Category: Educational Resources

ICIDS2015 The Lost Index: NATMUS, National Museum of Denmark & Dieselhouse Museum, Copenhagen

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The locative narrative The Lost Index: NATMUS  was featured at 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling in Copenhagen.

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The Lost Index: NATMUS, photo James Brocklehurst

Audio guides and games have long been staple modes of interpretation in museums. The medium of locative narrative, defined here as participatory site-specific story experiences that are heard on headphones, offers alternative modes of engagement with archives and collections where the visitor becomes a participant in an unfolding drama. The confluence of the existent world and narrative representations is an often-reported feature of “mixed reality” [1] experiences [2] [3] [4].

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Creative Reading Writing and Film in Interactive Storytelling Workshop

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RIDERS Project Event

25 November 2013, Manchester

This event will mix creatives with computer scientists to create a day of synergy, IS exploration and great networking opportunities.

There are a talented and diverse line up of speakers,  Christine Wilks, Daniel Kudenko, and Oliver Case. Nathan Jones from mercyonline, the experimental literary and new media organisation, running the digital creative writing workshop so members can get hands on with some experiential digital writing. The full agenda on the talks and workshop to follow shortly.

Spaces will be limited, first come, first served. Interested parties can email Vivienne at: v.m.macdonald@hw.ac.uk to notify their wish to attend.

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.

Media Futures

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.

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Call for Papers ICIDS 2012

ICIDS 2012

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

Developing Interactive Locative Narratives for Mobile Technologies Within Arts Education- Final Report.

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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

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.

Resources: Hoppala-Layar Instructions

Interview with Martin Ruskov

In this interview Martin Ruskov of University College London discusses serious games and transmedia storytelling.

Interview with Oliver Schneider

In this interview Oliver Schneider describes his research and approaches to interactive storytelling, with particular reference to its uses within higher education as a method for learning and teaching across subject areas.

Expanded Narrative Site Launched

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Expanded Narrative is an online resource for practitioners, educators and researchers. It is concerned with interactive narrative and storytelling in its multifarious forms from locative media and sound to experimental performance and games.

Expanded Narrative – Videos, offers an evolving directory of interviews that discuss work, approaches and methods with practitioners and experts in the field. Links are provided to examples of work, related information and articles.

Expanded Narrative – Educational resources, offers materials to for lecturers, predominately in higher education, for integrating locative narrative into the arts curriculum. The resources are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Expanded Narrative – News, highlights forthcoming international conferences and events and offers reviews of recent publications and events .