What is the Future of Television?

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Well, almost tomorrow. There is a great-lookin' event happening this Tuesday and Wednesday (March 13-14, 2007) at San Francisco's venerable Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts. A project of Tracy Swedlow, independent producer and lightening rod for Interactive Television and Julie (Jill) Anderson of Chatterbox, the event is part conference, part awards ceremony and part art exhibit.

 As for the conference, expect discussions and panels about HDTV, user experience and a nice lineup of Silicon Valley CEOS intersecting over art, technology and convergent media.

As for the awards, we're talking about the inaugural instance of the Awards for Corporate Achievement in Interactive and Multiplatform Television.

As for the art, there is a nice lineup of pieces that deal with the vision of what "tomorrow"'s television should/could/would look like, featuring a film ("Gap") by Richard Rinehart (Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive), videos by San Francisco based artist Nate Pagel, and a gorgeous interactive sculpture called "Dangerglow" by the inimitable Mark McGothigan and Beverly Reiser, among other amazing luminaries and visionaries. (Luminous visionaries?)  I will also cop to participating in this show, my collaborative work with Michael Tippett, "Grafik Dynamo" will be serving up a live, dynamic comic strip using images scraped from LiveJournal. All day, Tuesday and Wednesday, check it!!