Please join us in the trAce/Electronic Literature Organization chat on Oct 19 to discover the links between games and storytelling, with guest Tim Wright, the Writers for the Future writer-in-residence.
New Reviews
New reviews at RCCS include: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition reviewed by Tama Leaver, Frank Schaap’s The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality reviewed by Stephanie Bennett, and Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity reviewed by Laura Kertz.
LIFE 6.0 International Competition
LIFE 6.0 International Competition, sponsored by the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid, focuses on “art and artificial life.” They are looking for electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, computer viruses, artificial intelligence, avatars, evolving behaviors, and more. The deadline for submission is October 31, 2003.
CPSR Annual Conference
The annual conference for the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility will feature presentations by practitioners in the field of technology and discuss how broadband access impacts social change, cultural diversity, and community goals. The conference takes place October 25 in Seattle, WA.
UCLA LISAA Fall Colloquium
The UCLA Library and Information Science Alumni Association’s second annual Fall Colloquium, to be held October 23, features Dr. Leah Lievrouw speaking about how the Internet is used for political and artistic protest against the status quo.
Sex and the Body Politic
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
The 13th Annual Cultural Studies Conference, based on the theme “Sex and the Body Politic,” will feature keynote speakers Elizabeth Grosz, Carl Phillips, and Donald Hall. The Cultural Studies Conference will discuss sexuality and society, and it will examine sexual identity as a function of politics, economy, and society. The conference takes place March 4-6, 2004 at Kansas State University.