New to the site are the following reviews: Charles Ess & Fay Sudweeks, eds, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) Reviewed by Michel J. Menou, with a response from Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks; James E. Katz & Mark Aakhus, eds, Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Reviewed by Tim Detwiler, Scott Campbell, and Wendy Robinson, with a response from Mark Aakhus and James E. Katz.
New E-Lit Creative Writing Fellowship Offered at Brown
Robert Coover writes:
When the award-winning digital artist Talan Memmott went to the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Brown University this fall as an MFA candidate in electronic writing, something new was happening. He followed upon such previous e-lit luminaries as Bobby Arellano, Shelley Jackson, Mary Kim Arnold, Mark Amerika, Matt Derby, Judd Morrissey, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, but all of these writers were accepted as graduate fiction writers, not electronic writers. And now the unique fellowship awarded to Memmott has been converted into a permanent annual Creative Writing graduate fellowship in electronic writing, perhaps the first of its kind in the world (any challenges?). It offers tuition and a stipend, partly earned in the second year by teaching workshops, which in the case of those holding this new fellowship will be electronic writing courses, thereby expanding the university’s course offerings in the digital arts. Applicants should follow the existing Creative Writing guidelines, applying to the genre of choice (fiction, poetry, or playwriting) with a clear indication of interest in the digital field. Although there is only one such fellowship at this time, it is hoped that other electronic writers might, through the quality of their writing, be accepted within the traditional genres, thus augmenting the digital community here. In addition to providing print writing samples in one of the three genres (the electronic fellowship is not genre-specific), applicants should submit examples (or documentation) of their electronic writing by way of DVD, CD-ROM, videotape, or web address (URL).
New E-Lit Creative Writing Fellowship Offered at Brown
Robert Coover writes:
When the award-winning digital artist Talan Memmott went to the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Brown University this fall as an MFA candidate in electronic writing, something new was happening. He followed upon such previous e-lit luminaries as Bobby Arellano, Shelley Jackson, Mary Kim Arnold, Mark Amerika, Matt Derby, Judd Morrissey, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, but all of these writers were accepted as graduate fiction writers, not electronic writers. And now the unique fellowship awarded to Memmott has been converted into a permanent annual Creative Writing graduate fellowship in electronic writing, perhaps the first of its kind in the world (any challenges?). It offers tuition and a stipend, partly earned in the second year by teaching workshops, which in the case of those holding this new fellowship will be electronic writing courses, thereby expanding the university’s course offerings in the digital arts. Applicants should follow the existing Creative Writing guidelines, applying to the genre of choice (fiction, poetry, or playwriting) with a clear indication of interest in the digital field. Although there is only one such fellowship at this time, it is hoped that other electronic writers might, through the quality of their writing, be accepted within the traditional genres, thus augmenting the digital community here. In addition to providing print writing samples in one of the three genres (the electronic fellowship is not genre-specific), applicants should submit examples (or documentation) of their electronic writing by way of DVD, CD-ROM, videotape, or web address (URL).
Violence Online Festival
Violence Online Festival is curated by Agricola de Cologne and seeks poetry works connected to the subject “Violence” to be included in Version 4.0 of Violence Online Festival. The deadline for submissions is December 20.
Cyberarts Database and Initiative Online
The Cyberarts Research Initiative from National University of Singapore presents aa visually engaging online cyberarts database. This is part of a larger University project which includes an artist-in-residence programme, research in virtual reality collaboration, and undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral program development in cyberculture and cyberarts.
Virtual Attic Museum Online
Reiner Strasser and Regina Celia Pinto created a virtual attic for the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That, which is interested in digital art preservation. The spaceless gallery features Strasser and Celia Pinto’s old computers on which they created web.art/net.art. and some creations made on these machines. The project is open to collaborators.
New Beta Site for Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
The Center for Cyberculture Studies has a new interface and a new database which will able to organize the existing content, especially the book reviews, in new ways. The redesign has been a collaborative project and made possible by the many folks, but David Silver gives special thanks to Jeff Tycz, Martin McGee, and Nectarine Design.
Article on Preserving Digital Art Appears in Wired
The article by Kendra Mayefield exposes what all artists in the digital realm already know: that “As the half-life of these media becomes shorter and shorter, variable media art is in a race against technological obsolescence.” The article then continues to explore some preventative efforts currently in progress.
The ELO is also woriking in this important effort. The ELO PAD (Preserving, Archiving, and Dissemination) Project is already in effect and will become more visible in upcoming weeks.
New Web Journal infLect to Launch Soon
The University of Canberra Centre for Writing will soon launch a new web journal, editored by Hazel Smith. infLect is an Australian ejournal which is devoted to creative multimedia work and innovative writing. The journal will showcase work which brings together text, visual images and sound into a reciprocal relationship, and also writing which combines critical and creative content.
infLect has a special interest in encouraging on-the-page writers to adopt electronic and multimedia formats for their work, and to collaborate with artists working in other disciplines.
The editorial advisors are:
Marc Amerika
Anne Brewster
John Cayley
Roger Dean
Marjorie Luesebrink
Adrian Miles
Marjorie Perloff
M is for Nottingham? Part of Permanent Display
M is for Nottingham?, an online collaborative writing project and live drama from trAce Incubation 2 (and sponsored partially by ELO) has been selected for permanent online display by the Museums of Justice, Nottingham, UK. A special archive site has been designed for the public.
This work was produced and created by M.D. Coverley and features the participation of many ELO members including Helen Whitehead, Rita Raley, and Talan Memmott.