New Reviews in Cyberculture Studies

This month’s new books reviews at RCCS are: David E. Nye’s America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings reviewed by Craig McFarlane; Jeffrey Sconce’s Haunted Media: Electronic Presence From Telegraphy to Television reviewed by Dougie Bicket; Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence reviewed by Steven A. Benko; Hubert L. Dreyfus’s On the Internet reviewed by Geoffrey Cain; Chong-En Bai & Chi-Wa Yuen’s Technology and the New Economy reviewed by Suely Fragoso; and Geert Lovink’s Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia reviewed by Ted Kafala.

New Media and the D(igital) Generation: Texts and Practices

Contributors are invited to address any aspect of the relationship between new media and youth, including youth and changing media environments; new literacy forms and practices; representations of youth in new media; new media use/ appropriation by youth; and marketing processes/forces. If interested, contact Kerry Mallan (k.mallan atqut dot edu dot au) or Wendy Morgan (w.morgan at qut dot edu dot au).

Narrative Media Workshop in Sevilla

There will be a narrative media workshop and lectures from March 8th to 12th in Sevilla. Directed by Fran Ilich and coordinated by Pedro Jiménez, the workshop aims to introduce the new conceptual tools and audiovisual materials for participants to construct narratives. The target audience are audiovisual, literary and theatrical creators as well as those interested in digital education and literacy.

ACM Multimedia 2004

This year’s ACM Multimedia Conference will take place October 11-15 in New York City. The Interactive Art Program within the conference wishes to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to explore the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. Researchers and artists working with digital media are encouraged to submit their works or papers.

Art and Technology Grant

ARS Electronica is offering an art/technology grant to young artists, aged 19-27, who have developed as-yet-unproduced concepts in the fields of media art, media design, or media technology. Participants may be individuals or groups. The winner receives a stipend of 7,500 Euro and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. To enter, visit ARS Electronic [the next idea]. The deadline for entries is March 12.

Call for Contributions: Teknokultura

Teknokultura, the online journal of the University of Puerto Rico’s Social Sciences Faculty, provides a forum of expression on subjects related to technology and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Teknokultura is seeking contributions, such as articles, electronic art, book and website reviews, literary work, and cartoons, that address the integration of technology in our daily social lives. This call for contributions will be open from April 2004 until April 2005. For more information, contact Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera by email at hfiguero at coqui dot net.

“The Future of the Page”

Joseph Tabbi will be leading a seminar titled “The Future of the Page.” This seminar will contrast contemporary cognitive science to poststructuralist theory and hypertext theory in order to understand how literature relates to its materiality on the page. “The Future of the Page” will take place June 3-6 at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Online Competition and Public Art

Creative Time and Panasonic are proud to present Günther Selichar: Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red, and Green?, an online competition and public art project based on the elementary visual building blocks of digital display screens. Participants are invited to create animations comprised of 15 vertical compositions in blue, red, and green. Three winning entries will be featured on the NBC Astrovision by Panasonic.

Michael Joyce at CalArts

On February 25, acclaimed author and critic of digital literature Michael Joyce and artist Alexandra Grant will speak at CalArts in Valencia on “Wordlessness of the mitneinander.” Michael Joyce is the author of the acclaimed early hypertext fiction afternoon: a story, the online novel Twelve Blue, two print volumes of eliterature theory, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, and Othermindedness: The emergence of network culture, and many other works. Joyce was one of the original designers of the Storyspace hypertext writing environment. He is currently a Professor of English and the Library at Vassar College.