Christy's Corner of the Universe

Why does this site look this? After years of going through so many themes, I’ve had enough. So now I’m going through a major retro phase. You can still read it even though it is…like this. I’m still updating the info, but it will all be here on one page for now.

SELECTED RECENT PRODUCTION CREDITS
2011, Transmedia Victoria
Role: Curator & Co-Organiser
Project: Industry conference and workshops
Client: Australia Council for the Arts

2010, The Hunt
Role: Co-Experience Designer and Co-Game-Master
Project: Global alternate reality game (online, mobile, live action, live events) – 3 weeks
Client: No Mimes Media (USA) | Sponsor: Cisco (USA)
Articles: Wired

2010, Conspiracy for Good
Role: Transmedia Analyst
Project: Global augmented reality drama (online, mobile, video, live events, billboards, newspapers) – 5 months+
Sponsor/Client: Nokia (Finland) | Production: Tim Kring (USA), The company P (Sweden/UK)

2010, Bluebird AR
Role: Transmedia Story & Game Advisor
Project: Alternate reality drama (online, mobile, live events, TV, radio, billboards) – 6 weeks
Client: ABC (Aus)

2010, Urban Codemakers
Role: Transmedia Story & Game Advisor
Project: Street and online game, using augmented reality
Client: Troy Innocent (Aus)

2010, Bangarra Dance Theatre Company
Role: Educator/Workshop Facilitator
Project: Transmedia Development Workshop
Client: Australia Council for the Arts (Aus)

2010, The Red Tail
Role: Transmedia Consultant
Project: Feature Documentary & live events
Client: Emergence Pictures (USA)

2010, Coldwar Clambake
Role: Transmedia Consultant
Project: Facebook game, with intended TV series
Client: Big Daddy’s Chicks (USA)

2010, Awra Amba
Role: Transmedia Consultant
Project: Broadcast documentary series, interactive online documentary, online participatory experience
Client: Paulina Tervo, Write This Down (The Pixel Lab)

2010, Self Helpless 
Role: Transmedia Consultant
Project: Feature film
Client: End of the World Entertainment (USA)

2008, Love Referendum
Role: Co-Writer, Co-Game-Designer
Project: Pervasive Art – video clips, viral postcards, website, and a live event
Client: Tallstoreez Productions | Adelaide Fringe

2006, Hung-Long
Role: Writer, Designer, Game-Master
Project: Industry Training Alternate Reality Game – 2 weeks
Client: Australian Film, Television and Radio School

2006, Curse Cleanse
Role: Initial concept, writing, design
Project: Industry Training Alternate Reality Game – 3 hours
Client: Australian Film, Television and Radio School

2005, Time Splicer
Role: Concept, Writing, Design, Co-Game-Master
Project: Industry Training Alternate Reality Game – 3 hours
Client: Australian Film, Television and Radio School (for the ABC residential)

2005, The Legend of Amelia Rose
Role: Concept, Wring, Design, Co-Game-Master – 3 hours
Project: Industry Training Treasure-hunt
Client: Australian Film, Television and Radio School

AWARDS
2011 – Conspiracy for Good, Best Cross Platform Project, Banff World Media Award
2011 – Conspiracy for Good, Digital Program – Fiction Nomination, International Digital Emmy Awards
2011 – Conspiracy for Good, Mobile Nomination, 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards
2011 – Conspiracy for Good, Official Honoree, Integrated Campaigns, 15th Annual Webby Awards
2011 – The Hunt, 2011 Merit Award for Other Branded Entertainment, One Show Awards
2011 – Bluebird AR, Interactive Award, 44th Annual Australian Writers Guild Awards
2010 – Bluebird AR, Innovation Award, (Internal) ABC Awards

MENTORING
2011 – Storyworld Conference, San Francisco (Oct-Nov)
2011 – Crossover Documentary Lab, Film Victoria, Melbourne
2010 – XMediaLab: Film Extended, Screen Australia, Melbourne
2010 – The Pixel Lab: The Cross-Media Film Workshop, Wales, UK
2010 – Crossover Indigenous Lab, Screen Australia, Bateau Bay
2008 – Making for Market Grant, Story of the Future, Australian Literature Board
2005-6 – Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, Australian Film, Television and Radio School

JUDGE/ASSESSOR
2011 – Digital Media Initiative, NSW Government (AUS)
2009 – ABC Excellence in Digital Media Awards, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (AUS)
2009 – Pulcinella Award, Cartoons on the Bay (Italy)
2009 – Babelgum Pixel Pitch Award, Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival (UK)
2009 – Whistler Film Festival Pitch Fest West, Whistler Film Festival (CAN) – [panel feedback only]
2008 – Portable Worlds Second Edition, The Australian Network for Art and Technology (AUS)
2007-8 – Australia Council for the Arts (Literature Board, Interarts, Digital Programs) (AUS)
2007 – Portable Worlds, The Australian Network for Art and Technology (AUS)
2005-6 – Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AUS)

SELECTED BOARD MEMBER
2011 – Storyworld Conference and Expo, San Francisco
2011 – Aphids Lab, Melbourne
2010 – Freeplay Independent Games Festival, Melbourne
2009 – dLux Media Arts, Sydney

Industry Presentations

Keynotes:

• DIYDays, 28 Oct,LA,USA (2011)
• Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, London (2008)
• First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design, Sweden (2007)

2011

• International Women in Digital Media Summit, 23-25 Oct, Ontario, Canada
• Storyworld Conference, 31 Oct-2Nov, San Francisco, USA
• Transmedia Experience Design,16th Sept,RMIT,Melbourne
• Transmedia Week,Cyfle,25th Sept,UK (remote)
• Digital Writers’ Conference,Emerging Writers’ Festival,15th Oct,Brisbane (remote)
• Cinekid Professional Conference,18-19th October,Amsterdam
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Aug, Melbourne, Australia
• GEElab launch, 15 March, RMIT, Australia
• ad:tech Melbourne, 31st March, Melbourne
• Transmedia Victoria IGDA Meetup, 5th April, Melbourne
• Emerging Writers’ Festival, 26 May- 5 June, 2011
• National Screenwriters Conference, 17-18th Feb, Phillip Island, Australia
• Transmedia Victoria, 27-28th Jan, Melbourne, Australia

2010

• TEDxTransmedia, 30 Sept, Geneva, Switzerland
• Franchise Thinking for Indies, Freeplay Independent Games Festival, Melbourne, 14-15 Aug, 2010
• What We Need to Say About Transmedia, Film X-Tended, X Media Lab, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, July, 2010
• Transmedia for Filmmakers, Think Outside the Box Office, Jon Reiss, Melbourne, July, 2010
• The Pixel Lab: The Cross-Media Film Workshop, London, June, 2010
• Sydney Writer’s Festival, May, 2010
• Cartoons on the Bay, Italy, 15-18th April, 2010
• Crossover Lab Australia, North Syd, Feb, 2010
• The Documentary Organisation of Canada cross-platform web conference ReBoot, 16th Feb, 2010 (remote presentation)
• Australian Film Festival launch, Sydney, 24th Feb, 2010
• The Edge launch weekend: In Conversation, Brisbane, 28 Feb, 2010
• Slamdance Filmmaker Summit, 23rd Jan, 2010 (remote presentation)
• Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, New York, 10-12th Jan, 2010

2009

• Modern Language Association Convention, Dec 29, 2009
• Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, 14th & 15th October 2009
• Mobile Histories, dLux Media Arts, Historic Trust, Justice & Police Museum, Sydney, Sept 11th, 2009
• Storytelling on Multiple Platforms, Screenworks, Kingscliffe, May 1st, 2009
• Social Web FOO Camp, O’Reilly Media, Sebatopol, USA, April, 2009
• View 21: The New Business of Media, Inaugural AIMIA Victoria Conference, March 18th, 2009
• Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, Feb, 2009

2008

• Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, 23rd October 2008. Video of workshop
• Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, 22nd October 2008. Video of presentation & PPT of presentation & PDF of Spanish translation of presentation by Antoni Roig Telo
• Social Computing Symposium, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Seattle. Panel co-ordinated by Elan Lee. 14th October, 2008
• Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Sydney. Co-ordinator: Karen Pearlman. Lecture & Workshop on 19th August, 2008.
• DIYDays, From Here to Awesome, July-Oct 2008. PPT online
• Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 27th May, 2008
• Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 20th May, 2008
• Introduction to Game Design (SOMA3622), School of Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Co-ordinated by Erik Champion. Lecture on 20th May, 2008
• Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Adelaide. Lecture & workshop on 12th May, 2008
• Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Melbourne. Co-ordinator: Allan Cameron. Lecture & workshop on 30th April, 2008
• Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney, Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan, 28th Feb, 2008
• Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, 5 Feb, 2008

2007

• Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, The School of Creative Media and Computer Science at RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3-5 Dec, 2007
• Destination Film Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney, 8th Dec, 2007
• ‘While You Weren’t Watching‘, Mitchell Communications Group, Studio Twenty4, Sydney, 12th Nov, 2007
• Filmmaking in the Age of Cross-Media Production, Film and Television Institute, WA, 17th Sept, 2007
• perthDAC 2007: the 7th Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth, Australia, 15-18 Sept, 2007
• Web Standards Group, Australia Museum, 2nd August. Full Transcript, Audio
• Thursday Fictions’ Second Life Launch Q&A, ABC Island, Second Life, 29th July, 2007 Full video online at SLCN.TV
• Second Life & Beyond: Virtual Communities and Making Media in a Digital World’ Panel, chaired by Mick Broderick, Murdoch University, Revelations Film Festival, Perth, 22nd July, 2007
• Australian Literature Board’s “Publishing the Story of the Future“, Sydney, 17 July, 2007. Full Speech
• Video & PowerPoint
• Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney (taught entire course while Yusuf Pisan was overseas)
• Game On, 5 June, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, 2007
• Crossmedia Minor, Noordelijke Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 28 March, 2007
• Digital Communication and Culture, University of Sydney, 22nd May, 2007
• Nokia Research Labs, 20 March, Finland, 2007
• Australian Literature Board’s “Story of the Future“, 9 March, Tasmania, 2007
• Australian Literature Board’s “Story of the Future“, 26 Feb, Adelaide, 2007
• Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, 2007

2006

• (2006) Invited Speaker, MC & Chair for Australian Literature Board’s “Story of the Future” Wednesday 29th November, 9am-4.30pm, Room B1.11, Building 5, Quay St, University of Technology, Sydney.
• (2006) Invited Speaker, MC & Chair for Australian Literature Board’s “Story of the Future” Monday 27th November, 9am-4.30pm, Innovation Centre, AFTRS, Docklands.
• (2006) Invited Co-Project Manager, Speaker & MC of AFTRS’ “Extended Entertainment Experiences“, Friday 24th November, 10-4.30pm, Chauvel Theatre, Paddington.
• (2006) Invited workshop on ‘Alternate Reality Games and Cross-Media Entertainment: Low-tech, high-impact immersive experiences‘ workshop for the Joint International CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment Conference, Weds 6th Dec, 1.30-3.30pm, Perth. Sponsored by the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS)
• (2006) Invited workshop facilitator on ‘Alternate Reality Game Design‘ workshop for the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Sat Dec 2, 9.30am-1pm Innovation Centre, Bentley, Perth.
• (2006) Invited workshop facilitator on ‘Cross-Media Entertainment Design‘ workshop for the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Sat Dec 2, 2pm-5.30pm Innovation Centre, Bentley, Perth.
• (2006) Invited Speaker on ‘Everything You Wanted to Know about Blogging‘ workshop for the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Fri Dec 1st, 6.30-8pm Australian Writer’s Guild, Perth.
• (2006) Invited workshop facilitator on ‘Serious Games‘ workshop for the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Thurs Nov 30th, 6.30-9pm WestOne Theatrette, Leederville, Perth.
• (2006) Invited speaker on ‘Huh?’, a presentation as an intro to “Evan Jones Masterclass: Extending Doco in the Time of Digital”, Film Australia, Monday 20th November, 1.30-4.30pm, Film Australia’s Roxy Theatre, Sydney Tuesday 21st November, 1.30-4.30pm, AFTRS Melbourne, Docklands Theatrette, Digital Harbour.
• (2006) Invited speaker on ‘Cross-Media: The New World of Production Development’ for the ACT Film Makers Network, National Museum of Australia, 27th Sept.
• (2006) Invited speaker on The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Cross-Media Entertainment! at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 1st September. [pdf of poster]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘Clustering Consciousness: Towards Polymorphism’ presented at SEAFAM Research Day, University of Sydney, 16 June.
• (2006) Presenter, ‘Designing Cross-Media Entertainment‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production Residential. Held at Swan Valley, Perth. Funded by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, May.
• (2006) Invited speaker, ‘Findability and Attracting Audiences‘, for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School Center for Screen Business seminar on Digital Distribution, 11th April, Melbourne. [PDF & MP3 (I'm after Peter Giles on the mp3) & PPT @ Slideshare ]

2005

• (2005) Presenter, ‘Best Practices in Cross-Media Entertainment‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production Residential, held at the AGSM. Special Australian Broadcasting Corporation residential, December.
• (2005) Presenter, ‘Cross-Media Narrative‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production Residential, held at Victor Harbour, South Australia. Funded by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and the South Australian Film Corporation, October.
• (2005) Presenter, ‘Cross-Media Storytelling‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 2nd September, at the South Australian Film Corporation, Adelaide. [podcast]
• (2005) Presenter, ‘Cross-Media Storytelling‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, August held at the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney.
• (2005) Presenter, ‘Cross-Media Storytelling‘, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, August, AFTRS Melbourne.

Academic Conferences

2006

• Dena, C. (2006) ‘A Case-Study of miniARGs: Design Issues for Creating Alternate Reality Games for Professional Training and Education‘, Joint CyberGames & Interactive Entertainment 2006 Conference, Weds 6th Dec, 10am, Perth.
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘How the Internet is Holding the Center of Conjured Universes‘, presented at Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences, Association of Internet Researchers, Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 Sept. [See paper here & Kevin Lim video interview with me about my presentation]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘Remediation of the Art Space in Second Life‘, presented at New Media Consortium’s Impact of Digital Media Conference, symposium in Second Life, Oct 20th. PowerPoint & Audio at SlideShare

2005

• Dena, C. (2005) ‘Texts, Worlds, Realms and Channels: Towards a Taxonomy of Polymorphic Works‘ presented at Research Seminar Series, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, 17 Aug.
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘Hybrids, the Universe and Channels: A Sketch of Polymorphic Narrative‘ presented at Seminar Day 4, School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day, University of Melbourne, 27 May.

2004

• (2004) ‘Cross-Media Research Overview‘ presented at UniMelb/XMedia Lab Symposium, Computer Visualisation Facility, University of Melbourne, 21 Oct.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘Towards a Poetics of Multi-Channel Storytelling‘, presented at Critical Animals postgraduate conference, This Is Not Art Festival, chaired by David Wolf, Newcastle, October 1st.
• Invited Chair (2004) Stefan Popescu’s ‘The Birth of Celluloid‘, presented at Critical Animals postgraduate conference, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, Oct 1st.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘New Media Methodologies, Applied‘ presented at Contexts, School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day , University of Melbourne, 14 May [PDF]

2003

• Dena, C. (2003) ‘Response as Input: The Role of Reader Response, HCI and HRI in the Modeling of a Cross Media Narrative‘ presented at Seismic Readings 2003 Conference , School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University, Clayton, 17-18 July. [PDF]
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘Interacting with Ghosts: An Exploration of the Notion of Interactivity in Digital Storytelling‘ presented at School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day , University of Melbourne, 11 Dec, published by SCAtharsis [PDF]
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘The Day My Book Went Psycho‘ presented at School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day, University of Melbourne, 2 May.

Teaching

Course Designer & Lecturer

• (2007) Co-Course-Designer & Lecturer ‘Game Design’, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney
• (2006) Tutor ‘Multimedia Theory and Production 1′ , Media Department , Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Macquarie University. Co-ordinated by Sherman Young. Subject Code: MAS208.
• (2005) Design of theory competency for Diploma of Multimedia (Visual Arts) , Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran TAFE.
• (2005) Lecturer ‘New Media Criticism’ for students in Masters of Digital Media, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne. Teaching linearity, narrative models, hypertext fiction, botfiction, cross-media storytelling. subject code: 760445 Webraft [staff or student access only]
• (2005) Course-designer, lecturer & tutor ‘New Media Arts Theory’, 1st year students of Advanced Diploma of Multimedia (Design), Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran TAFE. Subject Website

Guest Lectures

2011

• Invited Lecturer (workshops) on ‘Cross-Media Interaction Design’, Department of Infomatics, Umea University,25th Sept-10th Oct, Sweden

2010

2009

• (2009) Invited Lecturer on The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living, Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, Feb.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer & Workshop Facilitator, ‘Polymorphic Fictions’, Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 27th May, 2008.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer & Workshop Facilitator, ‘Hypertext Fiction’, Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 20th May, 2008.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer, ‘Games, Stories & the Multi-Platform Ecology’, Introduction to Game Design (SOMA3622), School of Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Co-ordinated by Erik Champion. Lecture on 20th May, 2008.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer, ‘Games & Animation in the Multi-Platform Context’, Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Adelaide. Lecture & workshop on 12th May, 2008.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer, ‘Interactivity, Games and Films in the Multi-Platform Context’, Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Melbourne. Co-ordinator: Allan Cameron. Lecture & workshop on 30th April, 2008.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer, ‘History of Games’, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney, Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan, 28th Feb.
• (2008) Invited Lecturer, ‘Designing with Lotsa Media’, Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, 5 Feb.
• (2007) Invited Lecturer, ‘Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts’, Digital Communication and Culture, University of Sydney, 22nd May.
• (2007) Invited Lecturer, ‘Cross-Media Entertainment’, Crossmedia Minor, Noordelijke Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 28 March.
• (2007) Invited Lecturer, ‘A New Total Work of Art?‘, Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK

2006

• (2006) Invited Lecturer, ‘Transmedia Entertainment: Narrative and Play Get Snuggly’, Masters and Honours level course in Communication Studies: iGeneration: Communication and Participatory Culture, University of Western Australia. 12th Oct. Co-ordinated by Peter Morse.
• (2006) Invited lecturer, ‘Massively Multiplayer Games’ for Introduction to Computer Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney. Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan.
• (2006) Invited lecturer, ‘Serious Games’ for Introduction to Computer Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney. Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan.
• (2006) Invited Lecturer, ‘Cross-Media Entertainment’ lecture for ‘Advanced Multimedia Theory and Production’, 3nd year students, Media Department , Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Macquarie University. April 12. Co-ordinated by Sherman Young. Subject Code: MAS308.
• (2006) Invited lecturer, ‘Cross-Media Entertainment: how games can be designed to take over the universe‘, DAG (Digital Art and Games) Seminar series , RMIT Creative Media, Games programs. May 16.
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘Mono-Polymorphism: A Paradigm for Understanding Cross-Media Entertainment’, Media and Communications Department, School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney, 15th Sept.

2005

• (2005) Invited Lecturer, ‘Interactive Narrative’ for 3rd year Interactive Multimedia, Media and New Media, co-ordinated by Dr Peter Morse, main lecturer John Waller, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
• (2004 & 5) Seminar Presenter/Tutor, ‘E-writing’ for 4th year Reading Australian Writing subject in Postgraduate Diploma of Creative Writing , Dr. Kevin Brophy, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
• (2004) Invited Lecturer, ‘Hypertext, Script and Theatre’ for 2nd and 3rd year Script and Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dr. Denise Varney, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne .

Non-Fiction Publications

2011

• ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?’, Hand Made High Tech, if:book Australia, 19 Dec
• ‘Event-Based Screening Experiences‘, Support Your Local Cinema, 13 July
• ‘Transmedia for Event-based Arts‘, Connecting: Arts Audiences Online, Australia Council for the Arts, 13 July
• ‘The Process of Creating Quality Transmedia Experiences‘, Connecting: Arts Audiences Online, Australia Council for the Arts, 1 July
• ‘Christy Dena on the Creative Potential of Cross-Platform‘, Tribeca Film Institute, 22 Feb, 2011 (the articles were moved after launch and so that is why the sharing stats are low – they weren’t before!)
• ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?‘, Institute for the Future of the Book, 7 Feb

2010

• ‘Test, Test, Test, Transmedia‘, Transmedia Now, In Media Res, 26-30 July
• ‘Addressing Contemporary Media Use‘, Canvas 8, 13th March [subscription only]
• ‘Creating Quality Cross-Media Experiences‘, Cross-Media Communications: an Introduction to the Art of Creating Integrated Media Experiences, ETC Press; 35-37
• ‘Transmedia Practice: Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments‘, PhD, University of Sydney

2009

• ‘Addressing Changing Transmedia Behaviour’, Canvas8, 9th December [subscription only]
• ‘The Contributions of Multimodality and Polymorphic Fictions: Beyond Narrative and Games Studies‘ in Ruth Page (Ed.), New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality Routledge.

2008

• Dena, C. (2008) ‘The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Cross-Media‘, DIYDays, From Here to Awesome, July. [PPT contribution - online at DIYDays.com]
• Dena, C. (2008) ‘[META] The Designer-Academic Problem‘, Electronic Book Review, [invited riposte to Jane McGonigal’s essay: ‘The Puppet Master Problem: Design for Real-World, Mission-Based Gaming‘ in Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s edited collection: Second-Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media]
• Dena, C. (2008) ‘Review of Anne Friedberg’s The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft‘, Cyberculture Studies, March.
• Dena, C. (2008) ‘, ‘Cyber-Conceived/Cyber-Birthed Films: Christy Dena on Making and Distribution at DestFest‘, Real Time, 83, Feb-March, pp: 22.
• Dena, C. (2008) ‘Playing the Moon: Christy Dena on the Fate of New Media Art‘, Real Time, 83, Feb-March, pp: 27.
•  Dena, C. (2008) ‘Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games’, Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze (Eds) special issue on ‘Convergence Culture’ in Convergence Journal: International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol 14, No 1, pp: 41-57. [Also see specially created Online Augmentation Website]

2007

• Dena, C. (2007) ‘Capturing Polymorphic Creations: Towards Ontological Heterogeneity and Transmodiology’, published in Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Conference on Interactive entertainment , ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 305, Melbourne, Dec.
• Dena, C. (2007) ‘The Future of Entertainment is All in Your Head: An Argument for the Age of Integration’ published in Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth, Sept, pp: 116-125.
•  Dena, C. (2007) ‘Patterns in Cross-Media Interaction Design: It’s Much More Than a URL‘, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Crossmedia Interaction Design, 22-25 March, Hemavan, Sweden, pp: 4-10. [Note: this paper is just a primer for my keynote speech]
• Dena, C. (2007) ‘A Quick Primer on Alternate Realities’ in Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz and Matthias Bottger (Eds) Space Time Play: Synergies between Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim, Birkhauser: Basel, Boston, Berlin. Chapter available for download. ERRATA: The first sentence mistakenly says ‘Augmented Reality Games’ and not ‘Alternate Reality Games’; the photographer of the Sammeeeees photograph is ‘SpaceBass’ aka Sean C. Stacey; the ‘Daffy Google Map’ was an assemblage of the maps provided at the back of Mind Candy’s Perplex City cards.
•  Dena, C. (2007) ‘Authors that Think Outside the Book‘, in Workbook Project, 2nd Aug.
•  Dena, C. (2007) ‘Filmmakers that Think Outside the Film‘, in Workbook Project, 4th June.
• Dena, C. (2007) ‘Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds‘, RealTime, 77, Feb-March, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned article on the CyberGames Conference]
• Dena, C. (2007) ‘Second Front Online Performance Art‘, RealTime, 77, Feb-March, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned snapshot of an art performance event in the online virtual world Second Life]
•  Dena, C. (2007) ‘Border Art‘. Originally published in SLATE: Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine, issue 6, Jan [Online] Was Available at: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_mycontent&task=view&id=136&Itemid=41 [article on JC Freemont's virtual world art and SL performance troupe Second Front]

2006

•  Dena, C. (2006) ‘How the Internet is Holding the Center of Conjured Universes’, presented at Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences, Association of Internet Researchers, Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 Sept.
•  (2006) ‘ARGs and Academia‘, section in the Alternate Reality Games Whitepaper, International Game Developers’ Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group (IGDA ARG SIG)
•  (2006) Presenter, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production Residential. Held at Swan Valley, Perth. Funded by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, May. [PDF = Handout] Link to podcast
•  (2006) Invited speaker on Findability and Attracting Audiences for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School Center for Screen Business seminar on Digital Distribution, 11th April, Melbourne. [PDF = PPT]
•  Dena, C. (2006) ‘The White Cube of the Virtual World Art Space, part two‘. Originally published in SLATE: Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine, issue 2, Sept [Online] Was Available at: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=40 [article on remediation and the virtual art space]
•  Dena, C. (2006) ‘The White Cube of the Virtual World Art Space, part one‘. Originally published in SLATE: Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine, issue 2, Sept [Online] Was Available at: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=40 [article on remediation and the virtual art space]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘A Commanding Conversation‘. Originally published in SLATE: Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine, issue 1, Aug [Online] Was Available at: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=40 [article on a magic wand in the virtual world of Second Life and illocutionary force]
•  Dena, C. (2006) ‘Art and Aporia: Imaging Place‘, SLATE: Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine, issue 3, Sept [Online] Was Available at: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=40 [article on JC Freemont's virtual world art and the theories of Gregory Ulmer]
•  Dena, C. (2006) ‘From X-Ray Units as Space Heaters to iPods as Storage Devices‘, Cyberculture Studies, Washington University, Nov. [Review of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Me]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘The University: A New Home for New Media?‘, RealTime, 74, August/September, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned article on new media arts educators]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘Your Story: Your Medium‘, RealTime , 72, April/May, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned article on the International Digital Storytelling Conference, ACMI, Melb]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘A Second Life: Living Online‘, RealTime, 75, October/November, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned article on the virtual world Second Life]
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘Digital Media: How to Make Audiences Feel it is All About Them‘, ScreenHub, 14 Aug (subscription only) [Review of XMediaLab Professional Day Conference 06]
• Marino, M., Jeremy Douglass and Christy Dena (2006) ‘We Revise Together: Blogging on Writer Response Theory‘, published on Writer Response Theory, part of Michael Benton and Laura Elkin’s (Eds) Theories and Practices of Blogging, Reconstruction, Vol.6, No.4.
• Dena, C. (2006) ‘It’s Alive!: Lost ARG has begun‘, Cross-Media Entertainment, 4 May [analysis of design principles of the Lost ARG]

2005

•  Dena, C. (2005) ‘Elements of “Interactive Drama”: Behind the Virtual Curtain of Jupiter Green ’ in Scheer, E. and Peter Eckersall (Eds.) Performance Paradigm, Vol. 1, 1, [Online] Available at: http://www.performanceparadigm.net (free registration)
•  Dena, C., Douglass, J. and Mark Marino (2005) ‘Benchmark Fiction: A Framework for Comparative New Media Studies’ published in Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Bergen, Norway, Dec, pp: 89-98.
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘Punto, Linea E Superficie‘ in Giovagnoli, M., Fare Cross-Media: From Big Brother to Star Wars, Theory and Techniques of the Integrated and Distributed Use of Simultaneous Media, Dino Audino Editore, pp.126-129. [This publication in Italian. Note too, there are also many of the ideas and examples I provided on my old blog CME throughout the publication.].
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘ The Creative Degree as Interface‘ , 68, RealTime , Open City, Sydney, August, p:32-33 [Commissioned article on new media postgraduates]
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘ Bots just wanna chat ’, Writer Response Theory, 28th May. [article on BBC's Jamie Kane ; cited in "Jamie Kane" entry in Wikipedia ]
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘ Game Botmasters ’, Writer Response Theory, 9th April. [article on Media Republic's Eccky ]
• Dena, C. (2005) ‘ How a Bot-God is Made ’, Writer Response Theory, 23rd Feb. [article on Ron Ingram's Buddhabot ]

2004

•  Dena, C. (2004) ‘Towards a Poetics of Multi-Channel Storytelling’, presented at Critical Animals postgraduate conference, This Is Not Art Festival, chaired by David Wolf, Newcastle, October 1st. [PDF PPT]
•  Dena, C. (2004) ‘New Media Methodologies, Applied’ presented at Contexts: School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day , University of Melbourne, 14 May.
•  Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Current State of Cross Media Storytelling: Preliminary observations for future design â€˜ presented at ‘Crossmedia communication in the dynamic knowledge society’ networking session at European Information Society Technologies (IST) Event 2004: Participate in your future , The Netherlands, 15 Nov, published by IST
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Game to Play ’, 64, RealTime , Open City, Sydney, p.31 [Commissioned review of GameTime exhibitions]
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Addressing the Room: Are You Talking to Me? In Conversation with. ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Bloody Thing Doesn’t Speak English: Bow Wow ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Byte-Can Art:: Retypescape ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Configuring Verandah Space: DataDifference Conference ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney , pp. 28.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Learning, Not Meaning: House of Tomorrow ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Sixth Sense, Third Body: Perceptual Difference: Vision Systems ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Unheimlich Sex: Linda Erceg Interview: Perceptualdifference ’, 63, RealTime , Sydney.
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Critical Animals Don’t Chew the Fat ’, Australian National University ‘s underthesun (Conference report)

2003

•  Dena, C. (2003) ‘Response as Input: The Role of Reader Response, HCI and HRI in the Modeling of a Cross Media Narrative’ presented at Seismic Readings 2003 Conference School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University, Clayton, 17-18 July.
•  Dena, C. (2003) ‘Interacting with Ghosts: An Exploration of the Notion of Interactivity in Digital Storytelling’ presented at School of Creative Arts Postgraduate Seminar Day , University of Melbourne, 11 Dec.
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘Postgraduate student feedback on ‘Guidelines for the Management of Research Data and Records’: Report of the 2003 survey‘, conducted and compiled for the University of Melbourne Review of the Guidelines for the Management of Research Records and Data Committee. [Quantitative and qualitative analysis of informal survey which has subsequently been utilised by an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne in an 'e-research' proposal.]
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘ICT and Disability & Access in the Faculty of Arts‘, submitted successfully to the University of Melbourne Arts IT and Multimedia Committee, April.
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘ Who’s Driving This Engine? ’ Strange Attractors: An Animation Showcase , ABC New Media [Website = Winner: Best Cultural Website 2004 AIMIA Multimedia Awards] Commissioned 1,500 word critical essay. [Review of Simon Norton's Testimony: A Story Machine]
• Dena, C. (2003) ‘Mimesis of What?‘ Australian Book Review , 251, Australian Book Review Inc., Melbourne , pp. 62 [Review of Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds) Prefiguring Cyberculture]

1996

• Dena, C. (1996) ‘The Digital Direction’, Wizards of Oz, The Thirteenth Book, Armadillo Publishers, Melbourne, pp: 110-113. [Essay on digital effects on TV for advertising industry source book]
• Dena, C. and McMahon, K. (1996) ‘And In Our Madness We Rave.’, Real Time , no. 11.