Press

Selected Press

• Gamasutra, “Video: The secrets to creating an indie game franchise,” Gamasutra, 13 July, 2020.
• Screen Hub, “Free online workshops on interactive writing hosted by South Australian Film Corporation,” Screen Hub, Jini Maxwell, 2nd June, 2020
• South Australian Film Corporation, “Story Hack storytelling workshops now open for applications,” South Australian Film Corporation, 3rd June, 2020
• Film Ink, “Free Professional Development Writing Workshops for South Australia and Beyond,” Film Ink, 29th May, 2020.
• ABC News, “A day-by-day diary of an Australian coronavirus COVID-19 patient,” 25th March (2020)
• Game Informer Magazine, “Hands-On Learning” — I was interviewed for a special feature on me: Lawrence, Nathan (2016), Dec
• Hyper Magazine, “Games Education in Australia” — I was interviewed on games education by O’Connor, James (2016) , Nov
• Game Informer Magazine, I was interviewed, June, 2016
• Forbes, I was quoted in a Forbes article by Seth Porges on “The 6 secrets to creating a truly immersive experience“, June 10th, 2016
• MCV Pacific Women in Games: Dr Christy Dena,  11 May 2016
• I was interviewed for ChickQuest by Rebecca Douglas, March 2016
• I was covered in an article about bringing more women into games in the Brisbane Courier Mail and NT News, March 2016
• MCV Pacific Women in Games: Dr Christy Dena,  11 May 2016
• Embed With…, ‘Embed With…Marigold Bartlett and Christy Dena‘ – Cara Ellison, 31 Jan, 2015
• RealTime Arts Magazine, ‘Experimentation with Added Spark‘ – Darren Tofts, Dec-Jan 2014-15
• SimonStaffans.com, ‘One Year In: Now Media Vol IV‘ – Simon Staffans, 1 January, 2015
• Blouin Art Info, ‘INTERVIEW: Jonathan Parsons on Experimenta “Recharge” and Media Art‘ – Nicholas Forrest, 5 December 2014
• Spook Magazine, ‘Future Now: Experimental Media takes over RMIT‘ – Spook, 12 November 2014
• Crikey, ‘Freeplay Celebrates with 12 New Home-Grown Games‘ – Peter Green, 22 October 2014
• Marketing Mag, ‘Q&A with Jeff Gomez on transmedia storytelling: what it is and why brands should care?‘ – Peter Roper, 6 October, 2014
• Time Out Magazine, ‘Experimenta Recharge‘ – Finn Houlihan, 1 October 2014
• Fluoro, ‘Recharge: Experimenta’s 6th International Biennial of Media Art‘ – 30 Sept, 2014
• Game Cloud, ‘Designing Deep Games with Christy Dena‘ – Kirk William, 28 Sept, 2014
• Huffington Post, ‘A Map for the New World: The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media‘ – Illya Szilak, 29 June, 2014
• The Conversation, ‘Lose yourself in books no more – interactive maps show the way‘ – Donna Hancox, 20 June, 2014
• QUT Media, ‘Radio plus App equals cutting-edge storytelling‘ – Amanda Horswill, 3 Dec 2013
• StoryCode Immersive Media Dispatch, ‘StoryCode: Of Note‘ – Michael Knowlton, 3 Dec 2013
• The Literary Platform, ‘Bias in full effect‘ – Dr Lee McGowan, 22 Oct 2013
• Australia Council for the Arts ‘July Newsletter‘ – Tony Grybowski, July 2013
• Artery ‘Christy Dena’s digital writing residency will make you rethink robots‘ – Elliott Bledsoe, 10 July 2013 [reposted on ElliottBledsoe.com]
• Stellar Network, ‘Get Inspired: Authentic In All Caps‘ – Sam Howey Nunn, 27 June 2013
• Buziaulane ‘Robot Ethics‘ – Jak Boumans, 9 June 2013
• Arts Hub ‘Christy Dena takes up Australia’s First Digital Writing Residency‘ – Paul Isber, 6 June 2013
• Screenplay (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, etc) ‘Tuesday Newsday: Digging up the turkeys of the past, and solving problems of the future ‘ – James Dominguez, 5 June 2013
• The Australian, ‘Writers’ grant goes to digital writer‘ – Bridget Cormack, 3 June 2013
• QUT, ‘Digital writing residency explores robot ethics‘ – Kate Haggman, 3 June 2013
• Screenplay (The Age, SMH,Brisbane Times, Canberra Times, WA Today, Parks Champion Post) ‘Tuesday Newsday: Sequels, crowd-funding, and the next Xbox‘ – James Dominguez, 5 March 2013
• GrassisLeena, ‘It’s my blog and I’ll plug if I want to‘ – Leena van Deventer, 28 Feb 2013
• Screenplay (The Age, SMH,Brisbane Times, Canberra Times, WA Today, Parks Champion Post) ‘Authentic In All Caps: A Conversation with Christy Dena‘-James Dominguez, 27 Feb 2013
• HenryJenkins.org, ‘How sound can “unify” transmedia: Christy Dena on AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS‘ – Henry Jenkins, 27 Feb 2013
• Toenella, ‘AUTHENTIC, she said, IN ALL CAPS‘ – Haley Moore, 26 Feb 2013
• The Film Collaborative, ‘Crowdfunding with Pozible‘ – Sheri Candler, 25 Feb 2013
• Zakelro, ‘One clear reason for the no buy list‘ – Corvus Elrod, 24 Feb 2013
• Transmedia Storytelling Berlin, ‘Crowdfunding Authentic in all caps‘ – Patrick Moller, 22 Feb 2013
• Writer Response Theory, ‘1 of WRT Goes Authentic in ALL CAPS‘ – Mark Marino, 22 Feb 2013
• Remote Device, ‘AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS: A web audio adventure‘ – Jeff Watson, 21 Feb 2013
• SheriCandler.com, ‘Cross media from Australia-AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS – Sheri Candler 21 Feb 2013
• Wired, ‘Kickstarter Alert: Authentic in All Caps‘ – Daniel Donahoo, 20 Feb 2013
• Smart Planet, ‘Pozible gives rise to Australian Crowdfunding‘ – Lieu Thi Pham, 20 Feb 2013
• Splash Mango, ‘AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS: It’s Pozible so please make your pledge‘ – Juliana Loh, Feb 2013
• Kevin J Powe, ‘AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS: A Rather Awesome Project‘ – Kevin Powe, Feb 2013
• Polygon, ‘Authentic in All Caps developers raising funds for a web audio adventure‘ – Dave Tach, 18 Feb 2013
• Simon Staffans: Developing Media, ‘Loud and Clear: Authentic in All Caps‘ – Simon Staffans, 18 Feb 2013
• Web Series Today, ‘AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS‘ – 13 Feb 2013
• Courier-Mail March, 2013 (print)
• The Gadget Club, MyAppleSpace, iPadmodo, Macmodo, The MacTrack, PopularWireless, and SlapApp
• Freeplay Newsletter, ‘Indie Allsorts Week 1 Wrap Up’ – Katie Williams, 5 Feb 2013
• Transmedia Storyteller, ‘Transmedia Podcast: Christy Dena and Authentic in All Caps‘ – Robert Pratten, 5 Feb 2013
• The Appside, ‘Get ready for a “web audio adventure” with Authentic In All Caps‘ – 29 Jan 2013
• RonanLynch.com, ‘Authentic in all caps‘ – Ronan Lynch, Jan 2013
• Comein, ‘Christy Dena: “Estamos creando historias completas integradas, combinando muchas plataformas diferentes”‘ – Antoni Roig, Dec 2012
• The Arrglington Jump, ‘A Year in Showcases (Final Part 4)‘ – April Arrglington, 2 April 2012
• ARGNet, ‘Prepare Yourself for Christy Dena’s New Audio Drama: AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS‘ – Nathan Maton, 5 October 2011
• Orange Transmedia Lab, ‘Authentic in All Caps: A playful comedy-drama by Christy Dena‘ – Ana Vasile, 7 September 2011
• Transmedia A:M, ‘Authentic in All Caps’ – Anna Jackson, 5 August 2011
• Cinema Autopsy, ‘MIFF 2011 Blog-a-thon: Part 15‘ – Thomas Caldwell, 8 August 2011
• Tribeca Film Institute – Where the Transmedia Girls Are – Jen Begeal, Future Film, 18 Nov, 2011 (also listed in the ‘Our Top Ten Articles on Transmedia for 2011‘ – Chris Corr, 21 Dec, 2011
• Screen Hub Aus (XMediaLab) – ‘Film X-tended: Australians with buckets in a breaking storm, part one‘ – Keith Barclay, 2 Aug 2010
• Screen Hub NZ – ‘Film X-tended: the Aussies – 30 July 2010
• Filmmaker Magazine – ‘It’s All About Story – Lance Weiler, July 2010
• Andre Hedetoft – ‘Creative Playground‘ – Andre Hedetoft, 28 May 2010
• Cinema Videogiochi – ‘La cross-medialità nel cinema e nei videogiochi‘ – Giulia Iannello, 18 April 2010
• Cross-media.it – ‘Cross-Media & Animation: Rapallo’s Conference, Italy‘ – Max Giovagnoli, 23 April 2010
• Hollywood East Connection – ‘PGA Announces New Transmedia Producer Title’ – Amalia Thermopolis, 17 April 2010
• Animation World Network – ‘Cartoons on the Bay Focuses on Diversity‘ – Rick DeMott, 16 Feb 2010
• Filmmaker Magazine – ‘A Report from the Slamdance/Open Video Coalition Filmmaker Summit‘ – Scott Macaulay, 23 Jan 2010
• Vancouver Sun – ‘Stage was set for Drama at Whistler Film Summit‘ – Marke Andrews, 4 Dec 2009
• movieScope Magazine – ‘Embracing the Multi-Platform Storytelling Universe’ [PDF] – Ingrid Kopp, 2008
• Power to the Pixel – ‘Interview with Christy Dena, Cross-Media Specialist‘ – Nikki Nimme, 2 Dec 2008
• The Guardian – ‘Power to the Pixel 2008: “Appease the internet god”‘ – Nick Bradshaw, 18 Nov 2008
• Christian Science Monitor – ‘Wisdom of the crowd triumphs in alternate reality games’ – Mark Arnoldy, 26 March, 2008
• Pitchfork – ‘Get That Out of Your Mouth #40‘ – Chris Dahlen, 9 Nov, 2007
• re:Text – ‘Let’s Be Serious: Non-Casual Investigations into Alternate Reality Gaming’ – Mark Heggen, 8 May 2007. Interview with Brian Clark, Dan Hon, Sean Stewart, Sebastian Mary Harrington, Jim Wolff, Jane McGonigal and me! PDF.
• The Sacramento Bee – ‘Beyond the Box: Games, Role-Playing, Virtual Worlds: TV goes interactive on the Web‘ – Rachel Leibrock, 26 March 2007
• Australian Financial Review – ‘New Media Needs Some Creative Juices’ – S. Williams, S. 6 Oct 2005, p: 48
• Manifesto Magazine – ‘Go Getters’ – Mark Brand, 1998, Issue 2, p. 24
• Herald Sun – ‘People’ – 13 Dec 1997
• The Age – ‘Metropolitan’ – 13 Dec 1997
• Vogue Australia – ‘Snaparazzi’ – no.8, Aug. 1997, p. 155
• The Age [article online at FRM], 1997
• Communiqué – ‘A day in the life of a Special Effects Coordinator’ – p. 8, 1996