THESIS RESEARCH

This will be an ever growing archive of the things I am using as research while I develop my thesis project:

Improvisational Collaborative Interactive Narrative Thesis Research

• Bongar, Michael. 2009. Bongarbiz. http://www.michaelbongar.com/meettheteam.php(Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Michael Bongar is a former Ringling Brothers clown, and teacher that the Ringling Clown Collage.)
• Bongar, Michael. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 21, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Browell, Dean. 2010. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on April 24^th 2010. Interactive, Addictive, Narrative. Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/11639116(Accessed May 12, 2010).
  • (Dean Browell is the Executive Vice President of Feedback Inc. and he is a social media expert.)
• Carr, Nicholas. 2010. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
  • (This book explores how the internet has changed the way humans think, how we access information and how we process that information. It is important to understand this in order to design media that will take advantage of our brain processes in the most efficient way)
• Cashin, Pat. 2009. Clown Alley. http://clownalley.blogspot.com/(Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Pat Cashin is a world class currently performing clown and clown historian, as well as a member of the board at the Clown Museum)
• Cheese, Kenyetta. 2010. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on April 17^th 2010. Interactive, Addictive, Narrative. Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/11639116(Accessed May 12, 2010).
  • (Kenyetta Cheese is a member of Eyebeam in NYC, as well as a viral video and Internet meme expert for the “Know Your Meme” series produced by Rocketboom.)
• Clark, Neils & Scott, P. Shavaun. 2009.  Game Addiction – The Experience and The Effects. McFarland & Company, Inc.
• Csikszentmihalya, Mihaly. 2008. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.). Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Davidson, John. 2009. An Encyclopedia of Clown. Clown Blog. http://jondavison.blogspot.com/ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Davis, Eric. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 19, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ(Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Eric Davis is a NYC based clown/teacher who primarily performs as a character named “The Red Bastard and has toured with Cirque Du Soleil.)
• Davis, Eric. 2009. Red Bastard. http://www.redbastard.com/iWeb/redbastard.com/aboutericdavis.html (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Dini, Kourosh MD. 2008. Video Game Play and Addiction – A Guide For Parents. iUniverse, Inc.
• Durwin, Joseph. 2004. Coulrophobia & The Trickster. Trinity University. http://www.trinity.edu/org/tricksters/trixway/current/Vol%203/Vol3_1/Durwin.htm (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Edarem. http://www.youtube.com/edarem http://phil-stevens.livejournal.com/815.html
  • (Edarem is a former children television show host that was convicted of a sex crime who turned up 25 years later making crazy videos on YouTube that went wildly viral, consequently being sent to jail again under a ruling that the use of YouTube was a violation of his parole (even though YouTube was not invented when he was convicted).)
• Edwards, Jango. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 09, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ(Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Jango Edwards is an international superstar clown that created the Fools Militia and founded the Nouveau Clown Institute where he continues to perform and teach the art of clown.)
    
• Edwards, Jango. 2009. The Jango Edwards Website. http://jangoedwards.net/workshops/jango-bio/ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Fleysher, Deanna. 2009. Fools On Fire. http://www.foolsonfire.org/about.html (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Deanna Fleysher is a NYC based performer and primarily performs in clown as “Butt Kapanski” she recently performed a very successful interactive theatrical/street performance in Brooklyn called “Butt Kapanski’s Private Eye School”)
    
• Fleysher, Deanna. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 23, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Fortugno, Nick. 2010. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on April 30^th 2010. Interactive, Addictive, Narrative. Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/11639116 (Accessed May 12, 2010).
  • (Nick Fortungo is the CEO of Playmatics, a game design professor at Parsons New School of Design as well as an expert in the field of interactive narrative.)
    
• International Clown Hall of Fame. 1999. A Brief History of Clowning. Tommy G. Thompson Youth Center. http://www.theclownmuseum.org/historyandtypes.php (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (This is a nice site with some good information about the history of clowning and the breakdowns about the different types of traditional clowns.)
    
• Johnson, Jef. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 09, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Johnson, Jef. 2009. Jef Johnson. http://www.jefjohnson.com/ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Jef Johnson toured with Cirque Du Soleil and Slava’s Snowshow, he is also the founder and teacher of the Jef Johnson Clown Lab.)
    
• Langridge, Roger. 2004. Fred the Clown
  • (Fred the Clown is an amazing graphic novel about a goofy little clown, this book was largely the inspiration for my comic strip “The Missing Adventures of Blight the Clown”.)
    
• Lueck, Christopher. 2009. Christopher Lueck. http://www.christopherlueck.com/352.html (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Lueck, Christopher. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 23, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Christopher Lueck is a performer/ teacher as well as the founder and host of the NYC Downtown Clown Review)
    
• Marcosson, Isaac. 1910. The Autobiography of a Clown. New York. Moffat, Yard and Company.
  • (This book was an interesting study and report on the life of the early American circus clown)
    
• Martin, Tyler. 2005. ComicsPress. http://comicspress.org (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (The ComicsPress WordPress theme is the industry standard theme for publishing web comics in the internet. This website is based on a Comicspress theme.)
    
• Menning, Chris. 2010. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on April 17^th 2010. Interactive, Addictive, Narrative. Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/11639116 (Accessed May 12, 2010).
  • (Chris Menning is a producer/writer for the webseries “Rocketboom”, he is also a performer on the series “Know Your Meme”.)
    
• Mullenweg, Matt. 2003. WordPress. http://wordpress.org (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Residents, Thehttp://www.residents.com/
  • (The Residents have been a huge long time inspiration for my work. Specifically, referencing their work on the Bunny Boy project and the subsequent DVD “Is Anybody OUT THERE?” This was a web series project about a questionably fictional character looking for his missing brother. He would ask people to email him with any information regarding his brother. This online narrative led to a world tour with the band as they helped the Bunny Boy search for his brother on the road.)
    
• Roundtree, Ellie. 2010. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on April 17^th 2010. Interactive, Addictive, Narrative. Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/11639116 (Accessed May 12, 2010).
  • (Ellie Roundtree is a producer/ host for several “Rocketboom” webseries.)

   

• Rubens, Paul. 1986. PeeWee’s Playhouse. C.B.S. http://www.peewee.com/
• Towsen, John. 1976. Clowns. E.P. Dutton.
• Towsen, John. 2009. All Fall Down: The Craft and Art of Physical Comedy. http://physicalcomedy.blogspot.com/ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Towsen, John. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 15, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1.
  • John Towsen is the author of the book “Clowns”, a clown historian, and he still teaches workshops on physical comedy, based in NYC.)
    
• Tyrer, Richard J.J. 2008. Addiction and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs): An In-depth Study of Key Aspects. University of Salford
• Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Wood, Brian Rodriguez. 2009. Zapatos Neuvos. Clownbaret. http://www.clownbaret.tv (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Brian Rodriguez is a film maker from Spain working on a feature length documentary film about mostly European clowns.)
    
• YouTube, LLC. 2009. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (YouTbe is the website/distribution outlet that my project will be using as a platform for interactivity.)
    
• Watts, Alan. 1977. Tao: The Watercourse Way
• Wikipedia. 2010. Lonleygirl15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 (Accessed October 14, 2010)
  • (Lonleygirl15 was one of YouTube’s first viral video series, this began as a vlogger telling her personal journal online, until it developed in a full blown fictional murder mystery.)
• Wikipedia. 2010. Sockpuppet.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29 (Accessed October 14, 2010
  • (Sockpuppet is the term that has been given to the act of creating a fake online identity.)

• Wikipedia. 2010. Viral Video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_video (Accessed May 10, 2010)
• Whitmore, Benette. 1996. Pappyland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappyland
• Zeroboy. 2009. Interview by Brian A. Bernhard on November 18, 2009. A Fool’s Idea, Episode 1. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2IS13CppQ (Accessed December 9, 2009).
• Zeroboy. 2009. Zeroboy. http://www.zeroboy.com/info.html (Accessed December 9, 2009).
  • (Zeroboy is part mime, part clown, and full on vocal acrobat. A local NYC favorite of the performative kind. He specializes on improvisational performance)