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1. Salt Immortal Sea 2

   An explosion sends you, the reader, from your boat in the Mediterranean into what Homer called the salt immortal sea only to be rescued by a mysterious ancient watercraft. Aboard this boat, you encounter allegorical characters from ancient and modern times, locked in a dangerous power struggle, passing secrets, currying favor, creating enemies, and fostering unrest. In this interactive story, we recast figures in the contemporary refugee crisis against the mythos of the quintessential traveler, Odysseus, for the refugee likewise travels cursed, unable to return home. The story of the refugee is a harrowing reality reimagined here in terms of sirens and cyclops, not to make the horrors of war fanciful but to render the tale of the most abject and disenfranchised of global citizens in epic terms. 

   Nina Kolovic - 26.09.2018 - 15:22

2. Sixteen

   Sixteen is a classic web-based project which allows the user to engage with a series of dreamscapes of a teenage girl that come together to form an interconnected story. The piece makes heavy use of video, Aftereffects, and an overarching spoken word poetry thread that unites the dream videos. Along the way, a close reader can discover a secret.
   The creators of 16 are two sisters, age 15 and 12.

   Nina Kolovic - 26.09.2018 - 15:28

3. Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: CPU Edition!

   Let’s Play is part of an ongoing series of games based on ancient Greek figures
   and their punishments. Sisyphus, Prometheus, Tantalus, Danaids and Zeno, the
   philosopher known for his paradoxes, are represented by the CPU player, the
   computer’s Central Processing Unit. In this CPU edition, the computer does it all
   by itself, both simulating and playing the game, cutting out the player entirely.
   Every time the reload button is activated, the game starts afresh. It may seem
   like watching an animated GIF or a video file, but it’s the computer playing,
   pushing a rock or having its liver eaten. Again and again. Let’s Play presents a
   world closed in on itself, behaving according to its own logic, its own code. A
   world stuck in a frustrating loop.

   (source: Description from the schedule)

   June Hovdenakk - 26.09.2018 - 15:39

4. Coral Short & Visionaries

   Through a mystical tarot card, Future Visions presents a multitude of possible
   futures. Angela Gabereau and Coral Short, the “mothers” of the project, sent out
   an open and uncensored call for submissions and were able to assemble more
   than eighty predictions in a collection of "queer futures". The contributions reflect — by means of filmed performances, tutorials, music, video mixing, etc. — on a
   future free from hate, prejudice and the yoke of heteronormativity. While this
   collection is forward-looking, its visions reflect the present-day concerns of the
   queer community that too often go unnoticed.

   Kamilla Idrisova - 26.09.2018 - 15:47

5. The Aberration of the Translator

   The Aberration of the Translator considers virtual reality as a social space, one with its own rules of presentation and communication. Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is sampled and celebrated to create a microcosm of colliding quotations that break and collide across the virtual space of the CAVE. Every language is a foreign language, learned through memorized rules and societal agreements. In Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator,” refastening shards of a shattered vessel is compared to the act of translation; writing must be fragmented and then reassembled to traverse barriers of language. The Aberration of The Translator acknowledges the world which utilizes linguistic tools to order, colonize, and develop architectural space, specifically interrogating the act of code-switching and the multilingual experience.

   Jane Lausten - 26.09.2018 - 15:52

6. Blocked Connections

   Using visual QR codes embedded into combinations of traditional quilt blocks drawing on piecing and applique, the reader will discover fragments of a quilter’s story using any QR-reader capable smart phone. The primary object of installation is an original quilt, designed using high-contrast panels of fabric to allow the QR reader to decode additional meaning in what will appear to the human eye as an abstract piece steeped in traditions of pieced and quilted textile art. This installation thus combines two traditions of meaning: one analog, the language and traditions of quilt blocks, and one digital, the interconnected hypertext trails of communication unlocked through finding the QR codes. By providing a tangible interface to a re-imagined, oft-forgotten, and somewhat "broken" era of the web, the quilt tells the story of its imagined creator, a quilter working during the “early” days of the web in 1999.

   Carlos Muñoz - 26.09.2018 - 15:55

7. Tech-illa Sunrise: Un/A Remix

   After nearly ten years, the themes dealt with in Tech-illa Sunrise: Un/A Remix are
   still as relevant as ever. Salvador Barajas examines the issues of borders,
   identities, and xenophobia through the lens of technology. The website is a
   collage of archival images, texts and elements taken from popular culture. The
   diversity of Chicano identity is also explored and takes shape within the text. The
   user navigates in a frenetic environment, reminiscent of the beginnings of
   cyberspace. Moving from hyperlink to hyperlink, the threat becomes palpable as
   "warning" signs abound and alert the user of a mysterious virus that will not only
   attack their computer but also their preconceived ideas.

   June Hovdenakk - 26.09.2018 - 15:56

8. TimeTraveller™

   Covering 600 years of history, from pre-Colombian America to a present in 2121,
   TimeTraveller™ follows the journey of Hunter, a Montreal Mohawk who wishes to
   learn about his ancestors and to seek an alternative to his consumerist world. In
   this science-fiction narrative, combining factual history and hypothetical futures,
   the main protagonist travels through time by logging on his edutainment system,
   his TimeTraveller™. His multiple immersions in indigenous history, from the
   Minnesota Massacre in 1875 to the Oka Crisis in 1990, leads him to meet
   Karahkwenhawi at the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 with whom he falls in
   love. The work comprises a website and nine machinima episodes created in
   Second Life.

   Kamilla Idrisova - 30.09.2018 - 20:57

9. Future Lore

   "Future Lore" is a poetry generator that remixes Nick Montfort's poetry generator "Taroko Gorge". It presents a futuristic free-for-all world where chaos rules. 

   Filip Falk - 05.06.2019 - 01:00

10. Beyond Tomorrow

    "Beyond Tomorrow" is an interactive text-based science fiction game made in Twine. The player assumes control of a wealthy business empire whose goal is to lead a successful expansion into space. The story revolves around the different choices and consequences one must face when encountering new planets and worlds. The game includes four unique planets that each has its different expansion possibilities and conflicts. The style of play is entirely up to the player and allows for either a violent or peaceful playthrough, as well as a combination of the two. Some of the themes explored in the game are power, imperialism, law and order, and warfare. 
    (Source: Author's description)

    Filip Falk - 05.06.2019 - 23:26

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