Posted 28 January 2008. Worthington International Friendship Association held a meeting at Worthington Education Center, 200 E. Wilson Bridge Road. Worthington, Ohio on 16 January. Videoconferencing was used to illustrate a "Building Bridges to China" discussion.
 
The audience was connected with artists from the new folk art museum in Pingdu, China . The small Wort...   (read article)

9 January 2008. Polycom joined forces with Athena on a programme called Rock IT to encourage young musicians to share their musical talents via video-conferencing and online music forums/blogs in the UK.

Rock IT is a national competition in its fifth year open to all secondary schools that enables student rock bands to truly show their passion for their music to judges...   (read article)

8 January 2008. The Cleveland Museum of Art, which started its own program in distance learning seven years ago, has one of the most sophisticated videoconferencing center of any museum; it is widely acknowledged as a leader in the field among American art museums. The museum averages 800 videoconferences a year and reaches 16,000 to 19,500 participants at about 130 schools in ...   (read article)

3 January 2007. Berklee College of Music announces the City Music Network. This is a new partnership with community organizations across the U.S. to deliver high-quality contemporary music instruction to underserved youth. It reperesents a dramatic expansion of the college’s groundbreaking, Boston-based City Music program.

Partner sites will plug into a virtual City Mus...   (read article)

                       
28 August 2006.  Create high definition video communications and a host of new applications become possible and relevant. The latest new use for LifeSize Room is remote viewing of art.

The American artist Peter Max is to cond...   (read article)

 20 April  2006. When Internet2 holds its annual Spring Member Meeting from April 24-26, 2006 in Arlington, VA, four IDEA Awards will be presented. One of these is for “Interactive Music Education”, a videocnferencing application described below.

These award-winning collaborators and their affiliated organizations have changed the face of music education in th...   (read article)

1 July 2005. The Live 8 music event held in London's Hyde Park on 2 July 2005 used VoIP to  deliver secure and reliable communication for site and production managers; broadcast teams; administration personnel; press, emergency services, security staff; and the performers themselves. The solution was provided by Avaya’s UK Business Partner Siptel.

The Internet Protocol (IP) telepho...   (read article)

26 October, 2005 ­ Polycomhas announced that Silverpenny a band from  Lord Williams's School, has beaten 13 other school bands from across the West Midlands to win Rock Idol, 2005.  The competition, which took place on Wednesday 19 October, was organised by ATHENA,  Excellence in Cities Education Action Zone and was held to coincide with Birmingham's Excellence in Cities Week...   (read article)

11 July 2005. The Italian art dealer, Agorarte represents a new perspective for the world of contemporary art, offering a new approach for both the artist and the client. From young emerging artists to affirmed masters, both Italian and International, Agorarte offers its clientele a wide variety of artwork. The company certifies the authenticity and origin of every piece, selects artists throug...   (read article)

20 June 2005. When Kevin Callahan started offering classical guitar lessons over an Internet video link, he wanted the sound to be as close as possible to being in the same room, wrote Peter Wayner in a recent edition of the New York Times.

After experimenting, Kevin built a system that channeled three guitars, a microphone and an orchestral synthesizer through a professional mixing boa...   (read article)

8 March 2005. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is one the country’s largest modern and contemporary art museums and a top attraction in one of the USA’s most visited cities. The Picture is from Jeremy Blake’s suite of digital animations on DVD, the Winchester trilogy.

To better serve its 50,000 members, local patrons and scores of visiting tourists, SFMOMA has implemented...   (read article)