Agency and the art of interactive digital storytelling

Authors
  • N. Knoller
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • R. Aylett
  • M.Y. Lim
  • S. Louchart
  • P. Petta
  • M. Riedl
Book title Interactive Storytelling
Book subtitle Third Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, November 1-3, 2010 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642166372
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642166389
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 3rd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2010
Pages (from-to) 264-267
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract Taking seriously Andrew Stern’s aspiration that IDS become a premier art form for the 21st century, this paper re-examines agency, understood as the ability to freely control the plot, as a key concept in IDS aesthetics. Tracing the origins of this notion in IDS theory, this paper suggests that "true" agency is a myth, and that even restricted agency is too constrained to serve as a desirable goal for IDS-as-art.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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