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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
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Cyborg Tactics and Perilous Hermeneutics in Lexia to Perplexia Shifts in materiality across space.
Cyborg Tactics and Perilous Hermeneutics in Lexia to Perplexia Shifts in materiality across space¬—from monitor to cell phone screen, from private bedroom to public bus—alter experience and sway meaning. But time also entails an expectation of change that sometimes never comes: works of electronic literature often go without the steady updates to security, appearance, and functionality that corporate software enjoys, turning into strange ruins that, if not broken, carry that possibility. Eight years after the publication of Katherine Hayles’s Writing Machines, my paper returns to one of the book’s case studies, Talan Memmott’s Lexia to Perplexia, with the goal of investigating the effects of the passing years on the hermeneutics instilled in the user by the text. Focusing on the instability that time and software evolutions have sown, I argue that in this uncertain environment, the recourse of the user is a heightened emphasis on investigation, experimentation, and attempted recovery. With these motivations in mind, I turn to various palimpsests in the text, features of Lexia that straddle the divide between the literary technique and the glitch.
Audun Andreassen - 20.03.2013 - 09:24
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Machines à écrire
Sur les pas de Raymond Queneau et de Georges Perec...
Un conte à votre façon
Une découverte intuitive de ce conte interactif imaginé par Queneau. Les indices visuels et sonores vous invitent à composer votre version de l'histoire des «trois alertes petits pois».Cent mille milliards de poèmes
Cinq mises en scènes originales de l'œuvre de Queneau qui vous permettent de manipuler puis écouter ces poèmes d'anthologie.243 cartes postales en couleurs véritables
Voyagez en «écoutant» cette surprenante collection de cartes conçue par Georges Perec et initiez-vous aux secrets de cet art particulier : écrire une bonne carte postale. Où les textes les plus simples cachent des procédés savants.Ateliers d'écriture : jeux et expérimentations
Un formidable outil pour composer ses propres textes combinatoires et s'amuser avec les mots : loterie lexicale, fabrique de cartes postales, traitement de texte factoriel...Scott Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 16:17
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The Numberlys: An Interplay Between History, Urban Life and Technology in a Children’s Story App
The presentation will explore narrative, intertextual and ideological aspects of The Numberlys iPad/iPhone app (http://www.numberlys.com/). The app, produced by Moonbot Studios and released in 2012, received an American Annie award for excellence in the field of animation in 2013.
The Numberlys is a fanciful tale about the origin of the alphabet. In a world where ways of organization and communication are based on numbers and nobody has a name, only a number, five friends decide to build the alphabet by transforming numbers into letters. By inventing the alphabet the five protagonists let the inhabitants acquire a personal name. Thus the app raises existential questions concerning the construction of identity and our needs for recognition.
The story is set in a futuristic cityscape inspired by the German-Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang’s landmark 1927 silent film Metropolis. Other intertextual references include ABC books, German expressionism, popular early fantasy epics like King Kong, Flash Gordon and Superman, the Macintosh tv-commercial 1984 and more. Thus The Numberlys seems to address both children and adults.Hannah Ackermans - 03.11.2015 - 11:28
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Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager
The author discusses his computer music composition, Voyager, which employs a computer-driven, interactive “virtual improvising orchestra” that analyzes an improvisor’s performance in real time, generating both complex responses to the musician’s playing and independent behavior arising from the program’s own internal processes. The author contends that notions about the nature and function of music are embedded in the structure of software-based music systems and that interactions with these systems tend to reveal characteristics of the community of thought and culture that produced them. Thus, Voyager is considered as a kind of computer music-making embodying African-American aesthetics and musical practices.
Hannah Ackermans - 29.03.2016 - 16:28
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Platforms for Multilingual Tele-Immersive Storytelling and Improvisation
Theatre is a sometimes forgotten casualty of the current pandemic. Social distancing precludes the assembly necessary for participatory theatre. Theatre and theatrical improvisation rely on participants--performers and audiences alike--gathering in the same space, exploiting their physical proximity to tell stories. Because of the limited modalities of communication, virtual gatherings using video-conferencing platforms are, at best, an ersatz solution for audiences longing for connection in an ever more disconnected world. While some performance groups have embraced tele-conferencing and streaming for workshops, practice and performance, many theatre makers and performers are preferring to temporarily pause while waiting for the conditions of performance to resume [1]. We took the opposite view, believing that live theatre cannot wait for the pandemic to wane.
We therefore built a computer tool for online performance. Our system, called the Virtual Director, enables actors to recreate a feeling of presence with stage partners while performing and storytelling remotely [2].
Milosz Waskiewicz - 25.05.2021 - 14:28
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"A Case Study in the Design of Interactive Narrative: The Subversion of the Interface"
'There is a potential conflict in the design of interactive narratives. The exercise of interaction in digital environments, including games, may interfere with the experience of story. The article uses the interactive CDROMCEREMONYOFINNOCENCE as a case study in the resolution of this potential conflict. It frames the design of this interactive narrative as the reconciliation of two independent design domains: the design of narrative and interactive design. Narrative design seeks a state of immersive surrender to the work. In contrast, interaction privileges choice and its consequences according to the logic of the interactive world. CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE uses two tactics to overcome this disjuncture. The first is the broad infusion of narrative sensibilities in the detailed design of the work’s subsidiary craft (sound, graphics, moving images, and text). The second tactic is to suborn certain design specifics of the interactive interface to the goals of narrative design.'
(Source: from the article abstract)
Agnete Thomassen Steine - 22.09.2021 - 11:59
