Caitlin Fisher
Caitlin Fisher "holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture in the Department of Film at York University."[1] She co-founded York's Future Cinema Lab, and is engaged in research investigating "the future of narrative through explorations of interactive storytelling and interactive cinema in Augmented Reality environments."[1] Fisher's hypermedia novella, These Waves of Girls, won the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 Award for Fiction.[1] Fisher "completed York's first hypertextual dissertation in 2000."[1]
Projects
Fisher is interested in the way in which "digital technology is transforming the way Canadians relate to language in all its aspects."[2] In her projects, as well as in her research, she is currently interested in "investigating the future of narrative, interactive storytelling, and interactive cinema in the emerging area of virtual reality research as represented by Augmented Reality (AR) environments."[2]
- Wallace Edwards Illustrations - Immersive Worlds, "investiagtions into immersive, creative storyworlds," 2013[3]
- Breaking the Chains,
- Requiuem, an augmented reality poem created in collaboration with Charles Fisher, "part of a larger, much more fragmented work by Caitlin Fisher, "Cardamom of the Dead: a novel in fragments built using tabletop augmented reality storytelling machines"[4], 2012[3]
- Circle, 2010[3]