magic-tree. Web drama, box containing muliple parts. 2001

A complex narrative on the web with a box that could be ordered online and delivered free. It explores questions about just how much satisfaction online capitalism can supply and removes the autonomy and liberty of movement from the reader/player by implying that whatever choice they make the retailer already knows it. Or it thinks it does - the story is really about the breakdown of the relationship between desire and satisfaction.

The website is still live but it uses an obsolete form of html and so will not work.

The Memory Dealer. Pervasive Drama. 2010, 2013.

Funded by Towards Pervasive Media, Nottingham University, Arts Council, Digital Cultures Research Centre. Somewhere between theatre, game and out-of-body-experience, The Memory Dealer, is a pervasive drama that was first staged in the streets of central Nottingham. Players experienced the drama through a series of media either on a mobile device or in the environment and through encounters with actors. They found themselves engaged in a role within the story. The Memory Dealer was staged in Bristol in 2013 as part of MAYFEST.

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Room 11 (this can’t be the place). Site specific installation using photography, audio and video. 2005.

An entire hotel was taken over by a group of artists with each given their own room. Only one person could enter Room 11 at a time. Multiple media created atmosphere; buzzing flies, whispering photographs and ansaphone messages of a man describing how luxurious his room is. A light shone from under the bed, which skewed from the horizontal. Underneath were scattered scissors and a tiny monitor switching between a shot of you, lying on the floor and a woman exploring the room. The effect is a form of abstracted narrative. Is she the wife? Was he a scissor salesman? Did he die here? Are you now lying where he was found? More documentation.

Together Alone. User generated web drama / talent show. 2014

I spent a few years working on a user generated web drama / talent show. Possibly the best thing I never made. Funded by South West Screen, the idea of Together Alone was a user generated drama with all the quality control of a professional drama. The cast would go through an online audition process. In the video you can see that every cast member, even in the same scene, is in a different country. Sadly we never got beyond pilot stage.

A few years later a series called Beckinfield did a similar thing, though wasn't quite as ambitious in the editing and production method.