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INCUBATION2
The 2nd trAce International Conference
on Writing and the Internet
15-17th July 2002 at The Nottingham Trent University
Incubation2 was the second trAce International Conference
on Writing & the Internet, and the premier international event
for writers working on the web. It provided a showcase for the
writing of the future and offered a glimpse into the work of writers
who use the internet to develop ground-breaking content: poetry
with sound and images, personal histories, news, journalism, stories
with multiple endings. This is writing on the web, for the web,
and about the web.
Speakers included:
- Lizzie Jackson,
Editor, Communities, BBCi
- Talan Memmott Hypermedia
artist/writer
- Robin Rimbaud (Scanner)
Sound artist
The conference was a significant opportunity for
writers to extend their professional development, learn new skills,
and interact with some of the leading writers and artists working
online today. There were opportunities to meet with writers who
have made a significant contribution to this new form, as well
as the chance for writers to show their own work and look at other
people's. There werevskills-based workshops and feedback workshops,
panel discussions, presentations, demonstrations and performances,
and plenty of opportunity to network and meet those people you
only ever knew online.
Our themes in 2002 were:
Process:
- How do we collaborate on the web?
- What is the difference between electronic writing and print-based
writing?
- Is new media writing literature?
Learning:
- How do we learn and teach writing on the web?
- How is the online workshop different from the physical workshop?
- How has the web changed what we learn and how we learn it?
Culture:
- How is the web enabling writers to address diversity and difference?
- Is there a cultural divide between writers who use the web,
and those who don't?
- How is the interdisciplinary culture of the web affecting
traditional funding models for writing?
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