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Wednesday 19 May 2010

Meanland: Reading in a Time of Technology

Avatars, blogs, online poetry and interactive gaming - the way we read and write has gone well beyond the printed page and into the digital ether.

The second Meanland event will focus on the ways in which technology, in place of books, can serve to deliver the narrative. Chris Meade, co-director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, discusses his own experiments with musical, graphical and digital fiction; the ANU’s Adrienne Nicotra explains how educational wikis might replace text books in the classroom; novelist and programmer Paul Callaghan demonstrates the role narrative plays in today’s computer games; and the poet/composer Klare Lanson explores the intersection of music and text.

Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

When: Wed 19 May, 6.15-7.15pm

This is a free event. Bookings recommended.