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What is a digital writer, anyway?
I create electronic literature, multimedia and interactive art, which may include text, images and video, sounds, music and reader/viewer participation. The Electronic Literature Organization have a useful definition of e-lit:
works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.
My recent projects include Flight Paths, a 'networked novel' funded by the Arts Council England; Inanimate Alice, a series of interactive multimedia stories; and The Breathing Wall, a digital novel that responds to the reader's breathing rate.
I am currently Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies in De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. The IOCT fosters creative research and collaboration across disciplines that have traditionally been kept separate (art and design, music, humanities, computer science and engineering), and encourages transdisciplinary collaboration between individuals and organisations within the university and at local, national and international levels.
My residency is funded by the Arts Council England, and involves
supporting regional digital practitioners through mentoring, workshops and creative surgeries
increasing the profile of electronic literature and art and interdisciplinary creative practice through regular IOCT Salons
responding to the the work of the IOCT in my own creative practice
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Contact
Chris Joseph
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK
Email: cjoseph {at} dmu.ac.uk
Web:
chrisjoseph.org - Residency blog and related events and work
babel.ca - Electronic writing and art, 2001-present
391.org - Post-dada magazine and network
ioct.dmu.ac.uk - The Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)
ioctsalon.com - IOCT Salon events
transliteracy.com - The PART (Production And Research in Transliteracy) group at De Montfort University
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Awards
2008:
Finalist (Interactive productions category), Learning on Screen Awards 2008, British Universities Film & Video Council, UK
2007:
Selected Finalist, 2008 CULTURAS Intercultural Dialogue Awards, Madrid, Spain [Alicia Inanimada, Episodio 1: China]
Selected Finalist, 8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea [The Surveys]
IBM New Media Prize, 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China]
Selected Works, 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China and Inanimate Alice, Episode 2: Italy]
2006:
Selected Finalist, Videomedeja 10th International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia [Urbanalities]
Selected Works, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art, Rosario, Argentina [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China and Inanimate Alice, Episode 2: Italy]
Selected Work, III International Festival of Digital Art, Santa Fe, Argentina [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China]
Selected Works, Astas Romas, Rosario, Argentina [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China and Inanimate Alice, Episode 2: Italy]
Mentorship scholarship, Banff Centre Interactive Project Lab, Banff, Alberta, Canada [Inanimate Alice]
Phoenix Digital Leicester Libraries Commission, Leicester, UK
Selected Finalist, ACE 2006, at NICOGRAPH International, Seoul, Korea [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China]
Selected Finalist, ACM SiGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2006, Wyndham Bel Age West Hollywood Hotel, Los Angeles, USA [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China]
Selected Finalist, Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea [Inanimate Alice, Episode 2: Italy and 391-37: Zinhar]
Winner, Premio per l'arte digitale - Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, DARC (General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art), MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts) and the Fondazione Rosselli [Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China]
Finalist, Digital Media Awards, Dublin, Ireland ('Hall of Fame' category)
2005:
Selected Work, Playzone Samsung Media Lounge, Seoul Net Festival, Korea [Eisenstein's Monster]
First Prize [as part of Violence Online Festival], V Salon Internacional De Arte Digital, Maracaibo, Venezuela [Battlefield Icon: Battlefield Iraq; The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today; Life's a Bitch; Protesters, Police, Politicians]
2004:
Third Place Award Shortlist [Eisenstein's Monster]
Special Mention, 3rd Gangart Awards, Australia [Dadaventuras]
Jury Recommended Work, ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan [Animalamina]
Jury Recommended Work, 9th Art on the Net, Tokyo, Japan [Protesters, Police, Politicians]
2003:
Canada Council for the Arts / Canadian Heritage production award [Animalamina]
Jury Recommended Work, MAD '03 Net Digit, Madrid, Spain [Patinage]
Perspectives of Excellence Award and JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003 nomination
Perspectives'03 finalist, Computer Space Festival 2003 and Goethe Institut-Internationes, Sofia, Bulgaria [Patinage]
Silver place, 2nd Annual Gangart Awards, Australia [Protesters, Police, Politicians]
Audience Selected Work, Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, Chiangmai, Thailand [Patinage]
Winner, '6 rules compliant' Remix/Remake/Remodel competition, Some Dancers and Musicians, UK [Echodance]
Selected exhibitions of electronic work
2007:
NetSpace: Journey into Net Art: Bodies in Cyberspace, DARC (General Direction for Contemporary Architecture and Art) and MAXXI (National Museum of the XXI Century Arts), Rome, Italy
European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008
The New Screen: Interactive Futures 2007, Victoria, Canada
3rd International Digital Art Festival, Rosario, Argentina
FONLAD - Digital Art Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
Aurora Festival, Norwich, UK
8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
BBC Big Screen, Leeds and Manchester, UK
Flip Animation Festival, Wolverhampton, UK
FILE-RIO (Electronic Language International Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Festival Animatu, Beja, Portugal
FILE 2007 - Electronic Language International Festival, SESI Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Boston Cyberarts, Boston, USA
Radio Bis, Poland
E-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave, India International Centre, New Dehli, India
Gazeta magazine, Poland
The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland
Chassé Theater and Cinema, Breda, The Netherlands
2006:
Guardian Unlimited (UK national newspaper)
Videomedeja 10th International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
://selfportrait , MAC (Museo Arte Contemporaneo), Santa Fe, Argentina
III International Festival of Digital Art, Santa Fe, Argentina
404 International Festival of Electronic Art, Rosario, Argentina
2nd International Digital Art Festival, Rosario, Argentina
ARTISSIMA, Turin, Italy
Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajarra, Mexico
Mutaforma, Aijima Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
PI 5 Intermedia Festival, Szczecin
International Digital Art Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
CYNETart, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
VideoChannel, PI 5 Intermedia Festival, Szczecin, Poland
DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) Conference 2006, Dartington College of the Arts, Dartington, UK
Media Art Friesland 2006, Leeuwarden, Drachten, Beetsterzwaag and Groningen, The Netherlands
://selfportrait, Al Kahf Art Gallery, Bethlehem
Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, Edinburgh, UK
AVANCA 06, Avanca, Portugal
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
IV06 (10th International Conference on Imaging and Visualisation), London, UK
CGIV06 (3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization), Sydney, Australia
DiverseWorks netArt Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA
ACM SiGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2006, Los Angeles, USA
NICOGRAPH International, Seoul, Korea
Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Havana, Cuba
Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea
Thailand New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
ANIMAFEST, the 17th World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb, Croatia
Izolenta/06 International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
ART TECH MEDIA 06, Gran Canaria, Spain
Pixeldance, Thessaloniki, Greece
Propeller TV (UK Sky Channel 195)
D>Art.2006, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
The Electronic Literature Collection volume 1 (CD-ROM), The Electronic Literature Organization, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
FILE-RIO (Electronic Language International Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AniMOweb Festival, Modena, Italy
PIEMONTE_SHARE_2006, Fine Arts Academy, Turin, Italy
5th Liège International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Liège, Belgium
Classical/Digital, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada
Paço Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Microtel, TV channels 1, 2, 3, 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
19th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2005:
VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain
Visual and Electronic Poetry International Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil
International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina
Biennale of Video & New Media, Santiago, Chile
Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), São Paulo, Brazil
E-Poetry 2005, Birkbeck College, London
9th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
INCUBA, 1st Festival of Electronic Arts, Santa Cruz, Argentina
Electrofringe 2005, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
International Exhibit Of Digital Art ORILLA#05, Santa Fe, Argentina
International Media Art Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA
Playzone, Samsung Media Lounge, Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea
Experimedia, State Library of Victoria, Australia
FLUXUS - 5th International Film Festival On The Internet, Brazil
Sequences, Peterborough Art Gallery and Furniture Works, London, UK
'Infinity' Visual Poetry Exhibition, Harvard University, USA
Thailand New Media Arts Festival
2004:
Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), São Paulo, Brazil
New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Biennale of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia
Imagens que voc Jamais Ver na TV, São Paulo, Brazil
Ulisses 2004-03, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival, Stavanger, Norway
public_space_festival, Yerewan, Armenia
Digital Visions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
VI Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba
Hole 2004-02, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Basics Festival, Salzburg, Austria
Electronic Art Meeting, Pescara, Italy
switch media_ art festival 'Pathiharn Electron', Goethe Institut, Bangkok, Thailand
Fundacion Gugg und Chaim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thailand New Media Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Met Museum of Photography, Japan
9th Art on the Net, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2003:
Perspectives'03, Computer Space Festival 2003 and Goethe Institut-Internationes, Sofia, Bulgaria
TRANZTECH International Media Art Biennale, Toronto, Canada
Poesa Visual Urbana and Net Digit, Mad '03, Madrid, Spain
Next 5 Minutes (N5M) 4: International Festival of Tactical Media, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), São Paulo, Brazil
Cityscape 03, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nonetart Festival, Arte Digital Rosario 2003, Argentina
Lancaster Film & New Media Festival, UK
La Isle festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pescara Electronic Art Festival, Italy
Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, Thailand
Art Sheffield, UK
Videoformes - 18th International Festival of Video and Multimedia, Clermont-Ferrand, France
New Media Nation: Festival of Festivals, Bratislava, Slovakia
2002:
Video Marathon 6, Chisinau, Moldova
Artmedia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
kanonmedia, Austria
cybermedia events, 43rd International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Fluxus 1st International Film Festival on the Internet, Brazil
AJAC (All Nations & Japan Artists Co-operation) show, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Brisbane wRiters Festival type slowly e-vent, Australia
Computer Space Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art on the Net, Tokyo, Japan
Stasis_Space Palimpsest Project, USA
Minikino Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Liverpool Biennial, UK
Sandow Museum, USA
Indiana University Dept. of Biology, USA
Whalelane 3 & 4, USA
Window, Auckland University, New Zealand
Violens, Tabor, Czech Republic
AugustArt Festival, New York, USA
12-12, Cardiff, Wales
CBC's ZeD TV, Canada
Interviews
Philadelphia Inquirer, (USA, 30th September 2007)
Furtherfield (UK, May 2007)
frAmed (UK, November 2006)
Javamuseum (Germany, March 2006)
Perspektive 43 + 44, 'Avant Garde Under Net Conditions' (Austria/Germany, November 2002, ISSN 1021-9242)
Lectures
'Electronic Writing' (within Creative Writing BA), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2008)
'How to be an Electronic Writer', Western Favell Library, Northamptonshire, UK (2007)
Creative Writing and New Media MA, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2007)
Channel 4 Ideasfactory/trAce TEXTLAB digital writers tour, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, UK (2004)
3rd Incubation symposium, Nottingham, UK (2004)
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1999)
Articles and other works in print
'Scream' in Furtherfield, (UK, June 2005) - review of Amy Alexander's Scream v0.1
'What You See Is Almost What You Get' in Furtherfield, (UK, April 2005) - review of IdealWord.org
'State of the Art' in trAce, (UK, March 2005) - surveying digital writers about the past, present and future of digital writing
'Dada2data' in trAce, (UK, December 2003) - examining the current role of the Dada movement in new media art
'Dada2Mada' (interview/manifestos) in Perspektive 43 + 44, 'Avant Garde Under Net Conditions' (Austria/Germany, November 2002, ISSN 1021-9242)
'The Hidden Sexual Agenda of the Brothers Grimm: Troilism, Transvestism, Prostitution, Sodomy and Happy Endings' (poem), in The Pleasant Unicorn (USA, 2002)
'I,LN' (poem) in Xero (UK, 1995)
'To remember that writing things down to remember can make you forget what you are trying to remember (to write down to remember)' and 'Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the Dog: The Famous Five' (poetry) in East Anglian Poets Anthology, (UK, 1991)
Other activities
PART (Production And Research in Transliteracy) group at De Montfort University
Editor, 391.org
Founding member and editor, The 404
Editor, The Virtual Babel Enyclopedia
Peer/technical reviewer, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Judging Panel, Annual Gangart Awards for bilingual or multilingual/ multicultural arts & culture sites on the Net (from 2004)
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