Chris Meade: I'm Chris Meade, co-director of if:book in London. At if:book we look at how the locus of culture has shifted from printed book to the screen. As a group, we have a variety of approaches. I've spent the last 12 years promoting books: poetry, children's literature and fiction. Recently, I've also become involved in creative writing and new media.
I'm interested in story and play: are there completely new ways of making narrative in the modern world? Or does it take us back to essential forms of narrative? How can we best have a deep impact, using the creative possibilities of new media?
I'm addicted to story. Even low-grade TV drama: I want to know what happens next. But if I get into a multimedia new fiction space, I get tetchy: I want something to happen quickly. Then in children's books there's talk about the importance of closure, the 'happy ever after'. But then looking at how kids play, they dip in and out of narrative all the time with no great need to reach a conclusion. I'm interested in all these things, how they play out online and off.
Posted by admin on November 6, 2007
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