Agency and the art of interactive digital storytelling

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer
Pages264-267
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)3642166377
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6432 LNCS

Keywords

  • IDS
  • agency
  • art theory
  • control
  • interactive art

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