UCLA Festival 2009: New Creative Work

UCLA Producers Program and UCLA Festival for New Creative Works present:

ALTERED STATES MEDIA CONFERENCE

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have been forced to postpone the upcoming Altered States Media Conference that was scheduled for this Saturday, June 13.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We are all so deeply invested in the complex and intellectually provocative perspectives of this Conference that we hope your schedules will allow you to join us once we reconvene the event in the near future."

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, one of the premier film schools and research universities in the nation, will host the first-ever Altered States Media Conference. This one-day conference will bring together leading media creators, scholars, and industry practitioners to discuss the future and evolution of media arts, technology, scholarship, and commerce.

As digital technology becomes more pervasive, companies from all arenas of the entertainment industry are embracing a culture of convergence. Technology is connecting the disparate aspects of our lives and altering the way we communicate with each other. But are we laying a sufficient foundation for a sound, economically and artistically sustainable future? Or are we simply providing stop-gap solutions with a bigger battle looming on the horizon? Are we moving in the right direction?

Panels

9:00AM - 10:15AM: Strategies for Your Digital Soul: Social Networking in the Future
Moderator: Richard Rosenblatt (CEO, Demand Media)

Majid Abai (CEO, Pringo.com)
Justine Ezarik (iJustine)
David Gale (Executive Vice-President, MTV New Media)
Carole Handler (Partner, Wildman Harrold LLP)

10:15 AM - 11:30: Studio and Labor Relations in 2015
Moderator: Arnold Peter (Partner, Raskin Peter LLP)

Mike Farrell (Actor, M*A*S*H, Providence)
Jonathan Handel (Attorney, TroyGould Attorneys)
Ivy Kagan Bierman (Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP)
Patric Verrone (President, Writers Guild of America, West)

11:30 AM - 12:45 AM: State of 'Play': Gaming and Narrativity
Moderator: Peter Guber (Chairman & CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group)

Chris Avellone (Founder, Obsidian Entertainment)
Chris Metzen (Vice president of Creative Development, Blizzard Entertainment)
David Min (Principal, Steamboat Ventures, LLC)
Eddo Stern (Artist/Game Designer)

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM LUNCH

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Bran Ferren (Co-Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.)

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: The Evolution of Copyright in the Digital Era
Moderator: Ken Suddleson (Managing Partner, Wildman Harrold LLP)

Steven Anderson (Assistant Professor, Director, Media Arts & Practice Ph.D. Program, USC School of Cinematic Arts)
Alan Friel (Partner, Wildman Harrold LLP)
Gregory Goeckner (Executive Vice-President, General Counsel, Motion Picture Association of America)
Jack Lerner (Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law)
Douglas Lichtman (Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law)

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM: TV Broadcasters and Transmedia Franchises
Moderator: Denise Mann (Head, UCLA Producers Program)

Jesse Alexander (Executive Producer, Day One, Heroes, Alias)
Miles Beckett (Co-Founder/CEO, Eqal; Co-Creator, lonelygirl15, KateModern)
Joe Ferreira (Senior Vice President, CBS Interactive)

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM: The Evolution of "Consumption Aesthetics"
Moderator: Robert Rosen (Dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television)

Anne Balsamo (Professor, Associate Chair, Interactive Media Division, USC)
Erkki Huhtamo (Professor, UCLA School of Arts & Architecture)
Abigail De Kosnik (Assistant Professor, Department of Theater, UC Berkeley)
David Neuman (President of Programming, Current TV)

Questions: Contact Justin Wolske (Festival Director) at jwolske@tft.ucla.edu

Credits
The Altered States Media Conference is a joint production of the UCLA Producers Program and the UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. MCLE credits are available through Wildman Harrold LLP.

Sponsors:
Wildman Harrold LLP
Andrew J. Kuehn, Jr. Foundation