Loss of Grasp

“Loss of Grasp” is an interactive narrative about the notions of grasp and control. What happens when one has the impression of losing control in life, of losing control of his/her own life? Six scenes tell the story of a man that is losing himself. “Loss of Grasp” plays with the grasp and the loss of grasp and invites the reader to experiment with these feelings in an interactive work.

Description (in French):

Déprise est une création sur les notions de prise et de contrôle.
Quand a-t-on l’impression d’être en situation de prise ou de perte de prise dans la vie ?
Six scènes racontent l’histoire d’un homme en pleine déprise.
Parallèlement, ce jeu sur prise et déprise permet de mettre en scène la situation du lecteur d’une œuvre interactive.

Electronic Literature Directory entry:

Electronic Literature Directory entry

I ♥ E-Poetry entry:

I ♥ E-Poetry entry

Other language version:

Déprise

Technical notes:

The piece requires headphones (or loudspeakers) and a webcam (for the fifth scene). The interaction with the piece lasts about 10 minutes.

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource	Author	Teaching Resource Type	Year
Literature in Digital Transformation	Martin Campostrini, Malthe Stavning Erslev	Other Teaching Resource	2019
Electronic Literature - Senior Seminar (Fall 2011)	Chris Funkhouser	Syllabus	2011
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2011)	Davin Heckman	Syllabus	2011

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
New Media Writing Prize Winners
French Language Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
‘Grasp All, Lose All’: Raising Awareness Through Loss of Grasp in Seemingly Functional Interfaces	Diogo Marques	2022
To Grasp or not to Grasp. A Phenomenological Approach to Serge Bouchardon's E-Literary Pieces	Maja Murnik	2013
Technics and Violence in Electronic Literature	Davin Heckman	2011
Subversive Writing and the Digital Text	Davin Heckman	2011
Reading Digits – Haptic Reading Processes in the Experience of Digital Literary Works	Diogo Marques	2018
Reading and Teaching Gender Issues in Electronic Literature and New Media Art	Maya Zalbidea Paniagua	2011
Poetic fingerprints: digital literature’s countercultural and metamedial integration of vision and touch	Diogo Marques	2017
Non-Translation as Poetic Experience	Ottar Ormstad	2012
Making Sense of the Digital as Embodied Experience	Serge Bouchardon, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate	2011
Loss of Grasp : Teknikliderlige mænd i midtvejskrise	Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen	2010
Literature in a State of Emergency	Davin Heckman	2014
Literary Gaming	Astrid Ensslin	2014
I Love E-Poetry	Leonardo L. Flores	2011
Grasp All, Lose All: Loss of Grasp and Non-Functional Digital Interfaces in Electronic Literature	Diogo Marques	2016
From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction	Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Kristian Rustad	2014
Figures of Gestural Manipulation in Digital Fictions	Serge Bouchardon	2014
ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature		2012
Electronic Publishing	Erin Costello	2011
Electronic Literature and the Effects of Cyberspace on the Body	Xiana Sotelo, Maya Zalbidea Paniagua	2014
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2014

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Record posted by:

Serge Bouchardon