indigi-nous
Tagline: “Learn about Aboriginal Australia through interactive experience”
LAMP Lab: July 2006
Target platforms: Broadband PC, cards, DVD and mobile
Project description: Designed as a cross media and cross platform experience for primary school aged children, ‘Totemon’ is an interactive locative and online game, a dvd game, and has a trading card, quest element. Informed by Aboriginal culture, [...]

SGC - SecretGirlsClub.com.au
Tagline: “An interactive virtual clubhouse community exclusive to girls aged 10 to 14. Users gain right of entry by completing an initiation game, ‘MIA’. The Secret Girls’ Club empowers young girls as they learn, share and play.”
LAMP Lab: July 2006

Target platforms: Internet/ Broadband, Mobile, Virtual & Physical Environments and Broadcast TV
Project description: The [...]

Get in the Car
Tagline: Get in the Car! with Zeit-guide Monica Main and allow her to chauffeur you out of the cul de sacs of life towards the broader, more luscious landscapes of the bent mind.
LAMP Lab: July 2006

Target platforms: Internet, mobile phone, heritage media and IPTV
Project description: Getinthecar.com.au hosts the wonderful and hilarious world [...]

Immersion: Designing Experience © Gary Hayes 2006.
The fourth of 8 podcasts recorded live during the LAMP lab on Milson Island, Sydney in July 2006 - in front of the eight teams and ten mentors developing emerging media projects.
“think of the experience, not just the service, the differentiators between professionals, thats you, versus users is that [...]

Forget the Rules © Jim Shomos 2006.
The third of 8 podcasts recorded live during the LAMP lab on Milson Island, Sydney in July 2006 - in front of the eight teams and ten mentors developing emerging media projects.
“this is such a new area that really the door is open for anybody with anything creative and [...]

The Ministry of Truth
Tagline: “Kill Your Television”
LAMP Lab: July 2006

Target platforms: Online community, IPTV, free-to-air TV, mobile
Project description: Like a hair ball stuck in the throat of the corporate media, the Ministry Of Truth says: KILL YOUR TELEVISION! www.ministryoftruth.tv creates subversive media comprised of entirely contrasting segments no longer than 5 minutes each. Diverse, slick, [...]

Some of the mentors and participants are writing live updates from the current live-in-lab on Milson Island. These short but insightful comments can be found on this page on the LAMP wiki.

The eight teams that will be attending the next residential lab on Milson Island in early July are:
Double the Fist - Fistworthy(adj): Brave, tough, suicidally, reckless or a combination of all four.
The Ministry of Truth - Kill Your Television
indigi-nous - learn about Aboriginal Australia through interactive experience
Mainframe - Kerry Anne Kennelly on acid meets Seinfeld [...]

The Australian Film TV and Radio School Video Podcast

Over the past few months the LAMP team have encoded, meta-tagged and podcast an initial batch of great films made by past students of AFTRS. Many review sites (eg: PodguideTV) are singing the praises of these high quality films (narrative strength and visual aesthetic/format - in some [...]

The Digital Distribution Business Model © Peter Giles 2006.
Recorded live and unedited during the LAMP lab in Perth in May 2006 in front of the seven teams developing emerging media projects.
“If you can get traffic, interest in your property, create a community and measure it…that is a really compelling argument to get funding…the advertisers [...]