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Blue Company
A novel told in email. Readers subscribed and received at least one e-mail per day for the month of May 2002. Blue Company is part one of a two part fiction; the second part is "Kind of Blue" by Scott Rettberg. Blue Company's e-mails are from a young marketing guy, Berto, who has gotten a really bad job transfer. He's been transferred to Italy, which is great, but he's also been transferred to the 14th century, which is dangerous and uncomfortable. The e-mails are nominally addressed to a woman Berto met shortly before his departure, and as he courts her we learn the story of his travels with a small group of 21st century corporate mercenaries called the "Blue Company" toward a fateful rendezvous beyond Milan. The e-mails are illustrated by hand since, of course, there were no cameras in the late middle ages.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:50
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First Screening: Computer Poems
A suite of a dozen kinetic poems programmed in Apple BASIC. Later, as the first versions became inaccessible, the works were recreated in HyperCard in the early 1990s (after bpNichol's death), and then in 2007 recreated in javascript for the web, and simultaneously the original BASIC and Hypercard files were republished for download.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.02.2011 - 21:04
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The Impermanence Agent
To read this work, the reader had to browse the internet through a proxy server which kept track of visited websites and launched small windows in the readers browser, while the reader was viewing other sites, telling fragments of a story throughout the week. As the week progressed, the story would replace parts of the original text and images with text and images from sites the reader had visited. The work is no longer accessible.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:45
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Friday's Big Meeting
A narrative that unfolds in a chat room with photographic avatars. Author's intro: It was said by some, in North America, in the boom period of the late 1990s, that a web design company would have to work very hard to lose money. Well, one little company was working harder than most. And in the chat room of that company, two lovers crossed lines...
Scott Rettberg - 17.03.2011 - 15:39
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The (Former) General In His Labyrinth
(From website): There are always at least two ways to tell a story...
For his first fiction since the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid has taken his inspiration from the Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. In this story, Hamid writes about the melancholic meanderings of a former general's life. Choose a path round his palace, and shape the story as he considers his role and listens to the tales of his loyal aide.
Aaron Reed - 20.06.2012 - 19:13
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nam shub web
nam shub web is a website processor. it takes the textual content of external websites and applies user defined rules to generate visual poetry out of it. these rules consist of operations that change the text or modify the visual appearance.
each set of rules can be stored and published for others to view and alter. however nam shub web does not store any actual content. it only records commands of how to alter the external website content. in case of a dynamic website as the source the visual and textual results change with the dynamic content.
according to Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, the ancient sumerian nam shub of Enki was a neurolinguistic hack aimed against the standardarization and unification of society and human life through verbal rules and laws. therefore nam shub web can be seen as a computerlinguistic hack targeted against a global unified culture and empire.
(Source: Author's description on the project site)
Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 11:05
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gsm.art
gsm.art
Dan Kvilhaug - 18.03.2013 - 15:54
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Commedia
Commedia
Dan Kvilhaug - 18.03.2013 - 16:32
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DNA: A Digital Novel
Taking the concept of identity theft to its logical conclusion, DNA is an interactive, Web-based novel set in the year 2075, in a future where genetic clones are commonplace and the unique identity of any individual is protected only by tacit consent. Detailing a year in the life of a clone who begins plotting to take on the identity of one of his "code partners," the novel includes a series of hyperlinks to real and fictional Wikipedia entries that provide a peek into the dystopic future of economic, agricultural, cultural, social, and political systems. Influenced by a range of electronic and experimental literary works published over the last fifteen years, DNA presents a non-linear narrative that allows each reader to select his or her own narrative path though the novel and to explore the text's connection to other fictional and non-fictional texts published on the Web. The networked architecture of the project enables the reader to not only construct and engage with the narrative world of the novel itself but with other narrative worlds that exist outside of the novel.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 12.06.2013 - 13:38
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Tendril
Tendril is a web browser that constructs typographic sculptures from the text content of web pages. the first page of a site is rendered as a column of text. links in the text are colored, and when clicked, the text for the linked page grows from the location of the link.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 10:45
