces came together.

http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-truck
http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-fire
http://prevent-it.ca/index.php?q=vignettes-chemical

Of course we’ll have drinks and chips, looking forward to seeing you.

Inter-Action Toronto - May

We’re excited to announce the upcoming Inter-Action Event on May 28th at 6pm

The next inter-action will be held at Bijou Editorial.
http://www.bijoueditorial.com Thanks to our amazing friends there for their hospitality in providing the location for this very special installment of inter-action.

You may remember back in March we announced that we’d be making a very exciting announcement in May. Well we are ready. This inter-action is hosted by Lunch. Lunch will be served.

Presentation: Lunch
What is it? They’re excited to tell you.
Lunch will be served.
http://www.whatislunch.com

Innovation: Pixelpusher
Augmented Reality? Check.
Pixelpusher recently built a Augmented Reality campaign with TBWA that ties into their “Good Decisions” campaign. Users ask a series of questions that generate a custom AR environment based on their decisions.
Pixelpusher will discuss technologies, design considerations, production considerations and the future for this technology.
http://www.pixelpusher.ca

Dissection: Jason Zada will be joining us in person from San Francisco.

Jason Zada uses engaging storytelling to create original and compelling experiences for TV, Film and the Internet. It’s difficult to describe Jason as just merely a director. For over 14 years, Jason worked in the digital and advertising world creating some of the world’s most talked about campaigns for some of the biggest brands. Appearing in dozens of magazines, books and conferences, Jason is a highly sought after speaker who has spoken at Cannes, SXSW, Boards Magazine’s Summit and many others. Jason is currently using his multi-disciplinary background to pioneer new content and distribution for the intersection between TV and the Internet.

http://www.JasonZada.com

Of course we’ll have drinks and chips, looking forward to seeing you.

Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Bijou Editorial
511 King Street West, Suite 300
Toronto, ON