Creative strategist, founder of the Think & Do Tank « Transmedia Ready » in 2010. Advocating for better practices in communication, innovation, transmedia design and strategies. Karine worked in the cultural industries since 1990. Analyst, catalyst, social artist, complex projects manager, curator, speaker, author, teacher, researcher => Progress Maker with Human Values.
Researcher – Author – Speaker
- 2025: Transmédialité et Politique, avec E.A. Amato, Chapitre d’ouvrage, Cahiers de champs visuels, L’Harmattan (à paraître)
- 2025 : Symposium international, Paris, « Le Management Public à l’épreuve des Réseaux », Le Réseau Ad Hoc au secours de l’innovation sociale (à venir)
- 2024: Guest researcher, Innovation Campus, Western Kentucky University (with a grant from Région Ile de France) https://cocreate-ic.com/living_lab/
- 2024: Seminar Patrimoines et Mémoires Numériques (GDR Internet et Société CNRS), présentation: « Méthodologie composite et mise en valeur des corpora numériques”, https://patnum.hypotheses.org/385
- 2023: Biennale « Transmedia », colloque “Transmédialité et Politique”, Université de Toulon. Speaker (vidéo en français, http://bit.ly/3DJQ3Dz)
- 2023 – Colloque “Design, retour aux sources. A l’intersection du design d’expérience”, école de design de l’université de Laval, Canada
- 2023 – Speaker, “Complexity Adventures” Biannual Summit
- 2022 – Journée d’étude, Institut National pour l’Education Artistique et Culturelle (CNAM). L’EAC à travers ses ressources. L’Orchestration des spécialités. https://soundcloud.com/search?q=karine%20halpern
- 2022 – Writing residency, Innovation Campus, Western Kentucky University
- 2015 – Masterclass, Réseau Canopé, Nîmes, France
- 2015 – Conference, Carré d’Art Library, Nîmes, France
- 2013 – Conference and coaching, X Media Lab, Lausanne. Communique: https://fr.slideshare.net/KHwork/x-media-lab-switzerland-2013
- 2013 – Contributor, Transvergence Summit, Los Angeles
- 2013 – Speaker, Era Transmidia, Sao Paulo, Brazil (honorific member) https://www.slideshare.net/eratransmidia
- 2012 – Colloque « C tout com”, Sup’ Info Com Business school, Nantes https://www.flickr.com/photos/119282122@N02/with/12910761134/
- 2011 – Conference, Journées d’études (Les cultures numériques), « Le concept de narration transmédia : Quelle place dans la culture ? » (curated by Y. Vernet. Région PACA, Association Générale des Conservateurs des Collections Publiques de France). Video in French: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpdwy7 – Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/yannick_vernet/sets/72157628210461659/with/6426987099/
- 2011 – Masterclass for the 10th International Film Students Meeting, San Sebastian Film Festival, and workshop for Arteleku-Tabakalera Centre for Creation, video itv by Tabakala: https://vimeo.com/103110675
- 2011 – Speaker, Storyworld Conference & Expo., San Francisco, http://www.storyworldconference.com/ehome/20801/29629/ – “Story Architecture: Crafting Transmedia Design”: https://www.slideshare.net/KHwork/story-architecture-crafting-transmedia-design-9999285
- 2011 – Workshop, DIY Days, Los Angeles. Photos by Karine Halpern: https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipN2PJKJQfUcMz3URmSOdllursamTCwgi_bu93aO
- 2011 – Speaker, Marseille Web Fest 1st edition, France
Education
- Ph.D. : Orchestration of Transmedia Design for all Organizations, DICEN IdF Paris, France, https://www.dicen-idf.org/membre/halpern-karine/
- Master « Communication Publique et Politique en France et Europe », Université Paris Est Créteil, 2012
- Certification in “Médiation Culturelle”, 2009, Paris, France
- Prep. Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media, Hunter College, City University of New York
Teaching – Training – Mentorship
- Since 2022: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université Catholique de l’Ouest (Nantes), Université Nice Côte d’Azur
- 2020 – 2021 – Tutor for French Elected Representatives
- 2016 – Coach « Startups Weekends », multiple contributions to Open Culture via Barcamps, Hackathons, & Meetups
- 2014 – Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’image (IESI Art school) http://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article6281
- 2012 – Sciences Po.,Grenoble, Master Transmedia https://www.academia.edu/1236839/
- 2012 – Université de Franche-Comté, STGI Montbéliard
- 2012 – Cross Media Lab 1st Edition, Dok Leipzig Festival
- CEFPF (Conservatoire Européen de la Formation en Production de Film, Paris) & ICCOM (Institut de Management Culturel, Paris)
Multidisciplinary Artist (Author, Residencies & Creative Events)
- Member of the French Writers Guild (SGDL n°23785)
- 2023 – Author (creative non-fiction), « Wild Crone Wisdom», Wild Librarians Press, https://www.wildlibrarianpress.com
- 1990 – 2005 – Filmmaker https://www.youtube.com/c/KarineHalpern
- 2022 – Podcast « Flamboyant Grays » https://flamboyantgrays.com/2023/01/karine-halpern
- 2014 – Research residency, producer of the Transmedia Mix, Institute for Research and Innovation, Centre Pompidou, Paris (a Transdisciplinary Hackathon for Changemakers and Education ».
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- Communique: http://bit.ly/2f4B9Ml –
- Main site: https://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/evenement/futur-en-seine-2014/
- Book by Emmanuel Bethoux: https://amzn.to/2tlrDbH
- Photos Album : https://goo.gl/photos/dXDEUsHmo6VssTM99
- IRI – Polemic Tweet « Transmedia MIX LIVE » June 14 – 15, 2014 http://polemictweet.com/fens2014-transmediamix/client.php
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- 2011 – Creator of the “7 Transmedia Families” Real life game and methodology for transmedia design – https://transmediaready.com/7-transmedia-families-galerie/ – Launch, Madrid, 2011: https://goo.gl/photos/8wn5q7VQZP4v97nD6
- Directory of talent and practitioners, first ever group for transmedia in 2010 (Please join the « Transmedia Alliance » in Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3936224/).
- 2010 – Residency: « Transmedia Live Storm », La Générale, Paris
- Creator of the Wikipedia page in French for « transmedia » Dec. 2010
- Founder, launch of the Think & Do Tank « Transmedia Ready »
- Curator, facilitator and producer of the live hybrid event, an online open fremium conference with worldwide practitionners (coproduced and codirected BY Pierre Côté, Montréal)
- Transmedia Brain Storm (prep.) by Emmanuel Bethoux (Dec. 16, 2010): https://youtu.be/IQL522c7Kt8
- « Transmedia Ready …une histoire…des brainstormers” by Emmanuel Bethoux (“Join the Experimental “): https://youtu.be/gesWkYbZG9g
- « Transmedia Ready, des brainstormers, bientôt une histoire » by Emmanuel Bethoux: https://youtu.be/ZPHPt_yqGK4
- « Objet transmédia non identifié », reportage La Télé Libre, Paris, Dec. 2010: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgkkpe_objet-transmedia-non-identifie_creation
- 2005 – « Dis-moi 10 mots », a transmedia experience for the French Ministry of Culture – 10th anniversary of the national event on French language (Semaine de la langue française et des langues de France) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0D7221FC25312FDE
- 2003 – « Cannes Memories », commissioned project
- 2001 – « 2001, année de la santé mentale en Belgique », creative documentary (RTBF, Communauté française de Belgique)
- 1999 – « Que demander de plus ? » creative documentary, Cinedoc
- 1994-1995 – « My Woodstock », creative documentary film on the 25th Anniversary of the Music & Art Fair in Woodstock 94′ (https://youtu.be/vGn9jToskNA English, shot in Hi8, edited on Avid)
- 1990 – « Le ridicule tue ! » (“Ridiculous Kills!”), short fiction, grant French Ministry of Youth and Kodak, released in theaters, television, video, web and international festivals.
Curator – Cultural Engineering – Facilitator – Moderator
- 2024 -Transmedia Mix 2, Innovation Campus, Western Kentucky University
- 2017 – « CryptoPartyCamp », Institute for Research and Innovation, Centre Pompidou, Paris (NextLeap research project, Mains d’Oeuvres)
- 2014 – Transmedia Mix 1, Centre Pompidou, IRI, Région Ile de France
- 2013 – Speaker, South by South West (SXSW Interactive Festival), Austin Texas. Launch of « Transmedia Alliance », non-profit association, founder & president – Linkedin group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3936224 (formerly called « Transmedia Europe », pioneering the « Network of Networks » for international cooperation.
- 2010 – 2017 – “Transmedia France and Alliance”, non profit, internal, numerous Meetups. Launch of the first international group for transmedia around the world (Dec. 2010)
- 2012 – 2011
- Festival du Film de Vendôme, Centre Image, France
- 1st Cross Video Days, Paris
- 1st Marseille Web Fest
- TedX Transmedia, Rome
- Musée de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Festival du Jeu
- 2011 – Camon Madrid Transmedia Living Lab, curated by Fernando Carrion. Launched of the “7 Transmedia Families” real life game, to transform into common knowledge and creative thinking about transmedia.
- Photos Camon Madrid: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tucamon/sets/72157626817529288/
- Photos Karine Halpern: https://goo.gl/photos/8wn5q7VQZP4v97nD6
- Day #1 (May 27th, 2011): workshop with Karine Halpern and Fernando Carrion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8pNwOwY-Yw
- 2011 – TransmediaCamp, Marseille, France, open culture 2 days Barcamp event: http://barcamp.org/w/page/39375003/Transmedia-Ready-Think-Do-Tank
- Photos MatGim.: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plannerbird/sets/72157626666091490/
- Blog et photos Anne Astier: https://tournicoton-art-gallery.blogspot.com/2011/05/transmediacamp-marseille-78-mai-2011.html
- Blog Ulrich Fisher: https://blog.walking-the-edit.net/adaptation/marseille-et-la-marche/
- 1998 – Full HD film screening in theater, mentor Catherine Deneuve, Polygone, Barco, Brussels
- 1998 – Juror, French American Film Workshop, Avignon
- 1997 – American Film Festival, Deauville, very first short films section: « Shorts under the stars » (Philip Morris – Public Système – Radio Nova, Ariel Wizman, Edouard Baer)
- 1995 – 1996 – Festival International du Film de Bruxelles, Curator and producer of the program “America Meets Europe”
- 1996 – «The long and the short of the French Cinema», Bleeket Street Cinema, New York
- 1990 – 1995 – “Fenêtre sur Courts », non profit association, Paris, founder and President, regular film screenings and events (Cinémathèque Française, Festival de Cannes, New York, Agfa, Champagne Lété, Kronenbourg, Unifrance Films, Alliances Françaises, Ambassade de France)
- 1990 – 1995 – “Independents Showcase”, promotion of the American indie cinema, liaison bureau for International Media Ressources, New York (IFP, Cannes, Berlin)
- 1995 – Cannes Film Festival Opening Gala for the French Ministry of Culture
- 1991 – Cinémathèque Française, festival «Les Droits de l’Homme» (Jean Rouch)
Services & Formulas
We provide workshops formulas to become transmedia ready: bootcamps, training, masterclasses, conferences, or generative workshops. Transforming your project, your communication strategy, your prototype, using our Methodology and Directory.
Pick a Workshop Formula and Format:
- BESPOKE WORKSHOPS
- BARCAMPS or HACKATHON
- TRANDMEDIA MIX (=> Barcamp + Hackathon in a soft version, our proof of concept format with the Institute for Research & Innovation of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014)
- MASTERCLASSES
- MASTERMIND GROUPS
- DESIGN THINKING
Our emphasis is on how each one is making its own appreciation of the project and concepts. We help build or optimize your assets. We advocate for transmedia storytelling and design, participatory culture, sense-making, sustainability, including branding. Our Directory is a database of the experts in each domain that we intertwine.
- Create, improve, sustain
- Create the ad-hoc ecosystem and insert creativity at all stages
- Transfert the evolving knowledge to your creative design and implementation
- Foster and sharp inception and optimization of social web
- Benefit from our community, experts, artists, researchers & practitioners.
KICKSTART YOUR WORKSHOP: from 1/2 day to 3 days with or without a prepared project. Facilitation starts before the workshop to set up your own parameters.
* BARCAMPS: Inspired and typical of the open innovation this format gets everyone in the making, because everyone think & do.
* HACKATHONS: Coders code, hackers hack, geeks ping & poke. But what about the non-coders and storytellers? We make sure that all participants use their specialties, getting immersed in the wild of creative production.
2015, American Digital Lab // Connecting Cultures.
Our incubation in the 1st digital and creative lab of the French government in New York in 2015: American Digital Lab // Connecting Cultures.
Transmedia Ready was in NYC for the first session of the FRENCH AMERICAN DIGITAL LAB. The programme has many partners including Business France and the New Media Center in New York, and is conducted by the Cultural Services of the French embassy.
The theme is #Storytelling, meaning for us « immersive storytelling » to refer to the work developed these latest years by practitioners in the fiels of media, culture and the arts, with the digital tools of the 21st century.
What we are trying to do since 2010:
- inspire creative ways of making sense
- communicate with quality design and the arts
- foster the participatory and digital culture
- work in a cross cultural ecosystem
This takes place in many ways (events, workshops, trainings, masterclasses, coaching and social media campaigns) but our core asset is the methodology we have developped over the years embodied in the artefact of the 7 Transmedia Families, a card deck and real life game, together with our directory of experts and talent around the world. This is a design thinking tool for innovation in communication and transmedia design.
In the era of a never-ending internet expansion, there are almost no boundaries to access culture and the cultural heritage. Yet, museums are one of the very few places where the time often seems not to have accelerated. Websites, audioguide, visioguides, mobile games do already exist in an increasing number of organisations, but some of the most remarkable characteristics of the internet age rarely prevail, among which its worldwide real-time and social interconnectivity.
Based on a unique experience in the field of transmedia and serious gaming, Transmedia Ready proposes a revolutionary approach to cultural mediation through a worldwide scalable concept of transmedia strategies that links artworks, curators and visitors from different museums in a common modular gaming platform. This is possible by working with our Directory of talent and experts. Based on this holistic approach, we foster and facilitate a cultural bridges. Transmedia Ready has developped a workshop format to optimize the assets of a creative project, or a communication campaign, based on an innovative methodology. Storytelling is at the very heart of our concept and is one of the key element that enable to link the different versions of a transmedia experience. But not only…
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