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Negative Space: a Computerized Video Novel
"The first in a line of "computer video novels" that meld text, graphics, and video", according to Robert Kendall in his article "Writing for the New Millenium: the Birth of Electronic Literature." The WorldCat entry summarised it thus: "Through interplay of computer and video, the story of a professor and his wife and their quest to start a family is told," and specifies that the work consists of a VHS tape with a 3.5" floppy disk.
(The publication date is from the WorldCat record for the floppy disk edition, and I haven't found any supporting evidence of such an early date - or another date, either. Is it likely that the CD version would have come five whole years later?)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 13:57
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Negative Space: A Computerized Video Novel (CD-ROM edition)
The CD-ROM edition of a "computerized video novel" first published in 1990. See entry for original publication for details.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 14:02
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Composition
The Composition installation turns live video of participants in an installation space into imagery completely composed of text. Participants in the installation interact with a live projected version of themselves where a real-time video image of themselves is literally ‘composed’ out of text characters. Composition examines how areas of an image can carry multiple weights—their symbolic value as text characters, and their light or dark value as part of the overall composition.
(Artist's description at project site)
Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 12:12
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Big Swing
Big Swing is a semi-non-linear, online narrative that mixes text, photography, sound design, video and interactivity. The story is designed to be explored rather than read. Delivered in semi-non-linear modules, the piece attempts to introduce and resolve tension in the manner of a traditional narrative, while still providing the user some degree of choice and control.
Exploring the story: Click on the small squares and words to reveal story fragments. Yellow words connect to the next chapter.
Scott Rettberg - 11.04.2013 - 12:18
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The Child
DESCRIPTION FROM CRITICAL COMMONS: The materialization of text in an urban landscape is nowhere more in evidence than in French designer Antoine Bardou-Jacquet's video for Alex Gopher's The Child. Bardou-Jacquet's all-textual rendering of New York city borrows its basic concept from Jeffrey Shaw's Legible City project from the late 1980s, while stripping narrative volition away from the viewer. Whereas Shaw's project allows reader-users to simulate moving through geographically and architecturally correct streets of Amsterdam, Manhattan, or Karlsruhe on a stationary bicycle while reading the text of a story mapped onto buildings in the city, The Child delivers a high-speed chase through the streets of New York City with both landmarks and people rendered as all text. The tension that exists in these works hinges on the conflict between real and constructed environments, as well as the insistent interplay of surface and depth.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 22:20
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6 avatars en quête d'auteur / 6 Avatars in Quest of an Author
6 avatars en quête d'auteur est une création inscrite à la fois dans une démarche artistique et universitaire. Elle est le fruit de la collaboration de Daniel Bouillot et de ses étudiants : Yannick Berthier, Claire Bonaventure et Christel Cerruti. Cette œuvre pose de manière aiguë le rapport problématique entre la narration interactive et le texte, en mettant en scène des avatars à la recherche d’un texte à jouer. Bouillot réinterprète ainsi la célèbre pièce de Pirandello à l’ère du numérique, offrant aux internautes des scénettes interactives, librement inspirées des grands auteurs (Shakespeare, Beckett, Camus, etc.). Ainsi Le Mythe de Sysiphe de Camus est adapté en Shoot them up, ou encore Rhinocéros de Ionesco en questionnaire à choix multiples interactif. On retrouve six avatars/acteurs, dans 24 scènes se référant à 24 exergues de 24 grands auteurs, à travers des simulations 3D plus ou moins interactives.
(Source: NT2 / Anaïs Guilet)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.08.2013 - 09:37
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A.
A. is video reader grafted over a text generator : videos run depends on reading time of the text.
A. is proposed as an exchange for Les Objets d'Hélène by Gwenola Wagon, who wants to transform an heritage full wtih objects into a collection of stories over each object. I exchange this text generator with an Hélène's book, La douane de mer by Jean d'Ormesson.
A. is the last word of the fragment of the book readed by this generator. "La" is allways the begining and "A." is allways the end of the text.
(Source: project website)Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.08.2013 - 10:51
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1/2/3
1/2/3 is an elliptical videopoem based on Russian minimalist poet Vsevolod Nekrasov’s “Utopia” and footage from Mozhaysky region of Moscow. Each time three random photos containing a space where a text could appear are shown at three interactive screens. Being touched each photo transforms to video where one out of ten lines of Nekrasov’s poem appears. The viewer never knows which of these evasively poetic lines were documented or added with digital tools. (ELO 2015 catalog)
Hannah Ackermans - 12.09.2015 - 11:33
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Flewn
“Flewn” is a melancholic and surrealistic story in book app format about an old whale walking on stilts through a desert in search of a lost ocean, carrying on its back jars with sea creatures it has rescued. Beautifully executed, “Flewn” offers two reading modes: the story mode, in which the reader explores the whale’s story by scrolling through the illustrations, accompanied with music, animation, video, and text; and the game mode, which offers an interactive exploration of the story space from the perspective of a little frog whose helicopter must be kept on air by pedalling and in this way help to spot the ocean everybody is looking for.
(Source: Description from ELO 2017: Book of Abstracts and Catalogs)
Pål Alvsaker - 07.09.2017 - 16:47
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Tales of Automation
Tales of Automation is a collection of nine short "tales" that explore the effects of digital automation - algorithmic behavior modification, quantified feedback, life-logging, etc. - on daily life and subjectivity. Each tale is a never-ending cycle of asynchronous loops (of text and video) that present a single character at a moment of distracted attention, attempting and always failing to self-narrate experience in its complexity, materiality and abstraction. Notifications, data and spam intrude on consciousness at the cusp of self-awareness. Vision is composited, filtered and collaged. The multiplicity and variability of nested loops means that the short fictions are without beginnings or ends, or rather they begin in medias res and end when the nature of the characters' situation becomes evident.
The work is best presented in full screen mode on any browser, but preferably Chrome. Interaction with each tale involves a simple click, page scroll or mouse movement. In Tale 7, the central image can be dragged to read what is underneath. There is no sound in this work.
(Source: Author's description)
Filip Falk - 29.08.2018 - 12:53
