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1. Magic-Tree

   magic-tree is an interactive online narrative first published on the web in 2001, commissioned by Paul Bonaventura of the Laboratory at the Ruskin School, Oxford.

   The website uses animation, video, audio and printed text and was designed for the fastest internet connection of the time - 56K. At launch, a limited edition of boxes containing physical components of the story we offered free. The boxes were perfumed and contained a crystal ‘magic-tree’ kit, several mint/chocolate twigs, a bag of soil and some cherry pips.

   In its story, as well as its form, magic-tree addresses questions about how we interact with web fiction.

   The site only works with Internet Explorer and requires Quicktime. It takes a few hours to complete the four chapters.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 23:54

2. Placing

   Placing

   Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 22:23

3. Mola

   Mola

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 14:33

4. The Babysitter

   “The Babysitter,” published in Pricksongs and Descants (1969), is a classic of postmodern fiction. The story consists of over one hundred fragments – paragraphs set off from each other by space breaks, that take us through multiple and divergent sequences of what might have or what could have occurred during the course of one evening between a babysitter, a baby, her boyfriend, and the mother and father of the house. Although chronological progression takes place in the story, as we move from 7:40 pm into the late hours of the night, the distinction between objective reality and fantasy falls away as we read the fragments, and every possibility has equal opportunity to be visited. “The Babysitter” is one of the best examples in print of the idea of multilinearity that digital hypertext seemed poised to exploit, a story that is not one progression of events, but many possible progressions of events branching from the same tree.

   (Source: Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg)
    

   Scott Rettberg - 17.08.2013 - 16:47

5. Book of Endings

   Referred to by the author as a network fiction.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.04.2014 - 20:02

6. Nada tiene sentido

   Nada tiene sentido (Nothing makes sense) by Isabel Ara and Iñaki Lorenzo is a digital diary whose narrator is desperate because he cannot get out of his bedroom, the only thing he can do is typing how he feels on his computer. Once we are reading and watching this autobiography we realize that we are reading the reflections of a schizophrenic person that finishes by losing the logical word order and whose identity is fragmented until it dissolves itself into the virtual space. ("Literatura digital en español" de Dolores Romero López) (http://www.mcu.es/lectura/pdf/v11_dolores_romero.pdf)

   Maya Zalbidea - 15.06.2014 - 21:17

7. Cardamom of the Dead

   Written in Unity for use with Oculus RIFT glasses, Cardamom of the Dead is a literary VR environment - the user wanders through a virtual environment filled with a vast collection of things a narrator, heard in voice-over, has hoarded over years (decades? centuries?).  The environment is filled with debris and stories and the piece is ultimately a meditation on collecting as madness, consoling practice and memory palace.

   (Source: ELO 2014 Media Arts Show)

   Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2014 - 19:14

8. Tavs

   This manga-inspired graphic novel app is about thirteen-year-old Tavs, who chooses his name (meaning “silent”) when he writes a declaration to his parents: “From now on I will be silent”. The story is about the loneliness and loss Tavs feels upon the death of his twin and his family’s move to Tokyo. TAVS is a fantasy narrative with gothic, humorous and boy-meets-girl elements and references to haiku and manga. The app mixes text, music, still images, sound effects and animation into an immersive aesthetic experience. For example, as we read of Tavs’ sorrow and frustration the words begin to fall down from the screen and the reader has to take an active part in the reading process by grabbing the sentences. The chapters show great variation, operating between expressive powerful animations and stills and black pages, between strong sound effects and silence and between spoken and written words, right up to the final fight between the twins; between life and death. (source: ELO 2015 catalog)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 17.09.2014 - 15:47

9. Toxi•City

   Toxi•City is a combinatory piece in which narrative segments and a chorus of historical anecdotes chronicling deaths from Hurricane Sandy are drawn from a data-based of materials. The database contains over one hour of materials and the clips are combined based on keywords. In Toxi•City, 6 characters describe conditions living in a future shaped by global warming and climate change. The film takes place in the industrial river setting on the US east coast. (Source: Author's description)

   Alvaro Seica - 11.11.2014 - 21:06

10. And the Robot Horse You Rode In On

    The post-apocalypse is a uniquely queer setting: a future where the institutions that keep queer banditas from screaming across the desert with their rayguns drawn and robot horses vibrating between their legs are ash and dust. And the Robot Horse You Rode In On is a breakup story set in the Old West of the Far Future.

    (Source: ELO Conference 2014)

    Thor Baukhol Madsen - 29.01.2015 - 15:48

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