Interactive Narrative
Call out for the Interactive Narrative Co-lab at this years Electrofringe, see details here
Overview
Interaction designers and media artists often have great ideas for non-linear interactive story-telling frameworks, but they lack the writing skills to produce truly compelling work.
On the other hand, writers have no shortage of skills when it comes to storytelling, but are left a little confused when it comes to the technological expertise required to implement an online or interactive project.
This Co-lab is aimed at bridging that gap by connecting writers and interactive specialists. It will create a platform for discussing and implementing innovative interactive story telling frameworks, and act as a catalyst for the creation of exciting new work. We would like to explore everything from traditional game-play scenarios and multi-faceted video works through to avant-garde non-linear writing techniques with state of the art interaction methodologies.
Workshop
Electrofringe and the National Young Writers’ Festival are presenting an interactive narrative workshop at the 2008 TiNA festival. The session will be held in the Process Space on Friday 3rd October from 4-6pm, and is free and open to all. It will be the first meet up session to kick-start the process. Writers will be teamed up with interactive specialists and form groups for future collaboration. Following the initial workshop, the project will further organise frequent meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne where collaborators can show their work and exchange ideas.
The project’s online home will be the ABC’s new POOL platform (www.pool.org.au), which will permanently form the goto and exchange place for people to post ideas and work in progress, and discuss projects as they unfold.
Participate
To participate in this Co-Lab joing the INCoLab Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/incolab
Name:
Contact details:
Artform(s) (fiction / playwriting / video / web development / flash development / interactive media / artist / etc):
Any projects or ideas you’re working on, concepts, scripts, proposals, areas of interest or obsession. We will then put you in contact with people that have a complementary skill set. Alternatively you can simply come down to the EF / NYWF session at the festival. Ideally you should be able to attend this session in Newcastle, but if you can’t come please feel free to still submit and participate through the POOL platform.
Contact
Elmar Trefz: electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com
Nicolas Low: nic@dislocated.org
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm – 18:00pm
Who: Elmar Trefz (Sydney/Berlin, Germany) , Nic Low (Melbourne) and you.
