Now in its 15th instalment at The Banff Centre, Interactive Screen is the Banff New Media Institute’s flagship new media event. Its category-busting gambit is to mix a world’s worth of media makers, thinkers, and movers around an open theme, and see what happens. This year’s Interactive Screen 1.0: Beautiful Lives looks at the way new media intersects with our aspirations and ambitions, individual or collective, convergent or contradictory, for the betterment of life. This follows directly on the theme of Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers, which explored the idea of a “society of makers,” redefining the structures of cultural ownership through ground-up creative action.

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In addition to the main program, a limited number of scholarship participants from Canada and abroad are chosen for the Interactive Screen Scholarship Intensive. Makers are invited to pitch and develop projects inspired by the event’s theme. Those selected follow, under the guidance of three seasoned advisors, a parallel project development stream woven into the fabric of the event. Applications for the Interactive Screen Scholarship Intensive will be accepted until July 13, 2010.