Edward Picot has plans to set up a Hyperliterature Exchange. Anyone publishing hyperliterature in a tangible format, such as on a CD, and would be interested in a listing on the Exchange may contact him for full details. Click here to see how the Exchange would function. To qualify for the Exchange, each work must have an ISBN, be registered with Book Data, and the publisher must be registered for UK rights.
frAme Call for Submissions
The frAme Journal of Culture & Technology is looking for digital artwork/multimedia, generative works, hypermedia, codework, interviews with artists/writers, critical essays, and writing related to new media. Please send your work to Simon Mills.
The Iowa Review Web
Vol. 5, No. 2 of The Iowa Review Web features: “A Media Theory of Consciousness” by Anthony Enns, a review of Joseph Tabbi’s Cognitive Fictions; an interview with Tabbi, and Tabbi’s “Overwriting”; “The nEARness/t of [IrOny] U’s” an interview with Talan Memmott by M.D. Coverley, and Memmott’s “Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]; The Very Essence of Poetry”: Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley’s My Name is Captain, Captain by Jessica Pressman, and Flying Blind: An Interview with Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley by Jessica Pressman; “Relics and Kindling: An Autobiography “by Eric Pankey; and “American Mammals” by Ina Grigorova.
New Media Studies in ebr
Electronic Book Review takes a look at New Media Studies in our changing times. Writings include Scott Rettberg’s introduction, New Media Studies, and the following reviews: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum on Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort’s The New Media Reader, Raine Koskimaa on N. Katherine Hayles’ Writing Machines, Chris Funkhouser on Stephanie Strickland’s V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, Scott Rettberg on David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, and Rob Wittig on Justin Hall’s links.net.
Netart from Canada
JavaMuseum is proud to launch I – Highway – Netart from Canada, a new show that focuses on netart and the position of New Media art in Canada.
RCCS Book Reviews
RCCS’s book reviews for April include: Frank Webster’s Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? reviewed by Joseph Savirimuthu; Henry C. Lucas, Jr.’s Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet reviewed by Edward Castronova; Sally Wyatt, Flis Henwood, Nod Miller & Peter Senker’s Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society reviewed by Dougie Bicket and Yu-hua Chang; and Arthur Asa Berger’s Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon reviewed by W. Bradford Mello.
State of the Arts Book
State of the Arts CD/Book is now available. Contact the ELO office for details on how to purchase one!
History of Computer Graphics and Art
The History of Computer Graphics and Art is building a data bank of computer graphics and art. From a historical standpoint, this project will depict the evolution of computer graphics, art, and thought about art as it relates to the advancement of technology. Anyone who feels that their work has furthered the field of computer graphics and art is urged to participate.
Culture Machine 5
The latest issue of the e-journal, Culture Machine, features articles written by N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Amerika, Ted Striphas, Andy Miah, Gary Hall, Alan Clinton, Charlie Gere, Anna Munster, Cathryn Vasseleu, Chris Chesher, Gregory L. Ulmer, and Bernard Stiegler. Culture Machine accepts submissions written about any facet of culture and theory.
Culture Machine is accepting contributions for its February 2004 issue, Culture Machine 6: Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies. The contributions may address any aspect of cultural studies in relation to deconstruction, or between “old†and “new†cultural studies. The deadline for submissions is October 2003. For more information, visit the Culture Machine website.
Katherine Hayles Wins Award For “Writing Machines”
Katherine Hayles’ Writing Machines has won the Susanne E. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form. The award will be presented by the Media Ecology Association at its annual meeting in June.