works in progress

+ eXperiments

stone sculpture


Download Underbelly
(44.6MB)

It's a Flash standalone player. Unzip the file then launch the appropriate version, PC or Mac.

Download Critical Commentary PDF

Underbelly - version 1.0

A rich media fiction created in Flash about a woman sculptor, carving a figure on the site of a former Yorkshire colliery. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of unwelcome voices - her own conflicting doubts and desires, and the voices of women miners who once worked underground.

Underbelly is a project in development. I conceived it as an ambitious non-linear interactive fiction. What I'm offering here is an intermediate linear version, created specifically for my MA dissertation in Creative Writing & New Media at De Montfort University. For that reason, I'm also offering the accompanying Critical Commentary, including Literature Survey, for those interested.

screenshot of a remix animation

cx remix worx

An early series of my remixed Flash animations for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX, a collaborative blog for remixing digital media, formerly known as the remix. Since these first few animations, I've created over 60 remixes. You can see the crissxross collection here at R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX or here at my personal blog.

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Empty wine & beer bottles

Taster #2

An interactive sequence for my DrinkLinks project, a work in progress about the whole drinking game. Tip: use your mouse to explore.

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5 wine bottles

Taster #1

An animated sequence for my DrinkLinks interactive multimedia project, a work in progress about the whole drinking game.

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crissxross

cXs week 1 jitters

My tongue-in-cheek attempt to express how it felt to plunge into week 1 of the first ever Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at DMU in September 2006.

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