Intimate Transactions Presented by the Brisbane Festival 2006, and Centre Of Contemporary Art, Cairns and conceived and developed by Transmute Collective, Intimate Transactions is a new type of interactive installation that allows two people, located in geographically separate spaces, to interact simultaneously using only their bodies. As this highly immersive experience evolves through digital image, […]
This is becoming quite an interest of mine over the past few months and has also taken centre stage as the focal theme of my online drama work. There are emerging more and more stories about griefing across the entire web – in games, virtual communities, online worlds… etc…. Mark Wallace over at 3pointD and […]
Tonight or tomorrow – depending whee you are and when you read this Ars Virtua present a special exhibition inside its Second Life new media centre and gallery. Get along to TRANSPOSITIONÂ This show includes projects with very different data sets and very different intentions. Data sets ranging from four letter words to prescription pharmaceuticals, […]
The folk over at The Games Institute and Muzzy Lane are offering a 4 week online course “Using Games in Education”… With Using Games in Education, you can bring the opportunities of digital games into your classroom. This ten unit course explores “why games”—the theories of educational gaming—and “how games”—the practical aspects of implementing educational […]
A new book, The Body and The Screen, from Michelle White looks at issues relating to online representations. Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered–as in AOL’s striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White […]
The people at Symbiotica have to follow very rigorous ethics protocols – they form part of the school of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA – http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ and have to meet all the ethics requirements of any other research program.  What interests me about their work is the excision of arbitrary boundaries on knowledge – […]
Well, here’s the update… I can finally start doing the practical phase of the work. ECU have granted ethics clearance. I hope you will all be able to make the times and dates I propose – demand for space is at a premium. The planned Process Drama sessions are: Tuesday May 30, 2006  7:00-9:00pm Thursday […]
Webvisions 2006 will soon convene to examine the possible futures of the web. Some of the proposed explorations are intrigiung and I will be following developments with interest. Luke Williams’ keynote promises: Throughout the electronic age, people have become accustomed to interacting with digital media indirectly, mediated through screens and peripheral devices. But now, as […]
So, if we are going to embark on this journey we need to envision this new Drama form. What features will it need? Upon what poetics will it operate? How will it maintain all that is “good” about current drama practice?
Drama Teacher as Game Master: the development of a new model of online Drama for learning. As the world shifts from a “knowledge” economy to a “creative” economy, there will be significant changes needed in the way we frame education and learning. Traditional education models are likely to become less relevant and less useful in […]