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afternoon, a story
Afternoon was first shown to the public as a demonstration of the hypertext authoring system Storyspace, announced in 1987 at the first Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext conference in a paper by Michael Joyce and Jay David Bolter.[1] In 1990, it was published on diskette and distributed in the same form by Eastgate Systems.
The hypertext fiction tells the story of Peter, a recently divorced man who one morning witnessed a deadly car crash where he believes his ex-wife and son were involved. He cannot stop blaming himself as he walked away from the accident without helping the injured people. A recurring sentence throughout the story "I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning" where [I want to say] is one of many lexias built into a loop which causes the reader to revisit the same lexia throughout the story. The hypertext centers around the car accident, but also reveals the multifarious ways of the characters' mutual promiscuity.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:33
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As Much as You Love Me
As Much As You Love Me is an interactive poetry project that consists of a force feedback mouse and an interactive poem.The project deals with guilt and tries to convey its message using the special proper ties of the physical and graphic interface. The text of As Much As You Love Me is a series of non-apologies, which all start with the words "don't for give me" (e.g."Don't forgive me for the things I've said"; "don't forgive me for the mistakes I've made"). In order to hear the text the user must collect objects on the screen. Each object collected will sound a non apology and increase the physical difficulty of mov ing the mouse.The collected objects cling to the cursor and appear to be tied to the edges of the screen. The combination of the graphic representation and the actual physical effort required to move the mouse as more objects are collected reinforces the attempt of the speaker in the poem to relieve herself from guilt.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.08.2013 - 15:04
