On Tuesday, September 11, Jeffrey Ventrella, of Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) and co-founder of There.com, treated the Masters of Digital Media audience to a one hour presentation on avatar puppetry and artificial life. A programmer/artist doing leading edge virtual world design...
Read MoreThe new Centre for Digital Media welcomed its inaugural class of the Masters of Digital Media Program as full-time studies went into full-swing Sept. 4th. The launch of the Centre - a state-of-the-art multimedia facility for education and research - is the result of an extraordinary...
Read MoreOn August 2nd, MDM students and faculty were treated to the exclusive opportunity to join MDM Advisory Board Member and cyber-visionary sci-fi writer William Gibson. Gibson read from his new novel Spook Country to the audience in both the physical and virtual world and answered...
Read MoreVancouver's police have turned to the make-believe world of online virtual reality in a groundbreaking bid to attract tech-savvy real-life recruits
Read MoreVANCOUVER -- British Columbia has been a hotbed of Hollywood and TV production for years, but it also has quietly grown into one of the world's largest homes to video game development. To help bolster talent in the region, the Canadian government is working with such gamemakers as...
Read MoreVANCOUVER - Cementing its commitment to developing talent at the local level, Electronic Arts Inc. delivered a $1-million grant Wednesday to the new masters of digital media program (MDMP), which is scheduled to start in September at the Great Northern Way Campus.
Read MoreFunds Will Shape School’s Global Leadership in Digital Entertainment and Education VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA – May 2, 2007 — Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS) announced today that it will make a $1 million grant to the Masters of Digital Media program (MDM) at the Great Northern Way...
Read MoreGaming industry legend Tom Frisina, talent development exec at Electronic Arts (EA), will join the team at the Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program as a part-time faculty member. Frisina will work with the graduate program's students to teach them the Business of Digital Media at the...
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