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Adriana Vecchioli is a French-Italian actress, filmmaker and XR designer, living in Los Angeles. She has co-founded an XR design studio, Velvet Unicorn, in L.A. Formerly a software engineer, she left Twitter to follow her passion for filmmaking. Blending software magic with artistry, Adriana designed immersive experiences for the likes of: Warner Bros., Viacom, The Hunger Games, NBA, Coachella and Snapchat.

Please support her kickstarter campaign, ending July 23, 2021, by visiting the COMIN’ IN HOT page.

UX Design for XR applications and Immersive Storytelling, Circuit Stream Workshop, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR6wZ3hme9g

The Displaced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecavbpCuvkI

How Virtual Reality is Changing Storytelling Forever

medium.com - https://medium.com/the-mission/how-virtual-reality-is-changing-storytelling-forever-3a9836c5300c

New York Times, 360 videos - https://www.nytimes.com/video/360-video

Mad Max Ferry Road - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

Game of Thrones - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Dear White People, Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80095698

The Fall of the House of Usher- https://poestories.com/read/houseofusher

Adriana on twitter: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana on Instagram: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana’s website:  www.adrianavecchioli.com

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COMIN’ IN HOT Campaign: kickstarter

In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings.

January 1 - On Technology and New Literacies, with science and technology writer Clive Thompson author of Smarter Than You Think and Coders

January 2 - On Game-Based Learning, with educator Paul Darvasi

January 8 - On Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek from the MIT Open Documentary Lab

January 9 - On Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabara Fister from Project Information Literacy

January 15 - On Memes and Social Movements, with author An Xioa Mina

January 16 - On Deep Fakes and Social Media, with technology researcher Carl Miller

January 29 - On Ways of Hearing, with sound and technology researcher Milena Droumeva

January 30 - On Emoji and Linguistics, with author Vyvyan Evans

In this episode I speak with author Clive Thompson about the new literacies that technology and the internet present us with, speaking to an authentic audience and the importance of a formal K-12 education in all of it.

EPISODE NOTES:

Written by Clive Thompson

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, Clive Thompson

On Gutenberg press - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, by Robert Hooke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrographia

Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius

https://www.amazon.ca/Sidereus-Nuncius-Sidereal-Messenger-Galileo/dp/022632009X

In this first series, I talk with new media artists about the experiences making art in the age of the internet.

On this season:

Lorie Berberian, Keiona Broderick, Fatma Jadoon

and Abigail MacBean - Friday, May 29th, 2020

Mike Relm - Saturday, May 30, 2020

Maya Ben David - Friday, June 5, 2020

James Kerr - Saturday, June 6, 2020

Quentin Vercetty - Friday, June 12, 2020

Jenn E Norton - Saturday, June 13, 2020

SpekWork Studio - Friday, June 19, 2020

Jeremy Bailey - Saturday, June 20, 2020

In this episode, I talk with Famous New media Artist Jeremy Bailey about what CEOs and artists have in common, using SEO hacks as self fulfilling prophecy for success and why your first solo show in a big art institution will probably conflict with your values.

EPISODE NOTES:

David Rokeby - http://www.davidrokeby.com/

Colin Campbell, Video Artist - http://www.colincampbellvideoartist.com/biography.php

Jeremy Bailey on Youtube -

Petra Cortright - https://www.petracortright.com/

The Good Point podcast - http://www.goodpointpodcast.com/

https://anthology.rhizome.org/ethira

Amalia Ulman Rizem’s Net Art Anthology - rizem.org - https://anthology.rhizome.org/

Snapchat - https://www.snapchat.com/

Famous New media Artist google search - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=famous+new+media+artist

William Wegman - https://williamwegman.com/

The You Museum - https://www.jeremybailey.net/collections/frontpage

Retargeting - https://retargeter.com/what-is-retargeting-and-how-does-it-work /

kinect camera - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

http://www.coryarcangel.com/

Ways of Seeing, by John Berger, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing

On Fluxus Art

Tate Museum - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fluxus

What is Fluxus, artsy.net - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fluxus

Sony Portapak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portapa k

How Canada is Fighting the War on Patent Trolls

Lean artists - https://www.leanartist.org/

Digital Economies Lab - http://www.artengine.ca/programming/2019/DEL/index-en.php

Digital Strategies Fund, Canada Council for the Arts - https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/digital-strategy-fund

In this episode, I talk with Jonathan Carroll and Cat Bluemke of SpekWork Studio along with their Tough Guy Mountain performance collective member Iain Soder. We talk about how and why to make apps for art going audiences, how precarious employment isn’t just for artists anymore and how capitalism killed the brand-potential of Art.

In this episode, I talk with Jenn E Norton about kinetic sculpture, how the least experienced creators shape emerging technologies and how the artworld feels about moms.

EPISODE NOTES:

https://kwag.ca/content/jenn-e-norton-slipstream-0

https://novavision.com/stereoscopic-vision-how-does-it-work/

3D Stereoscopic Photography -https://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Stereoscopic-Photography/

Tesseracts - https://www.jennenorton.com/tesseract

Optoma 3D Projector - https://www.optoma.com/us/projector-technology/3d/#

Las Meninas painting - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_meninas

VR Installation of Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border Comes to Nation’s Capital - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/virtual-reality-experience-crossing-us-mexico-border-opens-washington-dc-180968610/

Steve mann blockig things with AR - Augmented Reality wand built by Steve Mann in the 1970s - http://wearcam.org/surveillancestudy-36exposures/

Siphonophora - https://www.jennenorton.com/siphonophora

A Very Nervous System - http://www.davidrokeby.com/vns.html

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2020.00001/full

Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2016.00003/full

Critical Role of the Artist in Advancing Augmented Reality - https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-critical-role-of-artists-in-advancing-augmented-reality/

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics by Jennifer Ouellette - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276057.Black_Bodies_and_Quantum_Cats

Lean Touch - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/lean-touch-30111

Unity software - https://unity.com/

How Virtual Reality Is Changing the Way the UN Thinks - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ez53ee/virtual-reality-unvr-refugees

Jerri Ellsworth of Tilt5 on The AR Show podcast - https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/076a-jeri-ellsworth-part-1

In this episode, I talk with Afrofuturist Quentin VerCetty about making techno-fossils and augmented reality monuments that mark the presence of Black people across the Canadian landscape as well as space and time.

EPISODE NOTES:

Quentin Vercetty - https://www.vercetty.com/

What is Afrofuturism and how can it change the world? By Sadof Alexander - https://www.one.org/us/blog/afrofuturism-change-the-world/

What is Kimetic Yoga - https://www.kemeticyoga.com/what-is-kemetic-yoga

Artivism - KRS1 - monologues / education /April 9, 2017

https://artivist.co.nz/subrosa/2017/4/9/krs1-monologues-education

Iconoclast: Dave Chappelle + Maya Angelou [Full Episode] - https://youtu.be/okc6COsgzoE

Winston Churchill - Churchill Stirs Controversy in Toronto https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/churchill-bulletin/bulletin-073-jul-2014/churchill-statue-controversy-toronto/

Cornwallis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Cornwallis

Jon A McDonald - John A. Macdonald statue removed from Victoria City Hall to cheers and jeers - https://globalnews.ca/news/4382987/john-a-macdonald-statue-victoria/

Thanos - wikipedia page

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Thanos

Avengers: Endgame - trailer - https://youtu.be/TcMBFSGVi1c

Monument Lab Transnational Fellows - https://monumentlab.com/bulletin/announcing-the-2020-monument-lab-transnational-fellows

Mathieu Da Costa

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mathieu-da-costa

https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/the-first-person-of-african-heritage-to-arrive-in-canada

Rastafarian term “grounding” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari#Grounding

Saint Mathieu Street in Montreal - https://imtl.org/montreal/rue_montreal.php?rue=Saint-Mathieu

Joshua Glover - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Glover

Request for Proposals: Memorial to Joshua Glover Permanent Public Art, City of Toronto - https://akimbo.ca/listings/request-for-proposals-memorial-to-joshua-glover-permanent-public-art-city-of-toronto/

The Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C., C.M., O.Ont, C.B.E.

http://www.jeanaugustine.ca/jean-augustine-bio/

New Monuments for New Cities Public Art Tour with Sally Han – June 18 - An ongoing series of onsite tours exploring selected works in the public art exhibition, New Monuments for New Cities - https://www.thebentway.ca/event/monuments-for-new-cities-public-art-tour-june-18/

History of the Gadner express way and Frederick Gardner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Expressway

Marie-Joseph Angélique - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-joseph-angelique

Unreal Engine software - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/

Cinema 4D - https://www.maxon.net/en-us/products/cinema-4d/overview/

Z-brush - https://zbrushcore.com/

3D scanning structure sensor - https://structure.io/

linda.com - https://www.lynda.com/

PPI vs. DPI: what’s the difference?

Pixels per inch vs dot per inch - https://99designs.ca/blog/tips/ppi-vs-dpi-whats-the-difference/

Deviant art

Sketchfab - https://sketchfab.com/

Sun Ra- http://www.sunraarkestra.com/

German Influence on the Scholarship of W. E. B. DuBois - https://www.jstor.org/stable/273098?seq=1

W.E.B. Dubois’ Afrofuturistic short story ‘The Comet’ withstands the test of time -

https://blackgirlnerds.com/web-dubois-afrofuturistic-the-comet-withstands-time/

In this episode, I talk with animator James Kerr about getting the most out of your personal archives, how to use social media to collaborate with your favourite artists and the GIF-Renaissance happening around the time of his Scorpion Dagger project in 2012

EPISODE NOTES:

Giotto di Bondone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto

Library of congress - https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/

Do You Like Relaxing? - https://www.anteism.com/shop/scorpion-dagger-do-you-like-relaxing-limited

Scorpion Dagger on Tumblr - https://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com/

Fine art museum in Montreal - (AR catalogues guides) - https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/

Ante-ism - https://www.anteism.com/about-new

The Verge - Our favorite remixed Renaissance paintings are now a book of animated GIFs - https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/11/6135467/james-kerr-scorpion-dagger-animations-now-an-augmented-reality-book

Bureau Borsche and James Kerr give the Bavarian State Opera a new look (and it’s wild) https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bureau-borsche-james-kerr-bavarian-state-opera-graphic-design-110919

Artivive https://artivive.com/

Gucci #24HourAce | James Kerr - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLpxe9wFmW0

New York Times- TECH GOLIATHS ACT LIKE DAVIDS - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/technology/big-tech-underdogs.html

New York Times- To Tweet is Human, To Delete is Divine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/sunday/to-tweet-is-human-to-delete-divine.html

GIPHY.com - https://giphy.com/explore/scorpion-dagger

In this episode I talk with performance, video and cosplay artist Maya Ben David about anthropomorphic airplanes, the many subcultures of fandom, and how content licensing prices artists out of production.

EPISODE NOTES:

Air Canada Gal - video link -

https://youtu.be/eE3dkesbvus

Walter Saches anthropomorphic airplanes -

https://www.deviantart.com/maverickhunterfox/favourites/50864243/walter-sache

Snake Girl’s Hyperbolic Time Chamber

Nuit Blanche: Snake Girl’s Hyperbolic Time Chamber | Maya Ben David

Backyard Wrestling

Backyard Wrestling Wiki | Fandom

Live Action Role Play (aka LARP)

Maya’s Vimeo Chanel

Lefttube

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lefttube

MBD vs Jon Rafman | Maya Ben David

Jon Rafman

Tea Strazicic (flufflord) and Marta Strazicic (pirate_sheep)

https://www.instagram.com/flufflord/

https://www.instagram.com/pirate_sheep/

https://flufflord.tumblr.com/post/143220406536

NOSTALGIA…Cant live with it, can’t live without it!

Maya on Instagram - @thebropercent

Instagram makes number of Likes Invisible -

https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/instagram-removed-the-number-of-likes-displayed-in-canada-and-not-everybody-likes-it

Instagram quietly brings back "likes" for Canadian users today | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly