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You are invited to browse some of our favourite projects from
trAce and its partners.
Some
of the collaborative projects developed
for clients include sites like Everybody's
Reading, for Leicester City Council; The
Great Cardiff Poem for Academi (the Welsh Literature Promotion
Agency), and Clean
for The Women's Library, Hackney. Contact Simon
Mills for more information.
Incubation
conferences
A major international conference, first held in Nottingham, UK,
from 10-12 July 2000, with keynote speakers Geoff Ryman, Teri
Hoskin and Gregory Ulmer as well as all the trAce writers-in-residence
and writers and academics from all over the world. Incubation
2 was held from 15-17th July 2002, again in Nottingham. Incubation
3 will be held 12-14 July 2004. The Incubation 2 Interactive Drama
M is for
Nottingham? is now archived.
Migrating
Memories
What is most precious to you when you have to leave your country?
What makes your memories? It could be an object, a fragrance,
a poem or a song, or perhaps the way the sky looks or the wind
feels. Migrating Memories, a European Culture 2000-funded project,
worked with newly-settled people in Malmö (Sweden), Tampere
(Finland) and Nottingham (England) to address the importance of
memory. The MiMe website is archived at <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/mime>
The project was funded by the European Culture 2000 and involved
museum exhibitions and workshops in all three countries and a
seminar as well as an open, contributory multilingual website
created by trAce. Participants created "mime memory spaces"
containing text and pictures relating to important memories of
their migration and a Guestbook invited comments. (December 2000-December2001)
trAce/Alt-X
New Media Writing Competition
We asked for entries which fulfilled the following criteria:
- innovative
writing style
- excellent
overall conceptual design and structure unique to the Internet
medium
- groundbreaking
web design and site navigation
(January 2001)
Web,
Warp & Weft
Web Warp and Weft is a thought-provoking website exploring the
relationships between the making of textiles and the making of
the web. Built by trAce web editor Helen Whitehead, with the support
of a Year of the Artist Award, the website highlights the surprising
and unusual similarities within the creation of what might on
the surface seem very different products. (June 2000-September
2001
Writers'
Journals
Creating texts for the web is a fascinating process, and the online
journal is a good way to document it. Writers who work with trAce
are encouraged to keep public journals so that others can follow
what goes on behind the building of web-pages, hypertexts, and
other projects. The trAce Journals are produced and maintained
by writers at all levels of expertise, from established multimedia
authors who have been working on the web for some time, to writers
who are highly-experienced on the printed page but new to online
work, to those who are new to both.
Follow
the progress of our writers as they create new work to add to
an existing portfolio, or take their first steps into cyberspace.
These entertaining and instructive journals constantly change
and grow - bookmark this page and check back regularly. (Some
are updated more often than others!)
Assemblage,
the Women's New Media Gallery
collected by Carolyn Guertin of the University of Alberta, who
says: "This international gathering of women's voices is a showcase
of new media art being created in hypertext on and off the World
Wide Web. I call this show space an 'assemblage' because it is
a multiplicity. It is a coming together of languages, skills and
visions, a collection of art texts, and an exhibit showing the
act of fitting disparate pieces together under the umbrella of
gender."
(begun in 2000)
frAme,
Journal of Culture and Technology
Our culture and technology journal, frAme provides an arena to
showcase work and presents critical thought around the ways in
which culture and technology are interweaving at the end of this
century. We publish two issues a year and feature some of the
most significant names in the international online writing scene
today including Mark Amerika, Francesca da Rimini, Mark Dery,
Matthew Fuller, Geert Lovink & mez. frAme 1, 2 and 3 were
edited by Simon Mills who created the original trAce. frAme4,
Love in the Digital Revolution, was guest edited by Christy Sheffield
Sanford, and frAme5, Digital Labour? For Love or Money, was also
edited by Christy Sheffield Sanford in February 2001. frAme
6, Net : Spirit,
was edited by Simon Mills, Sue Thomas and Helen Whitehead in October
2001. The call for frAme 7 will be announced later in 2002.
Quick-Shift
collaborative project
Quick-Shift was 31 hours of timed, responsorial writing online
during the last weekend in January. Writers gathered in the trAce
chatroom and worked in groups of 4 for 90 minutes shifts. Each
writer was given a maximum of 7 minutes in which to write (and
proof-read) a piece - on a dedicated webpage form - in response
to the segment just posted. There were no restrictions on genre.
QUICK-SHIFT was co-managed by Andrew Oldham and Everdeen
Tree.
http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~trace
Kids'
Castle
Created for kids from Mark Burgess (creator of Monster Motel)
and Philip Ardagh. A virtual medieval castle based on Nottingham
Castle in 1480. Kids can explore the Great Hall, the Tournament,
the Chapel, and more - visit Sir Dylan in the Dungeon and help
him to escape. They can read about the inhabitants and their lives,
play games and contribute writing and pictures to the castle's
galleries. (Opened October 1999)
Lost
The Lost Project invited writers to go to the site and add name,
email address, and a name and / or description of something they
have lost, irretrievably (Feb-Mar 2000).
The
Noon Quilt
In October 1998 we asked writers to "Look through your window
at noon wherever you are in the world and write what you "see"
in 100 words. Send it to us via a webform and we will patch it
into the quilt." The Quilt is now closed, but you can still see
the hundreds of entries we received from around the world. You
can download the code too, and build your own quilt. Now available
as a book, from the trAce shop.
The
Eclipse Quilt
Visitors from the areas covered totally or partially by the solar
eclipse on August 11th 1999, and from all over the world, were
invited to write about their experiences of eclipses, or feelings
about the phenomenon in general. A fascinating record of the Eclipse.
(Temporarily taken offline Spring 2001.)
Ink.ubation
Exhibition
As an online supplement to the many great keynote presentations
and performances taking place at the trAce "Incubation" conference
from July 10-12, 2000, trAce featured a digital salon curated
by Internet artist and writer Mark Amerika. It featured work from
a wide variety of new media writers experimenting with the Internet
as a unique medium ideally situated to promote heretofore unimagined
page to screen transformations.
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