Ambient Literature

Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Jon works across theory and practice and researches technology and cultural form. In 2008 he launched the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE. He led the Ambient Literature project. Tom Abba is a writer and designer working with the form of digital and physical books. He is an associate professor of Art & Design at UWE, a member of the DCRC and teaches into Drawing and Print at Arnolfini. Kate Pullinger writes fiction; her novel Forest Green will be published in 2020. The Mistress of Nothing , won Canada's 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; her 2014 novel Landing Gear was longlisted for Canada Reads. Her digital works Breathe, Inanimate Alice and Letter to an Unknown Soldier have been published to wide acclaim. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University.

1.Jon Dovey, Kate Pullinger and Tom Abba, Introduction.- 2.Ian Gadd, Ready Reader One: Recovering Reading as an Ambient Practice.- 3.Michael Marcinkowski, What We Talk About When We Talk About (Ambient Literature) Context.- 4.Matt Hayler, Objects, Places, and Entanglements.- 5.Kate Pullinger and Duncan Speakman, It Must Have Been Dark By Then: An Artist Interview with Duncan Speakman.- 6.Michael Marcinkowski, Developing Ambient Attention.- 7.Jon Dovey and Matt Hayler, Critical Ambience.- 8.Matt Hayler, Jon Dovey and Tom Abba, The Politics of Ambient Literature.- 9.Kate Pullinger and James Attlee, The Cartographers Confession: An Artist Interview with James Attlee.- 10.Michael Marcinkowski,Where I'm Coming From: Studying the Novelty of Immersive Algorithms.- 11.Emma Whittaker, An Aesthetics of Ambient Literature: Experience, Narrative, Design.- 12.Jon Dovey and Kate Pullinger, Breathe: An Artist Interview with Kate Pullinger.- 13.Amy Spencer and Tom Abba, Writing Ambient Literature.