[ISEA95] Panel: Michael Hill – Whatever Happens Next Is Progress

Panel Statement

Panel: Interactivity and Metaphors

A new form of storytelling which combines the visceral elements of gameplay with the emotional values of narrative is now beginning to emerge. Avant-garde cinema has prepared us for this kind of story in which associations are oblique and poetic and narrative drive gives way to user control. The difference between the old story and the new, the difference between cinema and the interactive, is the difference between the dream and the lucid dream.

  • Michael Hill (Australia) is project coordinator for New Media at the Australian Film Commission, has been working with experimental film and electronic media for the last ten years, and has taught at the University of NSW and at Sydney University. He convened and chaired the recent conference, Narrative and Interactivity, in Melbourne (Australia).