Archive for June, 2005

Distributed Aesthetics Abound

UncategorizedPublished June 23, 2005 at 11:59 am No Comments

The notion of cross-media storytelling is creeping into academic and art. A sibling concept, ‘distributed aesthetics’, is being bandied about at a few ‘spaces’. Here are a couple in Australia: Fibreculture Journal: upcoming Distributed Aesthetics Issue It has been widely argued by sociologists, cultural and media theorists such as Manuel Castells, Arjun Appardurai and Geert
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I’ve just been hacked

UncategorizedPublished June 19, 2005 at 11:42 am No Comments

I changed my blogger ftp username and password yesterday and I get up today to find my site has been hacked with message left: irdex owns joo! None of my other websites were touched so I can only presume that blogger is currently unstable (for those that ftp to another server and don’t have their
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Books into the Mix

Creative Marketing Print WritingPublished June 18, 2005 at 11:09 am 2 Comments

I think books are an under-utilised media in cross-media projects. It is understandable to some extent — they take a long time to produce and are really a one-person job, whereas most other forms of entertainment (besides painting) can be/are more collaborative. Another reason why they are not utilised in cross-media works is because they
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