September 2011
10 posts
ar narratives/qr code narratives
Map
Aram Bathorn
http://datenform.de/map.html
The project ‘Map’ is a public space installation questioning the red map marker of the location based search engine Google Maps. “Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.” With a small graphic icon Google marks search results in the map interface. The design of the virtual map pin seems...
Games as Narrative/Narrative as Game
The Intruder
by Natalie Bookchin
http://bookchin.net/intruder/index.html
“In Natalie Bookchin’s piece, The Intruder, we are presented with a sequence of ten videogames, most of which are adapted from classics such as Pong and Space Invaders. We interact via moving or clicking the mouse, and by making whateve we make of/with/from the story. Meaning is always constructed, never on...
Theater and Cinema on a cell phone
A MACHINE TO SEE WITH
by Blast Theory
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_amachinetoseewith.html
A Machine To See With is a film where you play the lead. There are sceenings every 15 minutes. You sign up online and hand over your mobile phone number. On the day, you receive an automated call giving you the address you need to go to. Once you arrive on your allotted street corner your phone...
Dance and New Media
Perpetual Movement Sound (multiple projects)
http://perpetualmvmtsnd.org/
Ballet Pixele (live dance performances seen in virtual spaces)
http://balletpixelle.org/index.html
Freq : 2 by Squidsoup
Part musical instrument, part composition, Freq2 takes the shape of your shadow and turns it into sound. Freq2 can be played like an instrument, creating dramatic and complex land- and...
From Genomes to Geology: Narrativizing Data
ATLAS in silico is a physically interactive virtual reality installation. It fuses art and emerging technologies with pioneering science. The installation offers an ethereal and dreamlike immersive 3D environment, wherein you can explore life-size renderings of the Global Ocean Survey — a recent pioneering voyage of discovery circumnavigating the Earth’s oceans, the results of which...
vispo/Futurist/Concrete: space and data in...
A modern art movement originating among Italian artists in 1909, when Filippo Marinetti’s first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.
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new media/narrative/digital narrative
Videoplace
by Myron Krueger
Videoplace allowed users in different rooms to interact with one another as digital “shadows”.
Hole in Space
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
This work connected people and spaces in two cities simultaneously as well as connecting the physical space and an image augmenting a connected space. The work saw people in New York and Los Angeles “seeing” not...
what is "experimental" writing? What is...
what is “experimental” writing? What is “traditional”writing?
The easy answer has been that “experimental” writing plays with and/or questions establishes form, uses unusual punctuation or word choices. Traditional writing has been often explained as established, safely within long established forms, of a safer form that concerns itself more...
hypertext to dynamic new media narratives
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with an embedded link to another text that the reader can immediately access, by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Hypertext is a core concept defining the structure of the connected pages of the internet.
In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a hypertext style novel - The Garden of Forking Paths.
In...
Intro to new media narratives
Structural Analysis of Narrative (excerpt)
Roland Barthes
THERE ARE COUNTLESS FORMS of narrative in the world. Firstof all, there is a prodigious variety of genres, each of whichbranches out into a variety of media, as if all substances couldbe relied upon to accommodate man’s stories. Among the vehiclesof narrative are articulated language, whether oral or written, pictures,still or...
