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1. Technologies That Describe: Data Visualization and Contemporary Fiction

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   Presented on Saturday, 7 January at the 2012 MLA Convention, panel 442, "New Media, New Pedagogies," arragned by the Division of Prose Fiction. Other panelists included John David Zuern, Jay Clayton, and the moderator, Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.01.2012 - 10:56

2. Reading Augmented Spaces and the Dimensions that Define Them

   Most new media work establishes interactivity within a curated installation space: a gallery, a festival, or an area whose purpose is to exhibit art. However, recent experiments in new media narratives have made use of the capabilities of smartphones and tablets to present experiences that are aware of the user’s position in space and
   even their current behavior or object of attention.

   Specifically,augmented reality works set themselves apart by re-contextualizing environments and objects encountered in everyday life, removing the fourth wall and blurring or eliminating an interactive experience's boundaries. This differs markedly from the purism of the imagination tapped by literature, and often even favors more realistic integration, in contrast to stylistic depictions and abstractions used in monitor-based works. Augmented reality’s strength and interest lies in how it embeds a story in an environment, or how it can be used to awaken new awareness of a viewer to their surroundings. This bridges the world of the reader with the diegesis of the narrative, resulting in works that react to the immediacy of the experienced space.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 15:13

3. Narrative (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space

   Under consumer culture, self-surveillance—the act of submitting your own data to corporate interests like Amazon, TiVo or Facebook—becomes a revolutionary gesture of participation (Andrejevic 15)…or so corporate interests would have us believe. With the advent of social media, we now log our own data in the service of multinationals as we
   seemingly embrace the arrival of a technological Big Brother. Several digital media artists, however, have turned the tables or, more exactly, the camera on themselves by using digital media and self-surveillance as a means of creating new digital narratives.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:21

4. Focalization and Digital Fiction

   Focalization and Digital Fiction

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.09.2012 - 07:23

5. Constructs of the Interactive Documentary Image in Inside/Outside, The Unknown Territories Project, and Estuary

   This paper introduces three original works that use features of interactive documentary arts to explore social constructions of places and their attending narratives. The three interactive projects that are introduced are Inside/Outside, The Unknown Territories Project, and Estuary. The paper asks how tools of layering, compositing and navigation through documentary imagery in photography and film contribute to an understanding of the connection between social relationships and a sense of space.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2013 - 16:32