VirtualDayz 2.0

I'm planning to revive this blog, VirtualDayz, and continue the explorations of personal and cultural memory that my earlier posts addressed. (Entries from June 2005 to July 2006 are documented in the book VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories and in a Kindle edition.)

I'm looking for projects to critique, so please feel free to recommend innovative approaches to personal or cultural memory that use some form of new media, a term I use broadly. When I began a "Webliography" of such works about ten years ago, I used the following categories: online diaries/journals; self-representations/memoirs; letters; travelogues; representations of others; memorials/remembrances (with special section devoted to 9/11); and fan sites. I'll have to update these categories.

Note: Abridged versions of self-representations and letters have been posted on this blog.

Revisiting Annette Kuhn on VirtualDayz

The most popular entry I've posted on VirtualDayz since I started this blog in 2005 has been a commentary on Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination, a memoir by British film scholar Annette Kuhn. Four years later, it's still attracting readers from around the world. The text receives at least a few hits almost daily, mainly through Google searches.

When I published VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories, a "blook" (blog + book) based on this blog, I slightly edited both "Annette Kuhn and Memory Work: Reflections on Family Secrets" and "Enigmatic Fascinations: Re-viewing Memory Texts," a follow-up post inspired by Kuhn's creative memory work. Given the widespread interest in Kuhn's work, I've posted a pdf of these two entries on my Scribd site. See “Annette Kuhn on VirtualDayz.”

"Video-Graphic Alchemy" on Scribd

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary," my multimedia artist's book, can now be read online in its entirety on Scribd, a social publishing company that allows writers to share their work. Hard copies of the 52-page book are available on Amazon.com.

Reviving my Multimedia Quartet

See the public view of my Facebook photo album devoted to RECYCLED MEMORIES: A MULTIMEDIA QUARTET:

Arella's Repertoire (novel)

Vagabond Scribe (Leah's Backstory) (experimental fiction)

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary" (multimedia essay)

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories ("blook" based on this blog)

VirtualDayz Transformed Once Again

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories, the “blook” based on my blog, is now available on Amazon.com. The “search inside” feature should be activated soon. I may format the text for the Kindle, Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Transformations of my work continue.

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