Flâneur, a Walkthrough: Locative Literature as Participation and Play

This paper presents an experiment in facilitating public contributions to an experimental system for locative literature called textopia. Discussing approaches to collaborative writing and the relationship between games and art, the paper presents the development and testing of a game designed to foster participation in the system. The game is based on the recombination of found texts into literary compositions, integrating the act of exploring the urban environment into the act of writing, as well as into the medium that is studied. Resulting texts are read as a form of situated, poetic documentary reports on the urban textual environment. The experiment also draws attention to the importance of live events in building a literary community.

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Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
flâneur - tag the world	Anders Sundnes Løvlie	2010
Invisible Seattle: The Novel of Seattle, by Seattle	Rob Wittig, Philip Wohlstetter	1983

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective. Narratives, and Architectures of Participation	Scott Rettberg	2005
Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing	Rob Wittig	1994
Mobile Media Poetics	Rita Raley	2011
Shyness, Cushions, and Food: Case Studies in American Creative Communities	Rob Wittig	2012

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities	Scott Rettberg, Patricia Tomaszek	Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University	2015

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
Nordic Electronic Literature Research Collection
Reimagining the City: Interventions of Digital Texts in Physical Spaces

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