Christy Dena

General Articles

• 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. (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. and McMahon, K. (1996) ‘And In Our Madness We Rave.’, Real Time , no. 11.

Academic Reviews

• Dena, C. (2007) ‘Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds’, RealTime, 77, Feb-March, Open City, Sydney [Commissioned article on the CyberGames Conference]
• 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. (2005) ‘ The Creative Degree as Interface’ , 68, RealTime , Open City, Sydney, August, p:32-33 [Commissioned article on new media postgraduates]
• 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]

New Media Arts Reviews

• Dena, C. (2008) ‘Playing the Moon’, RealTime, 83, Feb-March, Open City, Sydney, p27 [Commissioned opinion peice on Darren Toft's panel on 'What Happened to New Media Art?' held at Interactive Entertainment 2007]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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.

Substantial Blog Posts

• 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]
• 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 ]
• Dena, C. (2004) ‘ Critical Animals Don’t Chew the Fat ‘, Australian National University ’s underthesun (Conference report)