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1. The Gravity of the Leaf: Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds

   John Cayley reports on writing and the practice of literary art in the immersive 3D audio-visual environment of the Cave at Brown University, addressing the use of text-as-surface in a three-dimensional space. He develops a conception of new media as “complex surfaces” based on Cave writing courses to confront the relationship between language and embodiment, language and materiality—always attempting to develop a specific literary aesthetics.

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:10

2. Hyperlinking in 3D Interactive, Multimedia Performances

   Dene Grigar discusses ways in which hyperlinks are utilized in three-dimensional multimedia performance works that offer a narrative or poetic focus. In the new spaces of three-dimensional performance environments, hyperlinking can be incorporated as a performative element into the work and therefore always makes a purposeful act necessary for the performance to unfold. Grigar argues that hyperlinking may denote a change of scene, the progression of a poem’s instantiation or the evocation of musical notes comprising a composition.

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:36

3. 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