christy Fellow cross-media missionary (Monique’s affectionate term) Professor Drew Davidson has been promoted to ETC Program Director. Very cool. Drew is currently writing a book on cross-media, due out next year. This is wonderful news. I look forward to finally meeting Drew sometime next year maybe, after chatting with him through this blog and emails for … Read moreDrew's now a Director!
The latest batch of reviews from Cyberculture Studies are out: Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society Author: Steven Shaviro Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Review 1: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Review 2: Jarice Hanson Review 3: Meredith Tromble Author Response: Steven Shaviro Shaping Things Author: Bruce Sterling Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 … Read moreCyberculture & the essence
Henry Jenkins, the prolific writer (academic behind the MIT Convergence Consortium and Convergence Culture book among a hundred million other things) who has been blogging at Technology Review, Computer Games and recently I’ve seen him at Media Center’s ‘We Imagine’ section of Morph. Well, just this month Henry has started his own blog: Confessons of … Read moreHenry Jenkins has a personal blog!
The latest issue of The Escapist Magazine (which can be read in Second Life as well) has an article by Shannon Drake on the ARG Perplex City: Breaking the Fourth Wall. Ignore the first page with unhelpful comments such as ARGs “are growing up, moving away from experiments and marketing gimmicks” (referring to The Beast, Majestic … Read moreEscapist article on ARG Perplex City
Terra Nova reports that 15 papers on virtual worlds are online for free and easy consumption. The papers were written by students of the “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” or “Games for the Web” course at Trinity University. There is a great collection of areas of investigation. I’ve had a quick … Read moreBundle o' Joy: 15 Virtual Worlds Papers
The ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge is being held in August 9-12 this year. Artists will be given the opportunity to pitch their ideas live on stage to thousands of audience members, once they get through the game that has been planned for them. C5 Quest for Success … Read moreLocative Arts, Corporate Pitching & Go-Carts
That’s right. I’m lucky to have been asked, nominated and voted in to one of Australia’s key media arts organisations: dLux Media Arts. They’ve been branching into mobile arts and multi-platform arts and that’s why I’m there. I’m working with the excellent team they’ve assembled, including Jamie Leonarder (of SBS Movie Show fame) and the … Read moreI'm on the Board of dLux!
I haven’t been blogging about the projects I work on or projects I follow intimately. For some I cannot until they are in the public domain and others I just, dunno, haven’t. Well, that is silly. There is a project I’m involved in, a thriller film, that will be inviting a lot of participation in … Read moreA glimpse into what I do behind doors…
Well I’ve missed two events in SecondLife, that I really wanted to attend, because I’m rimming my broadband usage allocation for the month. Next month the locks are off, so I can cyplore as much as I like. In the meantime I’m feeling a bit melancholic. I had a few days recently with no … Read moreWhen you can't watch or click
I recently posted about a great MySpace parody/homage: MySpace: The Movie. Well, I just listened to a podcast of Inside the Net, where Steve Chen the CTO of YouTube was interviewed. He gave the following stats: MySpace The Movie had 5 million views within 1 week of being uploaded on YouTube; MySpace The Movie producer was … Read moreMySpace Movie and YouTube stats