Christy Dena is a cross-media specialist who works as a narrative and game design consultant, strategist, educator and developer. Her clients include Wieden + Kennedy, AlterAction, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia Council for the Arts, dLux Media Arts , Pemberton Films and Killer Bald Men.
Christy has given keynotes at Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival and the First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design in Sweden.
She has mentored for the Australian Literature Board’s Story of the Future initiative; Screenworks; Laboratory of Advanced Media Production – a 5 day cross-media residential for the Australia Film, Television and Radio School; De Montfort University’s MA in Creative Writing and New Media and Booranga Writers Centre.
For the past few years she has been giving presentations on the design of cross-media projects to companies and organisations such as Nokia Finland; Australia Council for the Arts; Film Australia; Centre for Screen Business; Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Australian Broadcasting Corporation; ACT Filmmakers Network; Film and Television Institute; Brisbane Chapter of the International Game Developers Association and the Web Standards Group. Panels she has participated in include ‘That’s Advertainment!’ panel at View 21: The New Business of Media, AIMIA; DIYDays for the From Here to Awesome Discovery & Distribution Festival; ‘Cyber-Born Film’ panel at Destination Film Festival’; ‘Second Life & Beyond: Virtual Communities and Making Media in a Digital World’ at the Revelations Film Festival and ‘What Happened to New Media Art?’, Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment.
Christy has taught digital games, pervasive games, alternate reality games, cross-media, hypertext fiction, blog fiction, bot fiction, mobile fiction design and theory to institutions in UK, The Netherlands and across Australia.
She is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Sydney (previously at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne). Christy has a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing, from the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne (2002); and Bachelor of Arts (Visual and Performing Arts) from Monash University (course completed 1994, graduated 1998).
What’s My Passion? Basically, I’m passionate about anything to do with cross-media entertainment…transmedia storytelling, distributed narrative, cross-sited narrative, cross-media communication, convergent storytelling, multi-platform storytelling, 360 content, integrated marketing, neo-baroque aesthetics, multivariant narrative, networked narrative environments, cross-media, X-media, XME, inter-media world franchises, mixed reality gaming, augmented reality, alternate reality games …whatever you want to call it.
For some more info about me and some of my views, see Nikki Nimme’s interview with me for Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival. Other thoughts and quotes are in my Press Page.
Greetings,
I write to enquire when wil be you next conference, what are the requirement for one to attend the conference.
Emmanuel Nyantee
Hello Emmanuel!
The only solid booking I have so far is a talk at the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, late December. See my sidebar for ‘Upcoming Events’. I’ll post there when the next one comes up. What country are you in?
I saw a brilliant piece of animation at your talk at power to the pixel of a space scene and i think it had to do with story development can you tell me where it came from
Hello Richard!
I showed this animation at the beginning of my talk to illustrate the variety of new cross-media practices out there: http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide/newwritinguniverse/. It is my data, with animation done by an Australian company for the Australian Literature Board http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide. Other than that, I have my slides online here, in which you can see my pics on story documentation: http://www.slideshare.net/christydena/lessons-learned-in-crossmedia.
Hope that helps!
By the way, love the name of your company too
http://www.guidingstarfilms.com/
Christy
It was fantastic having you on the Slamdance Filmmaker Summit panel. Looking forward to meeting you in person.
Paul
Awesome. Thanks Paul. I really enjoyed the day and look forward to meeting you in person too!
Dear Christy,
I am a script-writer from Hamburg, Germany and have just started to explore the world of writing for games and transmedia storytelling. Just wanted to let you know that I love your website and your work, especially the slide show you did at reboot and the collection of games for game designers! I wish I knew more people (especially women) like you closer to home for networking and inspiration!
Take care
Hello Maike,
Thank you! I’m thrilled my work has inspired you.
I wish you all the best with your own creative practice and hope one day we get to meet!
Please feel free to email if you ever would like to talk further.
All the best,
Christy