The newest edition of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures is now online. This issue, which focuses on electronic literature, features work from Thom Swiss Mark Marino Braxton Soderman Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo Jaka Zeleznikar Michael Peters Jeanne Hamming Also starting this month, the journal introduces { Literal1.Text }, the online forum for teachers of…
Call for Proposals The Nebraska Digital Workshop October 5 & 6, 2007 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate…
The most important International Festival of Digital Poetry CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Every two years, the E-Poetry series of Digital Poetry Festivals constitutes the most important digital literary gathering in the field. Authors and researchers worldwide meet and present their ideas and works. E-Poetry plays an essential role in the emergence of this new literary field,…
The John and Bebe Petrou Foundation, the Department of English, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) are very pleased to announce the 2006 Bebe Koch Petrou Lectures on NEW MEDIA STORYTELLING at the University of Maryland, College Park. There will be two speakers associated with this event, coming to campus on…
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The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln invites pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students to submit proposals on digital humanities work at the first Nebraska Digital Workshop. The workshop, “a forum where the best new digital humanities work will be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased,” will take…
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book (with the permission of the publisher); a unique archive of materials dating from the…
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…
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Laurence Sterne (1713-68) wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandyin Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, in the 18th Century. The innovative nonlinear novel is often cited by contemporary new media writers as an influence on their creative practice. It was recently announced that Shandy Hall will now house Asterisk*, a center for the study and…
The pounding vortex of Dakota reworks Cantos I and II into a furiously driving, but still legible, loop of animated text. Young Hae-Chang’s piece seems to please everyone: It was shown at the Whitney Museum and is taught in college classes, but it also has made its way onto more popular Flash forums. See the…
Markus S. Schulz, chair of the Joint Session of RC07 Research Committee on Futures Research and RC14 Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture, at the 2006 World Congress of the International Sociological Association, invites submissions of papers on “The Futures of New Mediascapes: Communication, Knowledge, and Culture in a Globalizing World”. The…
Read more CFP: “The Futures of New Mediascapes” at ISA World Congress