28
May
09

Laura Escudé – Ableton Certified Trainer

LauraEscudePlease join us for an Ableton Live special event at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts on Friday June 5th at 7pm.

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The event will be held in the East End Open Space and everyone is welcome.

Laura Escudé (Ableton Certified Trainer, Los Angeles) will conduct a workshop covering production and live performance features in Ableton Live.  Laura Escudé is a critically acclaimed violinist, composer, sound designer, music technologist and educator who often performs with bands and ensembles, including the world music band Niyaz, Trace Element, the Santa Monica Symphony, the Torrance Symphony, the Multi-Ethnic Star Orchestra (MESTO), and the Observatory Orchestra. Laura is the Director of the Los Angeles Ableton User Group, which she launched in 2007. As an Ableton consultant and former product specialist, she has keynoted presentations at numerous industry events, including NAMM and Remix Hotel. She was the Ableton tour consultant for Kanye West’s 2008 tour.

Please see the attached flyer.

If you are not the faculty or an Ex’pression student, please check in with security at the front desk of the main entrance upon your arrival. Please contact me if you have any questions. I’ll see you there.

Best,
Chris Colatos

Director of Game Audio : Director of MIDI Apple Certified Trainer Level II Ex’pression College for Digital Arts Apple Authorized Training Centerccolatos@expression.edu : c. (510) 326-8325 http://www.expression.edu

21
May
09

A Christmas Carol Preview

A Christmas Carol

Ex’pression College graduate Chad Vernon rigged the face of the Marley character. In addition, over a dozen Ex’pression graduates have been hired at Image Movers Digital, the studio that is making this film.

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/a-christmas-carol/promo-clip

See more Ex’pression College student work here!

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12
May
09

Ex’pression Film Accolades

‘What’s Your Bread?’ [MSV Film] Screened at Motion Film Festival

News category/scope: general
When: May 2009
Where: Tampa, FL
Description:
The MSV Film ‘What’s Your Bread?’ was accepted and screened at the 1st
Annual Motion Film Festival in Tampa, Florida.

Students or Faculty involved: Filmmakers: Jordan Chabbear, Santigie Kabia,
Kyle Warner, Roman Rybiy, Doug Fearnside, Scott Kasting, Jaime Molina
Related link or website: www.motion813.com

Submitted by: Ben McDaniel
Email: bmcdaniel@expression.edu

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‘Robert Otis’ [MSV Film] Screened at New Filmmakers Spring Festival

News category/scope: general
When: April 2009
Where: New York City, NY
Description:
The MSV film ‘Robert Otis’ was accepted and screened at the NewFilmmakers
Spring Festival in New York City.

Students or Faculty involved: Filmmakers: Renee Busse, Anders Hopkins, Aisha
Ivery, Ned McCormick, Timothy Perry, Justin Westling
Related link or website: www.newfilmmakers.com

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28
Apr
09

Human Rights, Technology and New Media

Ex’pression College’s Director of Animation & Visual Effects, Andrew Schlussel, is speaking at a conference for the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley during an event called, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology and New Media”. The event is scheduled to take place on May 4th, at 1:30 pm. Andrew will mostly be talking about his trip to Burma where he had the opportunity to train people there in computer animation.  His panel is called “Animating Human Rights: Games, Animation and Multimedia.”

Conference Schedule:
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/events/newmachineconference/schedule.html

Watch here:
http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia

Andrew Schlussel applies his experience in filmmaking, animation, and visual effects to his career in education. He has taught 3D computer graphics classes using Maya at Pixar Animation Studios, is a member of the Visual Effects Society, and is the co-author of Maya Visual Quickstart Guide published by Peachpit Press. Before joining Ex’pression College for Digital Arts where he is currently the Director of the Animation & Visual Effects Program, he taught at NYU School of Continuing Education and The Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  In 2007 he travelled to Myanmar (Burma) to train local people on 3D computer animation for social marketing in the fight against AIDS. More recently he was the Director of Photography on a feature film called “Sisu”, a historical narrative set in Saskatchewan, Canada due for a Spring 2009 release.

Andrew Schlussel
Director of Animation & Visual Effects
Expression College for Digital Arts
510-594-6959

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08
Apr
09

Creativity

Creativity is one of life’s great mysteries. What exactly is it? Where does it come from? Where does it take you? What inspires your own personal creativity? We’d love to read what you think!

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08
Apr
09

Corey Weekley

31
Mar
09

Peter Kirn visits Ex’pression

Peter Kirn visited Ex’pression College on Tuesday March 24th to speak to students about audio-visual interactivity.  There was a true buzz in the air and the packed room exhibited the interest of the subject and Peter’s unique perspective.

Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn

Bio

PETER KIRN is a composer, live visualist, technologist, and writer. As an advocate of real-time digital performance, he has worked in venues from clubs to modern dance. He writes about technology for his award-winning sites createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com, and contributes to Make, Keyboard, Macworld, and Computer Music magazines. He is the author of Real World Digital Audio (Peachpit Press), a book on music production, and regularly teaches music and visual technology, most recently at the Massachusetts College of Art, Motion Graphics Festival, Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Harvestworks, and South by Southwest Interactive. As instigator of the monthly Handmade Music series in Brooklyn, he gathers a new, emerging community of DIY music technology to share their work, science-fair style, as featured in Time Out New York, Popular Science, and Current TV. He has studied composition with Tania Leon and is finishing his PhD in Music Composition at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His dissertation research explores ways in which a software framework can map interactive virtual space to generative musical composition.

Lecture Topic

A new convergence is bringing the real-time environments used for games to artists working in other media – and visa versa. With generative graphics, sound, and music, the basic engine underlying a game can become as fluid as a musical instrument might be, but using live media or data in place of sounds. Artists are just beginning to develop work in these areas, but the potential they bring could have a transformative impact on both art and game design, one that has been a long time coming. By generating graphics and music, rather than “scoring” them as pre-defined assets, the line between music, motion art, and game design begins to blur.

Digital media blogger and technologist Peter Kirn spoke about this evolving realm, multi-platform open source tools that can work in the area, and their relevance to game graphics and music. He also talked about his own research into building a live framework for music that would map compositional materials to interactive 3D graphics, as well as performance projects in the field.

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26
Mar
09

Derek Jones Recording Engineer

Derek Jones (derek@recordingmag.com) is a guitarist and recording engineer who graduated from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, CA. He works in the San Francisco Bay area, and you can learn about his band, The Blind, at myspace.com/welovetheblind

 

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11
Mar
09

Alcatraz Commercial

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Designers PATRICK HANLON, GLEN OHLSON, AND CHUCK MERIDITH. Teacher PAUL SPARROW.
Students from Ex’pression College in Emeryville, produced a commercial commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Alcatraz as a U.S. Penitennitary.

National Park Service website.

Ex’pression College Motion Graphic Design gallery.

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10
Mar
09

Ex’pression Scholarship

Ex’pression Scholarship

Ex’pression College is proud to announce the Ex’pression Scholarship, which will support students of merit with significant financial need who also show a strong potential for a future career in the digital arts industries. In January of 2009, Ex’pression College celebrated ten years of educating students in digital arts and maintains a commitment to developing future opportunities for students of merit who show a passion for art, technology and learning.

To find out more details or to download an application, please visit:
http://expression.edu/tuition_financial_aid/scholarships/

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