On Friday December 29th ABC’s 7.30 Report broadcast a segment on Second Life. It featured academic mates Dr Angela Thomas and Sal Humphries — who I have referred to before in my articles on SL (and who also recently wrote this article on gaming and story for The Australian), Entropia maven David Storey and me. … Read moreMe on ABC TV
RealTime Magazine, an arts magazine that I write for here in Oz, commissioned me to write an article introducing Second Life. Here it is: A Second Life Living Online.
Here is a round up of some interesting links (the first 3 I gathered from Henry Jenkins’ blog): Accomplished film academics Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell have a blog; Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo have started MediaCommons: MediaCommons, a project-in-development with support from the Institute for the Future of the Book (part of the Annenberg … Read moreMixed Bag o' Goodies
I forgot to post about my latest SlateNight article. I review the Second Life artwork by academic and artist John Craig Freeman: Imaging Place. Here is a snippet from the article: JC Fremont, a new resident to SL, aims to discover just how art in SL can disrupt. His flesh counterpart, John Craig Freeman is … Read moreArticle on SL Art and Ulmer's theories
A few months ago David Silver asked me to review a book called Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews, put together by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines. My review, ‘From X-Ray Units as Space Heaters to iPods as Storage Devices‘, is now online. Colleague Tama Leaver also has a review in the same issue. There is … Read moreMy Review of McLuhan's Understanding Me
When I started in the digital effects industry as a producer I noticed that the best people in the business were distributed across companies, states and the world. You never had more a couple in the one company. I remember working discussing with AIMIA back then in the early 90s about how they can group … Read moreThe Ultimate New Marketing Company: Crayon
On Friday night/Friday morning I presented my first inworld lecture inside the virtual world Second Life. Drawing from my articles in Slate Night Magazine, I spoke about the ‘Remediation of the Art Space in SL’. This lecture was part of a special session Anya Ixchel, the editor of Slate Night arranged for the New Media … Read moreMy InWorld Lecture and Alternate Reality Interview
DAC, the premier international digital arts conference, will be in Perth next year with Beap. They have just announced the first stage of acceptances: The reviewing of the 230 abstracts has now been completed, and many thanks to the reviewers for the enormous task. In a process that turns out to have been highly competitive, … Read moreDAC in Australia
I’m way too busy again, so apologies for the lack of posting about interesting things happening around the world. Here is an update on what I’ve been doing though: Last week I did my first video skype lecture to students at the University of Western Australia on cross-media entertainment. It was for the Masters and Honours … Read moreUpdate
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