Pioneer of the converging worlds of TV and Digital Media visits Falmouth
Friday, 06 November 2009
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As part of University College Falmouth's Professorial Lecture Series, award-winning creative producer for Granada, Channel 4, Microsoft and the BBC; Founder of Illumina Digital, an award-winning multiplatform production company; and Chair of the National Skills Council for Digital Media, Andrew Chitty, will be visiting the university college on Wednesday 11 November to discuss the seven myths that drive the digital economy.
Andrew has been a pioneer in the converging worlds of television and digital media since the mid 90s when, as Editor of BBC 2's, The Net, he was responsible for the BBC's first website and virtual world. In 1998 Andrew founded Illumina Digital, and has since built it into the UK's leading cross platform production company, winning a raft of awards including four British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTAs), eight Royal Television Society Awards, the UN Award for e-learning and even a Golden Ladle for the world's best cookery site. In 2008, Illumina joined All3Media, the UK's largest independent production group.
Andrew has been active in policy and industry groups, co-authoring OFCOM's paper, New Options for Public Service in the Digital Age, and has advised Lord Stephen Carter as a member of the ministerial steering board for the Digital Britain Report.
"The aim of UCF's Professorial Lecture series is to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni; our research collaborators; our industry partners; our local communities and other supporters," explains UCF's Deputy Rector, Professor Geoff Smith. "We are delighted to provide our creative community with the opportunity to hear resident and visiting professors share their insights, provoke debate and redefine creative excellence in the process, and hope that as many people as possible will attend."
The event is open to the public and will take place at 6.30pm on Wednesday 11 November in the Chapel Lecture Theatre at the Tremough Campus in Penryn. Tickets are free and available from The Poly in Falmouth's Church Street either by collection from the Box Office or by calling 01326 212300 to reserve.
UCF's autumn term programme of Professorial Lectures will continue with UCF's resident Professor of Illustration, Alan Male, who will be discussing The Visualisation of Species: A Natural Selection of Original Expositions into the Evolution of Life through Illustration, on Thursday 26 November.
For further information about University College Falmouth's Professorial Lecture Series, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/events
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.
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