It’s ages since I last read magic-tree.com, and I’m loving the way it merges the reader (me) with Afra, throwing me from textual position to textual position. In the sequence where Simon and Magalie find Afra’s website, I’m behind the computer screen […]

We see so resolutely from our own perspective. How can we do otherwise? Digital art is all interface, defined entirely by the experience of its viewing or use. So say Bolter and Gromala on page 11 of their new book, writing as […]

“Mummy, am I Norwegian or English?” My daughter is seven, and earlier that day a couple of the older girls at school had asked her the question she now asked me. She couldn’t answer the girls at school. It sure is confusing […]

Jamie’s link made me laugh so much I’m putting it on the main page for other unfortunate soon-to-defend their PhDs to enjoy: Things Not To Do During Your Defence. [Update: Torill, upon reading this list, would like to point out that she […]

We left the audio on as we worked. I read and searched to the sound of his typing, then later I typed to the sound of occasional outbursts of indignation as he graded papers. Sometimes we shared something we’d found, or thought, […]

Look at that. The University newsletter, PÂ H¯yden, has taken a quote from my remediated-into-website radio interview, combined it with a couple of sentences from the press release and hey presto I’m in the newsletter. Journalism is so efficient, I’m impressed!

Mary Flanagan’s syllabus for her Web Production class is a riot!

I just realised I have to figure out what to wear for my trial lecture, too! Would it be inappropriate to wear the same outfit as I’ll wear the next day? Should the trial lecture attire be a little less formal than […]

Jenny Weight’s course on programmed and networked media is fascinating, both for the topic and because there are lots and lots of creative ideas for stuff to do in class with (and without) blogs. For instance, visualise the network, figure out what […]

In Raine Koskimaa’s new Dichtung Digital article I found this lovely description of a Finnish hypercard work from the late 80s/early 90s: One of these (HyperApocalypsis) employed the premise that if the reader is not interested enough in the story and quits […]