WRT: Writer Response Theory

Continuing a series of posts on Saturday sessions at the Transliteracies 2005 Conference:

Christiane Paul began with Ted Nelson’s vision of hypertext and then went on a high-speed tour of recent text art, including wikis (criticalware.net), SMS literature (textually.org), book visualization (TextArc), communication visualization (Agonistics), online multimedia narrative (World of Awe), immersive media environments (Energie Passagen) […]

I was able to attend the second day of the UC Santa Barbara Transliteracies Conference 2005 (”Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading”).
The announcement drew an “amen” from GTxA, while The Future of the Book called the conference topic statement: “gracefully defined” - and it was:
How are people today “reading” in […]

The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is being held in Sydney, November this year. The organisers are currently calling for papers and industry speakers. The conference is described on the site as follows:
The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, media studies, […]

My notes on:
Session 1: MMORPGs: At the Boundaries of the Virtual
No matter how technical the crowd, no panel is complete without a huge problem trying to get a laptop connected via DVD player to a TV, etc. etc. - most of us have had this happen, and combined with a conversation with presenter Chris Cruz-Boone […]

(dis)junctions 2005: theory reloaded was University of California, Riverside’s Twelfth Annual Humanities Conference.
Mark Marino helped organize a set of panels related to the global_interface Mellon Workshops, and I attended to give my paper on the critical approach of “Implied Code” - if only Christy Dena had been there we’d have had the all three letters […]