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1. The Riderly Text: The Joy of Networked Improv Literatur

   This essay aims to discuss literary pleasure, new media literacy, and
   the Networked Improv Literature (Netprov). In particular, the author
   will discuss the challenges of “close-reading” the Speidishow, a
   Netprov enacted via Twitter (and a constellation of supplementary
   web-based media) over a period of several weeks. In the process of
   trying to understand the dynamics of reading on Twitter, the author of
   this essay created a Twitter account, @BrutusCorbin, and consulted
   with the writers about the plot structure. Through active engagement
   with the fictional world, Corbin quickly became embroiled in a
   sub-plot. Seeking distance from the active plots which Corbin was
   involved in, his author created two new characters, @FelixMPastor and
   @FrannyCheshire, to explore different aspects of the fictional world.
   Pastor and Cheshire were subsequently dragged into the story, as well.
   This piece will dig into the concept of the “readerly” and “writerly”
   text as identified by Roland Barthes in S/Z and The Pleasure of the
   Text and settle on a third term: “the riderly text.”

   Sumeya Hassan - 17.02.2015 - 15:59

2. Cave

   The Cave may be considered as an actual existing epitome of media, that is, “new” and “digital” media. Despite the proliferation of 3D stereo graphics as applied to film fi and games, the experience of immersion is still novel and powerful. Potentially and in theory, the Cave simulates human experience in an artificial fi environment that is socalled virtually real. Moreover, because of its association with computational, programmabledevices, anything— any message or media— can be represented within the Cave in the guise of real-seeming things. Caves could and, in fact, have allowed for the exploration of textual—indeed, literary—phenomena in such artificial fi environments. Caves have been intermittently employed for works of digital art, but uniquely, at Brown University, thanks to the pioneering efforts ff of postmodern novelist Robert Coover, there has been an extended pedagogical and research project of this institution’s Literary Arts Department to investigate, since 2001, the question of what it might mean to write in and for such an environment.

   Sumeya Hassan - 06.05.2015 - 19:51