FITC Toronto 2019
2019-04-29..2019-05-01
Toronto, Canada
[FITC Toronto 2014, FITC Toronto 2015, FITC Toronto 2016, FITC Toronto 2017, FITC Toronto 2019]
as the organisers put it
FITC Toronto is a professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry.
who it's for
motion designers, creative technologists, visual artists, creative directors, digital producers, animators, social media managers
topics
generative art systems; creative influencer strategy; internet-as-collaborator; project postmortems; experimental motion graphics; speculative futures design; personal creative practice; visual effects and aesthetic design; showreel and teaser presentations; storytelling for creators
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| FITC Toronto 2019 Highlights | Cory Doctorow, Jared Ficklin, Jason White, Jessica Rosenkrantz, Emilie Baltz, Bobak Ferdowsi | 03m |
A fast highlight reel that documents FITC Toronto as a crowded, high‑energy festival rather than a seminar: lots of crowd shots, stage moments and interview… | ||
| The Internet Isn’t What We Fight FOR, It’s What We Fight WITH | Cory Doctorow | 41m |
Argues that laws like the anti-circumvention rule and Canada’s 2011 adoption let manufacturers and platforms criminalize tinkering and hide security flaws in… | ||
| Mars or Bust: Learning from our Mistakes | Bobak Ferdowsi | 45m |
Curiosity lands successfully in 2012 after a supersonic parachute and propulsive descent tested only on Earth, then survives a corrupted memory that needs a… | ||
| Alone in My Mind | Alex Cornell | 44m |
A promo video called Lookout promo video imagines a forward‑tilting lens that streams an overlay and actually gets ~10,000 native Twitter views versus ~100 on… | ||
| The Outer Dark | Rama Allen | 44m |
Shows specific prototypes: a concert platform that projects a shared mixed‑reality hallucination (early tests run on iPhone X, studio built 120+ AR… | ||
| Generative Machines | Matt DesLauriers | 39m |
Describes concrete workflows and outcomes: code is JavaScript on the web using canvas-sketch, a homegrown pen plotter pipeline exports vector commands and… | ||
| The Rise of the Creative Social Influencer (and How to Become One) | Linsday Munro | 36m |
Explains concrete steps and metrics: a social framework of goal → SMART objectives → strategy → tactics, platform tactics for Instagram, YouTube, Behance… | ||
| GMUNK Teaser | GMUNK | 04m |
A confessional rundown of concrete methods: reveals Jedi Mind tricks for staying productive at 43 after ~20 years in motion design, outlines extreme… | ||
| FITC Toronto 2019 Teaser | 01m | |
Returning to Toronto for the 18th edition, FITC Toronto is The Future of Innovation, Technology + Creativity, and Canada's longest running digital media event… | ||
| Teaser: Can Buyukberber | Can Buyukberber | 02m |
Lists specific artworks and outcomes: multiple projects use projection mapping on the Grand Central Terminal ceiling, a 60' permanent outdoor installation at… | ||
| Teaser: Kate Dawkins | Kate Dawkins | 01m |
Studio builds and ships fullscale projection and LED systems, claims include delivering 360° "Audience pixels" for London 2012 across a stadium and running… | ||
| Perspectives on the Future | Cory Doctorow, Jared Ficklin, Bobak Ferdowsi | 05m |
Three interviews give concrete claims and projects: a call to reverse a measurable collapse of public trust driven by oligarchy undermining how we know things… | ||
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