vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs]

Bookmarks for November 5th through November 9th

These are my links for November 5th through November 9th:

• Affective Atlas Road Trip To The Prom at vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs] –
• Chapterplay – Small company that is making and exploring around interactive filmmaking and transmedia storytelling. In Britain. A bright spot.
• Drupal Check / Drupal quick tips and tricks before going live! – Site that provides simple info about a range of things to check/know about before you put your drupal site live.
• Inflexions Issue 3: Node Menu – Issue 3. I guess a journal that counts as innovative, though if you go into it the wrong way the flash navigation is a pain in the arse and is confusing cleverness with genuine innovation in humanities practice and writring in networked places.
• Affect Microperception Micropolitics Massumi Joel McKim – Interview with B. Massumi.
• The Art of Community Now Available For Free Download | Art Of Community Online – Free dowload of "The Art of Community". If you're into social media and community making, have a read.
• Dictionary of Sydney – Large project that is producing online history come archive of the history of Sydney. Seems to lie somewhere between a new media (new media) specific practice, computing come digital humanities, and more traditional musueum and curatorial approaches to historiography and collections.

Affective Atlas Road Trip To The Prom

Ok, this is a report on the AA road trip in November 2009 to Wilson’s Promontory National Park. We have an ARC Linkage project with Parks Victoria which involves the development of knowledge mapping and geovisualisation tools for land management. As the project has developed it looks like we’ll be focussed on the specific smaller (though enormous) issue of fire management. So this trip was to bring most of the project team together, visit the site, critique the work to date of the two PhD students, and toss around ideas and arguments about directions, problems, and possibilities.

The participants for this trip were Adrian Miles, Brian Morris, Laurene Vaughan, Monique Elsley, Colin Arrowsmith, Bill Cartwright, and Chris Marmo (all from RMIT), Jim Whelan and Cristhiane Da Silva Ramos (Parks Victoria), and last but not least Ross Gibson (University of Sydney). We drove down, with the compulsory lunch and coffee stop in Leongatha, and met up with Jim and Chris at the main Ranger office at Tidal River. The first afternoon was spent developing the agenda and then getting on with it. The agenda looked something like:

• update on recent developments in IT services at Parks Victoria relevant to the project/s
• Jim to outline his latest bright idea (the knowledge map)
• Discussion on the culture and practice of working in the field as a ranger, role of notes, information sharing, logs and journals
• Monique to update the team on her research, outcomes to date, future directions
• Chris to update the team on his research, anticipated outcomes and directions
• Introduction and discussion around the DRI burnmap submission for their design challenge competition
• What next steps and actions are we all going to do?
• Anything more?
• Site visit

NatVlog Month

Like some other projects out there, November has become a month of daily videoblogging for many. As a part of this a project was proposed by Rupert Howe where thirty people have one day each through November and contribute one video on that day that is a response (in any manner) to the previous day’s video. I kicked it off on the first, and the entire work is being curated via a category at http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/

Chapterplay

Chapterplay is Rupert Howe’s leap into interactive video come transmedia immersion. Somewhere to keep an eye on as the experimental moves into a more engaged model and domain. Out of lab and into the world.

Bookmarks for November 2nd through November 3rd

These are my links for November 2nd through November 3rd:

• Pocket Cinema | San Francisco Film Festival – Curated collection of low res mobile video work.
• Portable Film Festival – Australian film festival come curatorial practice that is about online video work.
• Kaltura for Wave (kaltura-wave) | Kaltura.org – Prototype integrating Google Wave and Kaltura.
• 30 days 30 people – Collaborative video project November 2009, one person makes one video on one day, and the next day another person responds. And so on through the month. Sort of a chain video improv thing.
• JOEL WEISHAUS:On-Line Work – Photographer, writer, some interesting material here that you'd probably think of as earlier ht based writing.

Bookmarks for October 29th through November 1st

These are my links for October 29th through November 1st:

• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – Draft stuff from a book that is still being written which is intro. to writing iPhone apps. I assume using the new format mainly intended for LP content (where you include text, video, image etc) which is pretty much fancy html. Means you can make very nice content, that looks and works very well, specifically for the iPod/phone.
• Miro Community – From their blurb: Miro Community lets you bring together all the videos about a topic, a community, or product into one elegant website, no matter where the videos are hosted. Nice idea, haven't tested it yet.
• Video on the Web – Dive Into HTML5 – Part of a large 'dive into html5' site, this has a lot of very very good detail about video and html5. Well worth the read if you work in video online.
• Inanimate Alice – Online project that tells story of "Alice" who grows up this century becoming a games designer. Episodic web vid multimedia narrative project. Sort of old school multimedia online.
• Dipity – online timeline service, haven't tried it but looks seriously useful.

ELO CFP

Ah, what’s the point of being an academic if you can’t write a title like that, eh?

ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate

The Electronic Literature Organization’s
Fourth International Conference
& Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Organized by the ELO and Writing Digital Media
at the Brown University Literary Arts Program
dedicated to Robert Coover

The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University’s Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

electronic literature . writing digital media . language-driven digital poesis . literal art

We welcome papers and presentations on a broad range of topics. The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field:

expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism.

In addition we will give a special welcome to papers that engage with the contribution that Robert Coover has made to our field. A festschrift comprised of papers from the conference is proposed and Professor Coover will be our chief featured eWriter. (Other featured speakers to be announced shortly.)

In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Program of Language-Driven Digital Art, concentrating on but not confined to installation works. We plan to show the selected work in gallery spaces close to the conference venue in downtown Providence over a two week period. Subject to funding restrictions, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to assist with attending the conference. Submission guidelines will be posted on the conference website by mid November.

Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2009

Notification of Acceptance: January 25, 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for full papers will be May 1, 2010
to allow for reflection and exchange on the papers prior to the conference and to get head-start in the publication process.

The basic cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100.
Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation.
All conference attendees are also expected to join the ELO before the conference and this can be done at registration.

We are planning to implement online submission and registration. Before submitting, please consult the conference website at …

http://ai.eliterature.org

(The above URL was not redirecting when this was first distributed. Until it is, please use:)

http://www.brown.edu/Conference/Electronic_Literature_Organization

… where these facilities will be available and where you will find much more information about both the content and the form of the conference and arts program.

After consulting the website, for further queries and all email correspondence contact:
elo.ai@eliterature.org

The above address should be used for all conference business. It will checked by myself and also those colleagues and students who will be assisting me with the conference organization. But I appreciate that you may sometimes also want to get in touch with the conference organizer: John Cayley Literary Arts Program – Box 1923, Brown University, 68 1/2 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA. office: +1 401 863 3966, John_Cayley@brown.edu
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FURTHER SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP SOLICITED
The Conference is currently sponsored and supported by
The Electronic Literature Organization, Brown University Literary Arts Program,
Brown University Creative Arts Council, Brown University Library, and the RISD D+M Program.
Any organization or individual in receipt of this call who would like to sponsor and
support this major international conference, please get in touch.
External sponsors are being sought and will be appropriately acknowledged.