MDM Alumni Win Two Prestigious Awards
The Centre for Digital Media is pleased to announce that MDM alumni have recently won two prestigious awards—a Bronze Pencil from The One Show 2020 Awards and an Award of Excellence and Innovation in the Integration of Technology from the CNIE 2020 Awards. It’s always thrilling to see...
Read MoreMDM Students & Alumni Build a World-Class VR Experience, Again!
For the past few years, a team of MDM students and alumni have collaborated to build the VR Theater at SIGGRAPH. The VR Theater has become one of the main pillars of SIGGRAPH (one of the premier technology conferences in the world on computer graphics and interactive techniques) and is a chance for attendees to experience some of the world’s top narrative-driven VR films within a unique group setting.
Read MoreRemembering David Lin: September 6, 1985 - June 28, 2019
Centre for Digital Media is saddened to learn that MDM alumni David Lin passed away on June 28, 2019. David graduated from the Master of Digital Media program in 2014. Before the MDM program, he graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double concentration of Design and Media in Interactive Arts and Technology.
Read MoreGerri Sinclair Award Winners on Building a Mixed Reality Concert Experience
Centre for Digital Media’s Gerri Sinclair Award for Innovation in Digital Media is awarded every year to recognize a student or group of students in the MDM Program who created a digital media product or innovation that has great potential either as a commercial digital media product...
Read MoreDemo Day Mixed Start-ups with Accelerators, Funders and Like-Minded Entrepreneurs
Last Tuesday, Centre for Digital Media held its first annual Alumni Startup Demo Day & Mixer, where alumni startup companies from the MDM program, along with startups from CDM’s partner schools - UBC, SFU and BCIT - presented their companies, met with investors and networked with entrepreneurs.
Read MoreFrom Audio Engineering To Game Design: Meet Quinn Brander
Many students who enroll in the Master of Digital Media program have interesting backgrounds that ultimately shape their career paths after the program. Take Quinn Brander, for example, a CDM alumni that came to the program in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in audio engineering.
Read MoreMDM Grads Offer Design Sprint and Rapid Prototyping Services
Agile, design sprints and rapid prototyping are terms that we hear everywhere but how do companies leverage these methods to innovate fast and work better in teams? MDM grads Marina Bertoldi and Julie Puech (the duo from The Impossible Studio ) are helping businesses with questions...
Read MoreFrom MDM To Managing Director of Thinkingbox: Meet Christine Clark
Graduating from the Master of Digital Media program can lead to many pathways in the digital media industry. The program gives students a ton of career options and the path each graduate takes is always interesting. Meet Christine Clark. Coming from UBC’s Theatre Program, she took the...
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