[-empyre-] introducing Jill Walker and Adrain Miles

["empyre-admin" <empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au>]

-empyre- is pleased to introduce our guests for June - Jill Walker and
Adrain Miles - who will be discussing the art and theory of hypertext,
bloggs (which have been recently referred to as "inappropriate media") - and
interactive video loggs or vogs.

Jill Walker is a researcher working on digital narratives and blogs, and a
background in hypertext theory. Jill started blogging about  five minutes
after discovering what a weblog was, and cannot now imagine life without
blogs. Her blog, jill/txt (http://cmc.uib.no/jill), serves both as a
research tool, as a part of a community and as a creative outlet for
thinking about the net outside of the rigid formalities of academia. Jill is
mostly based at the University of Bergen in Norway, where she's currently
completing a PhD, and she also lives in Melbourne quite often.

Adrian Miles is a lecturer in new media and cinema studies at RMIT in
Melbourne, Australia http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au and is researching the
connections/intersections between cinema and hypertext for his Phd. Having
taken film theory (Deleuze) into hypertext he is now taking hypertext into
film via low bit rate interactive video sketches (vogs)
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ . Adrian is also a researcher in
interactive video at Intermedia, a research lab at the Uni. of Bergen in
Norway http://www.intermedia.uib.no

Jill will kick off the discussion on hypertext and blogging,  and Adrian
will continue with video blogging and show some examples of this work in the
send half of the month.

_empyre_ admin.