New Releases!

New Releases!

Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader
https://playstorypress.org/books/meet-me-at-the-fair/

Together with the Olympics, world’s fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world’s fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world’s fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world’s fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world’s fair itself.

Interactive Storytelling Art - Book Series
https://playstorypress.org/interactive-storytelling-art/

Since 2018, the Interactive Storytelling Art book series has presented innovative interactive digital narrative artworks shown at the ARDIN (Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narrative) main conference, ICIDS (International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling). This unique book series presents not only documentation of the ICIDS art exhibitions in catalog form, but also sets these catalog entries alongside peer-reviewed reflective essays and scholarly research from the presenting artists. At the forefront of interdisciplinary artistic research publication in interactive digital narrative, Interactive Storytelling Art provides an ongoing view of the cutting-edge practices in digital storytelling, art, and scholarship in the field.