Agency and the art of interactive digital storytelling

  • Authors:

  • Noam Knoller

  • Affiliations:

  • Interface Studies Group, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICIDS'10 Proceedings of the Third joint conference on Interactive digital storytelling
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Taking seriously Andrew Stern's aspiration that IDS become a premier art form for the 21st century, this paper re-examines agency, understood as the ability to freely control the plot, as a key concept in IDS aesthetics. Tracing the origins of this notion in IDS theory, this paper suggests that "true" agency is a myth, and that even restricted agency is too constrained to serve as a desirable goal for IDS-as-art.