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Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions
Tin Towns and Other Excel Fictions is an ongoing, open-ended collection of short fiction experiments that explore the obscurities and unintended consequences of human technology over the centuries. The genesis was an investigation into some of the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, including the shortage of tin. Critical developments in metals, nuclear energy, farming practices, and biological warfare are just some of the topics included in these works.
(Source: The NEXT)
Author's statement:
We normally think of fiction narratives as represented in linear text. Yet, electronic literature works – the born digital varieties - have been created with and contained in a range of innovative and often non-linear applications.
Amber Strother - 27.08.2021 - 17:26
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Tarim Tapestry
Tarim Tapestry is a collection of short fiction works inspired by the ancient history and folklore of the Taklamakan Desert in central Asia. It includes The Beauty of Loulan, The Witches of Subeshi, Tocharian Love Song, The Myth of Lop Nor, and Tales of the Silk Road.
From the Electronic Literature Directory:
In the remote Tarim basin, near the Peacock River, 4000 years ago, lived a woman who has come to be named The Beauty of Loulan. When she was buried, she wore a middy skirt, fur boots, a woven woolen cloak decorated with long loops, and a felt and wool hood topped with a decorative feather. Beside her was a basket containing grains of wheat – a winnowing tray covered her.
This well-preserved mummy is part of a series of mummies discovered in the far western desert in present-day China (Xinjiang), which date from 2000 BCE to 200 CE.
Amber Strother - 27.08.2021 - 17:35
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Negative Confessions
Negative Confessions is part of Ted Warnell’s suite of code poetry, Poems by Nari. Concept development: M.D. Coverley and Ted Warnell. Book of the Dead background texts: M.D. Coverley, Site design and programming: Ted Warnell, M.D. Coverley. Negative Confessions is adapted from the Book of Going Forth by Day, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated and transliterated by E.A. Wallis Budge.
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Amber Strother - 27.08.2021 - 22:18
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M is for Nottingham?
M is for Nottingham? was an experimental project launched for the tRace Incubation 2 Conference in Nottingham, UK in 2002. It combined an online collaborative writing project and a live drama that enacted the “mystery” that the contributors wrote at the conference. All attendees were invited to join in the collaborative writing of the mystery story M is for Nottingham?. Each participant could choose a character from the list of historic Nottingham personages (including Nat Turner and The White Lady). Then the characters set about writing the story of the dead corpse (or corpus) – was the Book Dead? And, if so, who was the murderer?
The writing was carried on for three months before the conference. At the conferencethe participants “played” the character they had created on stage for the entire conference attendees. It has not been possible to preserve the chat function that accommodated the writing process, but the exte3nsive website, which also provided an introduction to Nottingham history and culture, is available except for the Flash portions.
Amber Strother - 27.08.2021 - 22:23
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Genetis: A Rhizography
"Genetis: A Rhizography," is a hypertext story written in Storyspace. The reader has to explore serveral chapters; Myth, Parable, Allegory, Legend and Theory and try to make connection between these chapters. The work is heavily focused on trauma and finding knowledge. This is also encouraged by the fact that the work is non-sequential, where different parts of the text is scattered, but still fits together and the goal is to find these connections and meanings yourself rather then them being explained directly.
Dene Grigar - 01.09.2021 - 17:58
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Mysterious Basement Machines of the Prairie or Uncontrollable Semantics Part Two
Mysterious Basement Machines of the Prairie or Uncontrollable Semantics Part Two is a sequel of sorts to [Nelson's] Uncontrollable Semantics. It’s created specifically for tablets and uses interactive elements which respond to cursor and swipe movement. Each of the sections is a new power, mysterious and unreachable and yet entirely engrossing.
(Source: The NEXT)
Richard Snyder - 09.09.2021 - 22:12
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The Boy in the Book
The Boy in the Book is an interactive web adaption of the live show Choose Your Own Documentary, created by writer Nathan Penlington and film-makers Fernando Gutierrez De Jesus, Sam Smaïl and Nick Watson. It blends illustration, documentary film, and text in the format of an online chat feed to weave a narrative that follows Nathan’s real-life pursuit of Terence Prendergast, the previous owner of a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure Books whose diary Nathan finds between their pages. In the same vein as Choose Your Own Adventure genre, there are six different endings, all achievable via selecting different options within the narrative.
The work itself focuses on the lasting effects of childhood experiences, with Penlington looking back at his own childhood alongside the search.
Tegan Pyke - 10.09.2021 - 17:14
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Encounter
Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. (source: Wikipedia)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 12.09.2021 - 18:50
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marbel + matrikel
A soundplay of original written text and music, which was also published as a stand alone written text.
A story about two human beings who decide to go through with an operation that could give them eternal youth. The operation goes wrong and all of their experiences, memories, sense of time and place, and knowledge is lost. What they regain is not quite the same.
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 16.09.2021 - 12:00
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Jetzt? Oder der höchste Augenblick
This entry has a philosophical impact: "He developed a theory from the observation that when one is young, one thinks mainly of the future, but when one is old one thinks of the past; Namely that there has to be a moment in a persons life when one is completely in the moment and with oneself. Now one is waiting for that moment, and one is afraid it will pass by". So begins a hypertext ("observation", "future", "past", "theory" etc. are links) that then continues in a life-philosophical way. "It is a strongly networked labyrinth with one enterance and without an exit" says Nils Ehlert himself, "the texts on the pages are about the thoughts and experiences of a main character, and are connected to each other by links associatively rather than causally. Pictures (mostly photos) and small animations illustrate and comment the contents of the texts".
Simanowski, Roberto (Ed.): Literatur.digital. Formen und Wege einer neuen Literatur. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2002, S. 164 f. Translated by Kine-Lise M. Skjeldal.
Kine-Lise Madsen Skjeldal - 16.09.2021 - 12:02
