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Distributed Aesthetics Abound

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 [...]

I’ve just been hacked

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 [...]

Books into the Mix

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 [...]