Commissioned review of Simon Norton’s interactive animation: “Testimony: A Story Machine” for Strange Attractors: An Animation Showcase, ABC New Media.
“Imagine a monstrous mechanical device bulging, smoking and bleeding, churning out gold embossed books to naive curly haired children. Okay, now you know everything that Simon Norton’s interactive animation, Testimony, is not. Christy Dena bravely takes a look into the engineer’s cabin, discovering just who it is that is driving the Story Machine.”