Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers

August 10-15, the Banff New Media Institute presents the 14th installment of its acclaimed new media summit, where media makers from Canada and the world gather to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come. At Interactive Screen, producers, investors, and policymakers convene with artists, technologists, and cultural researchers in the majestic mountain setting of Banff.

Interactive Screen aims to stimulate the creation of emotionally powerful, creatively inspired, and economically viable new media in Canada and abroad. Participants invariably come away from the event with new projects and alliances, a refined set of skills, and a renewed faith in the cultural power of new media.

Part conference, part festival, part peer exchange, part creative workshop, Interactive Screen is always intensive. This year’s theme, The Makers, will explore the idea of a “society of makers”. This ties into the “cultural object” with a focus on those who “make culture,” not those who own it.

Workshop participants are joined by Interactive Screen scholarship participants from Canada, who are invited to pitch and develop projects inspired by the event’s theme. Applications for the Interactive Screen Scholarship Program will be accepted until July 10, 2009.

For more information and to register, visit the program site.