CHRISTY DENA

Christy Dena is Director of Universe Creation 101, where she works for others as a cross-media narrative and game design consultant and educator, as well as developing her own properties and services. Her clients include agencies, corporations and production companies such as Wieden + Kennedy, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia Council for the Arts, dLux Media Arts, AlterAction and Pemberton Films. She gave a keynote at the First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design in Sweden in 2007 and gave the Power to the Pixel keynote in 2008. She has been a speaker at various organisations, corporations and festivals, including the Nokia Finland, Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Interactive Media Association; Film Australia; Centre for Screen Business; Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Australian Broadcasting Corporation; ACT Filmmakers Network; Film and Television Institute; Screenworks; DIYDays; Destination Film Festival; Revelations Film Festival; Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment; International Game Developers’ Association (Brisbane); dLux Media Arts; and the Web Standards Group.

She has mentored film, television, new media and novel writing professionals on cross-media for the Australian Literature Board’s Story of the Future initiative; Screenworks; Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (a 5 day cross-media residential for the Australia Film, Television and Radio School); De Montfort University’s MA in Creative Writing and New Media and Booranga Writers Centre. Christy co-wrote the Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living for the Australian Literature Board and is currently finishing her PhD on transmedia fictions at the School of Letters, Arts and Media, University of Sydney. Her main blog is at www.ChristyDena.com.