_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 8_ Wild Nature and the Digital Life Special Issue, guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas :: Live chat with artist/writer Jeremy Hight and architect/theorist Peter Hasdell :: Chat date: Thursday, February 1. :: 2 pm West Coast US / 5 pm East Coast USA / … Read moreOnline chat with Jeremy Hight
This will be an interesting conference. I’m interested not just in the marketing of products, but of the transmedia expansions of entertainment properties (as I’ve discussed here). Virtual Worlds Conference 2007 is the leading event for Fortune 500 businesses seeking to understand and maximize marketing and business strategies within virtual worlds. Leading companies from Toyota to … Read moreConference on Marketing in Virtual Worlds
Ah, nice mix. April last year I blogged, at WRT, about a book that had an unusual online life. The ‘book’ is in a card-file type format with cool bright colours and rounded corners. It is a networked book, created by the Future of the Book. The idea is that the book is presented in … Read moreLudology, Wark, Books and Halo
BarCamp is an international phenomenon: a movement of unconferences where everyone who attends presents something! The first BarCamp is being held in Australia in March and I’m one of the organisers for the event in Sydney. Wohoo! Here is the initial call for participation. The first BarCamp is being held in Australia this year! BarCamps, … Read more1st BarCamp Australia!
The 3rd Tampere Conference on Narrative: Knowing, Living, Telling June 27-30, 2007. University of Tampere, Finland & Pre-Conference Doctoral Course Key-note speakers: Molly Andrews (University of East London), Jens Brockmeier (Berlin/University of Manitoba, Winnipeg), David Herman (Ohio State University), Catherine Kohler Riessman (Boston College). The new deadline for abstracts & panels: January 31, 2007. See … Read moreCFP: 3rd Tampere Conference on Narrative
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology (ICN, University of Hamburg) and the German Department, University of Ghent kindly invite you to participate in the
INTERNATIONAL NARRATOLOGY WORKSHOP
„Event, Eventfulness and Tellability“
Friday, 16 February & Saturday, 17 February 2007
at the University of Ghent, BelgiumProgramme
42 Entertainment, the company behind massive ARGs such as I Love Bees (a prologue to Halo 2), is behind what Daniel Terdiman of ZDNet News calls ‘a hybrid game–part alternate-reality game, or ARG, part traditional sweepstakes–that’s actually a marketing vehicle for Microsoft’s Windows Vista.’ (You could say that 42 Entertainment are the Hollywood of ARGs.) The game … Read moreARG event in Sydney Tomorrow!
I’ve attended many industry conferences that claim to be addressing the theme of ‘cross-media’ and ‘transmedia’. I’ve also assessed the schedules of those I haven’t attended from afar. I have not seen one that really understands what it is, and so they do not select the right speakers or ask the right questions. Well, I’m … Read moreBest Transmedia Conference Ever!
The Association of Internet Researchers CFP for the 2007 conference is out. The conference is themed ‘Let’s Play’: We call for papers, panel proposals, and resentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and communities, that address the (playful) blurring of boundaries online. It will be held on Oct … Read moreAOIR 8.0: Let's Play CFP
sagasnet have put a call out for projects to participate: sagasnet organizes each year a Developing Interactive Narrative Content seminar in which lectures and intense workshops cover essential subjects to be considered during the development/pre-production phase for interactive entertainment projects. During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation … Read moreDeveloping Interactive Narrative Content seminar CFP