Christy Dena is an Australian writer, game designer, and scholar. Her scholarship and design practice in

transmedia storytelling Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. From a producti ...

has been widely cited, especially for promoting the term "cross-media storytelling". She is also known for defining the term "transmedial fictions" for The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality. She created her own studio, Universe Creation 101, where she creates original projects and does consultations and freelance work. She likes to combine live social experiences with online technology, traditional forms of screen (film and games) and paper-based objects (tabletop and books).

Education

Dena completed her PhD at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

in 2009.

Career

Dena was the first Digital Writer in Residence for the

Australia Council for the Arts The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Austra ...

and the Queensland University of Technology at The Cube. She currently serves as the Program Co-ordinator of the Master of Creative Industries at the SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane. She has worked on games for

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

and

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

, and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys). She has served as a mentor; is supervising Artistic Fellows at the CEFIMA, Norwegian Film School; and is teaching at Griffith University. Dena works closely with unceded Boonwrrung Country.

Selected publications

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Other works

Dena has worked on

alternate reality game An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions. The form is defined by inten ...

s: Nokia's ''Conspiracy for Good,'' Cisco's ''The Hunt'', and the Australian Broadcasting Company's ''Bluebird AR''. She has also created touch-screen installations for The Cube (Robot University) at

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

and at the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art. Dena was inspired to write AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS after the passing of her mother, which led to her contemplating her own mortality. She has also exhibited her work, such as Recharge at the 6th International Biennial of Media Art. In 2010, she presented a TedXTransmedia talk on Dare to Design.

Awards

Dena has won interactive writing awards from the Australian Writers' Guild and WA Premier's Book Awards for (AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dena, Christy Living people Electronic literature writers 20th-century Australian writers 20th-century Australian women writers University of Sydney alumni Academic staff of Griffith University Year of birth missing (living people)