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Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography
Illya Szilak interviews J. R. Carpenter in her on-going series of posts on E-Lit for Huffington Post Books.
J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 11:54
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Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology
While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also engaging precisely such media as a way of talking about what it means to write and read narrative in a society filled with stories told outside the print medium. By examining how some of our best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. He considers well-known postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, more-accessible authors like Maxine Hong Kingston and Oscar Hijuelos, and unjustly overlooked writers like Susan Daitch and Kenneth Gangemi, and asks how their works investigate the nature and limits of print as a medium for storytelling.
J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 12:20
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Discourse Timer: Towards Temporally Dynamic Texts
This paper studies the possibilities of temporally dynamic digital texts. Temporal dynamics may be either dependent on the reader's use of time, or independent of it. Using the categories defined in narratology as our starting point, we outline a list of simple functions that allow a very complex temporal manipulation of narrative digital texts. We will also describe a set of authoring tools, Discourse Timer, which is specifically designed to employ these functions.
(Source: Authors' abstract)
Scott Rettberg - 08.07.2013 - 15:54
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Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice
Look up the book's content: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781577663188.pdf
Cheryl Ball - 20.08.2013 - 11:53
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Digital Games and Electronic Literature: Toward an Intersectional Analysis
The line between electronic literature and digital games has started to blur more than ever. For example, Christine Love’s 2012 Analogue: A Hate Story can be read as a literary “story” that builds on the visual novel form. However, critic Leif Johnson (of IGN) reviewed Analogue as a “game-like experience” and even a “game” that “neatly sidesteps the label of mere ‘interactive fiction’ like Love’s other games thanks to some smart design choices.” Phill Cameron (of Eurogamer) describes Analogue repeatedly as a “game” and also reflects on its deviation from the “interactive fiction” category. The slippage between the language of fiction and games, in such mainstream reviews, reveals a fascinating taxonomic undecidability. Though Analogue’s “textual” focus makes it a natural boundary object between electronic literature and digital games, this tension extends to games that incorporate minimal text or even no text at all. In this presentation, I focus on Thatgamecompany’s third and most critically-acclaimed game, Journey, which was also released in 2012. In Journey, the player guides a mysterious robed avatar through a desert and up a mountain.
Stig Andreassen - 25.09.2013 - 14:46
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Mapping a Web of Words
An amalgamation of a series of lectures presented at Acadia University, Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, tracing the influence and use of maps in the web-based works of J. R. Carpenter.
J. R. Carpenter - 28.09.2013 - 16:03
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The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext
The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext
Patricia Tomaszek - 11.10.2013 - 19:14
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Collaborative Narrative
Brief entry on collaborative narrative situating collaboration in hypertext and online writing contexts.
Collaboratively written narratives are not specific to new media: a number of works within the Western cultural and literary canon, for example the epics of Homer, the Judeo-Christian Bible, and Beowulf, are believed to have been developed through collaborative storytelling and writing processes. It can however be said that collaborative writing practices are more prevalent in contemporary digital media than in print.
Electronic literature authors most often write within software platforms that are themselves “authored”—every time someone opens up Photoshop, or Flash, they are reminded of the long list of developers who actually wrote the software. So even making use of a particular application is a type of collaboration. There is a greater degree of transparency to the collective efforts involved in digital media production than to traditional literary production.
(Source: Author's introduction)
Scott Rettberg - 01.11.2013 - 11:53
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Performing Assemblages of Collective Enunciation in 'The Broadside of a Yarn'
Traditionally, visual, computational, performing, and literary arts referred to separate corpora, theoretical frameworks, modes of production, venues, and audiences. This persistent separation proves problematic for creating, disseminating, experiencing, and theorising multi-modal work which draws equally upon multiple artistic and scientific traditions. This paper adopts a necessarily hybrid approach to addresses a multi-modal body of practice-led research. The Broadside of a Yarn remediates the broadside, a performative form of networked narrative popular from 16th century onward. Like the broadside ballads of old, the public posting of The Broadside of a Yarn signifies that it is intended to be performed. Embedded within the cartographic space of the printed map are QR codes which link to computer-generated narrative dialogues composed of fragments culled from a corpus of print literature. These are presented as performance scripts replete with ‘stage’ instructions suggesting how and where they might be performed. As such, these points on the physical map point to potential events, to utterances, to speech acts.
J. R. Carpenter - 21.11.2013 - 17:02
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Leituras de Nós: Ciberespaço e Literatura
The essay Leituras de Nós: Ciberespaço e Literatura tries to understand the paths of poetic creation on computers and networks, mapping hypertext, programs and pages that apparently showed poems and literary works in the Internet. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM publishing a poem to be read in a system of hypertext navigation. (Source: Itáu Cultural. Translation: Álvaro Seiça)
Alvaro Seica - 02.12.2013 - 11:39
