In this interactive talk, Dr Alice Bell and Dr Isabelle van der Bom from the Reading Digital Fiction project will explore the origins and future of digital fiction, including the hopes and fears that digital technology bring to the future of writing.
New Media Writing Prize 2016 now open for entries – first deadline 30 November 2016
The New Media Writing Prize showcases exciting and inventive stories that integrate a variety of formats, platforms, and digital media. This international prize is now in its 7th year.
Tellit: The First True-Life Storytelling Festival in the UK – London, 16-22 October 2016
The UK’s first ever festival of true life storytelling, running for a week in venues across London.
Writers and artists wanted for literary arts commission: MIX 2017 MediaWall – deadline 31 October 2016
The biannual conference, Mix 2017 has teamed up with Paper Nations to commission a writer or artistic team to create a new literary artwork for the Bath Spa Universityās MediaWall.
Call for papers and presentations – MIX 2017: Revolutions, Regenerations, Reflections, Bath Spa University, UK – deadline 30 January 2017
The MIX conference will host a vibrant mix of academic papers, practitioner presentations, seminars, keynotes, discussions and workshops. Alongside scholars and researchers, artists, creative writers and creative technologists interested in literary forms are welcome to submit proposals.
Wallpaper: hope, fear and digital fiction launch event – Wakefield, UK, 17 November 2016
See WALLPAPER by Dreaming Methods, an immersive digital fiction work exhibited as a large scale projection and virtual reality experience.
Call for papers – Trans/forming the Machine: Feminist Interventions in Digital Poetics – deadline 1 November 2016
If a poem is a machine to think with (Baldwin), how might the innovative methodologies, praxis, and ideology of digital poetry rethink feminist practice?
Version 2 of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3 released
The 2.0 version of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3 (ELC3) has been released. This version adds preservation and new resources to the 114 featured works.
Leonardo/ISAST & MIT Press launch ARTECA
ARTECA is an online portal that supports the creation and dissemination of scholarly materials exploring the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology.
Lumen Prize Winnersā Gala – 2 Days of Digital Art, Music & Events, Hackney House, London – 29-30 September 2016
On September 29th and 30th, the top floor of Hackney House, London will be transformed by 2016 Lumen Prize art, giving you a chance to delve into worlds of gaming, VR, interactive art and music, cutting-edge artist films, moving image, stills and much more.
Design & The Concrete Poem – Glasgow, 28 September – 6 October 2016
In the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s ad 1960s the shape and sounds of poetry underwent radical transformation. Design and typography were at the centre of these developments.
AlgoMech ā first Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, Sheffield, UK, 12-20 November 2016
AlgoMech ā the first Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement is coming to Sheffield from 12-20th November 2016, with talks, hands-on workshops, concerts, and an algorave, all exploring algorithmic and mechanical movement.