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Navigating the Borders—Edges and Interfaces
Commentary on the panel "Navigating the Borders—Edges and Interfaces" at the 2002 Electronic Literature Symposium: State of the Arts, organized by the Electronic Literature Organization and hosted by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Stuart Moulthrop moderated the panel, which featured Lev Manovich, Raine Koskimaa, Kate Pullinger, and Diana Slattery.
Patricia Tomaszek - 25.08.2011 - 15:23
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Wreader's Digest - How To Appreciate Hyperfiction
Compared to its age - or youth - hyperfiction is a rather well-theorized genre. Hyperfiction-criticism either praises its subject as evolved print-text and better realization of contemporary literary theory - or deplore its - allegedly - low literary quality. What is missing, however, are in-depth readings of digital fiction that deemphasize theory and try to appreciate this new genre for what it has to offer.
In this "paper", I will read two hyperfictions that are not among the two or three canonized texts that are relatively well-known and often-quoted. Both John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse and Sarah Smith's King of Space deal with central issues of hypertext-theory - in content as well as formally. They are about agency and sense-making, ironically deconstructing mainstream theory's claims that digital, hyperlinked texts activate readers into a de-facto author-position. They are also representations of contemporary life that may be difficult to read at first but also make strangely adequate and enjoyable texts for today's readers. (Source: abstract in journal)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 12:01
