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Christy Dena is an Australian writer, game designer, and scholar. Her scholarship and design practice in
transmedia storytelling Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) is the technique of adapting a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. From a product ...
has been widely cited, especially for promoting the term "cross-media storytelling". She is also known for defining the term "transmedial fictions" for The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality. She created her own studio, Universe Creation 101, where she creates original projects and does consultations and freelance work. She likes to combine live social experiences with online technology, traditional forms of screen (film and games) and paper-based objects (tabletop and books).


Life, education, and career

Dena completed her PhD in media, Narrative, and Game Studies at the
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in 2009. Her dissertation on transmedia, ''Transmedia Practice: Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments'' "put her on the ransmediamap." Dena was the first Digital Writer in Residence for the
Australia Council for the Arts Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announ ...
and the
Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...
at The Cube, where she created the large installation "Robot.She currently serves as the Program Co-ordinator of the Master of Creative Industries at the SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane. She has worked on games for
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and
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, and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys). She has served as a mentor; is supervising Artistic Fellows at the CEFIMA, Norwegian Film School; and is teaching at Griffith University. Dena works closely with unceded Boonwrrung Country. IIn 2010, she presented a TedXTransmedia talk on Dare to Design. n 2012, she was the Digital Writing Ambassador for the Emerging Writers Festival. She has also exhibited her work, such as Recharge at the 6th International Biennial of Media Art.


Selected works and publications

* * * * *Dena, C (2008) "
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The Designer-Academic Problem" considers the relationships between game design and academic work. * * * * *Dena, Christy (2018) "DIYSPY - Live Remote Play at Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Play'18" was a Live game experience using zoom and an app.


Alternative Reality Games

Dena has worked on
alternate reality game An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions. The form is defined by int ...
s. Nokia's ''Conspiracy for Good,'' Cisco's ''The Hunt'', and the Australian Broadcasting Company's ''Bluebird AR''. She has also created touch-screen installations for The Cube (Robot University) at
Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...
and at the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art. AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS (2013) was a crowd-funded project inspired after the passing of her mother, which led to her contemplating her own mortality. This is a radio drama (termed a "web audio adventure) with a large voice cast and an in-game browser. The protagonist attempts to discover the meaning of death within an overworld and an underworld. It is termed a comedic work "Despite help from her part-time Time Traveling Assistant, she finds her investigation upsets fellow Gambling Philosophers, Ticket Inspectors, Artist Assassins and the Quantum Theorist Crime Boss. Ultimately, her inability to fit in makes everyone involved…really annoyed." The work is both game and digital storytelling.


Awards

Dena has won interactive writing awards from the Australian Writers' Guild award for Interactive Media and WA Premier's Book Award for Digital Narrative for (AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS). This work was also a finalist for the Best Writing in a Game Award at the 2012 Freeplay Independent Gaming Festival and was shown at the 2014 Media Arts Show for the Electronic Literature Organization.


References


External links

Christy Dena's websit

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dena, Christy Living people Australian electronic literature writers 20th-century Australian writers 20th-century Australian women writers University of Sydney alumni Academic staff of Griffith University Year of birth missing (living people)