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.

New project under development

The next as of yet untitled Dreaming Methods project is now under full development and will feature a sprawling landscape/narrative with 3D effects that can be navigated in several different directions. In the story, an imaginative young boy starts to experience frightening visions which he talks about only to his grandmother, who worriedly recognises some of his experiences from her own troubled childhood. Told through a matrix of the boy's drawings and games superimposed against atmospheric graphics and video sequences, the project promises to be one of the most ambitious and compelling so far.

Dreaming Methods author Andy Campbell is currently working with poet/artist Maya Chowdhry on destinyNation, a digital narrative piece funded by Arts Council England. His role as mentor/advisor has extended into the development of a Flash interface and the design of publicity to advertise and promote the project.

Author Kate Pullinger recently invited Campbell to be a Guest Lecturer/Dissertation Mentor on Leicester University's MA course in Creative Writing and Digital Media this coming autumn. Students will discuss the work featured on Dreaming Methods and engage in an hour long Q&A chat session.

Last Dream now available

Well, Last Dream is now available on Dreaming Methods after a considerable amount of development (in spare) time. Seems like a lot of users are finding it puzzling, so my hints and tips would be to look under the stone in the front garden for a key to the house, make sure all the lights are turned out in all the rooms, and to scribble across the curtains once you're inside the heart of the dream.

This piece was inspired by the sheer weirdness of dream logic and the ongoing relationship that Dreaming Methods has with bordering-on-abstract narrative (as in, to try and do something new with writing on the web instead of just writing normal fiction/prose) as well as its obsession with worlds which mix the ordinary/mundane with the extraordinary and surreal.