Where to begin?
Tim Wright (the other 'in residence' member of the trAce team) discussed his Oldton project and how the town that never existed is almost complete. He commented on his 'reversed geographic information system' and how rather than using a map to plot and record data, he is taking data (submissions) and using it to form a map of a place that never existed!
There was Ted Nelson, inventor of the term Hypertext, telling us what was wrong with the web and his ideas for the future of it - and in particular how quoting other peoples work in your own work might change through his deeplit project. His comments regarding Microsoft and Adobe (it's paper under glass) were interesting.
I gave my talk on the projects that have been carried out in schools this year, just after Alan Sondheim had shown some of his work in the adjacent lecture theatre.
Creating linear and non hypertexts from books was an interesting presentation from ghostcity.com creator Jodi Zellen.
Steve Gibson talked about his projects that use spacial awareness to produce visual music - his Virtual dj work featuring heavily. This allowed the user to control and create a piece of music by simply moving around a room. It was demonstrated on Wednesday evening at a local club.
Randy Adams demonstrated some of his work - his collaboration with Jim Andrews and a Alan Sondheim on a piece based on a phone message was interesting to see (and in particular listen to).
Simon Mills discussed 'Who stole the soul'. A provoking piece above New media and where it is going. He demonstrated his latest Flash work. Random Video Clips being played for random amounts of time. As he said; that's a lot of randomness.
Kate Pullinger launched her work entitled 'The Breathing Wall' Using your breathe, you control the story and influence how it is told.
In addition there were plenty of other presentations and performances from many of the delegates attending that I was unable to attend.
What was nice was seeing many of the textlabbers from November and hearing that their experiments were either completed now or well on the way.
Finally, it was also a good chance to network with other people who could provide advice on where to go next in September.