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Speaker name: Nienke Huitinga & Lisa Weeda
Date: March 12, Rotterdam
Duration: 1 hour
BIO Nienke Huitinga
Immersive story producer Nienke Huitenga (1984) has been designing interactive experiences since 2011. She was awarded a Dutch Oscar (Gouden Kalf) in the Best Interactive category in 2016 for the online science fiction story THE MODULAR BODY, directed by visual artist Floris Kaayk. She has been collaborating with Kaayk since 2011, creating media strategies. Their first success was the hoax of Human Birdwings (2012). This transmedial story reached an audience of millions, and fooled the Myth busters and physics’ professors on WIRED. Because she believes so strongly that the stories we tell matter, she founded Hackastory in 2013, a company that guides journalists and newsrooms to innovate the way we tell and experience the news. Currently she is also working on a VR experience titled ROZYSPNE, story about Nina, an old lady trying to preserve daily life in the Eastern-Ukrainian warzone, with the MH17-crash at her doorstep. It is going to premiere end of March in Brussels.
BIO Lisa Weeda
Lisa Weeda (1989) writes, organises a literary program and was co-host with the literary podcast Ondercast. She moderates, interviews and teaches virtual reality, transmedia storytelling and non-fiction at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Her prose appeared in Das Magazin, Tirade online, De Revisor, Volkskrant, Theaterkrant, Vice, De Optimist and Hard // Hoofd. In 2015-2016 she was part of the Slow Writing Lab, the talent program of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Since 2014 she has been a writer with the Wintertuin Agency | De Nieuwe Oost (The New East). In 2016, her literary non-fiction novella ‘De benen van Petrovski’ was published with Wintertuin, which was praised in the national newspaper NRC by Elsbeth Etty. Etty wrote, among other things: ‘Weeda understands the art of omission, which means that the reader is elegantly put to work.’ In May 2017, Lisa signed with De Bezige Bij for her debut novel.
The art of immersive storytelling
Nienke & Lisa elaborating on the do’s and don’ts in immersive storytelling. This relatively new and unexplored terrain of media brings new challenges and problems to solve. Without getting too nerdy, they explain what helps getting your story told in VR.