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Games and Culture CFP
My mate Larissa is editing this very interesting edition of Games and Culture journal: Call for papers Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media Special issue: Gaming in the Asia-Pacific As a region, the Asia-Pacific is marked by diverse penetration rates of gaming, mobile and broadband technologies, subject to local cultural and socio-economic nuances. … Read moreGames and Culture CFP
Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
On Feb 15-17 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, the first Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction will be helld. Tangible and Embedded Interaction ’07 will be held February 15-17 (just before the famous Mardi Gras festival) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. TEI’07 is the first international conference dedicated to research in tangible and embedded interaction. Work … Read moreConference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
PerGames 2007 CFP and CFG
The 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications has put out a call for papers and a call for games: The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. Previous PerGames events were held in Vienna (2004), Munich (2005), Dublin … Read morePerGames 2007 CFP and CFG
Theories/Practices on Blogging
The current issue of Reconstruction (vol 6, no 4), Theories/Practices of Blogging, was years in the making. Michael Benton and Lauren Elkin, the editors, have been searching for papers on blogging; seaching for bloggers to commission to write on blogging and searching for bloggers to just blog about blogging. Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino and myself … Read moreTheories/Practices on Blogging
ARGs, RPGs, Interactive Drama, Cross-Media, Serious Games, Film, Doco, Literature, Blogs and Marketing
Yep, they are all the topics I’ll be presenting on over the next few weeks in three states across Australia. But what is even more interesting, are the co-presenters. Check out this yummy bunch of seminars: Film Australia’s “Evan Jones Masterclass: Extending Doco in the Time of Digital” Monday 20th November, 1.30-4.30pm, Film Australia’s Roxy … Read moreARGs, RPGs, Interactive Drama, Cross-Media, Serious Games, Film, Doco, Literature, Blogs and Marketing
Article on SL Art and Ulmer's theories
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
My Review of McLuhan's Understanding Me
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
My InWorld Lecture and Alternate Reality Interview
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
Special Journal Issue on TV Narrative
The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58, Fall 2006), spotlights film and TV narrative. There is a wonderful selection of papers with one by Jason Mittell: Keating, Patrick. Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives Newman, Michael Z. From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative Mittell, Jason. Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American … Read moreSpecial Journal Issue on TV Narrative