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1. The Heuristics of Automatic Story Generation

   The intelligence of a story-generating computer program can be assessed in terms of creativity, aesthetic awareness, and understanding. The following approaches are evaluated with respect to these three criteria: simple transition networks, grammar-driven models, simulations, algorithms based on problem-solving techniques, and algorithms driven by so-called "authorial goals." The most serious deficiency of the discussed programs resides in the domain of aesthetic awareness. In order to improve on this situation, story-generation should not follow a strictly linear, chronological order, but rather proceed from the middle outwards, starting with the episodes that bear the focus of interest. The program should select as top-evel goal the creation of climactic situations, create the preparatory events through backward logic, and take the story to the next highlight, or to an appropriate conclusion through a guided simulation. This strategy is ilustrated in a "reverse-engineering," or generative reading of Little Red Riding Hood that simulates the reasoning of an imaginary computer program.

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   Scott Rettberg - 19.05.2011 - 17:03

2. Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

   What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough—or should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential.

   Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellectual kinships that may not be visible to audiences.

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 11:26

3. Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing

   This installment of the Iowa Review Web explores the function of place and space in recent new media writing. Each of the four interviews concern works that in some way attempt to reconfigure our understanding of the relationship between space and storytelling. Each of the primary works discussed in these interviews also pushes space in another sense, in that each attempts to explore a new "possibility space" on the boundary between different forms and fields of multimedia experience: between story and game, between game and drama, between literature and conceptual art, between game and performance. The introduction contextualizes the narrative function of space in a number of recent works of electronic literature.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 09:53

4. Locative Narrative, Literature and Form

   The essay addresses the theoretical background and artistic inspiration for the author's engagement with locative narrative. 

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 16:04

5. Grafik Dynamo (Catalog)

   Catalog published by The Prairie Art Gallery, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, featuring a printed sample of panels from the net art work Grafik Dynamo and a critical essay, "Graphic Sublime: On the Art and Designwriting of Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett,"  by the literary and media-arts scholar Joseph Tabbi. Tabbi argues that Grafik Dynamo, like Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics, enables readers to recognize how perception works and why a reduction of sense experience is necessary for the development reflection, communication, meaning, and narrative.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.05.2011 - 11:37

6. Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

   Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

   Scott Rettberg - 17.06.2011 - 12:09

7. Using Gowalla to Create a Historical Narrative

   A description of a historical, documentary tour of Michigan Agricultural College Tour created by a group of grad students at The Michigan State University Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2011 - 15:14

8. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

   The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.07.2011 - 17:35

9. Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37

10. Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext

    Essay discussing the motif of the car crash in early hypertext fiction, concluding that the breakdown (in many senses) is in fact a key feature of hypertext.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.07.2011 - 14:36

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