USC Cinematic Arts

Previous Events

Alternate Histories of Our Future // Berlinale Talents 2019

Feb 11–13, 2019

Science of Fiction // Spaceship Fuller

May 4, 2017 2:00–6:00 pm

The kick-off event for the Spaceship Earth 2050 project.

Future Cities: Surveillance, Spectacle, World Building for Rebellion // Berlinale Talents 2017

Feb 13, 2017 5:00–6:30 pm

Frontera // Women of the Wall

Oct 21–22, 2016

BAM Bogota Audiovisual Market 2016

Jul 11–15, 2016

International Summit Uses World Building Approach at Colombia’s Bogota Audiovisual Market

Migratory Narratives: The Future World of the Refugee Camp // Berlinale Talents 2016

Feb 14–16, 2016

Wbi at bigSTORY Conference // The 5th Annual Quantum Storytelling Conference

Dec 17–19, 2015

Wbi at Bogotá Audiovisual Market

Jul 14, 2015

Paris Photo // The Sound and Vision Conversations

May 12, 2015

Wbi at FMX 2015

May 5–8, 2015

Berlinale Talents 2015 // Imaginary Worlds: Exploring the Unknown

Feb 8, 2015 1:00–2:30 pm

Science of Fiction 2014

Oct 24–26, 2014

An annual international discussion space for the future of storytelling, featuring a collaborative world build

5D at FMX 2014 // Pipe Dreams

Apr 25, 2014 10:00 am–5:00 pm

Where creation meets production in Animated Feature world-building

Lucy McRae: Living on the edge between the body, imagination and the future

Apr 22, 2014 @ 6:00 pm

Transforming Hollywood 5 // The Future of Television

Apr 4, 2014 9:00 am–7:30 pm

Leviathan: The Evolution of Storytelling

Jan 6–10, 2014

An Immersive Story Experience at CES

Re-imagining Story // Cinegrid International Workshop 2013

Dec 9, 2013

Designing the World of Gravity

Nov 22, 2013 3:30–5:30 pm

Q&A with guest presenter, Andy Nicholson, Production Designer.

Design Manchester 13

Oct 31, 2013

5D World Builders and founder members Malcolm Garrett and Andrew Shoben will be appearing at the great Design Manchester 13 festival.

RioSeminars @ Festival do Rio 2013

Oct 7, 2013

Alex McDowell will be presenting with fellow 5D collaborator, Tod Machover.

X Media Lab Switzerland

Sep 27–29, 2013

Meet the transmedia producers + designers for Avatar, Fight Club, Minority Report, Pirates of the Caribbean, Company of Heroes, Lord of the Rings, Ferrero, Penguin Books and more!

Perception and Action in Immersive Worlds // ASSC 17 Satellite Symposium

Jul 16, 2013

A Satellite Symposium Highlighting the Emerging Interface Between the Realms of Human Perception and Action and Immersive Media

5D at FMX 2013 // Lean, smart and agile

Apr 23–26, 2013

This year, 5D will lead an day-long track on the importance of World Building as the foundation of transmedia and virtual production.

5D’s Sound of Fiction // ft. Groundislava

Apr 13–14, 2013, 9pm–2am

Groundislava, Ben Stokes, Scott Pagano, Ryan Heffington & Co.

The Science of Fiction // World Building In Action

Apr 13, 2013

The Science of Fiction will bring together leading minds from a wide spectrum of creative and scientific fields to imagine and create new worlds on the borderland between art and science.

5D at the 2013 Berlinale Talent Campus

Feb 9–14, 2013

5D Institute will partner with the Berlinale Talent Campus to present the future of immersive design and World Building.

The City & The Book

Sep 20–21, 2012, 7pm–10pm

5D Institute in association with USC School of Cinematic Arts presents the third 5D | flux world building and transmedia summit

Connecting With the Future // USITT 2012

Mar 29, 2012 9:30–10:45 am

5D | Flux // Digital design & world building in the narrative media landscape

Mar 13–15, 2012, 7pm–10pm

5D at the 2012 Berlinale Talent Campus

Feb 13, 2012

5D at 2011 Netherlands Film Festival // Craftspecial on Production Design

Sep 24, 2011

5D is pleased to announce an important partner event in Holland, the Netherlands Film Festival, September 21-30, 2011.

5D at Digital Storytelling // World Building in a Digital Universe

Apr 13–15, 2011

Transmedia, Hollywood 2 // Visual Culture and Design

Apr 8, 2011

Breaking the Box // 21st Century Collaboration Challenge

Mar 10, 2011 9:30–10:45 am

5D at the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus

Feb 15, 2011

5D at FITC 2010

Aug 17–19, 2010

Embedded Narrative: Evolving Perspectives on Immersive Design // Mundos Digitales 2010

Jul 9, 2010

5D at FMX 2010

May 7, 2010

A Bigger Bang // Hammer Museum

Apr 22, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

The Future of Theater Minds in Immersive Design // USITT 2010

Apr 3, 2010

Ensuring the Future of Humans on Earth is a Design Problem

Feb 14, 2010 1:00–3:00 pm

How can designers work with scientists to set the stage for a major shift in our Earth’s trajectory by visualizing new possibilities through storytelling and immersive experience?

5D at Sundance 10 // Cinerama Futurama

Jan 2010

The Language of World Building // Design is Change, Hammer Museum

Dec 3, 2009 @ 6:00 pm

The second in the 5D | DisC series “How Storytelling Can Change the World”

Fast and Fantastic

Nov 29, 2009

Architecture of Sound

Nov 14, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

Imagination At Play // Replay Your World

Oct 29, 2009

5D at Boards Summit // Building Fiction

Oct 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm

Building Digital Worlds for Immersive Narrative Experiences // Mundos Digitales 2009

Jul 9, 2009 4:30–6:30 pm

This special panel will focus on design, within the theme of immersive experience in digital worlds.

How We Play // Game Innovation and the Significance of Play

Jun 2009

The Collaborative Process of Visual Effects // From Previs To Post

Jun 2009

The Intersection of Architecture & Art Design

Jun 2009

5D at FMX 2009

May 5–8, 2009

5D at Sundance 09 // Created Worlds

Feb 2009

5D Conference 2008 // An International Conference

Apr 12, 2008