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 behavior 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 dissapears into the very fabric of society.

As the image of the iPhone-like device on the left suggests, we, as humans, are constantly recombining and re-inventing the primitive elements of storytelling and interactivity which makes us who we are.

And 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.