Founded in 1996, The New River is a biannual journal devoted exclusively to digital writing and art. I’m delighted that the Spring 2012 issue, just published, includes Rememori, my “game that is an experience in lyrical prose,” which New River also describes as:
An eerie twist to a child’s matching game puts the reader in the minds and hearts of both the Alzheimer’s patient and his fading loved ones.
The four works in this issue “were chosen for their duality” and in her note from the editor, Khalilah Boone goes on to say:
Developed to entertain and make the reader think deeply, the creative works we’re presenting invite the reader to ponder the origins of scholarship, question definitions of human identity, reflect upon who we are as patients or relatives of the ill, and carefully ruminate on the nature of our cultural belonging.
The other works are by Eric Lemay, F.J Bergman and Nanette Wylde.
The new “explosive” issue of Mad Hatters’ Review is a wonderful and fitting tribute to its late founding editor, Carol Novack. This issue of the annual online multimedia magazine is bursting with marvellous “poetry, fiction, art, multimedia and genre-benders” from around 100 international contributors and I’m delighted to say that my work, Out of Touch, features in the multimedia section.
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remixed for remixworx from R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX – selected works
technique thanks to this tutorial by carl schooff
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remixworx launches a gallery page of selected works from 5+ years of remixing
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a collaborative creative space for remixing digital art, digital poetry, spoken word, audio, text, animation and playable media. It’s a micro-community of recombinant artistic practice that I’ve been involved with since January 2007. The R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX blog is where the remixing takes place and WordPress, our chosen software, provides a great social platform for remote creative collaboration. But the front page only displays the latest handful of works so the vast mass of the creative project tends to be hidden in the archives. Our new gallery page opens out the remixworx collection in a browsable interface of thumbnails where you can see, at a glance, relationships between remixes and have access to the works at your fingertips.
Many thanks to Randy Adams, who initiated the R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX project in 2006, for pulling together the selected works page. It currently contains 183 pieces, which represents about one third of the total number of remix works on the blog.
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is always open to new members – you should be media savvy and experienced with online publishing software. If you would like to join, let me know. Also, you may find interesting, my personal perspective on remixing with R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX.
Special Issue: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
In this special issue of Studies in the Maternal, Kate Pullinger reviews Underbelly, which won the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition last year:
‘Underbelly’ is a highly original work that makes great use of the multimedia potential provided by computers. It blends text, sound effects, voiceover, archive drawings, and photographs to create a rich meditation on reproductive rights and dilemmas in both twenty-first century, and nineteenth century England.
I first met Christine Wilks when she was a student on a MA in Creative Writing and New Media that I helped run. She began working on ‘Underbelly’ for her MA thesis, and I’ve been fascinated to watch the work develop since that time. It was clear then that Christine was creating something extraordinary, an important work in the newly emerging field of digital fiction, one that shines a light on a little known part of the history of the mining industry, while illuminating a contemporary story of a woman artist at the same time.
Studies in the Maternal is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly online journal. In addtition to the papers and reviews (listed below), this special issue also includes visual media art, on the theme of Maternal Subjectivities, Care and Labour, and Kate Pullinger writing about her novel, The Mistress of Nothing.
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