Advanced seminar with professor Hartmut Koenitz from HKU talking about complexity and interactive digital narratives.

BIO:

Hartmut Koenitz is Professor for Interactive Narrative Design at HKU. He works on understanding games and interactive digital narratives and he has published over 60 scholarly articles including the co-edited volume Interactive Digital Narrative – history, theory and practice (Routledge 2015). Koenitz is the president of the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN), the chair of the EU COST Project INDCOR Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations and a HEVGA European council member. Koenitz is also a visual artist, and his works have been shown in Atlanta, Paris, Istanbul, Seoul, Copenhagen and Porto.

TOPIC:

Narratives have an essential role in recording, communicating and comprehending human existence. As the world around us becomes increasingly complex, traditional narrative forms are no longer adequate for this task. The discrepancy between our complex reality and a discourse still dependening on the newspaper article and the TV newscasts opens up opportunities for political extremism. What is needed instead are narrative representations of complexity. This means to re-invent narrative by using the opportunities afforded by digital media to create representations that contain competing perspectives, offer choices and show the resulting consequences while allowing for repeat experiences.