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• Installation: Le petit chaperon rouge interactif
• Concept+Design: Alexis Amen & Douglas Edric Stanley
• Exhibition: Salon du livre et de la presse de jeunesse
• Producer: Opixido
• Location: Paris
• Date: 24 November - 29 November, 2004
• Photos + Video: Le petit chaperon interactif

Here is a link to an installation that Alexis Amen and I finished for the “Salon du livre et de la presse de jeunesse” in the Paris neighborhood of Montreuil. At Alexis’ request, the Hypertable was turned into an interactive story illustrating different renditions of Little Red Riding Hood. It was a youth-oriented installation, which was interresting for me because I had been trying to find some more design-oriented uses for the Hypertable while still maintaining a certain artistic integrity. Working with children gives you some unique design constraints. I’m not 100% thrilled by the result, but it was a worthy exercise. Hopefully, Alexis and I can find another collaboration in the future where we can explore some of the design ideas we ultimately had to throw out.

Inside of Opixido, Alexis works on Piloti, which helps other artists code their works. Obviously I didn’t need to give him any pointers, at least not any pointers than those to my incoming data (bad programming joke).

Some of the design experimentation was done at the Atelier Hypermedia at the Aix-en-Provence Art School with Alexis, myself and two Hypermedia students : Pierre-Erick Lefebvre and Aurelien Boyer.

• Publication: Jouable: Art, jeu et interactivité. Genève - Kyoto - Paris
• Editor: Presses du réel
• Website: Jouable (livre)

The paper I read at the conférence Colloque Jouable was just publised as part of the Jouable book. It’s called “This is Fun!”, although in spite of its title, you’ll have to be able to read French to understand it.

The Jouble book catalogues all of our efforts over the past three years within the Jouable project. Other than my article, I was a bit squeezed out of the book (typical); for example, no references to the workshops Play!, Big Brother, or Collective Spaces, that were (at least in my biased opinion) influential to the project(s). Ho hum, no big deal.

• Exhibition: Jouable
• Location: ENSAD, Paris
• Date: 20 November - 4 December, 2004
• Website: Jouable

I don’t have any installations in this exhibit, per se, but I participated in the construction of some of the works during two workshops held in Paris (Big Brother Workshop) and Geneva (Play! Workshop) as part of the Jouable project. Check out the website for more information + videos of the works.