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The Quintessence

The Quintessence (alternate title Dark Matters) is a proposed multiplatform artwork exploring the enigmatic cosmological phenomena of dark energy and dark matter, the efforts to understand it, and the ways in which the universe continues to fascinate, confound and surprise … Continue reading

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Dark matters

Had a fascinating meeting in December with the very inspiring Professor Tamara Davis, who heads the Dark Matter/ Dark Energy ARC CAASTRO research project. Tamara generously shared her time and insights, and directed me to some fantastic urls and visualisations … Continue reading

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Future Text keynote, Nov 24 2017

Key slides from my keynote talk – Future Text: glimpsing narrative futures through the history of digital writing – on electronic / digital narrative that I delivered for the annual NSW English Teachers Association Conference, UNSW Nov 24, 2017. 1Slides-FutureTextFIN2

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The Alchemist’s Guide to the City- Porto app prototype

The Alchemist’s Guide to the City is a walked experience exploring alchemy as an engagement with the nature of the cosmos, and where the speculative notions of the medieval alchemist/philosophers are used as a filter for the contemporary world. Explore … Continue reading

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For info on Notes for Walking

For information on Notes for Walking locative narrative/ AR augmented reality app, please visit http://www.creativecultural.com/meganheyward/?page_id=667  and http://www.creativecultural.com/notesforwalking/

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For info on Secret Language

For information on The Secret Language of Desire electronic literature app for iPads, please visit  https://www.creativecultural.com/meganheyward/?page_id=1497

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For info on Of Day, Of Night

For information on Of Day, Of Night interactive narrative, please visit http://www.creativecultural.com/meganheyward/?page_id=67 and https://vimeo.com/40436931 and hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz06/essays/a-four-sided-model-for-reading-hypertext-fiction.html

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Secret Language of Desire in Norway for ELO 2015

It’s been a busy couple of weeks as I’ve just travelled to Bergen, Norway for ELO 2015; a major conference and exhibition on Electronic Literature. Secret Language was exhibited as one of the curated electronic literature works, where projects were exhibited in several … Continue reading

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Background to Secret Language on Authoring Software

New media pioneer Judy Malloy kindly asked me to write about the background and development of The Secret Language of Desire for her July issue of Authoring Software – you can read it here.

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Secret Language website

Last week we recorded some beautiful saxophone with musician Martin Kay, and have worked very hard to complete all of the sound design. The project has now been submitted to Apple for review. Meanwhile I have built a quick WordPress site … Continue reading

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