Event Information

DUST OR MAGIC 2004

Date: 25 March 2004   Drinks: 09:00   Talk Starts: 09:00 OPuS Event

Description

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."

Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694

The 2nd Oxford Brookes Conference for New-Media Workers. This is a paid-for event produced by Oxford Brookes, being advertised on www.opusnet.co.uk

Thursday 25th-Saturday 27th March 2004

We're delighted to confirm that Hypertext pioneer DR THEODOR HOLM (TED) NELSON will address next month's Oxford Brookes Dust or Magic conference, in a full programme that includes presentations on games, social software, children and computers, the history of the computer medium and, above all, the struggle to make a living by making software that delights.

Ted Nelson has been inspiring computer workers and influencing developments with his radical alternative visions since the 1960s.

His Dust or Magic presentation will include an update on the ZigZag system.

OTHER CONFIRMED SPEAKERS include ALEEN STEIN(co-founder of the Voyager Company, c.e.o. of Organa); MARK SCHLICHTING (creator of the Brøderbund Living Books series of CD-ROMs); SUE THOMAS (founder of the trAce online writing project); TIM WRIGHT (trAce's current writer in residence, co-creator of Online Caroline and the XPT project); WILLIAM DONELSON (Armchair Travel; founder member of the famous MIT "Arch Mac" group: Media Lab's precursor); and ALAN SNOW(multi-media polymath best-known for the PAWS dog-simulator; now working on the book-phase of an epic Gothic work for children called "Here be Monsters").

DUST OR MAGIC runs for 2-and-a-half days at Wadham College, Oxford, Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th March, and you can download your booking form now from:

http://emedia.brookes.ac.uk/dustormagic/