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Death of a Blog,Birth of a Podcast

Well,not quite ‘death’but an indefinite hiatus. I’m powering down this blog for a few reasons,one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I’ve tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work and this blog,but found the mindsets are somewhat incompatable. I’ve decided therefore [...]

“Distributed Narratives”:“She Loves the Moon”by The Strangers

In 2004,well-known academic Jill Walker Rettberg (who among other things did a great piece a few years ago about the online drama Online Caroline by XPT) published a great paper called Distributed Narrative:Telling Stories Across Networks:

A new kind of narrative is emerging from the network:the distributed narrative. Distributed narratives don’t bring media [...]

Networked Art Competition:Mixed Realities Commissions

I was very happy to see this,a multi-place commission:

AVENUES OF INVESTIGATION:we are looking for works that (1) bridge multiple realities while maintaining autonomy;(2) engage the user as a participant;(3) include the dynamics of both one-to-one and one-to-many communication within the work;(4) require collaboration between artists,programmers,[...]