Art as Practice based Research
I suggest we put our preconceptions in suspense
until the whole story is told,
which will be... never
Welcome to this instance of Interactive Storytelling. We will use this blog stream to capture the evolution of our thoughts and perceptions on what Interactivity and Storytelling is.
Perhaps as a starting point we can think of interactive anything, as something that exists only in the context of user behaviour and story as a shared social construct facilitating human communication. But even then, these broad assumptions can and are being challenged as technologies evolve and dissapear into the very fabric of society.
As the image of the iPhone-like device suggests, we, as humans, are constantly recombining and re-inventing the primitive elements of storytelling and interactivity (which are?).
Today we are, in many ways, surrendering our individual voices to the datasphere, which, when analysed (or mined, to use a common term) reveals another type of collective being, which by its twitts and blogs, reflects our commonalities more that our differences.
It is out of this phenomena that a bigger story is emerging, one in which we lose consciousness of the medium and see neither print nor film but just the power of the story, of which we are both actors and audience.
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But we cannot fail to see the other side of the unintended consequences:
"According to a CNN blog post, the U.S. government is connecting with Twitter and other major social media companies to make sure that the flow of information from Iran remains uninterrupted. While the Obama administration itself keeping out of the Iran controversy on official channels, it is making sure that information coming from people on the ground is getting through to the rest of the world.
The biggest revelation is that the State Department asked Twitter not to go down at its original time last night in order to allow Iranians to tweet out what’s happening in their cities. It also seems that U.S. officials are watching the chatter on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and elsewhere to keep up-to-speed with the situation on the ground. Social media communication is even more important, since the U.S. has no embassy or official relationship with Iran."