I mentioned a while back that my early CD-ROM interactive narrative I Am A Singer (1996) had been selected as a part of an ARC research project to bring back early Australian interactive works and make them available to new audiences using an emulation system – EaaSI – developed by Yale university researchers. This project, run out of Swinburne University and headed by Professor Melanie Swalwell, will be officially launched in April 2025. It’s CD-ROM redux time!! I Am A Singer is an interactive narrative about a fictional young Australian musician- Isobel Jones- who is suffering amnesia, and trying to piece together the conflicting threads of information about herself into a meaningful sense of self. The work was widely exhibited and nationally and internationally ‘back in the day’, in a time well before social media and influencers, and includes image, text, audio, video and original music written by well known Australian songwriter Phil Kakulas of The Black Eyed Susans. Will post the link once it is live.
