About Karine Halpern

Karine Halpern founded her new non profit association in December 2010 as a "Think & DoTank" called "Transmedia Ready" with a mission to advocate for the concept of transmediaas an art form of itself. Her goal was to research and propose a methodology for transmediacreation and communication. She induces creativity at all stages of product developmentwith a transdisciplinary approach.

Since the 90's Karine has worked in the creative industries and in cultural engineering. Aftera career in film and TV of more than 15 years, she produced digital content in theinternational cooperation field for 5 years.

She has received grants in France, is a member of the French writers guild, spoke atnumerous conferences about the transmedia concept, teaching some classes, andpresenting her creative coaching tool: the "7 Transmedia Families" card game (and real lifegame), based on her methodology for transmedia design, launched in 2011 with aninternational community of practitioners and researchers.

She founded and curated the “Transmedia France Meetup” for 5 years, producing workshops and consulting; and launched the “Transmedia Alliance” in 2013 at the South by South West festival as a guest speaker. (http://fr.slideshare.net/KHwork/press-release-transmedia-meetup-sxsw2013).

In 2014 she made a proof of concept about her methodology with the Institut for Researchand Innovation of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (National Museum, French Ministry of Culture),called “Transmedia Mix" (*).

Karine Halpern studied film in New York in the 80s, holds a Master in Public and PoliticalCommunication and a certification in "Médiation Culturelle" from the Conservatoire des Artset Métiers, Paris. She has founded and managed French associations dedicated to culturalcontent since 1990, conducting independent experimental work.

She created the wikipedia page for the term "transmedia" in French in December 2010.

The 7 Transmedia Families' Community on Facebook since 2010 > http://www.facebook.com/groups/TransmediaReady02/

The prototype on Pinterest > http://pinterest.com/TransmediaReady

Presentation & documents > https://fr.slideshare.net/KHwork/transmedia-mix-production-framework-franais

"Transmedia is to the media what contemporary art is to the arts" Karine Halpern, 2011

@KHenthusiasm is @TransmediaReady

PROPOSAL

Comes the occasion to look at what happened. Convergence culture. Media convergence. Then what? We knew, in 2010, as we were discussing, among practitioners and artists, together with some researchers ans scholars, those whom were present in the social networks threads, we knew that the need for a methodology was going to increase because the professions were already handling too much changes, and way too fast.

In this presentation I will give a feedback of the experiment that was produced in 2014 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, called “Transmedia Mix”. This special format of workshop was made as a proof of concept for the methodology I propose for transmedia creation. I will explain the set up, the framework, the production of the workshop and its activities, and the results we have barely shared up to now. It is a result of several years of experimentation.

I will also illustrate the story of this collaborative and open event with real life stories about the international transmedia community I have facilitated and/or observed between 2009 and 2015. I will explain why I did this and how my experimental and independent research led me to universities, and, then, finally, hold me back because of the lack of understanding about transdisciplary work. Sidestories, back stories and anecdotes will mix with the history of the term transmedia, together with some pictures and screen shots (audio is also available for archives only).

The talk will also produce feedback of the 5 years experiment with the coaching tool I created called the “7 Transmedia Families”, a card game, about professions, specialties, skills and talent to be intertwined in a transmedia production.

(*) Transmedia MIX, 2014 (Paris & online)

> http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/ateliers/transmediamix/?lang=fr_fr

Press Release and partners > http://bit.ly/2f4B9Ml

Pictures > http://tinyurl.com/lk9em6m

The Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou welcomes TransmediaMIX, a MIX betweenthe BARCAMP and the HACKATHON formulas staged in order to cocreate a transmedia project proof ofconcept, a cooperative collaboratively generated artistic work, within an original Storyworld aboutCHANGEMAKERS and EDUCATION.

This CHALLENGE will re-contextualize the term transmedia with the help of online on site mentors andmediators.

The work & methodology resulting from this cooperative event can be repeated with similar groups in othercultures and countries. The generic theme, "The agents of change and education" is being discussed onlinewith #transmdiaMIX and @Storyhacking (former @storycoding).

Preregistered participants are supervised and mentored according to their wishes and skills. Everyone is aparticipant, everybody wins, the challenge is focused on achieving a project proof of concept, starting withcreating parameters and guidelines for the realization of a work in Creative Commons or Copyleft.

Karine Halpernkarine@transmediaready.com+33 6 52 29 75 10skype : karinehalpern