Aaron

Biography: Aaron A. Reed has worked as a travel writer, web monkey, offensive t-shirt designer, graphic artist, filmmaker, and murder mystery producer. His fiction has appeared in "Fantasy & Science Fiction" magazine, and the story "Shutdown/Retrovival" was selected for that publication's "Best of 2003" audio book compilation.

More recently, Aaron has been writing interactive fiction. His IF "Whom the Telling Changed" competed in the 2006 Slamdance Guerrilla Gamemakers Competition in Park City, Utah, was selected for the "Electronic Literature Collection Volume One," and was nominated for "Best Script" in the GameShadow Innovation in Games Festival. "Telling" has since been studied in new media courses in Australia and Sweden.

In 2009, Aaron released an IF novel, Blue Lacuna, which, according to one reviewer, "must be mentioned in any discourse on the maturation and development of interactive fiction." A companion web experience, "blueful," was hailed by readers as “simply beautiful,” “the weirdest poetry medium I’ve seen,” and “a real milestone in Web 2.0 storytelling.” While working with DANM, Aaron hopes to experiment with new forms of electronic literature and interactive audio drama and work with the "Playable Fictions" project group.

---

Coursework

• DANM 210
• DANM 201

Recent Projects

• Olberbeck
• blueful
• Blue Lacuna

Website

• http://aaronareed.net

Portfolio

• http://portfolio.aaronareed.net

Contact

• Gmail: aareed
• UCSC e-mail: aaareed

Reading List