Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is allowing free access until Jan 07. Usually you need a university subscription to access journal papers but they’re offering complete access to anyone. These are great papers, by the usual wonderful ludologists and some emerging Ozzie (currently Ozzie) ones too. Go Anders! Here are the papers delivered … Read moreGames and Culture Journal
Just a quick note first, apologies for the continual loss of transmission over these past couple of months. I have a shocking VPS and am in the process of moving all my sites to a new, very fantastic one. But anyway, back to this post. The latest issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac has a special issue … Read moreLocative Arts papers
A while ago I given a brief to talk about ‘Findability’ to film & TV practitioners for the Center for Screen Business Digital Distribution Seminar Series. I spoke about the creative ways some practitioners have made themselves ‘findable’ on the Net. A pdf of my ppt is online, along with a mp3 of part of … Read moreCreative Ways to Reach Audiences
Last year I was lucky to be a mentor for the University of Melbourne High Achieving Secondary School Student Mentorship scheme. I was even luckier to be teamed with budding film-maker Ezra Silman. Ezra was working on a film script back then, a script that he has not only filmed, but edited, sound, titles, everything. [I … Read moreEzra's Effort
We?re happy to inform you that the registration form for PICNIC ?06 Cross Media Week is now available online at www.crossmediaweek.org/register PICNIC ?06 is an international conference focused on cross media content and technology related to media and entertainment which is being held from September 27 ? 30th in Amsterdam. We expect approximately 1000 delegates … Read moreCross Media Week registrations are open
If you’ve got mobile content and are in Australia, send it in; if you don’t, send this on to people who do have and are!: Portable Worlds Call for Works Deadline August 7 2006 Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is seeking expressions of interest from Australian artists creating work for mobile phones for … Read morePortable Worlds: call for works
The next X|Media|Lab is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and will be be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) August 11-13th. X|Media|Lab features an elite international network of the worlds outstanding digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. Mentors for this Lab include: the VP of Business Development from Current … Read moreThe next X|Media|Lab is coming up
Andrew McKenzie, a cross-media researcher who is specifically looking at how narrative changes on mobiles (posted about before here), has finally (hehe) changed his site to a blog: Vector TV. Now we call all share in his insights. Yay Andrew! I look forward to reading it.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have started an Emmy for Outstanding Original Programming Created for Non-Traditional Delviery Platforms. Entries for this award must be original material made-for-broadband or made-for-mobile. These platforms include video blogs, website programs including journalistic reporting, event coverage or event analysis, mobisodes (short episodics created for mobile devices), video-on-demand … Read moreNew Mobisode Emmys honouring "cross media" approach
This is very cool. iPerG (Intergrated Project on Pervasive Gaming) have put out a secret invite to watch a test cross-media game over the web. Epidemic Menace is the first prototype by the IPerG Crossmedia group. Wohoo! On July 6th and 7th there is a game event on campus Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin where we … Read moreiPerG "crossmedia game" YOU can be a part of, NOW!