christy Digital Fringe – Call for entries extended to September 27th Seeking Digital Art submissions Digital Fringe is a web based digital arts festival that connects to Melbourne via numerous screens throughout the city. Streaming live across the city of Melbourne (Australia), from the monster screen at Federation Square to a host of other screens around town, Digital Fringe will … Read moreDigital Fringe Call for Digital Art (Oz)
Oz Spade, the name of a Second Life resident, has created this handy comparison chart of the functions of Second Life, There and Active Worlds.
Got this heads up from Tom’s site. The next DiGRA in 2007 looks like they’re got their finger on the pulse. They say, among other points that we need to analyse games from a variety of different perspectives. It is wonderful to see this after I just gave a talk championing multiple-perspectives and how we … Read moreDIGRA2007 is on the ball
Yep, you read it right. I’m presenting my theory on Mono-Polymorphism tomorrow (Friday Sept 15th) at Sydney University at a talk I was invited to give. 🙂 Mono-Polymorphism: A Paradigm for Understanding Cross-Media Entertainment Christy Dena In the age of cross-media production works are distributed over time and space like never before. A story can … Read moreMy Next Academic Talk: Mono-Polymorphism
A heads up from Mysdirection informs me of this wonderful prank performance created by the Improv Everywhere team. Their latest mission was to have a team member act lost at the Yankee stadium during a game. He kept appearing but just couldn’t hear his mates yelling and waving at him. This continued for a while until … Read moreWhere's Rob?
Ah geez, it is fun saying that: Get Outta My Face! But really, it is the name of a project, a very exciting project that has been started by five teens in Central Oregon. They are sick of big company advertisements that prescribe correct dietary behaviour with “lame” motivations like “eat THIS on the new food pyramid” or “turn … Read moreGet Outta My Face!
As with all conjured universes that have a premature ending or unpopulated grid, the Whedonverse, specifically Firefly and Serenity verse, has been persisted by fans. There are some wonderful fanfics such as the fan-made TV-series Into the Black and the live-action paromage (what I call a parody that is a homage) Mosquito. More recently there is also … Read moreThe Whedonverse Expands
Ilya Vedrashko, a student at MIT, has announced that he has finished his Masters on in-game advertising. His blog, Brands in Games, has been a great resource of information and he will continue with the blog, but he has also generously provided his Masters in pdf format at his new thesis site: www.gamesbrandsplay.com. He will also … Read moreBrands in Games thesis online
Henry Jenkins has another book out: Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Essays on Participatory Culture. Here is the editorial blurb from Amazon: Henry Jenkins’ pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represented the vanguard … Read moreAnother book by Henry Jenkins: Fans, Bloggers and Gamers
Hungama Mobile — part of Hungama, the largest aggregator, developer and publisher of Bollywood content in the world — premiered the first entire feature film, Rok Sako To Rok Lo, on mobile…in 2004. It was streamed live to Airtel EDGE users at a scheduled time on 9th December, one day before theatrical release. Neeraj Roy, the Managing Director and CEO of Hungama … Read moreFirst Feature Film to be Delivered via Mobile Phone…was a while ago