HeyJaredJoseph Matheny
Multidisciplinary Artist | Liminal Fiction | Alternate Reality Games
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Ready, Set, Restart (opens the original)
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New schedule and new direction LINK: https://josephmatheny.substack.com/p/placeholder
This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell (Ong’s Hat History) (opens the original)
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This Is Not a Game is the award-winning, extraordinary, untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures, and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to […]
The COMPLEAT Broadcasts: Final Thoughts and Credits (opens the original)
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Plus a linked index of the series This is the final segment of the free podcast/post series of Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT For reviews regarding this work, go here. You may subscribe to this series via RSS here. https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/232444.rss Other platforms where you can subscribe and/or download are available here. The COMPLEAT Broadcasts Archive Chapter 0 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter […]
SUPERSTORY: La Virgen de Guadalupe en el Inframundo – Sacred Protection in High-Risk Worlds (opens the original)
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Synthesizing research from Kendall Haven (DARPA’s Narrative Networks project), Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity, Jeffrey Kripal’s concept of the Super Story, and Joseph Matheny’s transmedia ARG experiment (Ong’s Hat), Jose explored how human attention is hardwired by story structure. A powerful narrative environment organizes human perception, expectation, and search behavior so effectively that meaningful coincidences […]
The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed (opens the original)
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I had fun doing this interview. As I said when I announced that I was doing this interview, after deciding at the beginning of this year I would no longer do interviews, this will be my last interview I do. I made an exception this time because AJ and I had emailed a few years […]
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