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Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls
When I began writing Mythologies in 1995 I was thinking about gender in language and, informed by a poststructuralist feminist critique of the representation of the female body as landscape, I set out to explode these stereotypes by using over-the-top geological metaphors. I wanted to convey a moment of realization, when a number of ideas come together at once. It mattered little to me what order the ideas came in, only that they came together in the end. The narrative structure of this non-linear HTML version was influenced by the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The interface was based on the placemats you get at many restaurants in Nova Scotia, which depict a map of Nova Scotia surrounded by icons of purported interest to tourists: lobsters, whales, lighthouses, beaches and the Bluenose. The found images and texts came from a geology course I took in university, a civil engineering manual from the 1920s and a random assortment of textbooks found in used bookstores. The deadpan technical descriptions of dikes, groins and mattress work add perverse sexual overtones to the otherwise quite chaste first-person narrative.
J. R. Carpenter - 28.01.2012 - 23:17
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Six Sex Scenes
Six Sex Scenes is a digital narrative. It reads like personal diary, whose pages have been scattered and put back together randomly. It begins as a white page, with black text and six square images. Most of the images are color photographs and appear random and unrelated. Clicking on different images brings you to short texts that recount intimate scenes in the author’s daily life. These texts lead to other texts that follow no logical order. The hypertext pages appear as black writing on a light terra cotta colored background. The color scheme is simple and easy to read. Each text has a title. The author adds spaces between the letters of the title words to create groupings of letters within the words. This makes the titles more visually interesting, and causes the viewer to pay a little extra attention to the words. The text is very personal, and is mainly about sexual confusion and frustration. I felt like I was invading the authors privacy by reading such intimate details, written in such a direct way. The text feels very real, and is at times almost shocking. I became intrigued and curious to find out where the next link would take me.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 21:05
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253
There are 253 people on the London underground train that crashes in this hypertext fiction, and each person has their own story. Begin reading from any passenger.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 23:32
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Holier Than Thou: An Exploratory Hypertext Fiction
Holier Than Thou: An Exploratory Hypertext Fiction
Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 23:34
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Twelve Blue
Published in 1996, “Twelve Blue” is a work by Michael Joyce that has been considered the first hyperlink story of its kind. The story is devised in 8 different bars, and all relate in some way to the color blue. He sets us with minor and major characters and keeps us going through the bars. You are able to click through different links and some of them leads you to pictures, while the rest lead you through more and more of the story. Each story focuses on an object of some kind or some character. The backdrop and text is a dark and a light blue and there is a side bar with a picture of different color bars that look more like stars.The language in “Twelve Blue” is very concise and to the point. It is simple and is placed with a unique purpose. Even however simple the language may be, it tells a thrilling story of lust, memory, and consequences within its contents. Keeping it laid out like a map, the language and story tells of a drowning, a friendship, a boy and a girl, etc. and keeps resurfacing through a web of memories and pictures through the years or days of our lives. Each character is connected in some way and the story keeps you engaged until the end.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:44
