The TMC Resource Kit was conceived, designed & developed by Dr. Siobhan O’Flynn & Anthea Foyer.
Siobhan O’Flynn: W: siobhanoflynn.com T: @sioflynn E:sioflynn@gmail.com
Anthea Foyer: W: antheafoyer.com T: @antheafoyer E: hello@antheafoyer.com
BIOS:
Dr. Siobhan O’Flynn consults on digital/interactive/participatory storytelling via her company NarrativeNow, is the co-creator of the online site, TMCResourceKit.com, & co-founder of Transmedia 101, a community building & education initiative for Canadian producers moving into the digital sphere. She is a Senior Lecturer, Canadian Studies, University College, University of Toronto, and Sessional Lecturer III in the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga. From 2001 to 2011 she was a core faculty member with the CFC Media Lab designing the interactive narrative curriculum. Dr. O’Flynn’s research & teaching focus on how artistic works & practices across media engage with political, social & cultural concerns. Her academic research and artistic practice examine: the function, design, & experience of narrative in interactive environments; foresighting emergent trends in digital storytelling & entertainment in a Web 2.0/3.0 world; and the social benefit of interactive art for urban planning, social and cultural capital in the context of arts festivals such as Toronto’s Luminato & Nuit Blanche.
Dr. O’Flynn is currently the primary investigator on a research project, Nuit Blanche and Transformational Publics, funded by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant, with collaborator, Faisal Anwar with whom she has co-founded +citydesign. +citydesign has developed and launched a data visualization app for iPhone & iPad and is now exploring data visualization as a new social art form.
In 2006/07 Dr O’Flynn was the narrative design consultant on Late Fragment, a (CFC/NFB) feature film that screened at Cannes as part of the Future of Cinema Salon. She has mentored across Canada, including the Digital Development Lab (CBC/BC Film/New Media BC), Melting Silos (NFB/SFU Praxis), and for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Design to Deliver, & the Crossover Lab/Sheffield Doc/Fest Convergence Catalyst. She has published numerous articles, given keynotes,workshops, & masterclasses around the globe on topics ranging from transmedia & crossmedia development & design, interactive/web documentaries, & disruptive innovations in Web 2.0 world. Dr. O’Flynn has presented at MIT, StoryWorld SF, the NFB French Program, the CBC, the Screen Edge Forum, Auckland New Zealand, & Transmedia SG, Singapore. Dr. O’Flynn was a Jury Member for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Innovation Award 2012, twice a Juror for the Canada Media Fund’s Experimental Funding category (2012, 2013), and is the Canadian Representative for StoryLabs, an international organization for transmedia producers. She is a founding member and on the Advisory Board for the internationally networked Transmedia Alliance.
More info can be found at siobhanoflynn.com
Other slideshows by Dr. Siobhan O’Flynn can be found here
Anthea Foyer makes beautiful things using technology, compelling narratives across platforms, and starts conversations between strangers & friends – on and offline. She is a strategist, creative director, artist, writer, schemer and an enthusiast of all strange and whimsical. She believes that anything is possible when worlds collide.
In 2012 Anthea founded Red Squid Lab, an experiential storytelling company that specializes in transmedia, multiplatform and participatory experiences. She has created, produced and advised on critically acclaimed projects including an experimental, multiplatform marketing campaign for Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz. She has created, produced and consulted on projects for the Vancouver Olympics, Nuit Blanche, CTV, Xenophile, OCADU, CFC, Popsandbox, and the Images Festival. She is currently developing The Anthropologists, a transmedia gothic fairy tale.
She led the Interactive Arts & Entertainment Program at the Canadian Film Centre and continues to facilitate and develop innovative workshops with partners such as nextMEDIA, CBC, Entertainment Master Class, Banff World Television Festival, AFI and Crossover Labs.
She can often be found speaking, mentoring and presenting workshops about the continually evolving realm of digital media, with a focus on interactive narrative and the creative convergence of a variety of media forms. This includes The World Summit Awards {India}, SXSW {USA}, Storylabs {AUS}, NXNE, IN, World Wide Short Film Festival, Melting Silos, Merging Media and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
She holds an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice from Goldsmiths College, London, UK and holds a BA in Sculpture from the University of Calgary. She has been creating, consulting on and educating others about interactive narrative projects for the past ten years.
More info can be found at antheafoyer.com