To help give an overview of the presentations at Critical Animals check out the conference report, Critical Animals Don’t Chew the Fat, I wrote which is published at ANU’s blog: underthesun. In the comments section of this post I’ve put the paper I delivered at the program. I put my ideas-in-formation into an XYZ coordiante … Read moreMulti-channel Poetics paper
I’m off again but this time to the Newcastle This is Not Art Critical Animals Program. I’m chairing the following session: The Birth of Celluloid Day/Time : Thursday 30/9 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Location: Newcastle Regional Library Theatrette Through Practical Audio-Visual work and theoretical engagement with screen theories, Stefan Popescu articulates a hybrid audio-visual … Read moreI'm a Critical Animal
Do categorisations help? After a post by Adam (see ‘Another Transmedia Researcher’) and my experiences with many ‘networked narrative environments’ (Andrea Zapp) at BEAP04, I’ve been thinking more about how and why multi-channel works can and should be categorised. With the great variety of works that have more than one modality (image, sound, text, object…) … Read moreCategorising Multi-Channel Works
Okay, the reviews I’m writing for RealTime are being put online over the next few days. Check them out at: RealTime-BEAP Writing Workshop. Not much time and a real slow dial-in connection so more news next week. Can say that I’m having a ball. Great experience.
I’ve been lucky to be selected by RealTime Magazine as a writer to co-cover the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). The Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth (BEAP) is a new media arts festival held every 2 years for 3 months, spanning Perth Western Australia and is widely recognised as the premiere electronic arts event … Read moreBeeps at BEAP
We’ve all thought about the future and about how society and technology will progress in some way. Some of us even habour predictions or fears and work towards either facilitating their actuation or ensuring they don’t. A website, Long Bets, allows people to put their foresight and analysis to the test by placing a bet … Read moreBanking on the Future
I attended an English Department Posgraduate Seminar last Friday to check out the work of Media and Communications Department PhD student Tom Apperley. His abstract had me intrigued: In this brief paper I try and make sense of a cluster of research around the broad topic of X-box games. This paper reconciles two threads of … Read moreAnother Transmedia Researcher
We’ve seen Extreme Sports and even Extreme Ironing but now we have Extreme Email. Jonah Brucker-Cohen has come up with an idea to study how software, specifically email list software, affects human interaction. BumpList only allows for a maximum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is … Read moreExtreme Email
On the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as: …an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, during which time the … Read moreChatroom Conferences
FL@33 have a site work called Bzzzpeek, which has sound bites of animals and automobiles in over 17 languages. This project focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of these sounds by presenting them side by side as each language expresses them differently.