Migrating Stories: Moving across the Code/Spaces of our Time.

In this essay, I aim at developing the notion of transmedia storytelling beyond the standard formula popularised by Henry Jenkins in 2006 and upgraded on several occasions on his blog. I would like to focus on the innovative transmedia poetic storytelling based on data visualisation, concerning the issue of migration and movement across borders. The four prominent examples include Migration Trail by Killing Architects, aimisola.net/hymiwo.po:a poemtrack for a yet-to-be-written dance piece by Álvaro Seiça and Sindre Sørensen, and two projects by María Mencía that can be considered as one creative endeavour due to their genealogical and aesthetic proximity: Gateway to the World and The Poem That Crossed the Atlantic. They might not be an example of "storytelling," in the traditional meaning of the word, yet they carry some narrative potential primarily in the way they handle the available data on spatial practices. To what extent the idea of movement in space is mirrored in the transmedia characteristics of the texts, often based on real events, which might include layers of information about the processes happening in the real world? Is transmedia just a formal feature of these cultural texts? By answering such questions, I want to point out that transmedia narration (based on the dynamic circulation of content on the Web) became normalised as part of everyday media cultures. Therefore, attention should be paid not only to cultural texts as such, but also to the broader cultural practices within networked media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]