The program for The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2005) is now online. It looks like a great mix of subjects (they haven’t listed the speakers unfortunately). I did plan to submit but I didn’t get time to finish a paper. I plan to attend though. It is on the 23-25 November in Sydney, this

Italy now has a representative on our International Cross-Media Round-Table (there isn’t one, but wouldn’t that be fun?). There is definately a cross-media researcher and practitioner in Italy right now. Max Giovagnoli is an editor and presenter at Blue Channel TV, he edited the Italian Big Brother and has 3 nonfiction books out: To Write

The notion of cross-media storytelling is creeping into academic and art. A sibling concept, ‘distributed aesthetics’, is being bandied about at a few ‘spaces’. Here are a couple in Australia: Fibreculture Journal: upcoming Distributed Aesthetics Issue It has been widely argued by sociologists, cultural and media theorists such as Manuel Castells, Arjun Appardurai and Geert