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Forty-three experts will bring the future of new media in all its forms into the present for the 1,500 attendees expected to attend the Sept. 15-16 Chicago New Media Summit at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

They will explore the opportunities at hand created by the convergence and emergence of new digital components and industries, said Summit founder/president John Patterson.

Hadrian’s Wall has come down in the best way possible. Hot Toronto creative agency Zig purchased majority interest in the feisty, five year-old Chicago boutique, effective Nov. 20.

Hadrian’s Wall founders Kevin Lynch and Steve Carli remain as principals and Carli is also managing director of the Chicago office.

Zig’s philosophy is “ideas in their most powerful form,” and bills itself as “the small agency working for big brands. Indeed, it’s A-list client roster includes Ikea, Molson, Best Buy Canada, Unilever and Virgin Mobile Canada.

Deborah Stratman didn’t speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary “Kings of the Sky.”

Without a translator, the UIC film teacher spent four months on tour with a circus troupe led by Adil Hoxur, the leading practitioner of Dawaz, the traditional tightrope-walking style of the Uyghur Muslim ethnic minority.

In “Kings of the Sky” Stratman paints an impressionistic portrait of Hoxur and his art, symbols of cultural and nationalist pride for the oppressed Uyghur.