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1. Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing

   Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 09:48

2. Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing

   This installment of the Iowa Review Web explores the function of place and space in recent new media writing. Each of the four interviews concern works that in some way attempt to reconfigure our understanding of the relationship between space and storytelling. Each of the primary works discussed in these interviews also pushes space in another sense, in that each attempts to explore a new "possibility space" on the boundary between different forms and fields of multimedia experience: between story and game, between game and drama, between literature and conceptual art, between game and performance. The introduction contextualizes the narrative function of space in a number of recent works of electronic literature.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 09:53

3. Behind Façade: An Interview with Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas

   Harger's interview with Mateas and Stern focuses on the development of theiir conception of interactive drama and the Façade project.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 10:33

4. Avant-Gaming: An Interview with Jane McGonigal

   The interview focueses on McGonigal's work in alternate reality gaming.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 10:47

5. Machinic minds and posthuman bodies: the complexities of intimacy in three electronic works by Shelley Jackson

   In her three electronic works, Shelley Jackson exacerbates the tension between self-writing and the diffraction of subjectivity, as she engages with a more explicit autobiographic form. Shifting from hyperfiction in Patchwork Girl (1995) to a fictionalized exercise in remembering through the scrutiny of her body parts in My Body & A Wunderkammer (1997), she eventually explores a pseudo-historiographic and documentary approach of the games she used to play with her sister in The Doll Games (2001), a work closer to an online family album of sorts. The present article purports to interrogate the preservation of the intimate in a context of public self-exposure through an archival electronic medium. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 22.05.2011 - 13:30

6. Body Webs: Re/constructing Boundaries in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl

   Body Webs: Re/constructing Boundaries in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 22.05.2011 - 13:44

7. Event and Meaning: Reading Interactive Installations in the Light of Art History

   Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in a close reading of two interactive in- stallations that they do not simply create an event as “a period of time to be lived through” (Bourriaud 15). Looking at Still Standing by Bruno Nadeau and Jason Lewis and Zachary Booth Simpson’s Mondrian, Simanowski maintains that these pieces do not only offer two different concepts of the interactors’ actions and hence body experiences; they also engage in a very difficult way with the issues of inter- and transmediality and thereby refer to the history of the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:50

8. A Poetic Homage -- of the 3-Letter, 3-Word Variety

   A review of mIEKAL aND's "after emmett: a dispersion of ninetiles."

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 14:59

9. The Gravity of the Leaf: Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds

   John Cayley reports on writing and the practice of literary art in the immersive 3D audio-visual environment of the Cave at Brown University, addressing the use of text-as-surface in a three-dimensional space. He develops a conception of new media as “complex surfaces” based on Cave writing courses to confront the relationship between language and embodiment, language and materiality—always attempting to develop a specific literary aesthetics.

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:10

10. Beyond the Complex Surface

    Noah Wardrip-Fruin analyzes how the relations between audience experience and underlying processes apply to interactive works. Referring to Cayley’s conception, he focuses on such works that turn the recipient’s attention to the complexity of their “complex surfaces.” While most authoring of electronic lit- erature has so far focused on data and processes, Wardrip-Fruin argues for using innovations at the surface levels to allow for new literary and artistic experiences.

    (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

    Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:31

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