Do you want to share any interactive storytelling projects?
April 5th, 2005 by Michael E. JeppesenDo you know any interactive storytelling projects?
Please tell us about it, post a link or perhaps share your comments or experiences with this project.
Posted in Interactive Storytelling, projects |
April 9th, 2007 at 17:20
Three More Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
“I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.”
From a work in progress: three more short animations, based on sections of Wallace Stevens’ famous poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, are now online. The first three were completed in February, and there should be more to come a bit later in the year.
http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/
- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
March 15th, 2007 at 14:26
The Curator’s Egg - The Hyperliterature Exchange, Mar 07
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2007: a review of ‘The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One’, edited by N Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.
“The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC1 for short) contains some extremely powerful, beautiful, clever, amusing and moving pieces of work, but it isn’t entirely without flaws…”
To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewelc1.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
February 21st, 2007 at 19:23
Three Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
“O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?”
Three short animations, based on three sections of Wallace Stevens’ famous poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”. Part of a work in progress.
http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/
- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
December 28th, 2006 at 22:18
“Frog-o-Mighty” - a tale of world domination and m
“You understand nothing of my schemes, Penguin…”
A mighty tale in three chapters, featuring a megalomaniac frog, a hypnotist penguin, two quarrelling chicks, a bemused goose, a plan so fiendish that it’s completely incomprehensible, a pot full of shutting-up phrases and an insatiable lust for mints!
The perfect antidote to that just-after-Christmas feeling.
http://www.edwardpicot.com/frog-o-mighty/
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
August 16th, 2006 at 17:56
Saints be Praised? - The Hyperliterature Exchange, Aug 06
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for August 2006: a review of ‘Broken Saints’, an epic 24-part 12-hour-long Flash-animated comic book, which has been visited on the Web by more than five million people, and has sold almost 10,000 copies on DVD. A new DVD version, distributed by Fox, is published this month.
“Senecan tragedy is a useful point of reference for Broken Saints because it shares the same preoccupation with bloody violence, particularly violence within the family. At the end of Broken Saints a deranged father pulls out one of his daughter’s eyes, wires up her brain to the Internet and hangs her on a crucifix made out of computer monitors as part of his attempt to achieve world-domination: a climax so lurid and grotesque that even Seneca might have found it hard to outdo.”
To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewbrokensaints.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
July 29th, 2006 at 17:25
A Short History of Everything
A montage of text and images, remixed in Flash from Myron Turner’s new media application/poem ‘Timeline’ ( http://www.mturner.org/Timeline/ ).
The entire history of everything, encompassed in eleven double-page spreads!
http://edwardpicot.com/shorthistoryindex.html
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
June 28th, 2006 at 17:54
An Unimportant Story
My latest nonlinear story is about four people early one morning.
A father and his daughter make up a story together about a dragon and a goose. The father remembers a trip he has just made to London, to see an exhibition of Chinese art. Upstairs, the mother fantasises about men finding her attractive, but simultaneously worries that she may be seriously ill. The mother and the little girl go outside to catch the bus to school. An old professor who lives by the bus stop is remembering a curious incident from between the wars, but interrupts his reminiscences long enough to look out of his window and notice the mother and daughter waiting for the bus.
Nothing important happens. The four sections of the story can be read in any order.
http://edwardpicot.com/unimportantindex.html
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
February 27th, 2006 at 15:35
Words of one Syllable
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for February 2006: my review of “The Syllabary”, a work-in-progress by Peter McCarey, which maps all the monosyllabic words in the English/Scottish language onto a huge grid, and will eventually include a short poem for every one of them.
“Whatever its merits or demerits as a piece of new media, The Syllabary undoubtedly succeeds as a piece of writing. The originality of its concept and the ’sound poem’ of monosyllables would make it worth a visit by themselves: but what makes it worth going back to time after time is the unfailingly high quality of the little poems it contains…”
To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewsyllabary.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
December 30th, 2005 at 20:49
“Banana Story” - new short Flash animation
A banana sets out to discover the truth about monkeys… with predictable results. A short Flash animation, based on a story made up by my seven-year-old daughter Rachel, available for 25c via BitPass (or free for the poor and stingy) at http://www.edwardpicot.com .
“Highly recommended!” - Millie Niss ( http://www.sporkworld.org//index.php )
- Edward Picot
please also visit http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
November 18th, 2005 at 12:49
Unanswered Questions
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for November 2005: Edward Picot reviews “Inanimate Alice”, a new media fiction from Kate Pullinger and Babel, and “Aftershocks”, a new media murder documentary from Martha Deed.
“Both ‘Inanimate Alice’ and ‘Aftershocks’ use unanswered questions as a technique for capturing our attention. They exploit the fact that when things are left unresolved, we feel more obliged to read on, in search of a resolution. But both stories go further than simply arousing our curiosity…”
To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewafteralice.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
November 9th, 2005 at 14:11
Rilke and the Archaic Torso
“How does Rilke get from his admiration of the statue to his closing phrase - ‘Du mußt dein Leben ändern’ (’You must change your life’)? Why should a marble torso, however magnificent, seem to be sending him (and us) such a powerful challenge?”
Taking Rilke’s famous poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo” as his starting-point, Edward Picot’s new work of hyperliterature provides first a commentary on the poem, then an undercommentary, and finally a poetic response of his own, animated in Flash, with hurtling fragments of Greek statuary.
The New Media artist and writer Millie Niss has just opened up her website ( http://sporkworld.org ) to work from guest artists, and Edward Picot is the first to appear there. “Rilke and the Archaic Torso” can be seen at http://sporkworld.org/guestartists/picot/index.html .
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
October 4th, 2005 at 16:15
missing the topic?
well the above mentioned projects all deal with the technical side of 3d animation/character design etc… however i still miss the STORYTELLING side. i still found no project or good book regarding the challenges of stories in our nowadays world.
someone of you heard of steve denning?
Markus.V
September 19th, 2005 at 13:32
Rogue Mail - correction to previous posting
Oops! Dropped a bollock in my last announcement, I’m afraid. If anyone tried to reach my latest review and got an error message, it’s because the link should have been http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewintimacies.php, not http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtintimacies.php .
Believe me, heads will roll in the admin department.
- Edward Picot, his handsome features aglow with embarrassment
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
September 16th, 2005 at 12:43
Rogue Mail - The Hyperliterature Exchange, September 05
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for September 2005: Edward Picot reviews “Intimacies”, an email novel by the USA writer Eric Brown.
“For a work of hyperliterature, Intimacies was heavily publicised and widely written-about when it first came out at the beginning of 2004. Articles about it appeared in the New York Times and (in the UK) the Guardian. According to Eric Brown it was downloaded about 5,000 times in its first four months online, and the figure is now up to about 8,000… So what, if anything, is the fuss all about?”
To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtintimacies.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
August 10th, 2005 at 19:01
The Greyhound Murder - new from Edward Picot
“After dark, someone came knocking on the door. Seven knocks, so loud they went right through the house…
I was looking at the sky. It was a windy day. There were white clouds going across, brilliantly white, and beyond them the blue…
‘By their fruits shall ye know them,’ he said. ‘And he that is unjust, let him be unjust still, for the hour is at hand.’…
I shone my torch: something brown to the left of the drive. A boot. Then something bulky in the weeds. A leg, two legs, a body. Twisted and red…”
A new nonlinear story, “The Greyhound Murder”, is now available on my personal website, for 25c via BitPass.
Also new: “Sheep”, “Triptych” and “Don Quixote’s Dream”, three small pieces on the theme of sheep.
Please visit and browse.
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - Personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
June 29th, 2005 at 18:37
Nice Work? - The Hyperliterature Exchange, July 2005
“Why are people being made redundant, why does redundancy still mean poverty, why are the inequities of the system being exaggerated, when if things were reorganised effectively not only the need to work, but poverty and starvation too, could be abolished for the vast majority of the world’s population?”
New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for July 2005: Edward Picot reviews “The World Owes You A Living”, a monolithic 6-CD audio-collage on the subject of jobs and new technology, by the Canadian new media artist Matt Fair. To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewtwoyal.php .
The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory and review of new media literature for sale on the Web. More than 120 works are now listed. Please visit and browse at http://hyperex.co.uk .
- Edward Picot
personal website - http://edwardpicot.com
Edward.P
June 24th, 2005 at 02:20
Young Danish storytellers meet their princess
Source: Mail Newsletter from “Young People’s Media Network”
Young Danish storytellers meet their princess
On 1 June 2005, Her Highness Princess Alexandra, countess of Frederiksborg, awarded prizes to Danish winners of the “Safer Internet Magic and Friendship” storytelling competition. The ceremony was held at the Film House in Copenhagen.
Flashes from cameras, rolling film cameras, interviews and a handshake with a real princess: these were some of the experiences the winners of the Danish storytelling competition at the national award ceremony in Copenhagen on 1 June 2005.
A fifth grade pupil had made an interactive PowerPoint presentation about a boy called Virtu, who travels into cyberspace. He is taught about safety
issues by his friend the Alpha Dog. They won first prize with “Virtu in Cyberspace part 1″ in the 9-12 years category. The class also received the
special prize for the best technical solution with “Virtu in Cyberspace part 2″ in which the reader/listener of the story can choose his or her own storyline of events.
(…)
Karsten Gynther, Chairman of the Danish Media Council, said:
“We are standing in the middle of a technological generation gap. Many parents can’t follow their children’s smart use of the Internet and mobile technology. The competition has given parents a new insight into children’s use of the new media by letting children tell stories about their media use.”
(…)
FULL STORY AT:
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0605/dk_princess.htm
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April 22nd, 2005 at 19:06
New work from Edward Picot, April 2005
Two silly Flash animations for children, created with the help of my daughter:
“Linesland” ( http://edwardpicot.com/lineslandindex.html ) and
“Chicks” ( http://edwardpicot.com/chicksindex.html ).
“Linesland” was finished just before Christmas, and “Chicks” was started at Easter, so they both have a slightly seasonal feel.
There’s also a prose poem/multimedia piece for springtime, “The Stream” ( http://edwardpicot.com/stream/ ).
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
April 6th, 2005 at 16:10
StoryTelling projects exist
As a first example, to become a success story, let me suggest the BBC R&D and others’, Origami project.
I also remind you of the following event:
http://www.virtualstorytelling.com/indexVS.htm
Yannis Kapetanakis :-)