Canadian Foundation For Innovation Funds Labs For Interactive Art

Prof. Lila Pine, along with Dr. Tim Jackson, both from the New Media Option of the School of Image Arts, recently secured a grant of $80 000 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to be used towards their project called New Media Studios for Evolving Stories as Interactive Art. This infrastructure grant will be used to create a digital studio and interactive environment that will enable the creation and testing of interactive/remote projects. To that end, the studio will be housed in two locations, one in the Rogers Communication Centre, the other in the School of Image Arts. The infrastructure will enable Dr. Jackson's Synth/Ops Research Group to proceed with more interactivity in a broad array of art applications while Professor Pine will have access to the necessary tools to build complex, interwoven, narrative systems. CFI has traditionally recognized the areas of science and engineering, and both Pine and Jackson are thrilled to have received the first award that CFI has ever offered a communication and design project.

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Cyradis Donates Television Master Control System To Rogers Communications Centre

Cyradis, who are well known in the television master control space, have donated a complete multi-channel television master control system to the Rogers Communications Centre. The technology is currently in a testing phase and will ultimately provide a professional level Master Control for Channel 84, the Rogers Centre Community Channel. The technology includes the complete Cyradis Master Control system software, a number of SONY Profile hard drives and the MPEG-2 encoder equipment required to encode programming. The system will be built just inside the doors of Video Post.

Cyradis technology is found in places like the Castle Rock Broadcast Center, Colorado where it's the primary satellite uplink site for DirecTV US, DirecTV, Japan a Multi-Channel Broadcast satellite uplink site for DirecTV's Japan operations, California Broadcast Center, Long Beach as a primary satellite uplink site for DirecTV in South America and TCI, Denver, Colorado the parent company of Viewer's Choice, where the system controls their Sony VideoStore Multi-Channel Video File Server System.

Cyradis technology was also used by NBC during their broadcast of the 1996 Atlanta Games and the broadcast of the 2000 Sydney Games. Additionally Cyradis products were provided to NBC for their Genesis project, which was the complete updating of their extensive facilities in New York.

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B2C2 Provides ATSC Data Reception to Rogers Communications Centre

The Rogers Communications Centre now has technology from B2C2 that provides the ability to separate the data from an ATSC broadcast stream. While the Centre has had technology to receive both standard and high definition for some time, the B2C2 technology allows research staff to separate other data types from the transmission and place it on the network for enhanced and iTV applications. B2C2's technology allows for the reception of data types such as MP3 and MPEG-4 via the ATSC broadcast signal.

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Triveni Digital's SkyScraper Puts The Data in Datacasting for CDTV's Toronto Test Transmitter

The Rogers Communications Centre will setup and work with Triveni Digital Corporation's Skyscraper datacasting system. Installed for the first time in Canada, the system allows for data content to be scheduled and transmitted in the ATSC broadcast stream. The Skyscraper system will allow for experimentation with the transmission of various data formats including mp3's, MPEG-4 and various forms of streaming media. The system includes a DataFab that collects, manages and schedules the transmission of data content, a DataHub that allocates bandwidth and inserts data into the broadcast stream, and a DataReceiver that extracts data from the broadcast stream for the end-user.

Click here for more information in pdf form on how the Rogers Communications Centre is making use of Triveni Digital's Skyscraper system.

EMMA MasterClass Brings International New Media Experts To Toronto

As a member of the Toronto New Media Trainers Alliance, Ryerson helped sponsor the EMMA's (Electronic Multimedia Awards) and bring them to Toronto in 2002. The EMMA Master Classes were a highlight of the event and were held at the Bloor Cinema on October 16th. Due to Ryerson's involvement with the New Media Trainers, Ryerson students were able to attend the classes free of charge.

Click here for more information in pdf form on how the the New Media Trainers and the Rogers Communications Centre assisted the EMMA's when they were here in Toronto.

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