ARTISTS: the first 15 minutes is for you.  Bring work to show us — either digital or hard copy. Newcomers welcome!  

We are building on the August and September Art SIG project (collaborating about a single sketch), based on a sketch that you can download from our Web site (read on for details).  

Now starts the telling of the story.  Come and hear from people who have known for a while that the future of interactive multimedia is STORYTELLING — collaborative, changing, multi-sensory events created by groups working and integrating their talents with others. You will learn how to make a "beginning, middle, and end" to your creative work.  

Our guest panelists will include Steven Yafa and John Maccabee.

Steven Yafa is the Executive Director of the new Digital Story Center of Marin. A seasoned storyteller (he is an award-winning writer and producer), Yafa was first inspired to create digital media back in 1993, during a workshop led by his friend, Dana Atchley. Yafa has a long list of credentials. Among them: He produced and wrote for the award-winning PBS daily show, Over Easy, produced Dreams of Flight, a Maxxus CD-ROM about early aviation, and has produced, written, and directed over one hundred videos for his own production company. Clients included the NBC Network, Banana Republic, IBM, Apple Computer, LAM Research, and the San Francisco ARC for developmentally disabled citizens. His ARC documentary won two national awards.

John Maccabee is a sextuple threat. He has either written and produced or written and designed for five different media: feature films, television, gaming, Internet, theater, and fiction. His feature scripts have been purchased by Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers and Paramount. His mini-series, movies of the week, hour and half-hour series have been developed at Warner Brothers Television, Sony Television, NBC, and CBS. 

Download the sketch from www.nbma.com/sig/artsig_art.html and do something with it, then send it to Tim Rose or bring it to the meeting, either on disk or on paper. We have begun to see the results, and hope you come to comment and collaborate on this storytelling project.

The sketch comes in as a six inch black and white JPEG at 144 dpi. Don't spend a lot of time (we will be able to tell if you do). Send it back colored about 3 inches, and not a lot bigger than 100-200k at 72 dpi, so it can be combined with others into an authored work that we can play back.

If you have questions or want the sketch sent to you, please contact one of the SIG leaders: Tim Rose at troseart@nbma.com or (707) 562-3158 and Jerry Fromader jerfro@nbma.com.