The Alternate Reality Gaming Network has started a podcast, well, netcast. It looks like they will be delivering ARG commentary every week, which is great news. Although the style of the show is casual, subjective chat, there are some gems for would-be ARG designers, researchers and marketers out there. So far there are two episodes … Read moreARGN Netcast
When I started in the digital effects industry as a producer I noticed that the best people in the business were distributed across companies, states and the world. You never had more a couple in the one company. I remember working discussing with AIMIA back then in the early 90s about how they can group … Read moreThe Ultimate New Marketing Company: Crayon
I found out about an ARG that had been created by some educators in Queensland and covered their research in the forthcoming (I hope it comes out soon) IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper. Well, just yesterday I flew down to Melbourne to be the external assessor for a class that had the project of creating an … Read moreARGs in Education
A colleague of mine, Peter Giles, Head of Digital Media at AFTRS, has written an interesting post on how animation lends itself to cross-media strategies.
On Friday night/Friday morning I presented my first inworld lecture inside the virtual world Second Life. Drawing from my articles in Slate Night Magazine, I spoke about the ‘Remediation of the Art Space in SL’. This lecture was part of a special session Anya Ixchel, the editor of Slate Night arranged for the New Media … Read moreMy InWorld Lecture and Alternate Reality Interview
Apologies for the late notice, but there has been an amazing week of events happening in Second Life. The New Media Consortium has been holding a 12 day Impact of Digital Media Symposium. The pic you see is an event I attended last night for the MacArthur Foundation press conference in to announce their $50 … Read moreInWorld Conference: come on in!
The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58, Fall 2006), spotlights film and TV narrative. There is a wonderful selection of papers with one by Jason Mittell: Keating, Patrick. Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives Newman, Michael Z. From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative Mittell, Jason. Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American … Read moreSpecial Journal Issue on TV Narrative
DAC, the premier international digital arts conference, will be in Perth next year with Beap. They have just announced the first stage of acceptances: The reviewing of the 230 abstracts has now been completed, and many thanks to the reviewers for the enormous task. In a process that turns out to have been highly competitive, … Read moreDAC in Australia
I’m way too busy again, so apologies for the lack of posting about interesting things happening around the world. Here is an update on what I’ve been doing though: Last week I did my first video skype lecture to students at the University of Western Australia on cross-media entertainment. It was for the Masters and Honours … Read moreUpdate
Here are two projects by wonderful colleagues of mine: Is Your House Killing You? was my team for LAMP. It will be on SBS soon, but at present there is a call for people to be on the TV show!: Put YOUR home under the microscope in our groundbreaking new science show ‘Is Your House Killing You?’ … Read moreIs Your House Killing You? and A Bullet Waits for You