One of the reasons I'm publishing this story in monthly instalments is because I reviewed a Flash-animated comic called "Broken Saints" a couple of years ago (see http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewbrokensaints.php). [read more...]

CALLAS Project
http://www.callas-newmedia.eu/

The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to develop a multimodal architecture which will include emotional aspects in order to support applications in the new media business scenario with an “ambient intelligence” paradigm. [read more...]

Call for nominations for the 2010 award - The Roberto Busa Award is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. [read more...]

CFP (Abstracts) Reminder.

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this symposium is Thursday 31st July.

http://www.arts-humanities.net/cfp/cfp_abstracts_lansdown_sy...

Stephen
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Conference Chair, LCEA09
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts

I invite you to explore the website for a new novel Reconstructing Mayakovsky.

http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com

Set
in the future, the novel revisits the past to make
sense of the chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the
Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of
thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy [read more...]

My friend Andi from TextGrid pointed me to WIRED MAGAZINE: Issue 16.07.

The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_i...

The End of Science: The Quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age. [read more...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education published this article on the new NEH initiative on HPC: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2580n.htm

"We are offering one million hours of high-performance computing," said Brett Bobley, director of the endowment's new Office of Digital Humanities.

Torsten Reimer, who runs this site, was suggesting that rather than just publicise The Puzzle Box I ought to write a word or two about what I'm trying to achieve with it and why it might be interest to student of the new media/hyperliterature field. [read more...]

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