Archive for the 'Text Art' Category
The Content-Producing Game (CPG) — The Movies
14 Comments Published by Mark Marino September 6th, 2006 in HCTI, generators, Poetics, Features, games, Text Art, Criticism, Software, HAI.What I bought, was a game; what I found was a authorware in a game. “The Movies” by Lionhead Studios falls into the grey area between authorware and video game. Players of the game can use it to make and share content. What can we as electronic authors make of this new genre?
Literatronica: an interview with creator Juan B. Gutierrez
3 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 29th, 2006 in HCTI, hyperfic, Poetics, Researchers, Features, Text Art, Software, Fictionality.“Literatronica” is an adaptive hypertext system that transforms the delivery and experience of literary hypertext. Earlier in the year, WRT posted about the system. Now it offers this interview with Literatronic programmer Juan B. Gutierrez, who is also author of the literatronic adpative hypertext Condiciones Extremas or Extreme Conditions.
iBunk takes on iWorld
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 26th, 2006 in hyperfic, Features, Off Topic, Text Art, Publications.The online hypermedia humor mag Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com) has published a new issue, iBunk, taking up an iTunes/iFilm/iNfinitum theme. To this end, the magazine has a spiffy new iLook and a host of iContent that suggests that its iEditor is done with his dissertation.
In this issue the content, you will find:
Celebrity Playlists (Sauron, Harry Potter, Thomas Jefferson, the […]
DAC Deadline
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 22nd, 2006 in Features, News, Text Art, Conferences.August 28th is the deadline for abstracts for DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) 2007–the premiere international electronic arts conference– held this year in Perth, Austrailia. The conference has been around since 1998 and has established itself as an important annual nexus of researchers and artists of digital works.
Jeremy went last year to represent WRT […]
Writing About Virtual Words
6 Comments Published by Christy Dena August 14th, 2006 in HCTI, Poetics, Researchers, Text Art, Software, Education, Social.I have to confess I’m moonlighting in another world. I’ve started working in the virtual world Second Life as an “embedded journalist”. SLATE Magazine (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine) is a new Second Life magazine that covers the arts in SL. There are 14 authors in the collective so far and we’re a […]