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I saw this months ago on MetaFilter but forgot to post about it. It is a story written by cheques. ‘Ordeal By Cheque’ by Walter Crue was tracked down in pdf form. I guess a contemporary version would be ‘Ordeal By ATM Receipt’.
Citation on pdf:
Crue, W. (1932 [renewed 1960, 1988]). Ordeal by Cheque. Vanity Fair. […]
Happy 2007!: Writing Rich Texts
1 Comment Published by Christy Dena January 6th, 2007 in Poetics, Features, games.Happy New Year to everyone from WRT. :)
I’m just rereading Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum and came across a passage that I feel describes the joy that this strange device the computer can give a writer. So, I thought I’d share it with you. It is the transcript of a file created by Belbo on his […]
Apologies for the late notice, but there has been an amazing week of events happening in Second Life. The New Media Consortium has been holding a 12 day Impact of Digital Media Symposium. The pic you see is an event I attended last night for the MacArthur Foundation press conference in to announce their $50 […]
The Art Space in Virtual Worlds
2 Comments Published by Christy Dena September 19th, 2006 in games, Criticism.My latest articles in SLATE Magazine explore the notion of the art space in virtual worlds. In part one I analyse how some spaces are remediations of the real world and then in part two I pose ideas about what would be the ‘white cube’ equivalent (the ideal environment to experience art) in a virtual […]
Split Screen Banquet
4 Comments Published by Christy Dena September 11th, 2006 in Multi-Modal, Film, TV, Installation.I was shown this site about a year ago and have been enamoured with it ever since. It is a repository of split-screen imagery from film, TV and installation art. Here is the way James Seo described his blog when he started it in July 2005:
Split Screen is a weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and other […]