Thursday, August 19, 2004
Getting clued in to Queen Street West
Check out this new form of storytelling. It is an interactive, fictitious murder mystery developed by graduates from the Canadian Film Centre’s Habitat New Media Lab.
The idea of West Queen West, for instance, is to let participants tour the neighbourhood while trying to solve the murder investigation. With installations at the Drake and Gladstone hotels, the Beaver Café and the DeLeon White Gallery—all just a short walk from each other—participants could go from site to site, getting clues and directions by dialling numbers on their cellphones and reading text messages sent to them on their phone displays. At the different sites, physical evidence and computer displays told as much about the mystery as about the experience of living and working there, all adding to the part-detective drama, part-sightseeing tour.