Adaptation of The great word factory by Agnès de Lestrade and Valeria Docampo
Plot:
Paul and Marie live in a land where people can hardly speak, as words have to be bought and are often expensive. Nevertheless, the protagonists try to collect words to communicate and express their mutual sympathy.
The app contains: multimodal elements, animations, interactions and mini-games.
By analyzing a selection of classical and contemporary adaptations of children apps, the article questions the hypothesis of a poetics of hypermedia works, based on their main features: their composite textual materials, their reconstruction of the page, animations and interactivity.
Par l’analyse d’un corpus d’adaptations de textes classiques et contemporains, l’article interroge l’hypothèse d’une poétique des œuvres hypermédiatiques, fondée sur les caractéristiques qui les constituent : leurs matières textuelles composites (et non exclusivement verbales), l’organisation des espaces de l’écran, la gestion de la page, les animations et l’interactivité.
University of Bergen
Bergen
Norway
"The End(s) of Electronic Literature" Conference took place August 5-7, 2015, and was hosted by the BEL, the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen. Pre-conference workshops took place on August 4th. The call for papers and works resulted in more than 300 submissions and selections have been made for the conference, performances, and exhibitions. (Source: http://conference.eliterature.org/2015)