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Description (in English)

This work started to be built in the year 2013, out of scripts, texts writing, musical composition, and a crime investigation (aside from the compilation of images from the web) that I carried out during previous years as if gathering pieces from a puzzle. “Hotel Minotaur” first was entitled “It`s Enough to Open a Hotel`s Doors” and I first started to visualize it when writer Fernando Marias, invited me to be part of his anthology “Solitude is the Home of the Monster” (Imagine Press, 2013), with a multimedia piece. To facilitate the reader`s turn from paper to the digital space a QR (Quick Response Code) in the book`s Codex was added.

Staging was possible due to the support of David Losada, who decisively contributed to the idea and the concept and brought the means of Maloka Media, and to the collaboration of Fidel Cordero (music), Jesus Jimenez (design and programming) and Paola Rey (production). Programming of “Hotel Minotaur” was brought to an end back in 2015 with subtle changes on both, text and interface and was part of the Conclusions to the Doctoral Thesis “Form and Core of the Multimedia Narrative” (Humanities, Carlos III University, brilliant cum laude, 2015).

It was first presented on the opening to the European Digital Literatures (House of Velazquez, Madrid, June, 2013) and since its advent it has been a subject to study, being included on the Ciberia Anthology (Madrid Complutense University). It has been translated into French by Christian Roinat and into English by Montague Kobbe.

Description (in original language)

Esta obra comenzó a construirse en 2013, a partir del guion, escritura de textos, composición de la música e investigación de un crimen (con la recopilación de imágenes en red) que realicé durante los años previos, como si reuniera piezas de un puzle. “Hotel Minotauro” se llamó primero “Basta con abrir las puertas de un hotel”, y comencé a visualizarla cuando el escritor Fernando Marías me invitó a participar en su antología “La soledad es el hogar del monstruo” (Imagine Press, 2013), con una pieza multimedia. Para que el lector pudiera saltar del papel al espacio digital se colocó un QR en el libro códice.

La puesta en escena fue posible gracias al apoyo de David Losada, que contribuyó de manera decisiva a la idea y el concepto, y aportó los medios de Maloka Media, y a la colaboración de Fidel Cordero (música), Jesús Jiménez (diseño y programación) y Paola Rey (producción).

“Hotel Minotauro” se terminó de programar en 2015, con sutiles cambios de texto e interfaz, y formó parte de las conclusiones de la tesis doctoral “Forma y fondo de la narrativa multimedia”(Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III, sobresaliente cum laude, 2015). Fue presentada por primera vez en la apertura de European Digital Literatures (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, junio de 2013) y desde su aparición ha sido objeto de estudio, incluyéndose en la antología Ciberia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Ha sido traducida al francés por Christian Roinat y al inglés por Montague Kobbe.

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"The Minotaur runs through the labyrinth. He follows the map that will take him to the woman who is capable of loving even a headless creature, and therefore, also a hybrid one like him".

 

"He's unaware of these paths. The labyrinth expands, or he loses his memory".

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Description (in English)

How do we perform ourselves in digital space? In Not Not 0.1, Catherine Siller uses her own custom software and a motion capture camera to generate projected text and images of herself. She immerses herself in these projections and dances between the virtual and the real in a duet with her digital double. The piece destabilizes language and gesture as it repeatedly redraws the boundary between the physical and the digital self.

(Source: ELO Conference 2014)

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The Cape is a short work that engages the history of visual print-based authority by combining impersonal, government-created images with a purportedly personal story. Carpenter animates decades-old black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps, adding to these a few laconic caption-sized texts to extend an exploration of "place" that digital space evokes.

(Source: Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1)

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What a boring story this is. I never learned to whistle. I wish I'd asked my uncle to teach me how to spit instead.

The Cape, as Cape Cod is often called, is, as you may know, a narrow spit of land.

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