The ETC is partnering with Professors John Pollock and David Lampe of Duquesne University to create a Synthetic Interview with Charles Darwin in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birthdate. For more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08185/894514-115.stm

ETC to Appear at Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival

The Ingenuity Festival is Cleveland’s Festival of Art and Technology. It features a weekend-long celebration of art and technology, designed for audiences of any age and experience, staged in the center of Downtown Cleveland. Prominent international masters present original works alongside the finest of Northeast Ohio's performing and visual artists.

High technology firms and various colleges and universities are presented alongside acclaimed artists to create a dazzling display of exciting and immersive new work. In years past schools such as Kent State University, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State University, and others have all been represented at the Ingenuity Festival.
Ingenuity pushes boundaries, creating a unique festival experience that draws and celebrates diversity, and involves the audience as both spectator and participant. This is the reason why Ingenuity founder and Artistic Executive Director, James Levin, came down to Pittsburgh from Cleveland to look at the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center. What he saw led to an immediate invitation to Don Marinelli to have the ETC represented at this year’s Ingenuity Festival.

“The venue is terrific, exactly in the heart of Cleveland’s bustling Playhouse Square. We will be a central part of the on-going performance and experiential venue. This will give the people of Northeastern Ohio a chance to see the kinds of interactive technologies being created in Pittsburgh, and specifically at Carnegie Mellon. Cleveland and Pittsburgh have been pitted as opponents for too long. It is time we join forces to emphasis there is no ‘rust’ settling around our belts!” exclaims ETC Executive Producer Don Marinelli

Current plans are to bring Quasi the interactive robot, the giant Nintendo consoles, a HMD with a BVW world, Dragon Question, and the Wii Exercise platforms to Cleveland.

The Ingenuity Festival will occur July 25-27, 2008 at the following times:
Friday: 4pm - 1am (Free admission "Happy Hour" Friday 4-6pm)
Saturday: Noon - 1am
Sunday: Noon - 6pm

Ingenuity will occupy a sprawling festival campus in downtown Cleveland at Playhouse Square Center, featuring its historic theatres, E. 14th Street, Star Plaza, Idea Center, and a variety of under-utilized storefronts and alleys in the surrounding neighborhood! Performance and exhibition areas are created from the unique urban setting, encouraging the audience to see and experience the city environment from a new and exciting perspective.

KDKA does a story on the ETC and the nascent video game industry in Pittsburgh.
http://kdka.com/video/?id=42829@kdka.dayport.com

Pittsburgh is the front-runner to become the U.S. headquarters location for a British videogame developer looking to expand its operations abroad.

Eutechnyx, the driving force behind such games as "Big Mutha Truckers" and "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift," is "awfully close" to settling on Pittsburgh after considering Montreal and Atlanta, said Todd Eckert, the local movie producer who has been tapped to head the company's U.S. operations.

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Game Career Guide has published the Active-Adventure team postmortem by Seth Sivak
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/562/student_postmortem_etcs_the_...