AIR-Interactive 2009
The 2009 Accessiblity Internet Rally (AIR) Interactive Competition and Dewey Award celebration:
"We are honored to be among such generous people and amazing talent," said Knowbility.org's Sharron Rush as she gave welcoming remarks at the AIR-Interactive and the Dewey Winburne Community Service awards ceremony, held on Monday night, March 16, at the Music Gym on East 6th Street in Austin. Sharron noted that for this year’s AIR-Interactive competition, more than 100 professionals teamed up to create ten accessible Web sites for local artists.
Next up was Hugh Forrest, co-founder of SxSw Interactive and Chair of AIR-Interactive. Hugh honored the 2009 Dewey nominees and shared the idea that the annual Dewey Award celebrates a profound, yet profoundly simple idea: that new media can serve as a bridge between the haves and the have nots in our society.
Knowbility and the SXSW Interactive say, “Thank You!” to our volunteers and many other participants who visited our booth at the SXSW trade show, celebrated with us on Monday night at the party, and helped make this year’s AIR-Interactive and the Dewey Winburne awards a great success.
And the AIR Interactive winners are:
- First Place:
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Team Name: "5 under 30"
Artist Name: Numeralia
URL: http://colbathsistersdesign.com/numeralia/ - Second Place:
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Team Name: The Dundies
Artist Name: John Pointer
URL: http://johnpointer.wbx-staging2.com - Third Place:
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Team Name: Fresh AIR
Artist Name: Russell Scanlon
URL: http://www.russellscanlon.com/ - People’s Choice:
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The Trady Bunch
Artist Name: Austin Museum of Art
URL: http://amoainteractive.trademarkmedia2.com
Please Check out the other wonderful sites created in AIR-Interactive 2009:
| Artist / Npo Name | Team Match | URL |
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| Anthropos Arts | C.A.D. "Control -Alt-Delete" | http://www.anthropos.org/newsite/ |
| DH Designs | ConAIR | http://ouroborosproject.com/ |
| Good Medicine Productions | Scrambled Eggheads | http://www.gretchenstoeltje.com/index.php |
| Jonah Ministry "The ReViVe Project" | Refresh Austin | http://reviveproject.com |
| Paul Drown | Insane in the Mainframe | http://pauldrown.wbx-staging.com |
Thanks again to all of you who help make our programs possible!
AIR-Interactive is brought to you by the generous contributions of our sponsors:
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
