Sigrid Merx contributed a chapter in Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper & Timon Beyes (eds.) “Performing the Digital”. Bielefeld: transcript. 157-17. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.

Eugene van Erven recently contributed an article in  “The Drama Review” Issue. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.

On Friday September, 29th renowned scholar Janet Murray gave a master class for Utrecht University RMA students titled “Making Interactive Narrative”, which addressed ‘digital information design and interaction design principles to create more complex and expressive narratives, focusing on emerging platforms like experimental television, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and on the intersection of storytelling…

Vincent Baptist, Matthias Nothnagel, Rianne Riemens, Zeynep Yavuz (RMa Media Studies UvA) The masterclass led by professor Janet Murray gave an introduction to the practices of interactive storytelling. In her text “A Tale of Two Boyfriends”, Murray introduces an abstracted type of storytelling that is called ‘W2P’: a formalist technique for stories in which a…

Recently I gave a talk (in Dutch) for the Betweterfestival in Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called “A Walk in the smart city” (Een wandeling in de slimme stad). The talk was in Dutch. The video of the talk (copyright UU Studium Generale) can be watched here…