Leigh Alexander, steps away
Leigh Alexander and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful (or two) of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)Leigh Alexander & degrees of proximity
Why again is Leigh Alexander mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet?
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: me, the Artist
Artist & Where
- Name: Leigh Alexander
- City/Place: Brighton
- Country: United Kingdom
Current News
- What's Up? I’m always looking for new opportunities to lead story on agile narrative-led games and TV projects. If you’re looking for worldbuilding, character design, dialog writing, or narrative expertise, I’m available either on a contract basis or for longer-term exclusive relationships. I work as a consultant on a wide variety of story and design concerns, and I’m also available for ongoing presenting work and compensated speaking engagements.
Life & Work
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Bio:
I’m Leigh Alexander, an award-winning writer working at the intersection of technology, culture and narrative. Whether I’m designing stories for video games, creating fiction about digital society, experimenting with narrative systems or creating worlds designed to be explored, I love authoring the delightful and unexpected moments that can emerge from systems.
I’ve been working in interactive entertainment and digital culture for a decade, and I won the 2019 award for Best Writing in a Video Game from the esteemed Writers Guild of Great Britain for Reigns: Her Majesty. My work has also been nominated in the Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA Game Awards, Independent Game Festival, Golden Joystick and Develop Awards, among others. My futurist fiction projects draw on the ten years I spent as a journalist online and in print, during which I drew fire as a progressive games critic and worked as a tech industry columnist and presenter. I frequently speak about narrative design, procedural storytelling, online culture and arts in technology.
I’m influenced by vintage text adventures, reality TV, psychedelic folk, the malaise of the 90s, the space-age poptimism of the Y2k era, anti-fascism, interfaces, tarot, Sailormoon, technomancy, and children’s television. Where sinister architectures and troubled ecosystems are found, I create.
Contact Information
- Email: leighalexander 1 at gmail
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: leighalexander
- ▶ Instagram: leighalexander
- ▶ Website: http://leighalexander.net
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/leighalexander1
- ▶ Stories: http://slate.com/technology/2021/02/the-void-leigh-alexander-short-story.html
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
