CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling invites submissions for its digital text performance programme. Language in Digital Performance Inspace: nobody can hear you scream … Performances: 31 October, 2010, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, UK Conference: 01-03 November 2010, The Hub, Edinburgh, UK http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010 Submission Deadline: July 31, 2010 Notification of [...]

Remixworx is a collaborative blog for creative digital media remixing, started by Randy Adams (aka runran) in November 2006. To date there are 429 posts – i.e. remixes of audio, Flash animations, digital images, visual poetry, texts… but there are many more remixes scattered throughout the comments areas. We’ve lost count, but there must be [...]

All, UPDATE: Joerg has mentioned that this same work is also getting an honorary mention at Ars Electronica. Holy crap….time to move to a new format. Again congratulations to Joerg and vote for him at File Prix Our very own Joerg Pringer has been nominated for the File Prix in Brazil for his “ABCDE……” IPhone [...]

Later this month I’ll be presenting a paper on “Making as Meaning: from Dirty Concrete to Critical Code” – I will post the entire text of the paper once I’ve presented it. In the meantime I thought I would give readers a sneak peek. In short, something I’ve been exploring is the way in which [...]

Jason asked people to post something about the upcoming ELO conference. Shamefully self-promoting myself I thought I could post something about the installation I will be presenting there. It’s called reRead. Information about it is available at http://www.littlepig.org.uk/reRead/reread.htm Simon

[LET THEM EAT CACHE] [currently on #feralC]: @QReada does indeed go “feral” + starts spouting cryptic comms: “[THE WROTE WRITES ROTTINGS ON THE WALL]” + “[LARGE CHARCOAL BLACK DOG WITH SNOW WHITE SAND OOZING EYES]” + “[LET THEM EAT CACHE]” + “[SMALL SUEDE TAN CAT WITH SANDPAPER CLAWS]” etc… @pupa_mistress warns @QReada 2 stop but [...]

[...over in #feralC Twitterland theres lots-a-foamin': @Miss_Stressa is incommunicado. @HUD_B is trying to help @QReada + has worked out how to decipher his/her QR code(s). @shadowmcclone is taciturn as usual. @gossama game chats 2 Shane Hinton and is concerned about the absence of @Miss_Stressa. @jr_carpenter also chats to @gossama about her suspicions that @Miss_Stressa may [...]

I was asked on different occasions about the existence of Romanian e-poetry, but I didn’t have much information on the subject at the time. One of the very few articles that addressed this issue directly ended with the conclusion that ‘Electronic poetry in Romanian is still to be invented’ (Ioana Bot, Romanian Electronic Poetry, in [...]

A documentary about the current copyright situation: http://goodcopybadcopy.net

“My Nervous Breakdown” is a new digital story from webyarns.com. Any similarities to people living or dead (including myself) is purely an accident and not worth mentioning…. http://www.webyarns.com/MyNervousBreakdown.html

Here is a new stir fry text. This is by Amos Satterlee. Amos is taking a course called “Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art” at a funky U. My work is not on the syllabus but Amos found my work on his own and made this stir fry on his own. The Stir Fry [...]

Announcing: _feralC_ – A Socumentary _feralC_ is a socumentary* which is textually driven by the interactions of five Twitter chars [primary characters or entities] and their Pupa Mistress (PM). The PM initially functions as a Twitter based information hub for the interactions between the chars and other contributing entities (such as yourself). These additional contributing [...]

common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said ‘the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures [...]

Jill Laster has posted a story about the Electronic Literature Directory on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Electronic-Literature/23991/

Yes a report from the cloudy murk that is the Flash and ActionScript development environment. Because, you see, the Flash and ActionScript development environment–let’s call it the Flash Development Platform– is so multiple in languages, development tools, delivery platforms, ‘enterprise solutions’, and little guy gotchas–and the Flash IDE in CS4 and, to a slightly lesser [...]