The first challenge is: viivakoodi, barcode, código de parras, codice a barre… Time for a Vispo is a new blog run by Finnish visual poet, Satu Kaikkonen, where she gives a weekly challenge to create a vispo. The 1. challenge, issued by Satu on Monday 28 June, was barcode. It’s always good to have an [...]

Strange things can happen to the reader when printed matter unlocks digital delights! In early June an international collection of e-literature was installed in a gallery setting in downtown Providence (Rhode Island, USA) for the Arts Program of the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference (ELO_AI), including my own piece, Underbelly. There were many wonderful works [...]

Remixworx is a collaborative blog for creative digital media remixing, started by Randy Adams (aka runran) in November 2006. To date there are 429 posts – i.e. remixes of audio, Flash animations, digital images, visual poetry, texts… but there are many more remixes scattered throughout the comments areas. We’ve lost count, but there must be [...]

Underbelly is my latest playable media fiction, created in Flash. It’s about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices, along with her ticking biological clock, and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of the [...]

Call for Presentations Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February 2010, 9:30 – 17:30 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network,  De Montfort University www.transliteracy.com/conference2010.html Deadline for Abstracts:  1 December, 2009 Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range [...]

The Transliteracy Research Group is a research-focussed think-tank and creative laboratory, based at De Montfort University, UK, led by Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, who extend an invitation to join in developing this new field of academic research: Since transliteracy research began at DMU in 2005 under the umbrella of PART (Production & Research in [...]