Now the showcasing-dust has settled and the conference is all wrapped up, have a dual-image-squizz at the #PRISOM and Pluto setup at the exhibition component of the 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling:
If you could do with a quick explanation of the Show, here's one:
Fragmentation can refer to the way the processes of remediation and transmediation are juxtaposing or contrasting stories from old or traditional media (oral storytelling, written stories, theatre, comics, radio, television, film), and how this fragmentation shapes how we experience and understand interactive stories in the new medium. At some point we need to re-fragment or de-fragment these stories so that we can make sense of new ways of telling and experiencing stories through interaction with respect to the affordances of the new medium. Perhaps construction and sense making of these micro and mini narrative fragments also depends on the signs of time, to the zeitgeist specifically? The purpose of the exhibition is to encourage artists to explore interactive digital storytelling at the boundaries of old and new media, and to investigate fragmentation in ways of how to tell interactive stories in various media…
Source: Art Exhibition | 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling