  urlLink Jim Lai reports on Digifest 2002 in the new issue of Mindjack. I didn't have much in the way of expectations going in to Digifest 2002; pretty pictures, glitzy art/advertising pieces, and possibly some cool tech.
I was pleasantly surprised by the breadth and depth of the presentations. Wednesday night. Hit the media session and got to see some graphics on a really big screen. The theme of this international digital media festival was the "4-D challenge", to go beyond the third dimension. I would deem this festival to be a success overall, as by the end of the festival it would be apparent that there was much speculation on what constitutes this fourth dimension. Now that I've spoiled the ending and gotten that out of the way, on with the festival itself. The original vision was for local (Toronto) participation, but it quickly expanded in scope with the arrival of international submissions.
There was a soirbefore the keynote where attendees could snack on catered food and mingle. Quite a few people were there, many of them either dressed hip or stylishly. I almost felt that I was underdressed, but I just put on my best casual face and it was all cool. Business cards flowed like water. 
