Bloodyminded will be screened live online and at the nationwide cinemas.
4.20pm – 6.20pm, October 14th, 2018.
‘Mixing fact and fiction, Bloodyminded invites audiences to interact via an app, responding to questions directed to them by a narrator who asks us to consider our own relationship with violence – as individuals and as members of a society that continues to wage war on our behalf.’
The film is a ‘concept-based narrative.’ It is the visualisation of a blend of suppositions and predictions inspired by McErlean’s paper ‘Digitising Consciousness – the Digital U’, Kurzweil’s writings on the ‘Singularity’ and Nietzsche’s theory of ‘The Eternal Return.’ More info available at kellymcerlean.com.
Call for Papers. International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2018 December 5-8, 2018, Dublin, Ireland.
ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, technological, and applied design lenses. The annual conference is an interdisciplinary gathering that combines technology-focused approaches with humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression.
Michiko Kakutani’s new book ‘The Death of Truth’ explores ‘truth decay’, the Rashomon-effect, dezinformatsiya, hypernormalisation, predictions of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and George Orwell’s warnings against the corrosion of language.
Illustration by Jonathan Burton.
We had 80+ attendees at the Interactive Narratives & Transmedia Storytelling book launch at Hodges Figgis, Dawson St., Dublin 2. It has reached no. 2 on the Hodges Figgis bestseller list.
‘Audible and University College London researchers found listeners had a higher heart rate and body temperature, which suggests a more intense emotional response to the material.’
‘A new breed of VR film-making is making viewers engage in a deeper way with the issues they confront.’
You are invited to the launch of the Routledge publication ‘Interactive Narratives & Transmedia Storytelling’ by Dr. Kelly McErlean (DkIT).
Guest speaker Dr. Paul O’Brien (NCAD).
27 June at 18:00–20:00
Hodges Figgis
56-58 Dawson Street, Dublin
‘Viewing fiction through the lens of evolutionary theory. Stories are a kind of ‘surrogate experience’, a simulation that allow us to test the challenges that might threaten our survival.’
‘In the early 20th century, artists realised that more than merely representing the world, photography offered new ways of imagining it.’
