An international, interdisciplinary collaboration between my students at UMD and students at the University of Bergen, Norway. The Fiction: strapped institutions try for a low-cost, virtual alternative to actual travel as tuition and travel costs rise. Outsource My Study Abroad Site: http://outsourcemystudyabroad.tumblr.com ...
Read More#1WkNoTech, a netprov
We posted obsessively in transmedia about how we were doing a detox from technology for a week and how hard it was. The artistic goal was to pay off the basic joke (posting about not posting) while having a deep discussion about tech-life balance. With Mark C. Marino, the usual netprov featured players, and players from the great wide web. Official...
Read MoreMem-Eraze, a netprov
Mem-Eraze is a netprov that explores: the fragility of cloud file storage in social media, and the visual traditions of everyday photography, plus scrapbooking/family archiving culture See the project here: Mem-Eraze — rebuilding our lost past one pic at a time Fictional Premise Mem-Eraze is a support group for former customers who lost their...
Read MoreSpiediShow, a netprov
SpeidiShow was a transmedia netprov (networked improv narrative), written and performed in Twitter, websites, and Tumblr — collaborative and participatory — with Mark C. Marino, reality-show stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of The Hills, our usual netprov featured players and wonderful new players from the Twitter-verse. Spencer and Heidi sought to...
Read Morewhat is netprov?
Netprov creates stories that are networked, collaborative and improvised in real time. In 2010-11 I had the incredible good fortune of being able to do a Master’s in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. It let me spend time thinking about the kinds of electronic literature I had done and wanted to do, and researching the kinds of...
Read MoreThe Sport of Détournement, a netprov performance
Broadcasting a literary conference as though it was a baseball game, Rob does a live netprov performance of “The Sport of Détournement, the Détournement of Sport; Basic Skills for Media Remixes” at the Landmark Café in Bergen, Norway as part of the conference The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice....
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