Culture

BUILDING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT BRANDS

HOW TO PROFIT IN THE MULTI-PLATFORM UNIVERSE
A Conversation With Fred Seibert, President & Executive Producer, Frederator Studios
The development of profitable digital media ventures relies as much on knowing when the next wave will hit as it does on creating sustainable revenue models. In some respects, the first decade of the 21st-century belongs to the media […]

Hollywood and the Digital Consumer

The next generation of technology within the digital home will bring with it not only more content to the consumer, it will bring with it greater choice and more individual personalization into the process.

Reinventing the Ad Model Through Discovery and Targeting

While advertising has emerged as the primary business model for broadband video, it remains relatively immature. Key constraints include users’ inability to find the videos they seek and limitations on targeting ads against particular content.

HOME MADE

Is it possible to create an eco-friendly label? What would fashion world look like if it took ecological and economic issues into consideration?

Social Networks Protest Rose Art Museum Closing

Brandeis threatens to close the Rose Museum and online social networking groups form in protest.

So Many Dreams So Little Space! Russian Dreams in Miami

Alexandra Lerman’s brief account of the Russian Dreams exhibition at the Baas Museum during the week of Miami Art Basel.

Miami 2008 Day 1

SMAC: ScribeMedia Arts and Culture Channel went to Miami for the Miami Art Basel and Design Miami. Here is the photo reportage.

Viridian Design & Aesthetic Catharsis

Gettin’ Viridian in order to get back at ya’ / Bruce Sterling’s closing Viridian note.

Communist Guide to New York City

Last night SMAC visited a book launch of “Communist Guide to New York City” by Yevgeniy Fiks at Common Room.
The guide is a collection of 76 photographs of buildings, public places, and sites in New York City, that are connected to the history of the Communist Party USA, including photos of buildings which housed […]

Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea

7 hand-made boats created by artist Swoon and her collaborators arrive at Deitch Projects in Long Island City after a 3 week journey on the Hudson river.