CEFIMA – Centre of Excellence
in Film and Interactive Media Arts
On 01 November 2016, the Norwegian Film School won funding for a Centre of
Excellence in Film and Interactive Media Arts from the Norwegian
Government’s Higher Education Standards body, NOKUT
(http://www.nokut.no/en/Centres-for-Excellence-in-Higher-Education/).
In 2017, CEFIMA is offering two 3-year fully-funded practice/project-based research positions, one in “Interactive and Immersive Storytelling for the Screen” and one in “Storytelling in Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality”, through the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. Applicants may be from any country, but must expect to be based in Norway. For full details, please see: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/132592/the-norwegian-film-school-announces-3-artistic-research-fellowship-positions.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12:00 PM CET, WEDNESDAY MARCH 16TH, 2017.
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ABOUT THE NORWEGIAN FILM SCHOOL
AND ITS MISSION TO INTEGRATE
INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING INTO ITS PROGRAMME
The belief that arts education is fundamentally about developing individual
competence in artistic expression is the driving force behind NFS’
pedagogic and didactic approach. Practice-based teaching and learning
develop skills and knowledge in an increasingly conscious and sophisticated
way in the creation of artistic work. But film and television production
are collaborative processes, where individuals working in different
disciplines co-operate as a team to realise a coherent artistic vision. NFS
provides a safe but challenging space in which participants can test
themselves individually, gain insight into their own and the team creative
processes, and finding their roles and confidence in a complex working
environment.
CEFIMA aims to innovate in the NFS teaching and learning programme to fully
incorporate digital and interactive technologies as means of artistic
expression. Digital technology has long been adopted in all phases of film
and television production, but much of its creative use has been elsewhere,
at the hands of computer-scientists and games-developers. CEFIMA’s
challenge is to explore emerging tools and media in concert with technology
and computing partners, in order to utilise their potentials optimally to
tell meaningful, engaging stories in digitally-enhanced traditional media
as well as push the envelope of immersive and interactive dramaturgy and
the creative use of the computer as narrative medium. CEFIMA will amplify
the NFS’ unique practice-oriented teaching and learning approach, already
recognised for its flexibility and responsiveness to the changing demands
of society and a rapidly evolving industry.
Students will develop their artistic competence to produce original,
innovative content for the emerging interactive, immersive and non-linear
media, which offer new employment opportunities; and graduates will also be
prepared to contribute creatively to computer-ehnanced linear storytelling
for the big screen, where they are required to fill new artistic as well as
technical roles. To meet the needs of our future industry and society, as
more people use more new digital delivery-platforms, the challenge is to
expand storytelling into the emerging digital media, connecting know-how
and traditional excellence from the oldest audio-visual format –
film-making – to the emerging interactive media with their immersive
capabilities; and to prepare graduates for careers in a rapidly-changing
landscape generating growing markets.