trAce
Roadshow 2004
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Featuring trAce’s Digital Writer-in-Residence Tim
Wright
accompanied by guest new media writers, and introducing:
IN SEARCH OF OLDTON
A chance for all to contribute to a new digital literature project
Between March and July 2004, trAce Digital Writer-in-Residence Tim Wright
will travel throughout the UK, working with the people he meets to piece
together the mystery of what happened to Oldton, his childhood town. Do
you have any information which might help?
If you don’t know what new media writing is, now is the
time to find out.
The trAce Roadshow is the first-ever tour by new media writers working
with the largest online community of writers in the world. We’ll
be showing new works, highlighting best practice and demonstrating how
to get started as a digital writer.
Don’t worry about the technology – we’ll bring it
with us.
We have our own laptop, data projector and associated kit. Promoters
need only supply a couple of electric points, a projection screen, and
a lively audience. (A PA system may be required, depending on the venue.)
BOOKING
Limited availability so please book early
The standard roadshow presentation is 90 minutes long with no interval.
It will be available on selected dates from April – July 2004
within the UK only. The Roadshow is part of Writers for the Future and
can be offered at very reasonable rates with appearances by two or more
artists. Please contact Catherine Gillam at catherine.gillam@ntu.ac.uk.
Tel 0115 8483533 to discuss requirements.
WORKSHOPS
Hands-on workshops are also available on request. We’d require
a computer resource room with access to the internet and a projection
screen.
IN SEARCH OF OLDTON
“Oldton has disappeared. There is no reference
to it on any map, no archive material, no history or personal testimony
from local citizens. Oldton has been obliterated, and so too has my
childhood.”
In an attempt to recover and explore characters and events from a bygone
pre-digital age, Tim Wright wants to work with as many people as possible
to gather fragmentary *digital* evidence of Oldton's existence.
Over the coming months Tim will use these fragments to build up a map
of his lost town, and tell the story of its demise and disappearance.
Through texts, pictures, videos and oral testimony, Tim and the people
he meets will build up a digital archive of remembrances, tributes to
numerous places and situations left behind.
In Search of Oldton is Tim’s attempt to use other people’s
digital documentary in order to recapture and re-invent his own personal
history, as well as demonstrate how digital technology can play tricks
with our past.
Tim Wright has worked in new
media as a writer since 1994. He was lead writer on two BAFTA-winning
interactive projects - comedy self help disk MindGym and web & email
drama Online
Caroline, as well as scripting the lunatic web 'holiday' Mount
Kristos and the absurd virtual gift-giving service IT3C.
http://www.writersforthefuture.com/view/
http://timwright.typepad.com/inresidence
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