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A New Literary Information System: GPS, The Global Poetic System: Bringing Electronic Literature To The Greater Public
The Global Poetic System (GPS) is an information system that explores four types of interfaces (mobile phones, PDA, desktop applications, and Web application) and three manners of reading (literary adaptive texts, literary classic texts, texts constructed by community interaction) through an interface that delivers literary content based upon real-time geographic positioning. This project is being executed by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Spain) and the Advanced Research Center in Artificial Intelligence (CAVIIAR, USA) thanks to a 200,000€ grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Technology for one year of execution during 2008. The GPS is an ambitious project that tries to incorporate the literature into the space of digital technologies, bringing the literature over to the greater public. It presents one of the most complex multi-channel, multimodal information systems to date. This talk will offer a preview and a sample of the text.
(Source: ELO 2008 site)
Hannah Ackermans - 06.04.2016 - 13:57
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Inside God's Toolbox
Jon Adams rifles through the instrument cabinet of the man upstairs by way of William J. Jackson’s Heaven’s Fractal Net. Adams finds more problems than solutions in Jackson’s position that fractals are a fundamental and universal structure of life - a position Jackson stakes out by vacillating between scholarly proof and speculative guruism.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/thaumotropic)
Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:17
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Storytelling Games as a Creative Medium
Will Hindmarch contests Greg Costikyan’s challenge to the idea that “games have something to do with stories” by contending that “storytelling games reconcile the theoretically antithetical relationship between their two halves - story and game.”
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:52
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Making Games That Make Stories
James Wallis uses genre as the fulcrum for balancing game rules and narrative structure in story-telling games, which he differentiates from RPGs through their emphasis on the creation of narrative over character development.
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:53
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Structure and Meaning in Role-Playing Game Design
Using Exalted as her text, Rebecca Borgstrom begins with the premises that every role-playing game requires a setting, and that to establish a fictional world players work within a mutually agreed upon structure to construct meaning.
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:55
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Structure and Meaning in Role-Playing Game Design
Using Exalted as her text, Rebecca Borgstrom begins with the premises that every role-playing game requires a setting, and that to establish a fictional world players work within a mutually agreed upon structure to construct meaning.
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:56
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On Life's Lottery
Kim Newman describes various methods of approaching his choose-your-own-adventure-style novel, which can be read or played because, like a role-playing game, “you are at once a reader and the main character.”
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:58
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Creating a Meaning-Machine: The Deck of Stories Called Life in the Garden
Eric Zimmerman describes his interactive paper book as “an inverted exquisite corpse,” and although a digital version of the book would be easy to produce, he argues that an electronic edition would not produce as meaningful an experience as the printed volume.
Andre Lund - 16.10.2017 - 13:59
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Tape for the Turn of the Year: Conversations with and about Daniel Wenk
Recorded by Joseph Tabbi. A week in the life of the artist.
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Juan Manuel Altadill Casas - 17.10.2017 - 15:09
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Black Postmodernism
Amy J. Elias reviews Madhu Dubey’s second book Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism and gauges the argument that we can locate within literary history a distinctive African American strain of postmodernism.
Ana Castello - 06.12.2017 - 20:27
