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Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World
This PhD dissertation is about works in which the user is a character in a fictional world, and the interaction that such works allow. What happens when you become a character in the story you're reading?
The concept "ontological interaction" is proposed, which is a form of interaction where the user is included in the fictional world. Kendall Walton's concept of fictional worlds is explored in relation to electronic literature and digital art, and other narratological concepts are also examined, in addition to a general focus on the themes of force and control.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.03.2012 - 11:27
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Signal to Noise
"Signal to Noise" is a web-native hypertext designed for concurrent navigations by multiple readers, whose interactions with the text subtly influence one another's parallel readings in realtime.
Artist Statement:
"Signal to Noise" is a web-native hypertext designed to be read by multiple people simultaneously.
The interface is linked to a database via Ajax. A PHP engine tracks the parallel navigations and behavior of active users and responds by broadcasting relevant fragments, subtext, and other ephemera to all readers in realtime. Readers' concurrent movements through the narrative have subtle effects on one another's experiences. While readers are unable to directly communicate among themselves or evoke representative avatars in the virtual environment (with one clear exception), echoes and ripples are unavoidably left on the surface of the global text with every followed link. In time, these ripples subside and disappear.
Scott Rettberg - 28.03.2012 - 12:28
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From Ireland with Letters
Intertwining Irish history and generations of Irish American family memories in a work of polyphonic literature based on the rhythms of ancient Irish Poetry, the imagined lost Irish Sonata, the madrigal, streams and fountains, and Irish song, From Ireland with Lettersis an electronic manuscript of displacement, survival, and the role of art in the abolition of slavery.
The central place of Irish music, displacement, disrupted tradition in the work of contemporary Irish authors is paralleled in this polyphonic Irish American electronic manuscript. Each part is separate and written in a different structure and tempo, but the whole is integrated by themes introduced in the opening Prologue. Although the workings of each section are different, as a general rule, the work can be read either by waiting for the text to change on its own (as if watching a film or listening to a piece of music) or by clicking on any lexia, in which case the reader takes control of how the story is explored in the manner of hypertext fiction.
Judy Malloy - 28.03.2012 - 19:51
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The Cape: The Backstory
The Cape: The Backstory offers background information about the conceptualization, creation, dissemination of The Cape, a work of digital literature created by J. R. Carpenter in 2005.
J. R. Carpenter - 02.04.2012 - 11:47
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petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction
petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction" (small brush to dust off fiction) is a generative piece written in French. A scene of thriller is generated at each time you run the program or ask for a new scene. This scene explores different possibilities of a scenario. But the reader must continually "dust" a picture that covers the text while reading. The text is a pastiche: the scene is located at a time in a single location. Some features happen out of this room, they are computed by the program but not expressed into the narrative. The piece begins with some "adapted" poems by Jean de La Fontaine.
(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.04.2012 - 14:03
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Circle
“Circle” is an augmented reality tabletop theatre piece that tells the story of three generations of women through a series of small stories. The first version of this piece was created using a custom marker tracking system and the user interacted with the piece by exploring the markers with a webcam, triggering small poetic voiceovers and videos. The version being premiered here was built in Unity and uses natural feature tracking -- the black and white markers of the earlier version are replaced by objects and photos. The user interacts with the piece by holding up an iPad or smartphone as a magic looking glass to explore the story world.
(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)
Winner of the Jury's Choice Award in the ELO 2012 Media Art Show.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.04.2012 - 14:36
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Three Rails Live
“Three Rails Live” (2011) by Roderick Coover, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg is an experiment in combinatory poetics, a generative system that results in the production of short narrative videos, stories with a moral to them.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.04.2012 - 12:20
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Introduction [to New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age]
Editors' introduction to a collection of essays on digital narratology.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.05.2012 - 13:26
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About Time
A digital interactive hypertext fiction in two braided paralell paths.
Scott Rettberg - 11.05.2012 - 15:29
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We Descend: Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor, Volume Two
Every writing addresses someone; this someone is often said to be the author's Ideal Reader. But "ideal" connotes a conceptualized, even perpetrated entity that is an entirely different creature from the real person one addresses when speaking. Now it may be useful to make this distinction in order to discuss, in the abstract, the *process* of writing, but the *practice* is wholly different: in writing anything, you address a real person, and, by addressing, conjure that person into your presence — the "materiality" of this being is, well, immaterial. When a real reader (in contrast to an ideal one) takes up an author's writing, she encounters not a voice speaking to *her*, or not to her directly: she comes in on a conversation already in progress, between the author and the person he is addressing in the writing. Given a sense of the occasion she has just joined, she will wisely keep still at first and pay attention, not just to the author's voice, but also to the silence of the other person listening to him at that moment. Thus she comes to know them both.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 16:09
