This work started to be built in the year 2013, out of scripts, texts writing, musical composition, and a crime investigation (aside from the compilation of images from the web) that I carried out during previous years as if gathering pieces from a puzzle. “Hotel Minotaur” first was entitled “It`s Enough to Open a Hotel`s Doors” and I first started to visualize it when writer Fernando Marias, invited me to be part of his anthology “Solitude is the Home of the Monster” (Imagine Press, 2013), with a multimedia piece. To facilitate the reader`s turn from paper to the digital space a QR (Quick Response Code) in the book`s Codex was added.
Staging was possible due to the support of David Losada, who decisively contributed to the idea and the concept and brought the means of Maloka Media, and to the collaboration of Fidel Cordero (music), Jesus Jimenez (design and programming) and Paola Rey (production). Programming of “Hotel Minotaur” was brought to an end back in 2015 with subtle changes on both, text and interface and was part of the Conclusions to the Doctoral Thesis “Form and Core of the Multimedia Narrative” (Humanities, Carlos III University, brilliant cum laude, 2015).
It was first presented on the opening to the European Digital Literatures (House of Velazquez, Madrid, June, 2013) and since its advent it has been a subject to study, being included on the Ciberia Anthology (Madrid Complutense University). It has been translated into French by Christian Roinat and into English by Montague Kobbe.
