News for November

Inside: A Journal of Dreams, a Dreaming Methods project by Andy Campbell and Judi Alston, is to be digitally enhanced and translated into French for publication in the online journal bleuOrange (http://www.revuebleuorange.org/) in March 2009.

The Dreaming Methods' project Dim O'Gauble will be included in a new digital literature exhibition to be held at Austin Peay State University (USA) in January 2009. The exhibition will be both on and off line and is curated by digital writer and Web Yarns creator Alan Bigelow.

Finally, searching for the keywords "red case" on Dreaming Methods will reveal a new blog set up to document the development of the latest and quite possibly most ambitious project yet. New subscribers will automatically receive a link to this blog - which is slowly gaining entries and contains exclusive pre-production screenshots.

New site launched

Dreaming Methods has been updated - take a look at our new website which features a brand new style and projects categorised by themes and keywords - as well as bookmarking and RSS feed options.

Clearance launched

A new Dreaming Methods project is now available to experience - Clearance, a collaboration between film-maker Judi Alston and web artist Andy Campbell has been launched as part of the Year Zero One hosted exhbition "Vagus" alongside other new media/video works. Clearance is an atmospheric exploration of a state between sleep and consciousness. Based around a protagonist who believes he has witnessed a global apocalyptic event, the narrative unfolds through scrambled sound, imagery and video. Broadband is essential to view this piece (17mb) and Flash Player 8+ is required.

An article by Andy Campbell introducing amateur writers to the possibilities of digital fiction has been published by UK writing magazine "Writers' Forum". The piece outlines the potential of combining the written word with multimedia and how new e-book standards may soon change the way authors construct their stories. Read it here

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IOCT Talk and other news

Andy Campbell will be presenting a talk about Digital Fiction at the IOCT Salon - at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on Thursday 31st January 2008, 5.30pm - 7.15pm. For more information, visit the Salon website or download a flier.

The March edition of the UK-based Writers' Forum magazine will feature an article by Andy Campbell about Dreaming Methods and the possibilities of writing for the digital medium. On sale 14th February 2008.

Dreaming Methods subscribers now have access to a new discussion paper called "Undreamt Fiction" available for immediate download in PDF format. The discussion paper explores the creative development that goes into producing Dreaming Methods projects, some of the theories behind the work, and where future work might lead - from full-blown multimedia to the potential of emerging new e-book formats.

Preview screenshots from "Clearance" - a new piece by Andy Campbell and Judi Alston - are also available to subscribers, along with a project description and launch date.

New collaboration

A new collaboration between Andy Campbell and film-maker/artist Judi Alston is under development. "Clearance", an atmospheric digital fiction piece with apocalyptic imagery will be launched as part of the Year Zero One online exhbition "Vagus" alongside other video/netart work by Myron Campbell, Gregory Chatonsky and Nicolas Clauss.

Andy Campbell has been working with Maya Chowdhry on her project destinyNation, now available at www.destinyNation.net. The piece features a series of animated Flash poems concerning identity, with more to be added at a later date.

Dreaming Methods subscribers now have access to a project which has been unavailable for the last two years in the Special Features area of the site. "The Diary of Anne Sykes", an online journal which shape-shifts and mutates revealing the protagonists' distorted childhood memories and poisoned adult relationships, is now back up and running. Artwork to accompany the piece is also available to look at.

Times Educational Supplement feature

Dreaming Methods is a featured website in today's Times Educational Supplement magazine. The piece quotes the site as being "...one of the most impressive purveyors of the new art of internet reading" and describes the work as "a semi-literary, semi-cinematic blend of haunting visuals, music, click-and-point and floating text."

For anyone who missed it, and would like to read it, the full piece can be viewed here.

Joyride, one of Dreaming Method's early projects, has been selected as a piece of "random inspiration" by Flasher.com. Created by Judi Alston and Andy Campbell, the work includes striking photography and revolves around a stolen, trashed car.