Digital

MIX 2021: Amplified PublishingJoin us online for Bath Spa University’s biennial conference on writing and technology. This year we focus on the theme of Amplified Publishing with two days of maker sessions, and two days of papers and presentations.

We’ve worked hard to make this year’s conference exciting and affordable. Join us for a big range of keynotes and papers, 3-6 July 2021.

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Breathe tells the story of Flo, who has the ability to talk to ghosts. Delivered through your smartphone, the story leverages data about you, including place, weather, time, in order to create an experience that is personal and uncanny.

Created in collaboration with the AHRC-funded Ambient Literature research project, London-based publishers Visual Editions, and Google Creative Lab Sydney, this browser-based book for mobile phones is accessible wherever readers have wifi.

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Jellybone is a novel for smartphones. Across 10 episodes, it tells the story of Flo, who can communicate with the dead through her phone. A young Londoner facing mounting debt, stuck in an unpaid internship, living at home with her dad, in love with her best friend, the last thing Flo needs in her life is yet another incomprehensible ghost video. But then a message arrives from Lana who has been dead for more than three years, and Flo is forced to act.

Jellybone was created by Kate with the team behind the start-up Oolipo. Available for free on both iOS and Android, each episode takes between ten to twenty minutes to read.

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‘Inanimate Alice’ is an on-going project that Kate has been working on since 2005 alongside collaborators Chris Joseph, Andy Campbell, and producer Ian Harper. Episodes 1-5 reside online and are free. 2016 has seen the launch of a brand-new episode, Episode Six, The Last Gas Station, alongside a downloadable Teacher’s Edition of the first five episodes. As well as the new episode, the website itself has been updated and it now includes the truly wonderful Digital Gallery of reader-created episodes – episodes of ‘Inanimate Alice’ made by young people all over the world.

As well as that, the team behind ‘Inanimate Alice’, expanded to include the wonderful Australian digital writer and artist, Mez Breeze, made a successful bid for co-production funding to the Canada Media Fund and Screen Australia in order to develop a series of interactive stories called ‘Perpetual Nomads’. Kate will be working as Story Consultant on this project.

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In the summer of 2014,Pullinger collaborated with novelist and theatre-maker Neil Bartlett to create the digital war memorial, Letter to an Unknown Soldier. Commissioned by 14-18 NOW to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One and inspired by the statue of the unknown soldier on Platform One of Paddington Train Station in London, this project inspired 22,000 people to write letters to the unknown soldier. A selection of these letters was published in a book of the same name.

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Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph collaborated to create Flight Paths: A Networked Novel, releasing the first five story fragments in 2007, followed by a six fragment in 2012. This project was the basis for the novel Kate went on to write, Landing Gear, which was published in 2014.