typewriters

I have always been obsessed with typewriters. The idea I had initially (with regards to the one listed for 604) was to create a new media collection using an image of a typewriter as the interface/navigation menu.
After talking to Katie I realized my thinking was restricted (by my lack of technological skills) to a computer, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. What if, she asked, I were to wire an actual typewriter (this is a picture of mine) to a screen? Each key could trigger a different short work of images, text, video, art, some combination of these. Now that I can imagine it "out of my comfort zone" I also see a projector, a gallery. You think I've been hanging out with artists too long? Of course, I still have NO CLUE how I would pull this off. But I think I may work on the new media part of the project during the lab. I think it would be cool too if the (w)reader could type words as they clicked on the letters/numbers. Any thoughts?

hyperrhiz

hyperrhiz: new media cultures has a new issue available online. I think I may have posted a call for submissions for them or e-mailed it or something. But the ELO sends them out. And they take submissions of new media literature and art. Maybe a good place to send all the brilliant work we're going to make in the lab this semester (whoohooo!). There is also a link for a new journal for teachers of electronic literature if anyone (besides me) is interested.


And hey... welcome back! Does anyone else feel like we are already knee-deep in this new semester? Or diving in head-first? Or already in over our heads? That's probably just me...

Flight Paths

Flight Paths, a networked novel by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph.

The project is associated with the Institue for the Future of the Book. Also doing other neat stuff.

And hey... we survived our first semester! I think that makes us all pretty kick ass. :-)

Happy holidays you guys! Be safe.

end of semester digression

royksopp, what else is there?

because if you're going to procrastinate, say, a textual studies project, it really should involve a floating house.

Thanks Robin!!!

eleven dimensions, new media, and string theory

I'm so happy to discover that someone is linking physics and new media. Stephanie Strickland (poet and author of True North by Eastgate and several others) has an article called Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry

Actually, she may not be trying to make that connection... but there are 11 dimensions according to string theory and I sort of couldn't help making the leap regardless.

And if you're interested in string theory you can now watch The Elegant Universe online.

And this is a very cool Flash piece called Imagining the 10th Dimension.

So, just catching up on my link posts I guess. It's been a long, long week (semester?) requiring lots of coffee...

bookbinding makes a comeback!

I recently discovered that a good friend of mine is making books!!!

Check out her website at handboundbooks... they are beautiful. And this one's my favorite! Thanks Rhonda!! :-)

and she also has a blog.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

I found this YouTube link in Kairos, a SCHOLARLY online journal (sorry I had to make an argument for this last night) "exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy." The current issue 12.1 is on Scholarly Webtexts and this link was just offered up as an example in their call for manifestos section for a future issue--maybe a submission possibility. Dr. Cheryl Ball, VCU MFA Alum is an editor (but I would plug it anyway). :-)

The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch