Chris Joseph (writer/artist) explained

Chris Joseph is British/Canadian multimedia writer and artist who also creates work under the name 'babel'. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and now lives in Berlin.

He has collaborated with novelist Kate Pullinger on several projects, including 'The Breathing Wall'[1] (2004), a novel that responds to the reader's breathing rate; the award-winning series of interactive multimedia stories 'Inanimate Alice'[2] [3] [4] (2005, ongoing); and 'Flight Paths'[5] [6] (2007, ongoing), a "networked novel" created via the internet in collaboration with worldwide participants. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org,[7] and was a member of the Transliteracy Research Group based in De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, researching the concepts and practice of transliteracy[8] [9] [10] and he has published a number of academic articles in partnership with other researchers.[11] From 2006 to 2008 he was the first Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies in De Montfort University.[12]

Since 2010 he has also worked as the sound designer and composer on a number of collaborations with Australian writer Mez Breeze and UK artist/programmer Andy Campbell, including 'synthetic reality game' #PRISOM[13] and transmedia project 'All the Delicate Duplicates' (formerly 'Pluto')[14] [15] which was the winner of The Space Tumblr international Prize in Digital Art in 2015,[16] and won Best Overall Game at GameCity Open Arcade in October 2016.[17], such as Transliteracy: Crossing Divides (2007)[18] and Aesthetics of a robot: Case study on aibo dog robots for buddy-ing devices (2014)[19]

In 2016 he appeared as the character 'Willy Wright' in the thriller film Redistributors, by UK director Adrian Tanner.[20]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Ensslin. A. From (w)reader to breather: Cybertextual retro-intentionalisation. 10242/43790. 2007.
  2. News: Pauli. Michelle. Down with Alice. The Guardian. 21 November 2011. London. 7 December 2006.
  3. Web site: Chin. Yvette. DigitAlice – A Conversation with Inanimate Alice Producer Ian Harper. DigitalBookWorld.com. 21 November 2011. 20 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111020065111/http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/digitalice-%e2%80%93-a-conversation-with-inanimate-alice-producer-ian-harper/. dead.
  4. News: PR Web. International Acclaim Grows for Inanimate Alice. https://web.archive.org/web/20111119174349/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8974126.htm. dead. 19 November 2011. 21 November 2011. 17 November 2011.
  5. Web site: Elkin. Ariel. Flight Paths: a networked book. arts. 21 November 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120607232650/http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/flight_paths_networked_book. 7 June 2012. dead.
  6. Web site: Flight Paths. Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester. 21 November 2011.
  7. Web site: Egger. Sylvia. email-interview babel (391.org). serner.de. 21 November 2011.
  8. Aladdin Ayesh. Chris Joseph. Simon Perril. Sue Thomas. Sue Thomas (author). Aesthetics of a Robot: Case study on AIBO Dog Robots for Buddy-ing Devices. Journal of Intelligent Computing. March 2014. 5. 1. 11 April 2016.
  9. Sue Thomas. Sue Thomas (author). Jess Laccetti. Bruce Mason. Kate Pullinger. Kate Pullinger. Simon Perril. Chris Joseph. Transliteracy as a unifying perspective. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. February 2009. 11 April 2016. IGI Global. London. 9781605662084 .
  10. Sue Thomas. Sue Thomas (author). Chris Joseph. Jess Laccetti. Bruce Mason. Simon Mills. Simon Perril. Kate Pullinger. Kate Pullinger. Transliteracy: Crossing Divides. First Monday. 12. 12. 11 April 2016.
  11. Web site: Chris Joseph . 2024-07-31 . scholar.google.com.
  12. Web site: IOCT Digital Writer-in-residence. Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester. 21 November 2011.
  13. Web site:
    1. PRISOM
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    1. PRISOM
    . 31 October 2016.
  14. Web site: Upcoming VR title All The Delicate Duplicates releases its first trailer. Pocket Gamer. 22 July 2016 . 31 October 2016.
  15. Web site: First Trailer Arrives for All The Delicate Duplicates. VR Focus. 31 October 2016.
  16. Web site: Mez Breeze And Andy Campbell Selected for the Tumblr International Prize. The Space. 31 October 2016.
  17. Web site: Best Overall Game Award Goes To...All The Delicate Duplicates!. Mez Breeze Design. 31 October 2016.
  18. Thomas . Sue . Joseph . Chris . Laccetti . Jess . Mason . Bruce . Mills . Simon . Perril . Simon . Pullinger . Kate . 2007-12-12 . Transliteracy: Crossing divides . First Monday . en . 10.5210/fm.v12i12.2060 . free . 1396-0466.
  19. Ayesh . Aladdin . Joseph . Chris . Perril . Simon . Thomas . Sue . March 2014 . Aesthetics of a Robot: Case study on AIBO Dog Robots for Buddy-ing Devices . Journal of Intelligent Computing . 5 . 1 . 1–15 . DLINE Journals portal.
  20. Web site: Redistributors (2016). IMDb. 31 October 2016.