Crossover Australia has been developed as a response to a nexus of developments in media, technology, and the culture at large. It is designed as an intervention, an event to kick things off and get things rolling, but it was also, by necessity, an evolutionary project.

The field we are addressing is constantly shifting. For that reason, built into the design of the Crossover Australia program is significant room for play - play as in fun stuff, and play as in readjustment.

The participants have time to discuss the history of media development as part of the forward thinking process.

"If you look at the emergence of film, it came from photo plays. It took more than 20 years to develop what we now call the language of filmmaking," said Marc Weiss, the director of Web Lab and Crossover who also created PBS's P.O.V. program. "Now, story tellers fluent in film language are mixing it up with 3D game developers, Web designers, even performance artists as they brainstorm new, digital and interactive ways of telling stories."

There are good reasons why we didn't develop Crossover Australia as a lecture series or seminar. We are inviting bright minds to come together and do what bright minds do - collaborate, clash, meander, mesh, and otherwise trash our brilliant plans for a meeting agenda.

We are looking for participants who are amenable to the overall structure we have in mind, but who are also willing to contribute to the development and elaboration of the Crossover Australia vision.