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By Chiara Agostinelli, 28 October, 2018
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"Do it" by Serge Bouchardon is an app that encourages the reader to be a more active participant in their lives. Posted in this issue is a sample video of Bouchardon’s app. Upon opening the app, the reader is told they are at a job interview and then is prompted through the various existential anxieties that follow. You can shake, tap, and expand the narrative, but the most important thing asked of you during the experience is: can you adapt?

The work has been presented by "The New River" for the Spring 2018 edition.

The app is avaiable for Ios and Android devices and it can be found here:https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/DoIt/DI.html

Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html

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It Must Have Been Dark By Then' is a book and audio experience that uses a mixture of evocative music, narration and field recording to bring you stories of changing environments, from the swamplands of Louisiana, to empty Latvian villages and the edge of the Tunisian Sahara. Unlike many audio guides, there is no preset route, the software builds a unique map for each person’s experience. It is up to you to choose your own path through the city, connecting the remote to the immediate, the precious to the disappearing. 

Source: https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/nt2/en/elo2018/schedule/1465/It+M…

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Tom
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Abba
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Bristol
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Dr. Tom Abba is Associate Professor of Art & Design at UWE Bristol. His research addresses the grammars of writing and design within digital literature. A director of the artists’ collective Circumstance, he makes interdependent digital/physical books, working with the narrative of experience, politics of public space, sound and mobile technology. Between 2016 and 2018, he directed the Ambient Literature research project, exploring the potential of digitally mediated situated storytelling.  

By Chiara Agostinelli, 5 September, 2018
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This is a speech by Ted Fordyce concerning the Scott McCloud’s "Understanding Comics" book.

The book is about symbolic and iconic representation, the relationship between word and image and the illustration of time. Ted Fordyce thinks it is really helpful for the digital works' interpretation.

The main point is the McCloud’s discussion of the gutter to link-oriented electronic literature: his thought is that the gutter is the result of the author + reader collaboration. There are six different transitions: in each of them, the author determines the type and the reader is the one who provides interpretations. 

In conclusion, Ted Fordyce thinks that the McCloud’s discussion «provides us with a useful set of tools as both creators and readers of interactive fiction».

Source: https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/nt2/en/elo2018/items/1214

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Amy J. Elias is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her book Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001) concerns intersections between post-1960s historiography, the historical sublime, and literature. Her current book project is a study of the ethics of dialogue in postmodern theory, aesthetics, and contemporary art.

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This is a text about hypertext in Italy and how the hypertext industry grew back in the 90`s.  He writing about how companies began to invest in hypertext as the popularity grew.

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"Nightmares for Children" is a found-footage virtual reality installation with a fractional backbone and original soundscape created for Oculus Rift with touch. The viewer will be inmersed in 360 video with VR assets and 2D video overlays and will navigate through a series of dreamy horrors in different emotional registers using the intuitive Oculus touch interface. The piece allows for a very small child's voice and infant storytelling to sound fully, but at the same time is crafted as a mediattion on the imagery in children's dreams and what it might trigger in the adult imagination.