Daemon

Writer/director Hazel Grian was given a pervasive Media Studio Artists Residency to create Daemon, a person’s inner-self made visible in the physical world. Daemon is not just a robot or a pet; it knows your character, responds to your thoughts and follows your physical actions.

Daemon asks as its starting point:

"Using pervasive media, can the stories we love learn to recognise and include us?"

Working with Dr Kenton O’Hara at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Hazel investigates how a robotic character can work in unison with its real life counterpart and is seeking to introduce an adventure narrative, in the tradition of Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, to the relationship between man and machine. 

Hazel has worked on Alternate Reality Games, multi-platform interactive narratives crossing the digital and the physical worlds, engaging online audiences in collective creative experiences. She has also worked in film, theatre and radio, and has developed an international reputation for her surreal and darkly comic take on life. The Simpson’s creator Matt Groening described her as ‘a funny film-making genius’. 

Related Links:
hazelgrian.blogspot.com
Kenton O'Hara