** SHORT VERSION: I'M NOW BLOGGING AT WWW.CHRISTYDENA.COM ** Well, not quite 'death' but an indefinite hiatus. I'm powering down this blog for a few reasons, one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I've tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work ...

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Sheffield International Documentary Festival are pleased to issue a call for proposals for a new cross-media competition called the CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE. The CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE is a co-production competition for innovative, interactive, socially engaged content with applications for mobile and broadband. It will ...

In October 2007, Mediamatic will be running a workshop on 'Games in Crossmedia': Virtual worlds such as Second Life are gaining popularity fast - they are places for acting out fantasies, but also for film making and telling stories. Techniques like machinima offer new possibilities for creating films and television in ...

The Brisband chapter of the IGDA have invited me to give a talk and workshop next week in Queensland: GAME_ON: talk and workshop- tues 5 june, 5-7pm @ KGUV Community Hub, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove 'Alternate Reality Games: Multi-Platform & Multi-World Design' In this talk Christy Dena will provide an overview of the pervasive ...

The Digital Communication and Culture Department at the University of Sydney (which is the Uni where I'm doing my PhD) invited me to give a lecture to their Digital Cultures students. Tomorrow I'll be giving the talk titled Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts. I'll present on the different approaches to cross-media/transmedia/multi-platform in ...

This is definitely a time of monocle popping for me. I have just discovered a course dedicated to 'transmedia story creation'. It is a core postgraduate subject in the Visual Language and Interactive Media MFA in Digital Media at the University of Central Florida. Dr Rudy McDaniel runs the course, which is described in ...

In the Netherlands, you can now get an Master of Business Administration in Cross Media Experience! From what I can understand of the website, it looks like you learn cross media marketing, strategy, production, creative projects, organisational infrastructure and international cross media business. The people seem like they will be ...

The 2007 Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar run by sagasnet is currently in play. During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation on media, genre or target audience) will be provided in parallel with high-profile face-to-face consulting sessions (on financing, project management, marketing, story structure, ...

Recently I gave a talk for the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. It is "designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing" and run by "Professor Sue Thomas, writer and former Artistic Director of ...

TransISTor is a training initiative organised by CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies in cooperation with FAMU - Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union. TransISTor focuses on computer games technologies while opening ...