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Telling a story with new media

Alec — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:45:35 +0000

Thanks to D’log for publicising the recently-launched competition, as part of Poole Literary Festival, to tell a story using new media.

This sounds like an exciting opportunity to exploit new media to the full, to show how it can transform writing, or more accurately experiencing a story. That’s what some people are claiming the iPad will do for the magazine industry, but it could be much wider than that.

Recode Decode

Alec — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:58:31 +0000

The Decode digital art exhibition has opened at the V&A in London, and Create Digital Motion has posted a slideshow of photographs taken at the exhibition. I’ll be going next week, but in the New Year there’s a whole programme of associated events, activities and conferences. One of the opportunities is to adapt an artist’s programming code (known as Recode Decode), and have your work featured on the London Underground. Download the source code and user guide here.

Here’s a link to Body Paint which is one of the items in the exhibition, and to onedotzero’s events website page, which lists all of the works.

Building Intelligence

Alec — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:40:28 +0000

There’s a free public lecture at the University of Wolverhampton at 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday) on Building Intelligence: Autonomous Characters in Virtual Environments:

This talk aims to shed some light on the current research and techniques that can be employed in the creation of challenging and sophisticated autonomous artificial intelligent characters used in interactive multimedia applications.

It’s part of a programme of lectures that included one examining criticisms of the lack of craft in contemporary art. I didn’t know about that one in time, but it sounds interesting. I’ll certainly be going to the one on Building Intelligence.

Visitors Studio

Alec — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:36:42 +0000

Visitors Studio is an online collaborative space for live interactive creativity, though I’ve no idea how useful it is. Has anyone any experience of this?

Spirituality via mp3

Alec — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:48:07 +0000

I wrote a short while ago about the subtlemob events in London, Bristol and Liverpool that were due to take place last week. The subtlemob website has video feedback for the event in London, which sounds like a moving, almost spiritual experience.

As If It Were the Last Time

Alec — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:37:54 +0000

I really want to experience this flash mob next week, but I can’t because I’ll be away. If anyone who reads this blog goes along to one of the events, please post an account of it here.

Interaction

Alec — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:42:18 +0000

I’m fascinated by some of the imaginative uses of Arduino in this video shot at an international art event in Greece. In my opinion, the end results can only be described at best as interesting, but it seems like new ways of interacting with visitors to art galleries are becoming more and more sophisticated in a low-budget way.