conceptual blending

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The idea is to create a structure online, where authors, but also soundengineers, videoartists and graphicaldesigners kan make contributions to the same history-universe, with special emphazies on the litetterary. The history should not be understood in a lineary sense, but rather as an experience of a story where each piece ( picture, sound) could be experienced unchronologically. The way [the author does] this is by creating a text-concept that can be visualized in a graphical form. The authors have to pertain to this form and place their text in a visual room. Their text will then become apparent as a visual grapical element in relations to the other elements. The reason [the author] calls it a "performance" is because the creation of this little universe is being controlled by [the author] and will transpire over several days. Contributers are placed in several countries and everything will be run online, by email and ICQ. And probably a phonecall or two.

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Ideen er at skabe en struktur på nettet, hvor forfattere, men også lydfolk, videokunstnere og grafikere kan komme med bidrag til det samme historie-univers -dog især med hovedvægt på teksterne. Historie skal ikke forstås i liniær forstand, men nærmere som en oplevelse af en historie idet de enkelte afsnit (billede-, lyd-afsnit) skal kunne opleves ukronologisk. Måden jeg gør dette er ved at skabe et tekst-koncept, der kan visualiseres i en grafisk form. Forfatterne skal forholde sig til denne form og placere deres tekst i et visuelt rum. Deres tekst vil da fremstå som et synligt grafisk element i forhold til andre elementer. Grunden til at jeg kalder det "performance" er at tilblivelsen af dette lille univers skal styres af mig og vil foregå over flere dage. Bidragyderne er placeret i flere lande og alt kommer til at køre over nettet, via email og via icq. og sikkert osse en telefon eller to. [Description by author. Taken from official website]

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By Eric Dean Rasmussen, 22 February, 2011
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Abstract (in English)

from ebr Electronic Book Review: D. Fox Harrell considers how a media theory of the "phantasmal" - mental image and ideological construction - can be used to cover gaps within electronic literary practice and criticism. His perspective is shaped by cognitive semantics and the approach to meaning-making known as "conceptual blending theory."