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"Interactive narrative is an emerging art form that borrows from multiple disciplines. It's a telescoping and a presentation of a series of events. Consequently we can think of writing a narrative as interface design. Mark Meadows explains the art of narrative in this article."

Film geeks site about the art of film

"You don't just look at paintings anymore. A new exhibition at Tate Britain transforms visual art into a multi-sensory experience, surrounding paintings with sounds, scents, tactile sensations and tastes inspired by the artwork.  "

"Frank Rose is a leading writer and speaker on digital culture. His most recent book, The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, investigates how entertainment and advertising are responding to overwhelming technological change."

Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg's Smile TV is more than a loving homage to the good old 'campfire inside the living room.' Made from an open frame CRT monitor and equipped with a computer vision system, the unsuspecting television set turns the medium's engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to "smile to watch." Only when you do - and for as long as you do - will Smile TV reveal its otherwise scrambled broadcast. "This project grew out from experimenting with facial recognition and image manipulation," Hedberg explains over email.

Creating a computer "personality" is as much an art as it is a science, and it's a challenge that more and more software designers are grappling with.

"Ambient Literature is a two-year collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University and the University of Birmingham, established to investigate the locational and technological future of the book. Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is focused on the study of emergent forms of literature that make use of novel technologies and social practices in order to create robust and evocative experiences for readers. "

"Comprehensive collections, for storytellers, of articles, links, and information on the oral tradition and the art of storytelling - compiled by Tim Sheppard."

From period dramas to contemporary soap operas, the art of the television writer is to interweave characters and storylines into a satisfying whole.