Digital Storytelling in 2023: A New 12 months of New Media

Right here in Digital Scholarship we’re trying ahead to the Library’s upcoming exhibitions in 2023, together with Digital Storytelling (2 June – 15 October 2023), which we’re curating with colleagues in Up to date British Collections and Digital Preservation. This show will discover the methods expertise gives alternatives to rework and improve the best way writers write and readers interact. Drawing on the Library’s assortment of up to date digital publications and emerging formats to focus on the work of progressive and experimental writers. It should characteristic interactive works that invite and reply to consumer enter, studying experiences influenced by information feeds, and immersive story worlds created utilizing a number of platforms and viewers participation.

Quite a few the chosen works for this exhibition have been earlier shortlisted and profitable entries of the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP). An annual worldwide award, which celebrates thrilling and ingenious born digital tales and poetry that combine a wide range of codecs, platforms, and media. In recent times the Library has been working with the prize organisers to gather and protect entries within the UK Internet Archive (UKWA) New Media Writing Prize collection, which is the subject of this just lately printed Digital British Library Journal article:

G.C. Rossi, T. Pyke, J. Pope, R.L. Skains and S. Knowledge, ‘The New Media Writing Prize Particular Assortment’, Digital British Library Journal (2022), artwork. 8, pp. 1-19, https://doi.org/10.23636/kw7j-0274

The NMWP UKWA assortment is an ongoing initiative with works added from annually’s prize. To listen to extra in regards to the 2022 shortlist entries, Library curators will probably be just about attending the upcoming Awards Night on Wednesday 18 January 2023. This on-line occasion is free and open to all, if you need to attend please e book a spot here. Author Deena Larsen will give a keynote lecture and winners will probably be introduced for the 2022 Chris Meade Memorial Predominant Prize, the FIPP Digital Journalism Prize, the Writing Journal Scholar Prize and the Wonderbox Opening Up (Folks’s Selection) Prize, which celebrates all eligible entries submitted to the Predominant and Scholar Prizes. Opening Up doesn’t have an effect on the shortlist/winners within the different classes, however gives a chance for a public vote for a favorite; you may browse entries and vote in your favorite here, the deadline is 11:59pm GMT on Sunday 15 January 2023.  NMWP organisers are additionally holding a digital two day Digital Literature for Social Good Unconference on 17-18 January 2023.

Looking forward to summer time, we’re collaborating with Tub Spa College to host the MIX 2023 Storytelling in Immersive Media convention on the Library on Friday 7 July 2023. This occasion will present a chance for students and practitioners to share present analysis and apply within the quickly creating discipline of storytelling in immersive environments.

MIX 2023 themes embrace storytelling with AI, interactive and locative works, digital and movie poetry, narrative video games, digital preservation, archiving, and enhanced curation. The call for presentations and papers is open till Monday 13 February 2023. Proposals are invited for 15 minute papers or shows and 6 minute lightning talks from technologists, artists, inventive writers and poets working within the digital realm, in addition to educational researchers and unbiased students, submissions centered on educating and pedagogy are additionally welcome. After the convention there will probably be a chance to publish papers on The Writing Platform, a web based journal for sharing data and experience round digital innovation in publishing and storytelling. When you have any questions in regards to the MIX 2023 convention please e-mail MIX@bathspa.ac.uk for extra info.