São Paulo-SP
Brazil
The FILE Festival presents the 2nd edition of FILE Tablet and this time it shows a more comprehensive selection of applications. In the ebook, game, and entertainment categories, more then 35 apps were selected to be put in tablets that operate with 2 different systems (OS and Android).
(Source: FILE website)
Oi Futuro Flamengo
Rua Dois de Dezembro, 63, Flamengo
Rio de Janeiro-RJ
Brazil
FILE RIO 2012 presents from April 10th to May 13th unpublished projects in different areas of electronic arts: installations, applications for tablets, machinimas, media art and sound art.
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival - is a Brazilian initiative connected to the network of major worldwide productions of the genre.
Opacity is a 4-part short interactive story.We live in an age of obsession with transparency especially in politics and business.But in our personal relationships, what is the point of being transparent to oneself and to others ? The following interactive narrative commends a kind of opacity which is meant as an in-between. It is the story of a journey from a dream of transparency to a desire for opacity.Source: Author's description on work's website
The work is produced in HTML5. A version of the work for smartphones and tablets is in development
Opacity is a 4-part short interactive story.We live in an age of obsession with transparency especially in politics and business.But in our personal relationships, what is the point of being transparent to oneself and to others ? The following interactive narrative commends a kind of opacity which is meant as an in-between. It is the story of a journey from a dream of transparency to a desire for opacity.
Source: Author's description on work's website
The work is produced in HTML5. A version of the work for smartphones and tablets is in development
petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction" (small brush to dust off fiction) is a generative piece written in French. A scene of thriller is generated at each time you run the program or ask for a new scene. This scene explores different possibilities of a scenario. But the reader must continually "dust" a picture that covers the text while reading. The text is a pastiche: the scene is located at a time in a single location. Some features happen out of this room, they are computed by the program but not expressed into the narrative. The piece begins with some "adapted" poems by Jean de La Fontaine.
(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)
Note on the "lability of the device" and the inclusion of the work in the respective collection: viewed and accessed on a tablet, the finger-based navigation experience turns this work to be labile and does not provide the same experience as with the mouse on screen (Patricia Tomaszek).
The work was adapted to a tablet/mobile version in 2011 by Inés Laitano.
Penumbra is a hybrid, re-imagining of the E-book. Crafted for mobile tablets, it carefully integrates gesture, video, interaction design and text. Increasingly, the tablet represents a readership that is poised for rich interactive worlds: new stories for new screens. Authoring with, in and through the tablet platform has the potential to create future literature that redefines our reading practice beyond simple existing emulations of print on screen or “touch and click” reading. In Penumbra, the digital and physical work together to bring the reader into the mind of the main protagonist. A series of P.O.V. interactive elements allow the reader to explore the language, senses, and visuals of the protagonist’s increasingly muddled thoughts. Through this engagement with a new type of book, the cultural expectations of what it means to “read” are interrogated and rethought. When encountered as an installation, Penumbra is an evocative standalone app. that can be read by interacting with the touch-based screen of an iPad. The aim is to create a strong fictional world where the interactions required to traverse it are non-trivial, compelling and content rich.
(Source: Author's abstract for HASTAC 2013)
Note: Retitled "Pry"