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1. The Bomar Gene

   While most social dynamics focus on the exterior of the human condition, the outward body and its many appearances, it is the interior, the cellular level of humanness that has the greatest influence on who we become. And yet, those microscopic worlds inside our bodies, the genetic codes that drive our growth and eventual dissolution have eluded any attempt at full comprehension. Yet these discoveries are, sadly, subject to power relations that claim ownership over gene sequences and sell back to us cynical futurities of an ideal human form through genetic manipulation. This new science, what some are calling 'the hinge' in contemporary human development, drives and bursts the net-based new media creation "The Bomar Gene".

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 22:43

2. The Glass Snail: a Pre-Christmas Tale

   A hypertext fiction using the Word Circuits Connection Muse. The story includes two alternate beginning chapters and two alternate ends.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 12:57

3. Morpheus: Biblionaut

   The story of a poet sent to Alpha Centauri to test a nuclear bomb that can destroy a planet, who returns to Earth to discover that Earth has a ring instead of a moon and that there is - perhaps - no longer life there. The narrative is told linearly and lasts for about 20 minutes, with no opportunity to rewind  - it’s worth watching in a single setting though, both for the story itself and for the grungy space visuals created by Travis Alber: a scratched metal background with a window through which to watch the stars passing by, and dream images superimposed on or maybe reflected in the dull, stained metal.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 13:42

4. Gamely Interstitial: Narrative, Excess, and Artifactual Interstanding

   Moulthrop's 1999 Cybermountain keynote, delivered in a MOO online, addresses connections between games, comics, visual narratives, and contemporary web-based and hypertext fictions, emerging from postmodernist media and literary landscape.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 10:49

5. Tokyo Garage

   A poetry generator for the imaginary city. Tokyo Garage is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge" -- a nature poem generator built in javascript. Rettberg modified the code and substituted all of the language of Montfort's work to create this poetry generator, which plays with received stereotypes of the Tokyo metropolis and of urbanity in general. A machinimatic reading was prepared for the DAC 2009 conference, including a clown reading the poem to an imaginary audience.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 12:26

6. All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective. Narratives, and Architectures of Participation

   This essay is an exploration of the history and methodologies of collective narrative projects, and their relationship to collective knowledge projects and methodologies. By examining different forms of conscious, contributory, and unwitting participation, the essay attempts to develop a richer understanding of successful large-scale collaborative projects. The essay then examines large-scale architectures of participation in Wikipedia and Flickr to extrapolate from those observations potential methodologies for the creation of collective narratives.

   (Source: Author's abstract)

   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 18:08

7. Tristessa

   Tristessa is a narrative machine that generates short stories. Words and phrases are combined to produce a new story each time the program is run, but as you see when you read some of Tristessa's stories the structure remains the same.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 13:07

8. Urheilulajeja hentorakenteisille

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   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 14:31

9. The Death of a Factory

   A hypertextual, mulitmodal report on old, abandoned factories, and about the people who still work in the factory spaces. Through stories in text, spoken voice, music, other sounds, still images and moving images, we are shown how abandoned factories have become the basis of cultural production, often now functioning as cultural centres and attractions. This hypertext speaks in favour of protecting and repurposing old factory spaces that are threatened with demolition. The hypertext calls itself a report, but could also be connected to the genres of narrative and of documentary, digital visual art, digital movies, sound art and digital installation. (Source: description by Hans Kristian Rustad)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 14:53

10. Polyaesthetics in Digital Literary Arts: Steve Tomasula's TOC and Multimedia Fiction

    The paper discusses Tomasula's digital fiction TOC as part of a group of contemporary literary works that mirror ongoing cultural, aesthetic and technical transformations. As a part of what the author discusses as the condition of polyaesthetics in contemporary arts, TOC and similar works challenge readers to engage in multiple modes of reading practices. The works are characterized by tensions and creative production across media forms, conventions, and cultural contexts of digital and printed works.

    Maria Engberg - 28.03.2011 - 14:10

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