home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Ian & Stuart's Australian Mac: Not for Sale
/
Another.not.for.sale (Australia).iso
/
feel the pain of everyone
/
Converge Prospectus
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-06-26
|
3KB
|
60 lines
CONVERGENCE
the new media journal
In the past, entertainment has been inextricably linked to the medium
in which it is presented; literature was on paper, film was on celluloid.
But, in this age in which a reference to film can as often as not mean
videotape, the physical medium has become less and less important.
Magazines are being published electronically, books are becoming
interactive, and laserdiscs allow screenplays, interviews, and alternate
edits of films to be accessed instantly by the user. Media itself no
longer flows from artist to consumer in fixed form, but has become
malleable. It is in this modern, multi-dominion world of art and
entertainment that Convergence will cover.
Mission statement:
Convergence is an on-line magazine devoted to entertainment in the
age of the information super-highway. Convergence is not primarily about
the hardware of the information age, but about the information itself:
film, laserdisc, audio CD, CD ROM, on-line literature, comics, and books.
Phrases like multi-media, virtual reality, and interactive cinema are used
and over-used, with no clear definitions on hand. We believe strongly
that such technobabble misrepresents the potential of these nascent
entertainment forms. All media, from the most ancient to those still
emerging deserve to be taken at face value and critiqued on artistic and
sociological levels. Convergence will strive to provide a diverse but
coherent point of view, covering everything from music to film to on-line
adventure games with the same matter-of-fact attitude. We will also use
the special capabilities of our on-line format to provide the reader with
hypertextual access to the same sources and materials the writer has.
Submissions:
Convergence will accept articles of the following types: reviews of
any type of artistic endeavor which can be accessed by the reader (e.g.
film and CD reviews but not live performances unless recorded somehow),
deconstructions of the social, political and/or artistic effect of a work
or type of work (e.g. 'Laserdiscs and the Democratization of Film'), and
essays on the past, present, and future of entertainment media. The writer
should always be sure to cite sources in their article, to assure that the
reader can have access to the same tools the writer used to construct
their article. Insider articles by people discussing their own projects
will be featured. Graphics, sounds and moving images will be accepted for
submission as long as they are either public domain or the rights for them
have been secured by the submitter.
Format:
Convergence is a completely electronic magazine published quarterly
on-line, and available through anonymous FTP at io.com:/pub/Convergence
and on the World Wide Web, as http://io.com/converge/Convergence.html.
We will have hypertext and multimedia capabilities through Mosaic, a
browser program available for Macintosh, Windows, Amiga, X Windows, and
SGI platforms as freeware. As stated above, both will be available on
the World Wide Web and as a download.
Submissions deadline for issue #1 will be May 30th 1994. The issue will
go on-line on July 15th.
The Writer's Guidelines should be along soon, in the meantime,
please send any questions, comments and suggestions (along with the
address of the place you read this posting) to converge@io.com.