July 2005

  • afternoon, a story

    afternoon, a story is one of the most widely-discussed works of electronic literature. It is the story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with… Read more.

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  • Drunken Boat’s First Annual Panliterary Awards

    Deadline Extended to: August 15th, 2005 Judges: Annie Finch, Sabina Murray, Alexandra Tolstoy, Talan Memmott, David Hall, and DJ Spooky Drunken Boat, http://www.drunkenboat.com, international online journal for the arts, announces… Read more.

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  • Galatea

    Short’s all-text simulation lets the interactor converse with a statue that has come to life. Depending on how the conversation affects the mood of Pygmalion’s creation, and where the conversation… Read more.

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  • Façade

    Façade, a finalist 2004 Independent Games Festival, is an interactive drama that is visually rich and dramatically deep. A first-person-shooter interface accepts typed conversational statements and allows the animated characters,… Read more.

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  • Job at Dartmouth

    A position for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in digital media with interests in one or more of the following areas: the cultures and aesthetics of digital media; electronic literature;… Read more.

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  • CFP: First Issue of HyperRhiz

    HyperRhiz, the peer-reviewed new media satellite of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, seeks web-based multimedia contributions for its first issue. HyperRhiz “affirms and extends the mandate of Rhizomes, which… Read more.

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  • Mainframe Experimentalism Anthology

    Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins are putting together an interdisciplinary collection on “the encounter of artists, musicians, poets and writers, and filmmakers working within avant-garde, experimental, and artistically innovative traditions… Read more.

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  • New Reviews in Cyberculture Studies

    Jeff Rice’s Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom is reviewed by J.M. King at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Other books reviewed include Women… Read more.

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  • Shade

    In this brief work of interactive fiction, Plotkin (a.k.a. zarf) causes the ordinary actions of looking for a glass of water and searching for plane tickets to turn terrifying, transforming… Read more.

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  • July Topic on “Writing and the Digital Life”

    The July discussion topic for Sue Thomas’ online community project, “Writing and the Digital Life,” is “the synthesis of language and visual art in the context of the digital environment.”… Read more.

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