Monday, November 24, 2008

Invitation to Session 1

1 Oct

 

Story and Interactivity Seminar__invitation to 1st session

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED! --

ICAT Media Studies Dept presents

A Weekly Year-long Seminar on

“Story and Interactivity”

 

The first session of this seminar is

scheduled to begin at 2pm, Friday, 3 October,

in Classroom 3.

 

This seminar will feature discussion of two

classic books of the 20th century: _Hero with

a Thousand Faces_, and _Artificial Reality_.

 

_Hero with a Thousand Faces_, by Joseph Campbell,

concerns analysis of stories, especially folktales,

legends, epics, and myths from around the world.

George Lucas has credited this book as being an

inspiration for his Star Wars movies.

 

_Artificial Reality_, by Myron Krueger, concerns

interactivity, and considers ways that humans

interact with computers, and ways that humans

interact with each other through computers.

 

It is hoped that our thinking about these two

books together might help us 1) to develop new

ways of telling stories; and 2) to create new

characters and stories, and bring our old ones

into this, the Digital-Interactive-Cyberspace Age.

 

All members of the ICAT community are invited.

For further information, please contact

Prof. Eric Miller ,

, 98403 94282.

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