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From Instrumental Texts to Textual Instruments
From Instrumental Texts to Textual Instruments
Patricia Tomaszek - 09.10.2012 - 13:27
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'This is Not a Game': Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play
'This is Not a Game': Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play
Jill Walker Rettberg - 12.06.2013 - 15:15
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Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading and Playing Cadre’s Varicella
ABSTRACT: We consider a specific character, Princess Charlotte, in the 1999 interactive fiction work Varicella by Adam Cadre. To appreciate and solve this work, the interactor must both interpret the texts that result (as a literary reader does) and also operate the cybertextual machine of the program, acting as a game player and trying to understand the system of Varicella’s simulated world. We offer a close reading focusing on Charlotte, examining the functions she performs in the potential narratives and in the game. Through this example, we find that in interactive fiction — and we believe in other new media forms with similar goals — works must succeed as literature and as game at once to be effective. We argue that a fruitful critical perspective must consider both of these aspects in a way that goes beyond simple dichotomies or hierarchies.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 23:06
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Drugs, Machines & Friendships: Cybertext, Collaboration, and the Beatles
That spark of interaction that happens during a successful and inspired collaboration is as important as it is elusive. Said spark involves friends having fun together, and may be beyond the grasp of traditional academic language. Chemistry is an apt metaphor, and while it is unreasonable to expect a theoretical chemical formula to reproduce the web of motivations, sensibilities, and techniques that underlie a collaborative work of art, some strands can be identified. I am particularly concerned with the role of Producer, as well as certain types of feedback between machines and artists that shape the artists' intentions.
Scott Rettberg - 05.07.2013 - 11:39
