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Automatype
Howe’s new piece, “Automatype,” which can be seen as either ambient text art, a weird game of solitaire for the computer, or an absorbing ongoing puzzle for a human viewer, is an apt demonstration of some of the powers of “RiTa,” as it uses algorithms to find the bridges between English words, Six-Degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-style — not bridges of garbled nonsense but composed of normative English. You will spend either 10 seconds or 5 minutes staring at this thing; you will also see either a bunch of random words, or occasionally, if not always, engaging samples of minimalist poetry.
(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.04.2012 - 15:33
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The 4th Search
An email invites readers to visit a website. The website explains that the narrator is searching for his own replacement. The job to be filled is not explicitly described, but is implied to be extremely important: "While I cannot tell you the specifics of this arrangement, I can say my daily tasks are vital to everything. And by everything I mean exactly what the word implies. Without the simple and reoccurring tasks I complete, what you know now will no longer be." The questionaire, which is created in Google Forms, is extremely long and contains many bizarre questions which can possibly be read in a way that will provide a more complete story.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.04.2012 - 22:12
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Zombies, Run!
This is a narrative running app, activated when you take your smart phone for a run. Players take on the person of ‘Runner 5,’ a scavenger in the app’s post-apocalyptic setting; their running playlist is sporadically interrupted by voice-recorded messages from other survivors, leading them to nearby supplies or warning them of approaching zombie hoards – so that half-hearted runners know that it’s time to pick up the pace. Narrative fragments are embedded between songs, and timed so that a story arc of 4-5 episodes will complete every twenty minutes, and that each subsquent fragment ends with a hook so the runner-reader will want to return for more. The narrative is locative but works anywhere, providing a fictional layer on top of an actual map of your surroundings where you can collect supplies and medicines, and where you must avoid zombies. The first season consists of 24 twenty minute episodes and there are plans for a second season.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.04.2012 - 22:40
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Vienna Underground: The Third Woman Project
Multithreaded multisited multiversion project that played on Third Man by Orson Welles, dealing with themes of bioterrorism. A film was central to all iterations of the project, which involved installations, mobile phone videos, performance, fashion, and site-specific variations.
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Scott Rettberg - 04.05.2012 - 10:57
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Pax: an instrument
Theme
"Pax" is a lesser apocalypse that began to unveil itself one stormy spring day near Dallas when someone closed the terminal and the guns came out. It's about flying and falling, truth and desire, nakedness, terror, and the home land. While some may find these themes all too American, they are as Chekhov might have said originally Russian: recall what happened to those cosmonauts who took off from the USSR and landed in the CIS, displaced by a trick of history, discovering (as we all must) that we travel through time as well as space. It's become a common experience these days, this journey to another world, this never coming home. Especially when the guns come out.
Scott Rettberg - 25.05.2012 - 15:22
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Clues
Clues explores the nature of communication, knowledge, and identity through the language and postures of mystery fiction. It's a metaphysical whodunit that invites you to solve the mystery by uncovering clues linked to images throughout the work. The search becomes a game that leads you down wooded trails, back alleys, and empty hallways. Which characters should you pursue? Which objects should you investigate? To win the game, you must separate all the clues from the red herrings. Your final score determines the outcome of the text. But is the mystery really soluble? Is winning actually better than losing? Are the answers or the questions more revealing?
(Source: 2002 State of the Arts gallery)
Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 11:45
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Animalamina
Created by babel and 391.org, Animalamina, a collaboratively constructed work of multimedia poetry for children, consists of 26 pages of flash-based poetry organized around the letters of the alphabet. The key aim of this project is to introduce a younger audience (5 - 11) to a variety of styles of digital poetry, animation and interaction, through the familiar format of an animal A-Z. As the project’s “background” page notes, this work is situated within a tradition alphabet primers that stretches back over 500 years. This background is noteworthy precisely because of the tradition’s combination of pedagogy and play, instructing new generations in the mechanics of emerging techniques and technologies. Specific innovations introduced in this recent ABC are animation, audio, interactive content, non-linearity and chance.
Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 12:01
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Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 14:31
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Mimesis: An Integrated Social Networking Application and Computer Game for Exploring Social Discrimination
Game characters and social networking profiles potentially can be used to help people better
understand others’ experiences. However, merely customizing graphical representations and text
fields is insufficient to convey actual identity experiences. As a step toward conveying richer
identity experiences, we implemented an interactive narrative game for iOS called Mimesis to
allow players to explore identity phenomena associated with discrimination. Mimesis is an
outcome of the NSF-supported Advanced Identity Representation (AIR) Project (Harrell,
Principal Investigator) to develop new computational identity technologies informed by theories
of cognitive categorization and social classification. An ICE Lab interactive narrative platform
called GeNIE is used to implement the game. We propose to present and discuss Mimesis.(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.06.2012 - 15:10
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The Dead Tower
Explore a dark, mountainous landscape dominated by a gigantic tower.
Set in a dark and abstract dream world that revolves around a crashed bus, the atmospheric literary game environment The Dead Tower can be freely explored at full-screen with the mouse and keyboard. Leonardo Flores says about the project: “This narrative poem is arranged on a darkly atmospheric virtual world designed to both creep you out and pull you in…“. Like the proverbial moth, the reader’s attention is drawn towards the brightest things around: white words float in the air, static or rotating. And the lines of mezangelle verse both heighten the dread by telling fragments of a ghostly narrative prefigured by the bus crash site the reader finds herself in and soften the tone with hints about the interface that nudge the fourth wall. (Source: GalleryDDDL description)
Andy Campbell - 15.07.2012 - 19:03
