Search

The search found 57 results in 0.592 seconds.

Search results

1. 34 North 118 West

   Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the turn of the century Railroads were synonymous with power, speed and modernization. Telegraphs and Railroads were our first cross-country infrastructures, preceding the Internet. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk.

   34 North 118 West plays through a Tablet PC with Global Positioning System card and headphones. GPS tracks your location to determine how the story unfolds as you uncover the early industrial era of Los Angeles.

   (Source: Authors' description from the project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 12:50

2. PING

   PING uses a telephone menu system to distribute active commands to participants who call in using cellular telephones. The choices made by the caller when navigating the telephone system produce directions for physical movement through the city.

   PING comes out of psychogeographical inquiry, which focuses on the study of the effects of the environment on the perception, behaviour and mood of individuals. PING is intended to explore the interface between disparate fields such as situationist thought that focuses on subjective mood, generative psychogeography which introduces algorithms as a way to inspire movement through urban space, existentialism, and the interpolation of digital metaphors onto physical, analog space.

   (Source: Author's description from project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 12:58

3. The Flat

   Inspired by the author’s own dreams and experiences, The Flat presents users/readers with a challenging mouse-controlled environment in which narrative fragments left behind by an abandoned building’s previous inhabitants still linger. Through a combination of atmospheric photography, parallax scrolling techniques, snippets of written fiction, and an evocative soundtrack, the work allows various rooms in the flat to be explored by panning around with the mouse; the transient textual narratives themselves often changing and/or progressing when the rooms are revisited. To add to the feeling of tension and urgency, and to encourage the work to be revisited, a timer ticks down in the top right hand corner of the screen before the user/reader is ejected from the narrative and shown a final, enigmatic scene: a white hooded figure in the back garden.

   Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 16:13

4. Ad Verbum

   Ad Verbum is a Oulipo-inspired wordplay-based game.

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:00

5. The LA Flood Project

   The LA Flood Project is a [work in progress] locative media experience made up of three segments:

   1. Oral histories of crises in Los Angeles
   2. A locative narrative about a fictional flood
   3. A flood simulation

   (Source: Project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:28

6. This Is Not A Poem

   This work takes the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and, transcribing it onto a "scratchable" disk, makes it into a toy, a game, and a language engine.

   (Source: Author's description)

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:35

7. Enigma n

   Described by the author as "an online philosophical poetry toy for poets and philosophers from the age of four up." The piece jumbles the letter of the word "meaning" in space, allowing the reader to manipulate their motion in space.

   Published also on Macromedia's DHTML Zone, DOC(K)S (France), & Cauldron and Net.

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 13:35

8. Anipoems

   Anipoems is a series of kinetic poetry making use of animated gifs.

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:05

9. Underbelly

   Underbelly is a playable media fiction about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England, now landscaped into a country park. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of repressed fears and desires about the artist’s sexuality, potential maternity and worldly ambitions, mashed up with the disregarded histories of the 19th Century women who once worked underground mining coal. 

   Christine Wilks - 03.08.2011 - 16:53

10. Strange Rain

    In Erik Loyer's Strange Rain touch, sound, color, narrative and haptic play (the tilt of the device) blend into a tightly choreographed story driven by the gamer/reader's input. Alphonse the protagonist is standing out in a rainstorm contemplating his ailing sister and his role in her recovery. User touch controls the pace of raindrops falling on Alphonse and calls forth phrases of Alphonse's interior monologue. Tap the screen twice to ask Alphonse whether he's ready to go back into the house.

    (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 10:02

Pages