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where the sun writes

Doesn’t this look wonderful? It’s from Christian Yde Frostholm’s 1998 project Permanent poesi. Writing poetry in light seems like a good idea for dark countries. I still want to play with something like Lazano-Hammer’s Two Origins

alter ego

Alter Ego is a fascinating project that was just presented at DAC2005 – you sit down at a mirror, and see a computer model of a face. A hidden webcam captures your face and maps it onto the model so that after […]

playing with poetry

I’ve been contributing to the conference Wiki and bookmarking stuff in del.icio.us rather than blogging. These activities work differently to blogging though. Right now I need a blog post: Fox Harrell is currently demonstrating his poetry generation system, GRIOT. I tend to […]

phd fellowships at our faculty

Hey, they’ve just advertised 15 PhD stipends at our faculty. These stipends pay about the same as a nurse would earn, I think, for three or four years. You have to have an MA to be eligible. If you’re interested in doing […]

Ian Bogost on exergaming

Procedural rhetoric: advancing or understanding arguments made through code rather than through words. Exergaming is gaming that requires physical exercise, e.g. Dance Dance Revolution etc.

uploaded my paper on self-portraiture online

So I uploaded my paper, since the conference has actually started now, but there’s something weird with the links. The URL is correct, but if I click the links (in the sidebar to the right) I get an error message. If I […]

off to digital arts and culture

I’m off to Digital Arts and Culture 2005 today! I’m presenting my paper about our fascination with representing ourselves online, both in photographic self-portraits and, say, in blogs. We’ve been asked not to publish our papers online until after the conference, so […]

how to reject unfamiliar literature

AfsnitP.dk has published an interesting discussion by Anna Hallberg (in Danish) of the visual poem Al-Jazeera by Lars Mikael Raattamaa (a facsimile of the first page is to the left; bigger images are in Hallberg’s article). Hallberg’s greater aim is to find […]

gender differences

You know all those studies showing that men are better than woman at spatial tasks like rotation of objects and thinking out how objects could fit together? Well, a recent study shows no difference in this respect between boys and girls in […]

how to find diversity

Here’s a great post describing the kind of work you need to do to find conference speakers who aren’t just like you. Say, women, if you’re a man, or conservatives, if you’re left wing yourself. Academic conferences are maybe a little different, […]