Panel 2 speakers:
Dr Maeve Connolly, DLIADT (film animation, art, film, educator and journalist) Maeve Connolly lectures at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin ( Ireland ), on the BA in Animation and the MA in Visual Arts Practices. She has a background in art practice and completed a PhD on Irish film culture and the avant-garde at DCU in 2003. She has co-edited a collection of texts and artists projects on television, entitled The Glass Eye (Project Press, 2000) and her writing on art and film has been published in Afterimage, boundary 2, CIRCA, Contemporary, Filmwaves, Irish Communications Review, Third Text and Variant. Other publications include book chapters in National Cinema and Beyond: Studies in Irish Film, volumes 1 and 2 (Four Courts, Dublin , 2004) and The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
Lisa Roberts, ( Blink.org , Pocket Shorts) - Perspectives on the impact of mobile technology on the future of filmmaking and distribution. Lisa designs socially inclusive mobile technology initiatives. Since 1999 she has collaborated with Andrew Wilson on the short film initiative Short Circuits. In 2004 she devised and produced Pocket Shorts which enabled filmmakers to explore the new medium of the mobile phone. www.pocketshorts.co.uk
Michael Mc Mahon, (previously worked at Endemol and UKTV Network) Perspectives on the future of TV new audiences and markets.Michael McMahon is an interactive media developer and manager with more than 10 years experience in the TV industry. Michael was technical manager at Endemol UK and UKTV Network. At Endemol, he was the interactive technical manager with responsibility for interactive TV, Video on Demand, Websites and mobile services on highly successful programmes such as Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, Fame Academy , Celebrity Fame Academy , Restoration and the Salon. At UKTV he was technical manager for similar services across the 10 UKTV satellite, cable and freeview channels. Michael has recently returned to Ireland to head up a IPTV focused start-up company, Molotov Digital.
Stephen Mc Cormack, Stephen McCormack graduated from DIT/Trinity College with an electronic engineering degree in 1991. He joined ICL and worked in numerous roles from consulting to software development. In 1994, he joined a company called Exselan, where he helped set up a successful software development division. It was during this time that he began to work with the early Web, and subsequently founded Nebula Technologies in 1997, an award winning Internet software firm. Steve is also one of the co-founders of ItsMobile , the world's first mobile parking payment solution and Wildwave , an International Mobile Digital Media Company. steve@wildwave.com
Chair: Rod Stoneman, Rod Stoneman is the Director of the Huston School . He has worked as Deputy Commissioning Editor in Independent Film and Video at Channel Four Television in London , and was Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Film Board from 1993-2003. He has made a number of documentaries and written on film and television in the following magazines: Screen, Sight and Sound, Kinema and Film Ireland . He has published and lectured widely on film in Ireland and abroad. |
