Uit de KHLim nieuwsbrief van vrijdag 18 december 2009: 
Ook bij de Media & Design Academie is er een nieuwe aanstelling. Ann Laenen, tot nu toe opleidingscoördinator van de opleiding c-md (communicatie- en multimediadesign) wordt vanaf 1 januari 2010 adjunct-departementshoofd. In oktober zal zij, wanneer Henk Heuts op pensioen gaat, de fakkel overnemen als departementshoofd.
So a lot of things will change for me in 2010. But I’m really looking forward to becoming the new head of department of the Media & Design Academy. There are a lot of (positive) challenges laying ahead of the school and it is an honour to have received the mandate to lead the department through this exciting period. The first months will be used to work, together with the colleagues of the university college, on a strategic plan for the years to come. It is also the time to find excellent replacement for my current co-ordinating tasks at communication & multimedia design and to finish current freelance assignments properly.
I’m not an art director, and never will be, but I got really fascinated by this book (editors: Steven Heller + Veronique Vienne) . Not only by its content: interesting cases such as the one on the value of multiple entry points or the panache of doo-dads, and a fresh way of looking at art direction using different viewpoints. But also fresh through its design by Rick Landers.
puntKom is een initiatief, opgestart vanuit de master Communicatie & Multimedia Design (MDA - Genk). Het is een mix (kom) van “crispy lectures, tasty workshops, bite-sized performances and yummy demos. In short, a meeting place for you (yes, You!), passionate about media, culture, design and technology!”
puntKom zal elke maand doorgaan op een donderdagavond van 18u38 tot 21u30 in het amfitheater van MDA op C-mine.
De eerste is gepland op 10 december – uitnodiging in bijlage - met op het programma :
Mirko Tobias Schäffer over Basterd Culture
En Roman Kirschner over Serious Gaming
De avond wordt afgesloten met een drink (met dank aan Nascom)….
Deelname is gratis maar wel inschrijven via de wiki zodat onze bevriende buren weten hoeveel catering ze moeten voorzien…
Voor hen die deze maand moeten passen, maar misschien wel een volgende keer willen komen hier alvast de data voor dit academiejaar : Do 10 dec / Do 14 jan / Do 11 feb/ Do 11 maa /Do 22 apr/Do 20 mei/Do 10 jun.
The recent issue of Metropolis M is a must read especially the article by Joost Raessens. I Like his idea of interpreting Game as play(ing) . He quotes John Fiske about play in relation to television and his interpretation of play in a text as well as play seen as latitude, offering the viewer space to play with the text and in doing so to ‘playfully’ give the text an interpretation of his own. It is a characteristic of new digital en mobile media that they do not restrict this space to the user but expands it. And offers new ways of Play(ing).
