Search

The search found 4 results in 0.013 seconds.

Search results

1. View from Within

   View from Within is an experiment in storytelling using an infinite canvas framework. The project was inspired by Scott McCloud’s vision for the future of webcomics as an infinite canvas, with the browser as a portal to an experience unbounded by the traditional borders of the printed page. The work is constructed from layers of hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations all viewed as if at one scale, and thus incapable of forming a coherent scaling scene without a zooming digital framework. When used continuously in this manner, the infinite canvas does not resemble the panel-based methods of sequential art: the space in-between, along, and outside the path are as or more essential than the linear chain of nodes. This iteration is built in Unity as a 2D canvas designed for viewing through a prototype augmented reality headset, the Seebright. The Seebright uses a set of mirrors and optics to overlay a stereographic view of a smartphone screen in front of the viewer. By eliminating the physical screen, we can explore the idea of the infinite canvas as a virtual construction, fully removed from the metaphor of page and portal. (Source: ELO 2014 Conference)

   Marius Ulvund - 29.01.2015 - 14:51

2. And Speak of Long Ago Times

   A 21st century art historian confronts the known and the unknown in both his life and his work, as - in a polyphonic 19th century remix - And Speak of Long Ago Times replays the words of 19th century Florentine sculptor Giovanni Duprè; replays Giuseppe Verdi's words from his autobiography that concern his antislavery opera Nabucco; replays the Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery which was published in London in 1837 and went through at least 11 editions. It is 1842. The Irish American sculptor Hiram Powers is in his studio in Florence, creating a model for The Greek Slave. It is the year that Nabucco premiered at La Scala in Milan. The Irish woman poet Frances Browne has just published "Songs of Our Land" in the Irish Penny Journal.

   Marius Ulvund - 05.02.2015 - 15:51

3. Examining the Role of Micronarrative in Commercial Videogames, Art Games and Interactive Narrative

   Integrating story with games in a flexible way that gives interactors meaningful choices within a narrative experience has long been a goal of both game developers and digital storytellers. The "micronarrative" is an unexplored avenue of narrative structure that can be a useful tool in analysis and design of such experiences. A micronarrative is a smaller moment of plot coherence and miniature arc that is nested within a larger narrative structure. The concept was first labeled by Jenkins in 2004 in the context of a game's "meaningful moments" and expanded upon in Bizzocchi's 2007 analytical framework for videogame storytelling. It has its roots in earlier examinations of arc and scale, such as Propp's concept of "Functions" or McKee's "Beats" in literature, as well as in Barthes’ classification of a “hierarchy of levels or strata” which incorporates “micro-sequences” as described in his structural analysis of narrative (1975).

   Daniela Ørvik - 17.02.2015 - 15:57

4. Collaborative World Building in Networked Classrooms: Experiments in Electronic Writing and Digital Dissertations

   This paper discusses my theory of incremental storytelling, a methodology for teaching fiction writing that combines gaming, collaborative writing, and digital storytelling. Most creative writing courses employ some variation of the traditional workshop format where students write and critique each other’s fiction, often using published work by established writers as models for emulation. While this approach has its merits, it typically presents traditional print culture as superior to other narrative forms and reinforces romantic notions of the lone artist toiling in isolation on a muse-inspired work of genius. Incremental storytelling works in opposition to these assumptions, recasting the creative writing classroom as an inherently collaborative space where modest contributions from each participant results in an exponentially richer fictional environment. (Source Author Abstract)

   Sumeya Hassan - 19.02.2015 - 15:42