Lucía Ayala y Sara Constantini

Fran Ilich ( Tijuana , 1975) i s a media artist, writer and activist, leader of the fanzine movement (printed and electronic) in Baja California and author of the novel Metro-Pop . He's directed workshops on digital narrative at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía ( Spain ) and is the director of net.films ( Modem Drama, 2002; Being Boring , 2004). He's acted as director of festivals like Cinemátik 1.0, First International Festival of Cyberculture in Latin America (Mexico City, 1998) and Borderhack ( Tijuana , 2000-2002) and participated in Transmediale, Ars Electronica, ARCO, MIT's Media In Transition... He's also been active in creative Internet projects such as founding the mailing list Nettime-Latino , acting as regional editor of Rhizome and curator of the Borderhack Attachment Online Exhibition (2001). Currently he produces the Mexican soap opera Telenouvelle Vague and has received a grant from the Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes to research “Narrative in the Internet era”. Ilich gave a lecture at Arte & Media Symposium – First Encounter of New Tendencies in Art and Technology between Latin-America and the Iberian Peninsula (Barcelona, 02-04.06.2005; www.mecad.org/simposio.htm) on the topic “Other narr@tives are posible.” www.delete.tv

LUCÍA AYALA: In projects like Being Boring (net.film, 2004) you propose a new and “democratic” structure as an alternative to traditional, linear narrative…

FRAN ILICH : Narrative is distinguished from information, all these facts that aren't very useful if we don't link them into a narrative. It's all this already processed and contextualized information that occurs in a certain space and time and its meaning is given by a narrator. Non-linear narrative has always existed: A Thousand and One Nights and Don Quixote already demanded effort and attention on the part of readers, and offered various paths, even if the reader couldn't choose.