SPARKS - literature goes digital
07.10.2012
How will stories be told in the future? The participants of the SPARKS conference – the digital initiative of the Frankfurt book fair 2011 – dealt with that exciting question. Britta Friedrich, Director Creative IndustriesTransmediality was the buzzword you could hear during
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06.10.2012
For the Frankfurt book fair, we are looking for texts which will be published on the trendsetting internet platform poiesipedia.com - the chosen topic is “Literary Cities”. The stories can be imaginary or real, utopian or dystopian, and can deal with the past, present or future. This
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03.09.2012
Frankfurt, 30.8.2012 – Do you have a story in your top drawer but not enough money to make it a reality? Are you interested in redefining the dimensions of storytelling and creating a crossmedia storyworld? The Frankfurt StoryDrive Crowdfunding Competition can help. Starting now, creative
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03.08.2012
One cannot not communicate - yet how will we approach our fellow human beings and talk to each other in future? Do we still need them and do they need us? It seems that sooner or later email may be replaced by the message services of social media portals such as Facebook, GooglePlus or StudiVZ. At
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16.06.2012
Attack is the best form of defence. The Frankfurt book fair learns from the mistakes of the music industry and faces the digital transition with a promising strategy: Transmedia – Storytelling and Storyselling. The perfect interlink to the games industry that has entered even the last corners
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09.02.2012
Seeder and filesharing, BitTorrent and streaming make it possible. Music and films can be loaded onto the external hard drive at any time conveniently. Sometimes even for free. Can this be fair play? The evil scenarioDavid HeymanIllegal videos, illegal downloads - is it theft or a pardonable
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27.12.2011
An interesting experiment was finished on the Frankfurt book fair: "Wow Wow Wow Receiver" is a multi-media publishing project which created poems in real time during the Frankfurt book fair, now also publishing them via Poisiepedia. The event was curated by Duncan White (University of the
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15.10.2011
Touka Neyestani is an Iranian cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Canada. He started working with press at 1980 and his cartoons and illustrations have been published in more than 40 newspapers and magazines. He has been awarded as the Best Cartoonist of the Year from Iran’s Press
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14.10.2011
7:15 a.m. approx Thursday, October 13, 2011On board train homewards via the mountains of Crystal Palace, the scenic routewritten in my notebook, transcribed laterI tried and tried to get a signal at Paddington. One provider hadn't loaded in the time it took me to dress and go to the toilet and
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14.10.2011
12:15 Sutton Library Thursday, October 13, 2011 I just checked the time in Frankfurt and confirmed my sudden suspicion that this last section must be in by 1 p.m. Oh well. I have emailed my anticipated lateness. And so I come to the final stage of this writing. It is, in my way
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