X|Media|Lab calls for media projects and ideas with $60K worth of grants available
X|Media|Lab is calling for submissions from digital and creative industry entrepreneurs to participate in a rare opportunity to workshop their projects with some of the world’s most successful new media experts, as part of the inaugural X|Media|Lab Perth, held from 15-17 April 2011 at the new State Theatre Centre.
With the theme, Storytelling in a Digital Age, X|Media|Lab Perth is also awarding up to three development grants of up to $20,000 to digital media projects that include at least one Western Australian arts practitioner in the project team.
Department of Culture and the Arts Director General Allanah Lucas said that sixteen project teams will be selected to receive one-on-one mentoring, elite consultation, feedback and advice tailored to the specific needs of individual projects.
The panel of mentors includes award-winning transmedia producers, mobile strategists, gamification experts, artists, social media strategists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs.
“Project teams or companies with outstanding ‘interactive storytelling’ projects across all forms of media are encouraged to apply. Projects may have an entertainment, educational, cultural or informational basis,” Lucas said.
“Upon completion of the Lab, the international mentors will select up to three West Australian digital media projects to receive a X|Media|Lab Perth Development Award of up to $20,000, created by the Department of Culture and the Arts and ScreenWest”.