Of course this all seems very crude by modern standards, but in the early 1960s this must have been mind-blowing. Note sophisticated audio manipulation.
August 11, 2023
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Category Archives: Narrative
July 4, 2020
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Silver Lining
A short film I made in collaboration with glass artist Chris Bird-Jones. It has been accepted into the Glass, Meet the Future International Film Festival currently running at Northlands Creative.
April 30, 2020
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British Sounds
The facts: 1969 made-for-TV film by Jean-Luc Godard. The voice-overs are largely adapted from the Communist Manifesto. Godard claimed that the “news presenter” text was adapted from speeches by contemporary politicians. The “feminist” text is written and recited by Sheila Rowbotham. … Continue reading
September 10, 2019
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Japan 211
Here are the two films I produced for the Mirror exhibition at Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, 30 July – 11 August 2019. 白紙 [Blank Paper] is a Japanese language film that toys with narrative convention. It is sampled, intertextual, and semiotically … Continue reading
March 30, 2013
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Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
This chilly Easter weekend I’m in Paris for the 3rd Conference of the European Narratology Network. Here’s some pics of the venue: a lovely and extremely varied campus, if a little run-down in places: The delegates gather. Brian Richardson delivers … Continue reading
May 13, 2010
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Chris Crawford: Masterclass On Interactivity
About three weeks ago now—yeah, I know, but I’ve been busy—Chris Crawford delivered a ‘Masterclass On Interactivity’ at Swansea Metropolitan University. Chris began with a light-hearted look back at the history of computing and, simultaneously, back over his career. Whilst … Continue reading
March 17, 2010
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The Computational Turn
On Tuesday 9th March I attended the Computational Turn conference at Swansea University. Very good it was too, with the wide range of speakers packed into a single day all having a diverse set of approaches to the main theme. … Continue reading
March 7, 2010
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The Future of Books?
Craig Mod has just published a thoughtful, insightful, and beautifully-presented essay on the future of books in the digital era, using the emergence of devices like the Kindle and the iPad as his focus: In printed books, the two-page spread … Continue reading
March 1, 2010
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Bruce Sterling at Transmediale
Notes from a presentation made by Bruce Sterling on 6th February 2010 at the Transmediale Futurity Now! festival in Berlin. The theme is “atemporality,” the sense that new media has moved us beyond modernism, beyond postmodernism, beyond all the “grand … Continue reading
September 18, 2009
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The Poetics
I’ve started writing-up my PhD thesis supposedly for submission in March 2011. For me, this means getting up at 5am and getting in a couple of hours study before I head off to the office: there’s no way I’ll be … Continue reading