November 17th. (John’s an old hypertext hand.)
Back Issue Archive of horizon zero: digital art + culture in canada
Although the Banff New Media Institute’s journal horizon zero: digital art + culture in canada ceased publication in December 2004, its 18 back issues are very much available in its web archive. horizon zero was a multimedia and bilingual “virtual space dedicated to creativity and critical ideas in the new media canon.” Its 18 issues include web-based interactives, essays and journalistic writings, fiction and poetry, video, animation, games, and other digital artworks.
next/text: what happens when textbooks go digital?
next/text: what happens when textbooks go digital is an online project of The Institute for the Future of the Book. next/text’s site aims to become a node of communication and idea-exchange for those interested in the creation of born-digital learning materials. next/text includes blogs, forums, news postings, and links to projects and resources on the theory and practice of making digital textbooks.
Launch of Redesigned ebr: Electronic Book Review
ebr: Electronic Book Review, has been redesigned. The rebuilt site promises greater “power to gather text, gloss and cross-reference, spool threads” and “fly high and see the weave.
The current issue features Brian Kim Stefans on “Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing,” Scott Rettberg on “First Person, Games, and the Place of Electronic Literature,” John Cayley on “Bass Resonance,” and Lori Emerson’s review of Walter Benn Michaels’ The Shape of the Signifier, “On Materialities, Meanings, and the Shape of Things.”
Kairos 10.1 Fall 05
The Fall 05 issue of Kairos focuses on “The Intersections of Online Writing Spaces, Rhetorical Theory and The Composition Classroom”. Of special interest is the web text “Why Teach Digital Writing?” by the WIDE Research Center Collective.
New Media Caucus Panel at CAA 06
The New Media Caucus will present a panel at the 2006 College Art Association conference entitled “From Database and Place to Bio-tech and Bots: Relationality vs. Autonomy in Media Art.” The panel, chaired by Rhizome.org Editor-at-large Marisa S. Olsen, will focus on such topics as hacktivism and parasitic media; appropriation/sampling/remixing; open source theory and culture; locative media; biotechnology; video games; narrative; net art; software art; networked performance; video and sound art; and VJ/DJ practices.
CAA’s annual conference will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, February 22-26, 2006.
noulipo Experimental Writing Conference
On October 28-29 (today and tomorrow) the second annual experimental writing conference hosted by the CalArts MFA Writing Program focuses on the legacy of Oulipo — the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (“workshop of potential literature”) founded in Paris 45 years ago. Comprising writers, poets, mathematicians and logicians, the group has formulated playful and exotic new “constraints” as alternatives to the hidebound rules of traditional literary forms. This conference presents two members of the group, including its current President, as well as a host of American, Canadian and English writers influenced by them in varying degrees: Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, Johanna Drucker, Paul Fournel, Tan Lin, Bernadette Mayer, Ian Monk, Harryette Mullen, Douglas Nufer, Vanessa Place, Janet Sarbanes, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, Rodrigo Toscano, & Rob Wittig (see schedule for details).
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies has announced its first annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program invites applications to pursue “digitally-based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences.” ACLS will award up to five fellowships to support an academic year “dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form.” Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $55,000 toward an academic year’s leave, and provides for project costs up to $25,000.
Projects might include, but are not limited to:
–Digital research archives
–New media representations of extant data
–innovative databases
–Digital tools that further humanistic research
ACLS does not support creative works (i.e., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects.
For complete information and application instructions, visit the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships online. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 10, 2005.
Digital Arts Forum
The Digital Arts Forum, run by Gareth Howell at Loughborough University, UK, uses Mambo to create an online community that offers news, resources, project links, blogs, and discussion forums for digital media writers and artists.
Vectors 2 Now Online
“Mobility,” issue #2 of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, is now online.
“Mobility” includes work ranging from a rhizomatic exploration of the historical representation of the Irish to a manifesto for creating academic superheroes. Featured scholars include David Lloyd, JaneMcGonigal, the Labyrinth Project, Julian Bleecker, the Guantanamobile Project, Todd Presner, and Dietmar Offenhuber. Vectors is edited by Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson with creative direction by Erik Loyer and Raegan Kelly.
Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations.
Also available in the Vectors Archive: Issue #1: “Evidence”.