[Air-L] Machinima event in London

[Andres Guadamuz]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Bloodspell: The rise of machinima
Viewing and panel

22 November 2007
5.15 - 8.30pm
London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre
166-220 Holloway Road
London, N7 8DB

Bloodspell is the world's first feature-length machinima, and it is
licensed under a Creative Commons a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell is a
Fantasy story "of a world where men and women carry magic in their
blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power."

This event is organised by the London Metropolitan Business School and
the Open Rights Group (special thanks to Michael Holloway and Fernando
Barrio for putting the event together). For those new to the topic,
"machinima", in very basic form, involves the use of software that has
been designed to create video-games to produce films with their own
script and narrative. The word “machinima” was coined some time ago by
Hugh Hancock, who also wrote and directed Bloodspell.

The evening will start with Hugh Hancock introducing the concept of
machinima and the movie, to be followed by a viewing of Bloodspell.
After the viewing a panel will address the issues raised by the film to
then open the floor for discussion. The panel includes:

Chair
Professor Lilian Edwards, Director of the Institute for Law and the Web
at Southampton (ILAWS) of Southampton University

Panelists:
- Holly Ayllet, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan
University and Managing Editor of Vertigo Magazine.
- Ian Brown, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of Oxford
University
- Andres Guadamuz, Co-Director of SCRIPT, the Centre for Research in IP
and Technology Law at The University of Edinburgh.

Venue
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/conference/venues/graduate-centre/

Bloodspell
http://www.bloodspell.com/

Related sites:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
http://electromate.blogspot.com/
http://blogscript.blogspot.com/
http://technollama.blogspot.com/
http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/
http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/

Regards

-- 
Andres Guadamuz
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in
Intellectual Property and Technology Law 
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699
Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317
a.guadamuz at ed.ac.uk
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/

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