Tom Abba
Specialist in narrative theory and practice, leading the postgraduate MA Media: Practice & Culture programme at UWE.
Established as a practitioner and theorist in new media, my work has also included narrative illustration, graphic design and critical journalism, the latter addressing the convergence of psychogeography, genre fiction and new media form. I'm a member of UWE, Play Research Group, Creative Media Research Group, a Trustee of the UK Science Fiction Foundation, and maintain an irregular research blog at www.tomabba.com/otherthings
My practice and research is concerned with the development of a new method by which to write and produce interactive narrative. That question immediately proposes a multitude of possible answers. Is interactive narrative hypertextual, in which one amongst numerous outcomes is chosen, or is the manner of its distribution significant, over for example, a number of different platforms and devices? Is it dependent on mobile, pervasive media, or a remediation of old forms into new. Can it be expressed by writing alone, or might it depend on a convergence of media forms? Is computer game design the solution? Augmented, or alternate reality simulations? Or is it all of these and more, a new form for writing that encompasses a post-literature, post-film ecology that might reframe the nature of narrative itself?
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