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Persona App.
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Interactive YouTube vide…
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Level 26 - Dark Origins
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RIK LANDER - CROSS PLATFORM WRITER, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER
After making an experimental interactive documentary on the subject of dimensions (there are 27 of them or something) with theoretical physicist David Peat, he made interactive internal communications for companies like Microsoft and Unilever.
He made magic-tree, one of the UK's first web dramas, which went online in 2001. He produced, directed and script edited Wannabes, the BBC's first interactive soap.
Through his company, You Are Here, Rik act as a consultant for people who want to use social or participatory media to tell stories. He does frequent public appearances and runs courses in several facets of multi-platform production. Including some ground breaking short courses at the NFTS in Feb and March 2010.
He has also directed many hours of television from low-rent entertainment like Eurotrash and the Word to high-brow arts documentaries like A History of British Art and the Turner Prize coverage for Channel 4 for four years.
He has a special interest in sustainable building practices and built the UK's first hybrid using earthship and straw bale construction techniques. This is used as a small blue screen studio in central Bristol that is available for production, rehearsal and events. Bristol Green House studio
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Sensory storytelling - Food, smell and physical confinement as storytelling tools.
It’s not a new concept to think of food as theatre, with a three act structure and a sweet and happy ending, but I’m thinking about this because last night I was at a lovely pop-up restaurant by Collage. Some chefs, waitresses and catering professionals put on a three course meal, plus canapes, cocktails, art and music evening in my garden and studio. No narrative, but a great way to bring people together in an episodic structure. Quite inspiring. As was the recent …
ContinuePosted on July 4, 2011 at 14:30
Social Advertising - beyond better targeting
Search and social networks have transformed the possibilities of advertising. A billboard or TV spot attempts to reach the right people with a scatter gun approach. Google or Bing know all the things a user has searched for and the websites they frequent and social networks contain masses of data about each user. All this data allows advertisers to hit the right people more accurately.
But the internet also offers more than just better targeting. It also offers the chance to…
ContinuePosted on February 18, 2011 at 11:21
RFID for art, theatre and gaming. Initial research.
The Oyster card is a wonder of the modern world and shop lifting is so much harder these days. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is all around us and some people, like the authors of Spychips fear the implications for our privacy. You can even buy an RFID proof wallet to prevent the chips we all carry on credit and work ID cards being scanned by criminal skimmers.
Leaving such technofear aside, I see it as…
ContinuePosted on February 2, 2011 at 15:00
Digital Literature Part 2 - Non-linear Lit.
There is a strong and unstoppable drive towards digital… Continue
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 21:30
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Many thanks for adding me Rik. I work in Multimedia at Trent and I and others in team interested in any potential link-ups with what you doing at Nottingham University.
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shaun