What: Alok Nandi Lecture: Narrative Design
Who: Alok Nandi
When: Fri 20 Nov, 2.30pm - 5pm
Where: Block F Level 2 #F202, LASALLE College of the Arts
Type: Lecture
Admission: Free. Registration is required via www.narrative.architempo.net

Storytelling is key in the process of making and living an experience. Cinema and film studies have explored ‘making’ and ‘telling’ for years, this talk aims to connect design and cinema and to look at patterns and practices, history and stories. In a networked environment where design and architecture meet storytelling with or without technologies, what narratives and imaginary spaces are articulated? How is function extrapolated into fiction? What are the emerging patterns in praxis, opening paths to ‘interactive cinema’, if any? The tension between narrative and interactive will be explored.

About the Speaker
Alok b. Nandi is a writer/director and designer working with multiple media, born in Congo, raised in Zaïre and based in Brussels Europe. His first project was an exhibition at Cannes Film Festival in 1991, in homage to filmmaker Satyajit Ray, with a photo-biography prefaced by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Alok Nandi got webconnected in 1994 and did his first interactive piece in 1995, awarded for the narrative labyrinth www.urbicande.be w/ Schuiten-Peeters. He was interactive creative director of Casterman, the publisher of a.o. Tintin, and was awarded for webfiction and interactive installations in mixed realities. For more information, visit www.aloknandi.net

This lecture is held in conjunction of the Singapore Design Festival 2009, and co-organised by The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE.

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