Lydgalleriet
Østre Skostredet 3
5017 Bergen
Norway
The Hybridity and Synaesthesia exhibition at Lydgalleriet features works that push at the edges of literature and other art forms. These works appeal to other aspects of the sensorium than those we typically associate with reading, for example involving haptic sensation, touch-based interactivity, innovative audio elements, interactive
images, or locative technologies.
(source: ELO 2015 catalog)
Collocations is a work of experimental writing that explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics by appropriating and transforming two key texts from Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein’s historic debates about the complementary relationship between position and momentum. By interacting with Collocations, the user turns into an experimenter, observing and physically manipulating the device to materialize unique textual configurations that emerge from within Bohr and Einstein’s original writings. Striking a balance between predetermined and algorithmically influenced texts, Collocations constructs a new quantum poetics, disrupting classical notions of textuality and offering new possibilities for reading. (Source: ELO 2015 catalog)
This panel offers three academic papers that explore the use of mobile technologies in electronic literature. Organized from contributions that appear in the forthcoming collection, Digital Storytelling with Mobile Media: Locative Technologies and Narrative Practices, edited by Jason Farman, the impetus behind each of these papers is the ways in which mobile media are transforming the creation, dissemination, and experience of electronic literature.
The panel situates these mobile media narratives historically, acknowledging that mobile media have always affected the ways narrative is produced and disseminated. By locating mobile media historically and defining it broadly — yet simultaneously understanding the important impact of contemporary mobile technologies, especially locationaware mobile devices — this panel investigates the relationship between mobile technologies and narrative forms.
Drawing off of compelling examples of electronic literature that utilize location-based mobile media, we seek to develop a theoretical grounding for a meaningful analysis of mobile media narratives. Using examples such as TXTual Healing, [murmur], the Fort Vancouver Mobile Project, and student-designed electronic literature, these papers cover topics such as the transformation of reading interfaces from individual consumption to community engagement, the affordances and constraints of locative narratives, and practices of intermediality.
(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)