Interactive

For the past few weeks, I've been London-exhibiting a version of my Interactive Fiction work called "T[he]Issue" as part of a second site showing of Beyond The Interface. "T[he]Issue: The Geospatial and Mixed-Locative Colonisation Act of 2014" ("T[he]Issue" for short) is a work originally commissioned by Julian Stadon and Furtherfield Gallery for the Beyond the Interface Exhibition as part of the 2014 International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality in Munich, Germany.

…so here I am innocently dancing away in my studio chair to this track while craft-carving away at our "Provocare" Digital Fiction, and I've just received some amazing feedback about our Dreaming Methods co-produced project "Pluto" - an Aussie Technical Writer was so impressed with what he'd seen of the project he's been inspired to start writing creatively again!

The above is a great snap of audience members eyeballing our explanatory #PRISOM film [with the pic credit going entirely to Nathan Jones]. The film was commissioned specifically for the latest Torque Event held on April 18th, 2015 at the Furtherfield Gallery in London. If you're interested in knowing more about the communication mechanics of the Surveillance Drones built into our anti-surveillance Game #PRISOM by Andy Campbell and yours truly, you're welcome:

Yes folks, all is finally revealed: after months of painstaking assessment, we're happy to announce the 2014 New Media Writing Prize Shortlist. The list is chock full of some pretty amazing projects [such as 3D and 2D textual games, geolocative based treasure hunts, engaging browser works and velvety-smooth mobile based narratives]. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the The NMWP [as us judges have fondly come to call it], this friendly sound-byte description should bring you right up to speed: "

Now that the official announcement has been made regarding the 2014 Judging Panel, we're broadcasting the call far and wide to all new media, transmedia, digital/electronic literature and interactive writers [and non-genre-shoehorned practitioners] to get your entries in to the 2014 New Media Writing Prize. What's not to like about a competition that could bag you some spiffy prize money and oodles of kudos?