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Reflections on perthDAC 2007 & BEAP
4 Comments Published by Christy Dena September 27th, 2007 in Researchers, Conferences.I attended and presented at my first Digital Arts and Culture conference at the perthDAC 2007 held 15-18 September (though I co-wrote a paper for the 2005 DAC). The 2007 programme is on the site, but the full proceedings will be available online soon. In the meantime, I thought I’d share some of my impressions/experience of […]
Thinking Blogger Award: We Respond (with) Tags
0 Comments Published by Christy Dena May 6th, 2007 in Researchers, Off Topic, Multi-Modal.Jerry Everard of Mindsigh did us the honor of tagging us for the Thinking Blogger Award. The Thinking Blogger Award was introduced by Ilker Yoldas as a tag meme with meaning. His meme asks that you tag ‘5 Blogs That Make Me Think‘. But being a group blog, not only will we be putting forward […]
Ficlets: Literary Lego
6 Comments Published by Christy Dena April 28th, 2007 in HCTI, games, Text Art, Software.We at WRT have been looking at the use of new technologies (specifically web applications) for storytelling for a while. In particular, here are some of the web technologies we’ve covered here: Diigo Fiction, Snap Fiction, Wiki Fiction, PYOP (pic-your-own-podventure), Google Maps and Earth. Despite all this flurry, it is very rare to find a simple app, or web app, […]
Helvetica, the film
3 Comments Published by Christy Dena April 27th, 2007 in HCTI, News, Text Art, Film.The long-awaited (yes, seriously) film on the font (its more than that) Helvetica is out. The documentary created by Gary Hustwit, has been years in the making. It looks at both the positive and negative arguments around the popular font.
Some info about the font:
Helvetica was developed by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann in 1957 for […]
A new service that is spreading across cyberspace like wildfire (I’ve got it on my other blog!) is Snap Preview Anywhere. Created by IdeaLab (a company that just come up with ideas all day and implement them!), is a service that when a user hovers over a link, provides a preview of the target page. […]