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LEA New Media Exhibition: Interview with Tim Wright

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Re-Drawing Boundaries
Focus On: Tim Wright
Curator: Jeremy Hight
Senior Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul

Tim Wright is a writer who uses the potential of new media and internet by real-time and interactive mediums such as ‘bookmapping’ or ‘geo-tagging’. A new dimension of literature is created by blogs, photos, videos, and user generated content within a narrative fiction format. LEA New Media Exhibition invites creative readers and writers to explore new ways of storytelling: By watching, listening, discussing, sharing, remixing, contributing and experiencing.

Tim Wright is a digital writer, a cross-platform producer and a director of XPT Ltd. His writing credits include two BAFTA-winning interactive projects: the comedy self help disk ‘Mind Gym’ and web & email drama ‘Online Caroline’. He also co-developed, devised and scripted the BAFTA nominated science-learning Web drama ‘Planet Jemma’ and BAFTA nominated online holiday farce ‘Mount Kristos’. In 2004/5, he created the popular collaborative web fiction and Sony Award-nominated BBC Radio 4 play ‘In Search of Oldton’, pioneering the use of user generated content within a narrative fiction format. He has continued his relationship with Radio 4 contributing to a radical overhaul of Today’s website, whilst writing two further Afternoon Plays that involve online audience participation (‘Say What You Want To Hear’). The web element of the popular public art project ‘The Telectroscope’ was co-developed and written by Tim. He was the lead writer of the RSC’s recent Twitter drama ‘Such Tweet Sorrow’ – and in 2009 he completed ‘Kidmapped!’, an experiment in literary blogumentary, involving a 240-mile walk across Scotland and the use of geolocation and mobile media tools.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA),  ISSN No: 1071-4391
LEA International Curatoriate:
Lanfranco Aceti & Christiane Paul (Senior Curators), Jeremy Hight (New Media Curator), Vince Dziekan (Digital Media Curator)


Kidmapped, 2009, Tim Wright. All images and video material are the copyright of the artist and cannot be used or altered in any way without the express consent of the artist


Blakewalk, 2009, Tim Wright. All images and video material are the copyright of the artist and cannot be used or altered in any way without the express consent of the artist

LEA Interview with Tim Wright by Jeremy Hight.

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.