They approach the podium. The screen goes dark, then blue. There is some struggling with cords and configurations. Fingers and bodies struggle with the oppressive apparatus, and conquer it. Their title and names appear on the screen. Then we begin.
Montfort, looking dapper in a trademark wrinkle-free button down blue shirt, black pants, black shoes and […]
I really enjoyed the ELINOR reading Friday night at the Copenhagen LiteraturHaus. I get so used to seeing the same crowd of folks presenting work in electronic literature, that it’s always a wonderful and pleasant shock to see people from other parts of the world than the one I’m accustomed to exploring ways of working […]
Matt Kirschenbaum just sent out an exciting announcement about a new journal that will serve as a forum for scholarly and creative work in electronic media. Digital Humanities Quarterly will publish scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, web sites, new media art, and digital humanities systems. Importantly, this will […]
Every night for 1001 nights, Barbara Campbell is performing a short text-based work via web video. Her project 1001 Nights Cast is structured around the frame of tale of Scheherazade and 1001 nights. Participants contribute stories through the following procedure: each morning Campbell wakes and scans the headlines for a short phrase to use as […]
After much deliberation, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 60 Second Story Competition.
The judges selected “Charles” by Steve Himmer as the winner of the first 60 Second Story Competition, citing its humor, clarity, and completeness as a story. Steve will be receiving a one-minute supply of chocolate, and a one inch by […]
Trains, A Group Show
TRAINS: www.catherinejamieson.com/trains
This is a cool project derived from group activity from flickr. One flickr photographer, Catherine Jamieson, put out a call for train pictures, and then organized a nicely curated online exhibition, categorizing different types of shots. An excellent example of the kind of collective artistic activity that could only take […]
An interesting variant on the Nigerian scam spam, I got this message in my inbox today, the participation in which, I think, would technically constitute bank fraud and treason as well as foolishness. Maybe they’re trying to enlist the pigeons in crimes to keep them from squaking:
ASSALAM ALLAIKUM,
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Today’s New York Times offers an article that investigates the origins of the joystick and credits it as one of the most overlooked acheivements of the last century.
Thursday night Jill and I attended the launch party for the Contagious Media Showdown and produced this report on the event.
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I should be clear about a couple of things. One is that while the 60 second story competition is an entry in the Contagious Media Showdown, the project doesn’t have a […]
We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much time for them. Most digital cameras and webcams allow you to take one minute of video and audio at resolutions suitable for the web. The solution: 60 second stories, of course.
We are pleased to announce the 60 second story competition. 60 second […]
Drew Davidson passes along word of the recent fourth Media in Transition conference at MIT. From the list of abstracts and papers, it looks like the conference was indeed an interesting gathering, including quite a bit of work on nonlinearity in movies (e.g. “Run, Lola, Run: Film as a Narrative Database by Jim Bizzocchi), narrative […]
Got a “ridiculous and pointlesss” idea along the lines of The Dancing Baby, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, or The Star Wars Kid? Eyebeam is looking for such projects for their Contagious Media Showdown. Large cash prizes are involved: $2,000 for the project with the most page views, $1,000 for the first site […]
Yes you are!
“You Are Beautiful” is a meme-type sticker and installation art project, centered in Chicago but distributed around the world. The most cool thing about this project is how its creators taken a simple idea, a phrase that many people like to hear, and distributed it across multiple media, and then created a well-designed […]
A new memorymap group has formed at Flickr. People are annotating satellite maps from Google Maps of places that are important to them. I can see a lot of narrative potential in the form.
Yesterday, Mary Flanagan visited Stockton.
Mary Flanagan holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and studied film studies and experimental filmmaking. In the 1990s, Flanagan was a producer/designer at Human Code, an Austin based software developer, garnering over 20 international awards for titles produced for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and Knowledge Adventure.
Currently Flanagan's projects […]