about Megan

Megan Heyward is a new media artist /practitioner whose work operates at the intersection of narrative and interactivity. She has been funded twice by the Australian Film Commission to develop innovative interactive media projects which reconfigure storytelling into new media forms. These projects :- "I Am A Singer" (1997) and "of day, of,night" (2002) have been widely exhibited both in Australia and internationally, including the MILIA New Talent Pavilion ( France), ISEA ( Japan), Festival of Cinema and New Media (Canada), Contact Zones ( USA), Videobrasil ( Brazil), Viper (Switzerland), Stuttgarter Filmwinter ( Germany), Digital Storytelling Festival ( USA). Both works have also been finalists or winners of new media awards, including MILIA New Talent, AIMIA Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. "of day, of night" will be published by major U.S new media and hypertext publisher, Eastgate Systems, in 2005.

Experiences of memory and recollection are a recurrent theme in Megan’s work. Her works have explored the relationship of memory and identity (“I am a Singer”); memory, objects and dreaming (“of day, of night”); and memory and place (“message”- Pathiharn Electron, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2004). She is currently working on a set of intersecting short stories concerning the body and remembrance. In 2004 she became interested in locative media, undertaking the ANAT Blast Theory Masterclass in Jan 2004, and the d_Art Futurescreen Mobile Aware Masterclass in Jan 2005 to further develop ideas and approaches.

Megan is a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts and Production, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS.

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