Prestigious Marie Curie CogNovo Studentships
Project No.9 Participative mixed reality gaming
Category: Interactive Storytelling
Discount for Publish! New adventures in innovation
Discount for Publish! New adventures in innovation
Tuesday 24 September 2013 at St Brides, London
Media Futures offers you a 20% discount on early booking tickets for its Publish! New adventures in innovation a day of discussion and demonstration that showcases cutting edge prototypes in a changing book publishing industry. Publish! offers you a chance to take part in a significant debate, interact with the creators of some the latest experiments in the field, and meet potential collaborators.
Speakers include: Diana Stepner, Head of Future Technologies, Pearson; Fionnuala Duggan, Managing Director for International, CourseSmart; James Huggins, Chief Executive, Me Books; Bill Thompson, Head of Partnership Development, BBC Archives; George Walkley, Head of Digital, Hachette UK; and Clare Reddington, REACT Hub and director of iShed and The Pervasive Media Studio.
Early booking ends when tickets are sold out, or by Wednesday 18 September, and go up from £75 to £100 (individual) and £125 to £175 (corporate).
Use this discount code by Sunday 15 September: PublishDisc20
For further information and to book, please visit: http://www.mediafutures.org.uk/2013/
The Expanded Narrative Symposium 2013, 1-3 November
Date of Symposium:
2 November 2013
Additional Symposium Events and Performances:
1 – 2 November
Description:
The Expanded Narrative Symposium explores the multidisciplinary field of interactive narrative that reconfigures the form and expands the experience of storytelling. The reader, relocated, becomes a player, co-author or participant. How can we design, develop and experience locative sound, participatory theatre, pervasive and mobile games, flash fiction and works yet to be defined? Through the consideration of these questions, the symposium aims to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration between practitioners from the arts, academia and the creative industries.
The symposium’s interconnected themes of story, sound, performance, games and space reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Expanded Narrative, examined by leading names.
Find out more on the symposium webpage
The symposium is supported by the EU project VIVID in conjunction with the School of Art & Design Southampton Solent University, LiteratureWorks, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University Faculty of Arts Teaching & Learning, The School of Art and Media, MADr and The School of Humanities and Performing Arts.
13 February 2013: Media Futures Talk
In the next Expanded Narrative meeting Media Futures, Nico Macdonald & Laura North will be giving a talk concerning transmedia and current developments in digital publishing that impact on content producers. Everyone welcome.
Date: Wednesday February 13th, 2.00 – 3.30pm
Venue: Peninsula Gallery, Plymouth University, UK, Free Admission
The current Media Futures project http://www.mediafutures.org.uk/ focuses on publishing and innovation, and has included Publish! A Day of Innovation on the Future of the Book at the Watershed in Bristol, a Book Hackday and Publish! New Players, New Innovations at St Brides. The programme has been supported by the Creative Industries iNet, Cyprus Well, Plymouth University and NESTA.
Interview with Tassos Stevens, award winning theatre director, maker, writer, game-designer and co-director of Coney
Interview with Tassos Stevens, December 2011
Tassos Stevens is an award winning theatre director, maker, writer, game-designer and co-director of Coney, an agency of play that “…mixes live and digital art to create immersive stories and play for diverse audiences.” In this interview Tassos Stevens discusses his involvement with three recent projects, A Small Town Anywhere, an interactive performance for a playing audience, A Cat Escapes, described as an Adventure in Learning and Papa Sangre the award winning immersive game in 3D sound for the iPhone. Approaches to emergent storytelling, building imaginary worlds and the importance of the audience experience are considered.
Expanded Narrative is funded by Plymouth University, Teaching & Learning Directorate.
Call for Papers ICIDS 2012
“ICIDS is the premier international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), bringing together researchers interested in presenting recent results, sharing novel techniques, and exchanging ideas about this exciting new media. IDS redefines the narrative experience by empowering the audience to significantly participate in the story due to advances in technology. Continue reading “Call for Papers ICIDS 2012”
Developing Interactive Locative Narratives for Mobile Technologies Within Arts Education
Developing Interactive Locative Narratives for Mobile Technologies Within Arts Education- Final Report.
Events: Interactive Performance, ‘Dip Your Toe’ Brighton Fringe Festival, May 2012
Throughout May, when Brighton is blooming with art, six bespoke Victorian-style bathing machines will appear at some of the city’s iconic landmarks.
Each bathing machine will be the inspiration and the venue for a series of brand new performances by South East artists, creating unforgettable experiences with the city and its visitors.
See these fascinating replicas brought to life as beautifully customised, mobile mini-theatres, housing astonishing performances every weekend in May.”
Interview with Seth Kriebel – performance maker and director of Rules & Regs
In this interview Seth Kriebel, performance maker and director of Rules & Regs describes his interactive narrative work, ‘The Unbuilt Room’. Approaches to making, rules and structures, imagination, interpretation and the importance of the audience experience are discussed.
‘Expanded Narrative’ is funded by Plymouth University Teaching & Learning Directorate.
Create Augmented Reality Experiences using Hoppala
Non-technical users can create augmented reality experiences for mobile technologies using Hoppala. Hoppala is freely available on-line content platform compatible with Layar augmented reality browser. Hoppala enables you to link images, sound, video, text and animations to GPS coordinates.