The Student Project Exhibition at the CHAT Festival showcased the future of digital media authorship in higher education. Are we ready?

CHAPEL HILL -- What will schools look like decades from now? Most likely, they will not teach students to specialize in a field, to perform an assembly-line task, or to answer multiple-choice tests. 

This is a short montage of exhibitions from the 2010 CHAT Festival, held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from February 16-20.

Below are my notes from the CHAT festival discussion Art and Culture of the DJ.

The Bathysphere, "an underwater opera and an interactive game: a musical narrative in which the audience triggers events," is installed as part of the CHAT festival at UNC this week.

Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., 2010-2-17
Memorial Hall, UNC-CH, CHAT festival

Soundbyte: Transforming Narratives
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
1-2pm
Hyde Hall, UNC-CH
CHAT Festival

Please come out and take a look at my video tonight during the free Festival Art Walk.

Here are my notes from one of the panel discussions at the CHAT festival today: Entrepreneurship & Collaboration.

We've blogged many times about the exciting wonder of the week ahead, both the CHAT Festival at UNC and the Digital Media and Learning Conference in La Jolla, bicoastal digital media extravaganzas, each with a different inflection and flair, both examples of the richness of this new field.   Here's another example of the wonder of the CHAT Festival, a taste of an exhibit by Duke prof Casey Alt, one of the first directors of our ISIS program and now a visiting prof of the practice of visual studies at Duke.  This looks just beautiful.  Congratulations, Casey!