This is a true story of two refugees escaping from Syria, through the story you get questions where you have to make up what your choice would be in the set situation. It shows the desperate choices refugees have to make in their escape.
Thanner Kuhai is a short work of digital poetry, an elemental metaphor about wrestling with depression and finding hope against all odds. The reader/player is transported into an environment where language becomes intertwined with nature in a flooded subterranean world. Navigate tunnels and passageways teeming with strange life and shadows of words. Submerge beneath the water. Or seek escape to the surface. Available in English and Tamil.
"The Executor" was written in an unusual way. Each author took turns writing sentences, beginning with the final sentence of the story and working backwards.
In a release from Spineless Books, Montfort and Gillespie state that "without planning the content of the story, [they] alternated writing sentences" (Montfort). Each author contributed sentences without knowing the direction that the narrative would take.
The plot follows Jeremy Salader, who returns to a past he has left behind. At some point in his life he made the decision to escape from his life and move towards a new future. A phone call forces Salader to return to his home. By simply looking through the phonebook, Jeremy realizes that his sister, Selma, is still living in the family home caring for their dying mother. When Jeremy meets with Selma, Jeremy's attachment to his estranged mother becomes clear. Selma feels that Jeremy and his mother need to reconcile because she can no longer deal with a dying parent alone. No decision is made and both siblings are left contemplating the future.
"The Executor," built on both processing, an open source programming language and environment for the creation of images, animation and interactions, as well as Java. The story is presented as a scrolling text with the speed of the scrolling gradually increasing as the story progresses. The screen gradually darkens, from white to black, and the text pulses as the story unfolds. The pulsing, and breathing of the text describes the collaborative nature of the work. It mirrors the back and forth process of writing the authors used to write the story. The visual elements also convey Jeremy's growing anxiety about seeing his mother and the mother's progression towards death. The reversible chronology of "The Executor" formally suggests that the past is not distinct from the future: the two intertwine and act upon each other in social, psychological, and narrative systems alike.
(Source: Electronic Literature Directory entry by Jonathan Jarvie)
"Gabriella Infinita," a metamorphical work, is a lesson in the evolution of the internet. Three versions of the text are available: Novel, Hypertext and Hypermedia. In the tale, Gabriella arrives at the apartment of her lover, Frederico, the author, only to find he has disappeared. In his stead, she has only his things, his writings, his clippings, and his recordings. At the same time, in a parallel narrative, a group of people try to escape a building. They are trapped, moreso than they think, for they are characters in one of his stories. Since Jaime Alejandro Rodriguez Ruiz made all of these versions available on the web (with commentaries), they serve as an excellent study in the forms themselves. In no way a lesson in progress, the adaptations and translations of his own tale reveal the strengths and limitations of these forms.
(Source: Electronic Literature Directory entry by Mark Marino)
Gabriella Infinita es una obra metamórfica. Su presencia corre paralela a una intensa y a la vez voluble experiencia de escritura. Nace como toda obra artística: por gracia de una necesidad expresiva muy intima. Pero, apenas brota, empieza a buscar alocadamente su forma, como ávida de cuerpo, como presintiendo su fragilidad y su contingencia. Y termina comprendiendo que estaba destinada a la volatilidad.
Pero esa conciencia siempre estuvo lejos de ser alcanzada fácilmente. Sufrió al comienzo, en su primera fase de formalización, la negligencia majadera de sus lectores; después, la terquedad imposible de su autor que le impidió mutar con libertad. Finalmente, hubo de someterse a la desintegración de sus elementos. Ahora, en su tercera metamorfosis, espera nerviosa, como una quinceañera asustada en su primera cita a ciegas, el encuentro con su lector.
(Source: description from Gabriella Infinita, "historia")
Visual Design and Interactivity: Carlos Roberto Torres Parrafurther credits: http://www.javeriana.edu.co/gabriella_infinita/proyecto/creditos.htm
A schoolgirl who has narrowly escaped death hides and reflects beneath a roadway tunnel. Her scattered thoughts manifest against the grotty concrete walls before fading away again into nothing. Soon she realises she's been hiding herself away for days. How the hell did she end up here in the first place? Contains strong language and references to violence.
Requires a Javascript-enabled browser. Not Internet Explorer compatible. Works on iPad and other mobile devices.
Design, programming, editing by Andy Campbell, based on the script by Lynda Wright, audio soundtrack by Andy Campbell and Matt Wright
Author description: Episode 4 of Inanimate Alice finds Alice going to school at last. She and her parents have ended up in a multicultural city in the middle of England. For the first time ever, Alice has friends her own age, and they do all the things that 14 year olds everywhere do. "And now I am going to die!" Attempting to impress her friends one afternoon, Alice climbs a rickety staircase outside an abandoned factory. When it collapses beneath her, she hangs on by her fingernails, then hauls herself up onto a ledge. But now she is stuck - she can't get down, she can't go up. The only way out is through the scary factory, half-demolished and very dangerous. Can you help Alice? Can you find the way out? Catch up with her in Inanimate Alice, Episode 4: Hometown. Episode 4 is the largest and most complex episode in the series to date. The "teachers only" version of this episode provides a 'skip intro' option and opens up all of the navigation icons from the beginning so that educators can focus on the sections of the narrative appropriate to their needs.
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