I have delivered keynotes, presentations, and workshops around the world, for companies, organisations and events including:
Microsoft, Nokia, ABC, ACMI, AIMIA, GOMA, Australian Literature Board, Australian Writers’ Guild, Australian Digital Alliance, Australia Society of Authors, ACT Filmmakers Network, The Documentary Organization of Canada, International Women in Digital Media Summit, Canada, Transmedia Hollywood, LA, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, TEDx Transmedia, Switzerland, Cinekid, Amsterdam, Cartoons on the Bay, Italy, London Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Australian Film Festival, Revelations Film Festival, Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Sydney Writer’s Festival, Brisbane Writer’s Festival, Emerging Writer’s Festival, Freeplay Independent Games Festival, Festival of Ideas, Oz Comi Con…
Also multiple universities around the world.
Upcoming
2020
- Dena, C. (2020) ‘Platforms for Distributing and Experiencing of Digital Works,’ Creative Connection Summit, Australia Council for the Arts, 8th April.
- Dena, C. (2020) ‘Our Projects, the Personal, and the Planet,’ INSIDE/OUT Lecture Series, Leeds Beckett University, 11th March.
- 9th-13th March, Artist-in-Residence, Shandy Hall Residency, Lawrence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, North Yorkshire.
2019
- 4th-6th March, Artistic Research Forum, Oslo, Norway
- 7th-8th March, Extended Experiences Lab, Lillehammer, Norway
- 15th April-5th July, Telematic Studio, in partnership with CEMENTA Inc, online
- 11th June, Aalborg University, Denmark
- 26th-27th June, Brisbane
- 2nd-3rd July, Keynote Speaker, SERIAIS – Seminário Narrativas Seriadas – Ficções Televisivas, Games e Transmídia, Salvador, Brazil
- 13th-14th July, XR:WA, Revelations Film Festival, Perth
- 29th-30th July, VR Writers’ Room,Sydney
- 24th-25th Sept, Artistic Research Forum, Lillehammer, Norway
- 26th-27th Sept, VR Writer-Designers Room, Lillehammer, Norway
- 3rd-4th October, Brisbane, Griffith University Interactive Writing Students Presentations
- 11th & 13th Oct, DIYSPY demo at PAX Collaboratory, Melbourne Convention Centre
Archive
Keynotes
- “Transmedia and the Pluriverse”, Keynote presentation at SERIAIS – Seminário Narrativas Seriadas – Ficções Televisivas, Games e Transmídia, Salvador, Brazil, 2nd July (2019) [Speech & Slides]
- Emergence Creative Festival, Margaret River, Perth, April (2017)
- Navitas Women’s Networking, SAE Creative Media Institute, Sydney, 26th July (2016)
- Transmedia Living Lab, Madrid (2014)
- Transmedia Storytelling and Beyond, Sydney (2013)
- International Conference on Social e-xperiences, 3 July, Barcelona, Spain (2012)
- Digital Writing Ambassador @ the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Melbourne, (2012)
- MediaCity, Finland (2012)
- DIYDays, 28 Oct,LA,USA (2011)
- 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
- First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design, Sweden (2007)
Industry Presentations
[to be updated]
- Sweden Games Conference – “Worldbuilding Our World”, 19th Oct, 2018, Skvode, Sweden
- iMedia Brand Summit Australia,“The First Person Transformation Arc”,12th Sept, 2018 Gold Coast (AUS)
- Game Narrative Summit, Game Developers Conference – The Secrets to Creating an Indie Game Franchise, 19th March, 2018 San Francisco. GDC Vault Video, GDC Vault Slides
- Game Development Brisbane – The Secrets of Creating an Indie Game Franchise: A Narrative Designer’s Approach, JMC, Brisbane, 3rd Feb, 2018
- Invited hour presentation on AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS and panelist at ABC Radio National’s Radio Beyond Radio: a symposium exploring new radio writing and performance, ABC Sydney, 2012
- I presented on pervasive gaming and extended theatre experiences at the Pop Up Players, 2012
- Interviewee, Shift-ALT, State Library of Victoria, 7 Oct, year
- Cinekid Professional Conference, 18-19th October, Amsterdam, 2011
- Digital Writers’ Conference, Emerging Writers’ Festival, 15th Oct, Brisbane (remote), 2011
- TEDxTransmedia, 30 Sept, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010
- What We Need to Say About Transmedia, Film X-Tended, X Media Lab, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, July, 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)
- Sydney Writer’s Festival, May, 2010
- 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
- Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, 14th & 15th October 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
- DIYDays, From Here to Awesome, July-Oct 2008. PPT online
- Web Standards Group, Australia Museum, 2nd August. Full Transcript, Audio, 2007
- Australian Literature Board’s “Publishing the Story of the Future“, Sydney, 17 July, 2007. Full Speech, Video & PowerPoint
- 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
- (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]
- (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.
- (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. [PDF = Handout]
- (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 ]
Chair
- (2018) Panel Chair, “Navigating Interactive Writing“, Australian Writers’ Guild, Waterloo Hotel, Brisbane (AUS), 4th Oct, 2018
- (2016) Panel Chair, ‘Content Creation’, ACMI’s VR Festival (with Michael Beets, Nathan Anderson, Oscar Raby, and Dan Koerner), 3rd Nov, 2016
- (2015) Panel Chair, Brisbane IGDA event GO423 Sympsosium
- (2015) Panel Chair, Digital Games Research Association Australia Conference, UNSW
- (2014) Panel chair and panelist at Brisbane IGDA event GO423 Symposium in August
- (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.
- Chair (2004) Stefan Popescu’s ‘The Birth of Celluloid‘, presented at Critical Animals postgraduate conference, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, Oct 1st.
Panelist
- Panelist, “GOMA Talks: Patricia Piccinini: The Rise of the Machines“, GOMATalks, Gallery of Modern Art, 26th April, 2018
- Panelist, “Navigating Interactive Writing,” Australian Writers’ Guild and Revelations Film Festival, The Creative Hub, Perth, 15th July, 2017. Video archive of stream.
- Panelist, “Navigating Interactive Writing,” Write Night, Australian Writer’s Guild, Sydney, May 1st, 2017. Podcast of the event available here: Episode 37 on the Australian Screenwriters Podcast.
- Panelist, “The Challenge of Changing the Minds and Hearts of Players“, with Iain McManus & Aaron Williams, GX Australia, April 29th, 2017.
- Panelist, “Making Games on the Side“, Game Development Brisbane, The Glasshouse, QUT, Sunday 5th Feb, 2017. Panelists include James Bowling, John Passfield, Jason Kristy, and Richard Eastes. Moderated by Lee May.
- Panelist, ‘What if we could reimagine copyright?’, chaired by Dr Rebecca Giblin, Australia Digital Alliance’s Annual Copyright Forum on March 18th, 2016
- Panelist, ‘Technical Innovation & Artistic Innovation’, Confluence Femel_Fissions Symposium, The Glasshouse, QUT, 18th July, 2016
- Panelist, “Funding for game development in Queensland: what’s next?“, Screen Queensland and Game Dev Brisbane, 8th July, 2016
- Panelist, Australia Society of Authors conference, Sydney, 2015
- Panelist, Artist Talk, Experimenta, Brisbane, 25th Aug, 2015
- Panelist, “Games without Buttons” panel at the Online Freeplay Independent Games Festival, 12th April, 2015
- Chair, Panelist, Workshop Facilitator, GO423 Brisbane International Game Developers Association Symposium, Aug 9th, 2015
- Panel chair and panelist at Brisbane IGDA event GO423 Symposium in August
- Panelist, Brisbane Writers Festival, September
- Panelist, Tabletop Games, Oz Comic-Con
- ‘Transmedia;, Inaugural WebSeriesFestival, 2013
- Transmedia Hollywood, USC, LA, USA, 6 April, 2012
- ‘Multi-platform Writing’, Generation Next Drama and Comedy Conference, 2012
- “Measures of success”, Freeplay Independent Gaming Festival, 2012
- “Stories and Systems”, Melbourne Writers’ Festival, 2012
- “Postcards from Imaginary Worlds”, RePlay, GameMasters, ACMI, Melbourne, 2012
- International Women in Digital Media Summit, 23-25 Oct, Ontario, Canada, 2011
- Storyworld Conference, 31 Oct-2Nov, San Francisco, USA, 2011
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Aug, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
- GEElab launch, 15 March, RMIT, Australia, 2011
- ad:tech Melbourne, 31st March, Melbourne, 2011
- Emerging Writers’ Festival, 26 May- 5 June, 2011
- National Screenwriters Conference, 17-18th Feb, Phillip Island, Australia, 2011
- 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
- Social Computing Symposium, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Seattle. Panel co-ordinated by Elan Lee. 14th October, 2008
- 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
- 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
Workshops
- Colab Facilitator, “F**k Storyworlds!: A Mischievous Guide of the Latest in Cross Media Design – Part 2”, Emergence Creative Festival, Margaret River, Western Australia, 29th March-1st Feb, 2017.
- Masterclass, Cross-Media Writing and Design, Unitech, New Zealand, Nov, 2015
- Workshop, “Digital Writers Room”, SA Writers Centre in August, 2014
- Workshop, “Designing Deep Games”, WA Film & TV Institute on 21st Sept, 2014
- Franchise Thinking for Indies, Freeplay Independent Games Festival, Melbourne, 14-15 Aug, 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
- Storytelling on Multiple Platforms, Screenworks, Kingscliffe, May 1st, 2009
- Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival, 23rd October 2008. Video of workshop
- Filmmaking in the Age of Cross-Media Production, Film and Television Institute, WA, 17th Sept, 2007
- Game On, 5 June, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, 2007
- (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) Workshop 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.
Artist Talks
- Artist Talk, Experimenta’s International Biennial of Art: Recharge, 28th Nov, 2014
- Artist Talk, Experimenta‘s International Biennial of Art: Recharge, Brisbane, 25th Aug, 2015