Dr Christopher Hales
Chris has run many successful workshops around Europe, including several at TAMK Art and Media which have resulted in memorable results. Interactive films involving sauna culture, the streets and pubs of Tampere, a murder mystery, and even Santa Claus, have emerged from Chris's workshops, which often take inspiration from the unique location of Tampere.
This year, Dr. Christopher Hales will be back with the workshop The Horror of Interaction. In this workshop, participants will examine why interactive installations, films and narratives are rarely scary, and will come up with a concept for an interactive experience (in the form of a narrative-based installation and/or live performance involving new media technologies) designed to invoke genuine fear, repulsion or shock in the user.
The methodology of the workshop is to identify narrative themes that could successfully convey horror, look at suitable technologies and installation formats for surprise and shock, and to find ways to combine these two into a final implementation. Participants will be given an introductory lecture, will be asked to briefly conduct background research to gather examples of interactive scariness, and will discuss which kinds of things make them scared. From this source material a plan of one or more interactive horror experiences will be designed, with the intention to at least make a quick prototype that can be tested on a group of users - although this is dependent on available time and resources.
In advance of the workshop, participants should think of personal experiences, films or stories that have truly scared them, and be prepared to discuss this on the first morning of the workshop.
Group size: 5 - 10
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