[NetBehaviour] SHIRLEY BASSEY GETS MIXED UP

[dave miller]

'Shirley Bassey Mixed Up' is a collaborative biography: an illustrated
biography of the legendary diva, where the reader helps to 'mix' the
illustrations online, using Internet searches.

http://dev2.manme.org.uk/~davem/bassey_story/

The biography was inspired by an incident on a TV awards show last
year, where Bassey was publically humiliated. I felt sad to see this
happen, and wanted to know more about what led up to this.

All illustrations are built on-the-fly from live Yahoo searches. By
specifying different searches and playing with the customisation
options, the reader creates the illustrations themselves.

This is a traditional (linear) 14-page story built on top of a
generative composition tool, that uses Internet search data as its
input.

The work can be described as a networked narrative, as a story partly
created by networked data. Adding unexpected and uncontrolled elements
to the story influences and changes the presentation, how it's
experienced and what we take away from it. This shapes the story,
changing fact into fiction, sometimes disrupting the story.

As the networked elements are dynamic and largely unpredictable, every
version of the biography is unique. Your version of the story is
packaged into booklet form, for you to print and keep.


About Dave Miller:
Dave Miller experiments with illustrated stories and networked media.
More of his work can be seen here:
http://dev1.manme.org.uk/~davem/davemiller_art_blog