Archive for September, 2007
Reflections on perthDAC 2007 & BEAP
3 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 […]
E_lit = White_flight (Provocation 1)
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino September 20th, 2007 in Features, Criticism, Social.[This post comes as the first of several provocations to spur a reexamination of the electronic literature scene. Unlike our usual mild posts, these posts Will Raise Temperatures on elit.]
With the first arguments for electronic writing as an artistic medium, as in literary hypertext, came the attendant claims at its democratic nature. In George […]
MyCyberTwin, a social web chatbot
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino September 10th, 2007 in bots, Features, News, Text Art, Software, Social, Film.The world of chatbots still thrives today because of its user-creators. Whether made by kids who dream of making their computer talk even in print statements or adults who enjoy playing with programming toys, the chatbot is a means of evoking a conversation with your computer. Consequently, there may always be a market […]