Ambient Literature Festival

Whittaker, Emma, Pullinger, Kate, Abba, Tom, Gadd, Ian, Hayler, Matt, Spencer, Amy, Dovey, Jonathan, Marcinkowski, Michael, Attlee, James, Speakman, Duncan and Dovey, Jonathan (2018) Ambient Literature Festival. In: Ambient Literature Festival, 23 April 2018, British Library, London. (Unpublished)

Abstract / Summary

For the last two years, the Ambient Literature Project has been developing literary works that manifest alongside your daily routine. Delivered by smartphone, and responding to your presence in the world, these pieces of Ambient Literature offer each reader an opportunity to experience the world a little differently. Whether as a participant in a ghost story that knows where you are, losing yourself in a story of migration, loss and betrayal, or experiencing a poetic reflection on connection, progress and memory as you walk through the streets, these works exist somewhere between the ethereal and the magical.

Join us at the British Library Conference Centre for a showcase event on April 23rd. We’ll be celebrating the end of the project, sharing our secrets and discoveries, and letting you look behind the scenes of how these projects are created.

The day will feature a number of workshops and talks aimed at industry professionals, students, practitioners, and anyone else interested in the future of reading and writing.

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