We've progressed to the penultimate session prior to the Awards Evening, an Artist Talk on Climatopia: Anthology of Climatophosis Digital Poetryby Yohanna Joseph Waliya. #Unconf23

After a brief respite, we enter the multiverse with John Murray & @markcmarino in Writing Across the Multi-Metaverse, where we'll be taking expeditions into virtual spaces with the objective of both making statements and reporting back. #Unconf23

The #Unconf23 culminates #NewMediaWritingPrize awards! Register now for the announcement of the winners of the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize, the @wonderboxpub Opening Up prize, the @FIPPWorld Journalism prize, and the @WritingMagazine Student prize! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-media-writing-prize-awards-evening-tickets-486943610447?keep_tld=1

The evening also features a keynote from @deenais, a talk from last year's main prize winner Joannes Truyens, and a look at the shortlisted entries.

A rousing discussion on the difficulties of teaching #elit in the patriarchal and neoliberal university segues into Margot Mellet's Artist Talk: Digital Performance of Mallarmé’s Un coup de dès jamais n’abolira le hazard #Unconf23
See the exhibit at http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/digital-performance

We turn from the thought-provoking presentation from Alan Sondheim to our session on #Teaching #DigitalLiterature and #elit with Emma Stanley, Emily Johnson, and Anastasia Salter @AnaSalter. #Unconf23

Our next Artist's Talk comes from Alan Sondheim offering Testimony/Textimony - quick and dirty dialogic possibilities across the board, and what #elit gets wrong. #Unconf23

After a fascinating and hotly debated session on #VR and #AI, we now have our next Artist Talk: Jaka Železnikar: Private Property — Access Forbidden / Magántulajdon – Belépni Tilos! #Unconf23

See the links in the exhibit space http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/private-property

Kicking off today's #Unconf23 with Jack Huang leading a discussion on #VR experiences! Unfortunately, @mezbreeze is unable to join, but we've got a video from her to share after Jack's discussion. #VirtualReality #elit #DigitalFiction #forSocialGood

Thanks to Nancy Sendler's preview of her #DisappearingDandelions work, the whole #Unconf23 now knows of my (unhealthy?) obsession with @BarnsCourtney. I will not apologize.

Starting our last creative session of the day with a Create-a-Thon: Digital story-telling practice and creation as feminist Collaboration, and Care, with the Decameron Collective and Jolene Armstrong. #Unconf23

Nancy Sendler turned to playful digital creations to cope with the pandemic lockdowns, she tells us as she begins her Artist's Talk on "A Novel Modest Proposal". #Unconf23

We welcome Zines & Preservation - Lee Tusman
Discussion on how DIY #communities come together in a community of practice, often on closed platforms, contributing writing, images, poetry, memes, music, or videogames for example, depending on that specific community. #Unconf23

Hearing from Christine Wilks @crissxross on: Writing New Body Worlds’ (WNBW) #DigitalFiction, “Voices and Choices”. #Unconf23
http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/writing-new-body-worlds

And now we're on to Accessible Bits: Ensuring Access for All with Richard Snyder, (Dene Grigar), Hannah Ackermans, Deena Larsen: addressing systemic issues with access. #Unconf23

We've just finished a fantastic artist talk from Joannes Truyens et al. on their Future Human work conveying concepts of #QuantumPhysics through #InteractiveFiction! http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/future-human
#Unconf23 #elit #DigitalFiction

We're now #PayingItForward with xtine burrough's #MicroPoetry workshop. #Unconf23 #CultureJamming #elit #epoetry Poetry in @Venmo!

https://payingitforward.carrd.co/

Franci Greyling has joined #Unconf23 to showcase Byderhand Karoo Garden Poems: A braille traile, accessibility, and locative literature. http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/byderhand-at-hand

Having a group play in an AI Dungeon. Spoiler alert: it's biased and creepy. #Unconf23
https://play.aidungeon.io/main/newGame

It's time for Patrick Lichty & Sarah Thorne to lead a session on #AI and Society, thinking about #midjourney, #DiscoDiffusion, AI writing, and how these platforms impact copyright, society, and critical inquiry. #Unconf23

We're now having a look at @amiraha
's CreaTures Glossary as a work of #DigitalLiterature for #SocialGood (#ClimateChange). #Unconf23