Archive for July, 2004

The Fictional Future We Plan For

UncategorizedPublished July 31, 2004 at 10:52 am No Comments

The Information Society Technologies (IST) Working Group on Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society have released their report. The report, commissioned by the European Commission, intended to ‘identify grand challenges in information and communication technology (ICT), the pursuit of which will stimulate research and development in key areas and help the European
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Writing for a Different Story World

UncategorizedPublished July 20, 2004 at 5:28 pm No Comments

I’ve been thinking about how writing for an interactive medium changes the narrative construction…and come up with a working analogy. Imagine a room, a room that is a cube. It has a bench and a stove. From your right walks in a yellow translucent figure. The figure walks to the stove, picks up a yellow
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Are You Sure You Want to Do That?

UncategorizedPublished July 11, 2004 at 2:37 pm No Comments

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to write for a new website produced by ABC Arts Online called Strange Attractors that will showcase Australian animators to the rest of the world. My task was to write a critical essay on new media artist Simon Norton’s work Testimony: A Story Machine. Simon did a great
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