Not about cross media but remediation - from an italian magazine: “Roberto Bernocco, a programmer from Bra (small town near Cuneo, worldly renowned as the originator of the Slow Food movement), wrote a novel of 384 pages on his mobile phone, “Compagni di viaggio”, available at Lulu.com. The downloads have already reached the number of 19.900 copies”.
I wonder how the style has been affected by the (unusual) medium, will post soon about it.

The program of the Cross Media Week is now available here, and the registration for Partner Events is open - all Partner Events are free, which is quite good for independents or grant-less students….

Today I found in the spam mail an invitation to “the virtual world of gambling”.
PKR offers “the most advanced poker rooms, stunning 3D graphics” etc, with fully customizable avatars. I am wondering if they are aware they are selling two games at the same time.


Or maybe the virtual world medium has already become so transparent (a 3D avatar is already as obvious than an icon in a chat?) and the audience is already so blasé that the main attraction of PKR will be in fact playing poker?
If so, are we going to see 3D environments hosting cooking lessons, meditation, gardening and what not?
Anyway, I am not sure virtual worlds are automatically cross media, nor that they are automatically games, this is indeed a very grey area that need further investigation.

The uber-cool Mediamatic in Amsterdam is organizing a workshop devoted to the creation of cross media projects for children - the headline reads : “Games and Internet are gradually replacing television as children’s favorite media. How can media makers use games and game culture in crossmedia productions? If you can’t beat them, join them”.
The training team includes Friedrich Kirschner, Daniel Van Gils, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and Julian Oliver, the angle is to create film and television in 3D worlds like Second Life, The Sims and others.
Very interesting (for me of course) the connection between cross media and games, I really hope to be able to go.

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Mediacity - Situations, Practices and Encounters will take place in Weimar, Germany, 18-19th January 2008
the call is not just for papers but also for architectural projects and media art projects, all to explore how “the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media”.

Very cool. Deadline 1st October 2007 for extended abstracts

Organized among others by Frank Eckardt and Kostantinos Chorianopoulos (I mention only the ones of which I read something, sorry) the angle should be very interdisciplinary, and that’s what we need.

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