Archive for November, 2006

BBC Innovation Labs Looking for Cross-Media Solutions

Creative Cross-Media Courses Event Industry Mobile Radio TVPublished November 8, 2006 at 12:40 pm No Comments

The 2007 BBC Innovation Labs are now seeking ‘indies’ to get involved.
The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies from across England and Scotland to pitch ideas in response to a briefs
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Article on SL Art and Ulmer’s theories

Academia Creative Research Virtual Worlds WritingPublished November 2, 2006 at 12:11 am No Comments

I forgot to post about my latest SlateNight article. I review the Second Life artwork by academic and artist John Craig Freeman: Imaging Place. Here is a snippet from the article:

JC Fremont, a new resident to SL, aims to discover just how art in SL can disrupt. His flesh counterpart, John Craig FreemanĀ  is Associate
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My Review of McLuhan’s Understanding Me

Academia Research Virtual Worlds WritingPublished November 1, 2006 at 10:22 am 1 Comment

A few months ago David Silver asked me to review a book called Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews, put together by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines. My review, ‘From X-Ray Units as Space Heaters to iPods as Storage Devices‘, is now online.
Colleague Tama Leaver also has a review in the same issue. There is
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