Author Archives: Rejected Short Stories

In the week of March 20th 2023 myself and a shifting ensemble of colleagues and students, Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice, Jing Wang Thomas, James Edward Marks, Andy Cheung and Jiahe Lin, took part in an online performance called ‘Monstrous’, as part of the Mozilla Festival (MozFest), 2023. Throughout the festival dozens of participants came to theContinue reading “Between immersion and alienation, magic and realism: co-devising alternative approaches to critical storytelling for Monstrous”

Animating resources for intergalactic justice, an X||Dinary Stories workshop at Space2 Gipton, June, 2023, something rumbles in the fields behind the old fire station as vast engines fire up, engineers rush around to make their final adjustments. A rocket is about to be launched, on board the ship 12 billionaires are hoping to experience theContinue reading “The Gipton Space Agency:”

Arts Based VR/XR approaches to media research with children Dr Eleanor Dare BBC story about the project :https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/xrstories/ A few weeks ago, while teaching Games Design at UCL, I invited undergraduates to create origami swans, this was part of an exercise exploring the so-called ‘Ikea Effect’. The Ikea Effect (Ariely, 2012) is the premise thatContinue reading “‘In the future we will make our own superheros’: Future of Broadcast, 2023”

Project Lead: Dr E.Dare Recognising the need for greater public understanding of how machine learning and other algorithms work, this project proposes to create a Mozilla Hubs and mixed reality AI themed amusement park,, designed for visitors to transparently experience machine learning algorithms and data processing mechanisms.  We are proposing to build a virtual funContinue reading “MozFest: AI-Musement Park”

     It wasn’t until I heard the news about that shark discovered on the New York Subway the other day that I began to  understand what’s been happening in my own life. Forget the detail about the shark having a cigarette in his mouth, a travel card and a can of red bull, blahdy blah,Continue reading “Fleet in Being”

Below, Entangled Futures (image from Entangled Futures) Dylan Yamada-Rice and Eleanor Dare presented their work, ‘Accidents, games and jokes’Part of the Entangled Futures Festival 2024 collectionThis talk is part of the ‘Entangled Futures Festival 2024’ run by the Arts and Creativities Research Group, University of Cambridge:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accidents-games-and-jokes-tickets-902319751667?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1 Dare, Eleanor (2024)Keynote at the Possibility Studies Conference, UniversityContinue reading “Eleanor Dare: Some work”

The Blue Phantom The weight. Weight of stacked cards in my left hand. The slow. Time dilation. Paper edges against epidermal ridges. Curved vertices nestled in fingers, touching the gentle radius of card corners. The lacquered pack moves in my hand with almost no friction. My thumb creates hidden bevels, wedging both ends to create another illicitContinue reading “The Blue Phantom”

The two sides of his face are not unified, The left hand side is needy with a downturn suggesting continuous disappointment. The thin lips on the left-side twitch at the possibility of missing out, while the right mouth is aggressive and playful, free to rant and grasp hungrily at the world beneath a white-walled eyeContinue reading “Harry’s Face”