The 4-week, 12-hour Inform 7 workshop series has completed. Thanks to Kenny’s help to make PolyU School of Design’s lab available to us.

The WMC 2nd edition is not finished yet. We have THREE tasks going on:

(1) VIRTUAL EXHIBITION’s call for submission” is still open until end of May.
Dear WMC artists, please send in your work, and encourage your friends and students to submit their work.
An Amazon.com gift coupon has been prepared for the best work to be announce early July.

(2) A one-day WRITING MACHINE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP 文字機器兒童工作坊
Date & Time: June 22 (Friday) 10:00am to 5:00pm (with a one-hour lunch break)
Morning session - Part I 象形文字的遊戲 Word-play with Pictograms (games, story-telling and word-making)
Afternoon session - Part II 會跳動的文字 Moving Pictograms (using a programming language designed for children)
Software: Scratch (developed by MIT Media Lab) http://scratch.mit.edu
No of participants expected: 40 pax
Participant scope: Primary 4-5 Students
No of instructors: 6 pax

(3) WMC_2 digital catalogue to be produced by end of June
A full digital catalogue in the form of a CD-Rom is in prepartion.
The catalogue will contain detailed description of all works exhibited with playable samples and documentation, critical essays, press coverage and reviews, plus resource references for research and creative inspirations.
***WMC_2 artists: if you have NOT submitted any documentation or sample, please send us something next week latest.

Lastly, I want to welcome on board Kenny Chow and Morgan Wong, two new core members of the WMC committee.

(Linda)

NYC: Performances And A Symposium on the LEA New Media Poetry Special Issue

21 April 2007 / 1600 - 1800hrs
Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery at Bleecker, New York City

Event Guest-Curated by Loss Pequeño Glazier.
Featuring Aya Karpinska, Elizabeth Knipe, and Jim Rosenberg. Shawn Rider,
Respondent. Tim Peterson, Series Curator

Live performances, talks, and discussion about New Media art forms, issues, and poetics in a cordial setting. Poetry is on the move … catch a glimpse of present poetic forms in action! This event seeks to further conversation about poetics through its sampling in digital forms. Join us for an historic presentation of digital poetics featuring an engaging mix of foundational and emerging digital poets!

About the participants
Aya Karpinska (http://technekai.com) is a digital media artist and interaction designer. She is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing. Elizabeth Knipe ( www.dreamdilation.com) is an engaging interdisciplinary artist. She is digital poet and experimental video artist who entertains an interest in physical electronic installations.

Jim Rosenberg (http://www.well.com/user/jer) has been working in non-linear poetic forms in one medium or another since 1966 and is one of the foundational figures in digital poetry. His best-known work is Intergrams.

Shawn Rider (http://www.shawnrider.com) is a writer, artist, teacher and programmer, currently working as a Web Technologist for PBS TeacherLine. He is also the owner and Editor in Chief of GamesFirst.com, a long-running independent videogame review website.

Loss Pequeño Glazier ( http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier) is a digital poet, professor of Media Study, and Founder and Director of the Electronic Poetry Center. He is the author of the digitally-informed poetry collection Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Salt Press) and the digital theory treatise Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Alabama UP).

Tim Peterson ( http://mappemunde.typepad.com/) is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press). He edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and currently curates part of the Segue Reading Series in New York.

LEA [Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391)] Current Issue:
http://leoalmanac.org/

Thanks for Jim Andrews’ keeping us informed on news about digital literature.

In May, there will be the E-poetry conference in Paris http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/epoetry/

Dajuin Yao’s site: http://www.sinologic.com/concrete

Thanks for Jim Andrews’ keeping us informed.

The E-poetry 2007 will be held in Paris in May.

Also a Media Artist Dajuin Yao’s link.

BELOW PLEASE FIND NOTES POSTED BY Hector Rodriguez for participants of the Inform 7 Workshop:

Here is a list of some works of Interactive Fiction (IF) which may be inspiring to all those who are participating in the workshop on Inform 7. But first, I should warn you that many of the games are Z-code files To play these files, you will need to install an interpreter. It is very easy to download the interpreter, so don’t be discouraged. Here is the windows version, called Frotz: http://www.d.kinder.btinternet.co.uk/frotz.html

Here is the mac version, called Zoom: http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html
Installing this software takes very little time. I have never used Zoom, but Windows Frotz works very well. Please contact us if you have a problem downloading them.

Here is the list of games, as promised:

A good interactive game is Mobius, by J. Clemens. You can download it for free here: http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Mobius.zblorb

Some of you might be interested in games that play with language. Here are some:

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/921

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/912

Emily Short’s games are often interesting. Here is a link to her work: http://emshort.wordpress.com/my-work/
You can explore her essays, too, in her web site. They are all very thoughtful. Most people who do IF are quite reflexive, and enjoy writing essays.

Here is an interview with Emily Short in the online games magazine gamasutra:
http://gamasutra.com/features/20070410/munroe_01.shtml

It looks like interactive fiction is making a strong comeback.

(posted by Linda Lai for Hector Rodriguez)