I write articles about new arts for arts sites,popular online portals and books.
2011
- ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?’,Hand Made High Tech,if:book Australia,19 Dec
- ‘Event-Based Screening Experiences‘,Support Your Local Cinema,13 July
- ‘Transmedia for Event-based Arts‘,Connecting:Arts Audiences Online,Australia Council for the Arts,13 July
- ‘The Process of Creating Quality Transmedia Experiences‘,Connecting:Arts Audiences Online,Australia Council for the Arts,1 July
- ‘Christy Dena on the Creative Potential of Cross-Platform‘,Tribeca Film Institute,22 Feb, 2011 (the articles were moved after launch and so that is why the sharing stats are low –they weren’t before!)
- ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?‘,Institute for the Future of the Book,7 Feb
2010
- ‘Test,Test,Test,Transmedia‘,Transmedia Now,In Media Res,26-30 July
- ‘Addressing Contemporary Media Use‘,Canvas 8,13th March [subscription only]
- ‘Creating Quality Cross-Media Experiences‘,Cross-Media Communications:an Introduction to the Art of Creating Integrated Media Experiences,ETC Press;35-37
- ‘Transmedia Practice:Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments‘,PhD,University of Sydney
2009
- ‘Addressing Changing Transmedia Behaviour’,Canvas8,9th December [subscription only]
- ‘Beyond Multimedia,Narrative,and Game:The Contributions of Multimodality and Polymorphic Fictions‘ in Ruth Page (Ed.),New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality Routledge;183-201
2008
- Fingleton,T. Dena,C. &Wilson,J. (2008) ‘The writer’s guide to making a digital living:choose your own adventure‘,Sydney,Australia Council for the Arts
- Dena,C. (2008),‘Cyber-Conceived/Cyber-Birthed Films:Christy Dena on Making and Distribution at DestFest‘,Real Time,83,Feb-March,pp:22.
- Dena,C. (2008) ‘Playing the Moon:Christy Dena on the Fate of New Media Art‘,Real Time,83,Feb-March,pp:27.
2007
- ‘A Quick Primer on Alternate Realities’ in Friedrich von Borries,Steffen P. Walz and Matthias Bottger (Eds) Space Time Play:Synergies between Computer Games,Architecture and Urbansim,Birkhauser:Basel,Boston,Berlin;238-341. Chapter available for download. ERRATA:The first sentence mistakenly says ‘Augmented Reality Games’ and not ‘Alternate Reality Games’;the photographer of the Sammeeeees photograph is ‘SpaceBass’aka Sean C. Stacey;the ‘Daffy Google Map’was an assemblage of the maps provided at the back of Mind Candy’s Perplex City cards.
‘Authors that Think Outside the Book‘,in Workbook Project,2nd Aug.- ‘Filmmakers that Think Outside the Film‘,in Workbook Project,4th June.
- ‘Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds‘,RealTime, 77,Feb-March,Open City,Sydney [Commissioned article on the CyberGames Conference]
- ‘Second Front Online Performance Art‘,RealTime, 77,Feb-March,Open City,Sydney [Commissioned snapshot of an art performance event in the online virtual world Second Life]
- ‘Border Art‘. Originally published in SLATE:Second Life Arts &Total Entertainment Magazine,issue 6,Jan [article on JC Freemont's virtual world art and SL performance troupe Second Front]
2006
- ‘The White Cube of the Virtual World Art Space,part two‘. Originally published in SLATE:Second Life Arts &Total Entertainment Magazine,issue 2,Sept [article on remediation and the virtual art space]
- ‘The White Cube of the Virtual World Art Space,part one‘. Originally published in SLATE:Second Life Arts &Total Entertainment Magazine,issue 2,Sept [article on remediation and the virtual art space]
- ‘A Commanding Conversation‘. Originally published in SLATE:Second Life Arts &Total Entertainment Magazine,issue 1,Aug [article on a magic wand in the virtual world of Second Life and illocutionary force]
- ‘Art and Aporia:Imaging Place‘,SLATE:Second Life Arts &Total Entertainment Magazine,issue 3,Sept [article on JC Freemont's virtual world art and the theories of Gregory Ulmer]
- ‘The University:A New Home for New Media?‘,RealTime,74,August/September,Open City,Sydney [Commissioned article on new media arts educators]
- ‘Your Story:Your Medium‘,RealTime ,72,April/May,Open City,Sydney [Commissioned article on the International Digital Storytelling Conference,ACMI,Melb]
- ‘A Second Life:Living Online‘,RealTime, 75,October/November,Open City,Sydney [Commissioned article on the virtual world Second Life]
- ‘Digital Media:How to Make Audiences Feel it is All About Them‘,ScreenHub,14 Aug (subscription only) [Review of XMediaLab Professional Day Conference 06]
2005
- Dena,C. (2005) ‘Punto,Linea E Superficie‘in Giovagnoli,M.,Fare Cross-Media:From Big Brother to Star Wars,Theory and Techniques of the Integrated and Distributed Use of Simultaneous Media,Dino Audino Editore,pp.126-129. [This publication in Italian. Note too,there are also many of the ideas and examples I provided on my old blog CME throughout the publication.].
- Dena,C. (2005) ‘ The Creative Degree as Interface‘ ,68,RealTime ,Open City,Sydney,August,p:32-33 [Commissioned article on new media postgraduates]
2004
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Game to Play ‘,64,RealTime ,Open City,Sydney,p.31 [Commissioned review of GameTime exhibitions]
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘ Addressing the Room:Are You Talking to Me? In Conversation with. ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Bloody Thing Doesn’t Speak English:Bow Wow ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Byte-Can Art::Retypescape ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Configuring Verandah Space:DataDifference Conference ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney ,pp. 28.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Learning,Not Meaning:House of Tomorrow ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Sixth Sense,Third Body:Perceptual Difference:Vision Systems ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
- Dena,C. (2004) ‘Unheimlich Sex:Linda Erceg Interview:Perceptualdifference ‘,63,RealTime ,Sydney.
2003
- Dena,C. (2003) ‘Who’s Driving This Engine? ‘Strange Attractors:An Animation Showcase ,ABC New Media [Website = Winner:Best Cultural Website 2004 AIMIA Multimedia Awards] Commissioned 1,500 word critical essay. [Review of Simon Norton's Testimony:A Story Machine]
- Dena,C. (2003) ‘Mimesis of What?‘Australian Book Review ,251,Australian Book Review Inc.,Melbourne ,pp. 62 [Review of Darren Tofts,Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds) Prefiguring Cyberculture]
1996
- Dena,C. (1996) ‘The Digital Direction’,Wizards of Oz,The Thirteenth Book,Armadillo Publishers,Melbourne,pp:110-113. [Essay on digital effects on TV for advertising industry source book]
- Dena,C. and McMahon,K. (1996) ‘And In Our Madness We Rave.’,Real Time ,no. 11.
