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.

Dim O'Gauble launched

Dreaming Methods latest work Dim O'Gauble is now complete and available to experience. The piece features multiple layers of narratives and surreal cut-sequences blended into a matrix of childhood sketches and drawings.

Early digital fiction work from Dreaming Methods will be showcased as part of the Computer Fine Arts Collection at Haifa Museum, Israel, in November 2007. The Collection, again including work from Dreaming Methods, was previously shown at the Digital Art Museum in Berlin last year, and concentrates on contemporary work specifically developed for the web.

Andy Campbell is currently preparing a lecture for the Fiction module of De Montfort University's MA course. Students on the MA are all professional writers working online from Japan, Canada, Eire, Netherlands and England. They will be discussing the work showcased on Dreaming Methods in an hour long Q and A session with Campbell on the 20th November. The lecture and its associated resources will also be available for site visitors to download in December.

One to One Productions Ltd run by company directors Judi Alston and Andy Campbell have recently completed the Flash interface and demo-movie work on the Norwegian version of www.whichbook.net - a site which offers a completely new way of choosing what to read. Developed by Opening the Book Ltd in association with Norway's Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) the Norwegian version - www.onskebok.no - will be launched at a major event this week as well as shown on National Norwegian television.