Other Montréal ressources

NT2 lab at Université du Québec à Montréal : data base with more than 3000 hypermedia works of art/lit. - run by Bertrand Gervais

Revue bleuOrange - hypermedia works in French

Obx Labs, Concordia University: interested in living letterforms - run by Jason E Lewis

Studio XX is a bilingual feminist digital art centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. http://www.studioxx.org/

LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE - artist-run centre in Québec City

Sébastien Cliche, Montreal-based multimedia artist - Web site : A Place Where You Feel Safe

Montreal Biennale - May 2011 with several digital artists. Jhave is a Montreal-based digital artist.
public vernissage is today on Sunday from noon to 6pm! (Jhave will be there)

BNL: http://www.biennalemontreal.org/en/2011

Jhave on BNL: http://www.biennalemontreal.org/en/2011/artists/jhave

More Montreal resources

Alice will be able to add to this, but I wanted to also mention an online magazine:

www.carte-blanche.org

And two audiobook initiatives that come out of Montreal:

Librivox - www.librivox.org which is a volunteer-run audiobook organisation that publishes audiobooks that are in the public domain (so either out of copyright, or self-published)

and Iambic www.iambik.com which is a commercial audiobook start up that has grown up out of Librivox and is going to be launching a very interesting subscription model in the near future.

Hugh McGuire, who is behind both of these initiatives, is also about to launch a new start-up PressBooks while will be an easy-to-use platform to create your own ebooks.  Look at Hugh's own webpage for more news of that www.hughmcguire.net


 

Montreal Digital Stories

Montreal has a number of writers/artists who are working in the realm of digital fiction:

J.R. Carpenter http://luckysoap.com/
J.R. Carpenter's story 'In Absentia' is about gentrification in Montreal: http://luckysoap.com/inabsentia/index.html

David Jhave Johnston is a digital poet and new media artist: http://www.glia.ca/

Oboro is a centre devote to digital arts and new meda: http://www.oboro.net/

Resources

Easy-to-Use Platforms for creating simple digital stories:

Powerpoint: If you already use Powerpoint for work and presentations, you might be surprised to learn that you can use it creatively as well to blend text, image, and music to tell stories.

Microsoft PhotoStory 3: This is a free tool that you can download to your computer in order to create digital stories that can then be uploaded and shared online.

Googlemaps: Googlemaps can be used very creatively, to add postcard stories (photo + text) to a series of locations on a single map

flickr: If you upload photos to flickr you can create captions for them, and link a series of stories together to tell a photostory.

Social Media sites for Writers:

Facebook: facebook can be a useful tool for connecting with readers, and for creating discussion around your work

Twitter: Twitter provides a simple way to connect with readers, fellow writers, publishers, and journalists

Blogging: Have your own blog can be a great way to build an audience

Examples of Digital Fiction:

A great source for examples of Digital Fiction is the Electronic Literature Collection, Volumes 1 and2.

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/