Maureen Thomas

Dramatist, screenwriter, interactive story architect and director Maureen Thomas is a Senior Artist Researcher at the Norwegian Film School where she was formerly Professor of Cinematurgy, Narrativity & Interactivity https://www.filmskolen.no/ansatte/bachelorstudier/4039/maureen-thomas. She has carried out her practice-oriented research into the spatial organisation of narrative, screen language and the cinematurgy of expressive space as a Senior Research Fellow (Screen Media and Cultures) Churchill College, Cambridge; Visiting Artist, Media Lab, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland and Senior Creative Research Fellow, Narrativity Studio, Interactive Institute, University of Malmø, Sweden. She has a special interest in bringing intangible cultural heritage to historical sites, museums and galleries using reconfigurable and interactive digital audiovisual media (https://www.academia.edu/17277944/Transposing_Transforming_and_Transcending_Tradition_in_Creative_Digital_Media). With DIGIS, Maureen devised, directed and co-wrote, as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Cinematic Geographies of Battersea’ project, the GhostCinema  app, using which visitors can discover as they walk the history of local buildings and cinemas, and download clips from films shot in the area which show their historical development and inhabitation (http://www.expressivespace.org/Ghost_Cinema.html).

For ‘CineMuseSpace’, Maureen is assisting with the selection and analysis of films, including establishing ontologies for the computer handling of clips, and with concept design and interaction with the CineMuseSpace material in exhibition spaces.