2015
20 Aug

Indie Game Dev Kit

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2015
19 Aug

Codework + Code Poetry: What The...?

It's not often I get to post here about codework [I nearly typed "codwork" instead then, heh]. Way back in the 1990's when this thing called the "World Wide Web" was kicking off [you *may* just have heard of it?] codework and code poetry were virtually unrecognised genres. Back then, Alan Sondheim, Ted Warnell, Talan Memmott, the anarcho 7-11 crew [myself included], and various Eastgate and Electronic Lit types were rampantly gestating this mix of poetically-infused codecraft.
2015
16 Aug

Still Buzzing: Tumblr International Prize in Digital Art

Mez Breeze, Andy Campbell Selected for the Tumblr Prize in digital art with @thespacearts http://t.co/WzaPo8K6WV pic.twitter.com/7qMVYyzRmB — Tumblr (@tumblr) August 5, 2015
2015
6 Aug

Mez Breeze + Andy Campbell: Winners of the Tumblr International Prize and "Open Call 2" Commission

It has certainly been a massive good news week all round here at the MBD studios. We started off the week by having #PRISOM showcased at the Not Games Fest in Cologne, progressed to having #Carnivast exhibited at the 2015 Electronic Literature Organisation's Conference in Bergen, and followed all this shininess with having the second Chapter of our "
2015
4 Aug

Towards Minor Literary Forms: Digital Literature and the Art of Failure | Electronic Book Review

DigLit + Mezangelle With her "mezangelle" language, Breeze creates a minor language that combines the dominant languages of humans and machine—a kind of creole that disrupts the prescribed utility of both word and code, "deterritorializing" them, and opening them up to new meaning and play. Source: Towards Minor Literary Forms: Digital Literature and the Art of Failure | Electronic Book Review