Jeremy Douglass, my wonderful co-blogger at WRT, interviewed new media arts legend Nick Montfort for the current issue of the Iowa Review Web. Jane McGonigal, ARG researcher and designer, was also interviewed (by Scott Rettberg — another new media arts legend and guest editor for the issue). Jane claims that players create Gesamtkunstwerk. I have cited Wagner’s … Read moreJane and Jeremy in Iowa Review Web
Last year I was commissioned by RealTime Magazine to interview New Media postgraduates doing practice-led research in Australia: The Creative Degree as Interface. This year I was commissioned to interview New Media educators who are new media artists teaching new media art. The article The University: New Home for New Media, (which I had as … Read moreNew Media Educators
The latest issue of The Escapist has a well-written article on iMobs: people who use the Net to track down the real life identity of someone known in cyberspace and harrass them in real life. Mathew Hector, an attorney,covers, among other things, harrassment in China, Second Life and EverQuest. Read the article.
The4thScreen: a global fest of art & innovation for mobile phones focuses on the emerging cultural, technological and social phenomenon of mobile phones. “We are at the moment when everybody, from the media moguls to Vietnamese peasants – artists, hackers, activists, businesses and governments are trying to grasp the impact, the power, of this new … Read moreMobile Art: 4th Screen
PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a Symphony world-tour featuring music from blockbuster video games. The music is performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs. All concerts take place in classy, prestigious venues. Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games. The … Read morePlay Symphony
Asi Sharabi has started doing a very helpful: a trends analysis of YouTube.
Jason Mittell, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College, is one academic (of some) who is playing and analysing the Lost ARG: The Lost Experience. I’ve covered his work in the upcoming ARG whitepaper, but for now check out his latest offerings online. He has two articles on the … Read moreLost Analysis Update
Thought I’d do the “normal” thing and call up a shop assistant (a human) at a local store (remember bricks and mortar?) and ask if they have a DVD in (remember tangible goods?) I could buy (remember…). Well, I called up and guess what she did? She looked up www.imdb.com.
Okay, I’m going to try an unusual form of constrained writing. I am only going to blog about MySpace sites & stats etc AT MY MYSPACE blog. And, I’m only going to blog about SecondLife events & things I do in SL AT MY SNAPZILLA. The latter is a bit unusual too as Snapzilla probably wasn’t … Read moreServer-based Constrained Writing
I recently posted about a great MySpace parody/homage: MySpace: The Movie. Well, I just listened to a podcast of Inside the Net, where Steve Chen the CTO of YouTube was interviewed. He gave the following stats: MySpace The Movie had 5 million views within 1 week of being uploaded on YouTube; MySpace The Movie producer was … Read moreMySpace Movie and YouTube stats