Category: News

Over the past year the Convergent Media collective has been proud to collaborate with Cox Media:

“Cox Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of CoxReps. Additionally, CMG owns Cox Target Media, which operates Valpak, one of North America’s leading direct marketing companies, and Savings.com, a leading online source for savings. The company’s operations currently include 14 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 57 radio stations, eight daily newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services. CMG currently operates in more than 20 media markets and reaches approximately 52 million Americans weekly, including more than 30 million TV viewers, more than 4 million print and online newspaper readers, and 14 million radio listeners.”

Initially joey met Mary Lanoue-Gers at a Media Alliance meeting more than 3 years ago.  We agreed that we should collaborate, but at the time both of us were still developing our new media initiatives out.  Then this past year Alfonso Montemayor a colleague of Mary’s contacted joey and by that time we both had some mutual projects to discuss.  So we were off!

The Collective met with Alfonso and did a full presentation for him and his partners in the new media division at Cox Media.

They were especially taken aback by the projection mapping and it was decided we would consult with them on a promotional projection mapping concept.  The concept developed into a site specific projection project where they would be able to promote their clients through projection environments using branding in the background, as well as well customers/patrons.

For those who do not know. TEDx San Antonio, is a TED style conference where thought leaders gather to rethink, re-imagine and share ideas about technology, education, art and more.

This year the Convergent Media Collective was asked by TEDx San Antonio to host a demo of our projects and research.  We were happy to oblige and we put together a group of demos that we felt exuded the raw nature of our work, both technologically and theoretically.

Students and community members came together and put on quite a show.  The attendees were blown away and we received many compliments and a strong request for us to do another public showing of our work.

Here are some photos:

(Photos by Johnny, Joey, Kaye, Joel and Andrew)

The Convergent Media Collective worked with Convergent Media I students at UIW this past week.  It was the first ever a class had been taught on projection modeling and demo’ing.  The students were very excited and the collective members were eager to share their demo’s and prototypes we had been working on.

The class started with students working in a computer lab and garnering their own content to be displayed with the projectors.

Then the students came into the UIWtv studio and were given an introduction to the projectors and the various prototype interfaces being worked on.  What took place next was some good ol fashion “jamming” with the projectors.

As you can see in both the photos and videos the students got “hands” on experience with the various interfaces.

(photos by Megan Giatan )