Caitlin Fisher

Caitlin Fisher holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto. A co-founder of York's Future Cinema Lab, her research investigates the future of narrative through explorations of interactive storytelling and interactive cinema in Augmented Reality environments.

Caitlin completed York's first hypertextual dissertation in 2000 and her hypermedia novella, 'These Waves of Girls', won the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 Award for Fiction. Her augmented reality poem, Andromeda, was awarded the 2008 International Vinaros Prize for Electronic Literature.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2015 - Iona Pelovska; Dissertation: Poetry and reason: means and meanings of the moving image

2012 - Brenda Bannis; Thesis: Can koudnet help reclaim community? : an ethnographic research of using the Goodwill reunoin social network in Dominica's 2010 Goodwill Reunion Koudmen

2007 - Helen Papagiannis; Project-Paper: Augmenting visual faculties: an exploration of traditional and experimental augmented reality methods in artistic practice

2015 - David Meurer; Dissertation: Network Narrative: Prose Narrative Fiction and Participatory Cultural Production in Digital Information and Communication Networks

2013 - Aysegul Koc (co-supervision); Dissertation: The Coat Check Interactive Augmented Reality Installation in Perspective