34 North 118 West

Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the turn of the century Railroads were synonymous with power, speed and modernization. Telegraphs and Railroads were our first cross-country infrastructures, preceding the Internet. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk.

34 North 118 West plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System card and headphones. GPS tracks your location to determine how the story unfolds as you uncover the early industrial era of Los Angeles.

(Source: Authors' description from the project site)

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 7: Divergent Streams
International Electronic Literature by Women Authors 1986-2024
Reimagining the City: Interventions of Digital Texts in Physical Spaces
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

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Locative Narrative, Literature and Form	Jeremy Hight	2010
Narrative Archaeology and the New Narrativology	Jeremy Hight	2004
On Locative Narrative	Rita Raley	2008
Posthyperfiction: Practices in Digital Textuality	Scott Rettberg	2015
Textopia: Experiments with Locative Literature	Anders Sundnes Løvlie	2010
Toward a Mobile and Geolocative E-Lit Aesthetic: Curatorial Statement for MLA 2012 Exhibit “Electronic Literature”	Kathi Inman Berens	2011
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2009
Walk This Way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience	Rita Raley	2010
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks	J. R. Carpenter	2015

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