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E-Books: A New Art Form
Presented by Harold Moss, Creative Director, FlickerLab

June 28, 2012
New York Foundation for the Arts

The explosive growth of e-books and enhanced e-book apps is transforming the publishing industry at a rate even faster than the digital revolution that upended the music industry. In this case, the implications go far beyond how media is being delivered. Enhanced e-books on the iPad, NOOKcolor, Kindle Fire and other tablets have the ability to collide and reform all forms of media into a hybrid of text, images, sound, video, simulations, games, social media and the Internet.

This is providing enormous opportunities for artists in many disciplines to explore and define a new medium and to create new distribution and financial models. The field, however, is complex and rapidly changing, creating as many challenges as opportunities. This seminar is for anyone wanting to explore new means of expression and new avenues of distributing media content, as well as for understanding the capabilites of enhanced e-books.

Bio
Harold Moss is the Creative Director of FlickerLab, where he has directed dozens of enhanced e-books and apps for clients including Barnes & Noble and Penguin, and is producing and planning a wide range of indie content including graphic novels, young adult chapter books, documentary film e-books, and fine-art collaborations. He will help untangle some of the complexity of producing and distributing enhanced e-books, look at the various software and formats currently available, and lead a discussion on the possibilities for creating innovative new kinds of work in this exciting new medium.