32 | 2004

Browsing 32 | 2004 by Subject "art installation"

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  • Article
    Bill Seaman: Exchange Fields. An interactive video-sound installation about the body
    Simanowski, Roberto (2004) , S. 1-7
    There are three ways to experience this piece: 1. being taken by the hypnotic composition of visuals, sound, and material environment, subscribing to the attached buzzword "interaction. 2. asking, after having seen so many interactive installations, with a weary shrug: So what! 3. considering the grammar of the interface and come to an adventurous conclusion.
  • Article
    Digital Literature: Interview with Noah Wardrip-Fruin
    Simanowski, Roberto (2004) , S. 1-28
    Noah Wardrip-Fruin is author and scholar of digital literature. He has edited two anthologies, one of new essays and the other of classic texts on new media: The New Media Reader (with Nick Montfort; MIT Press 2003) and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (with Pat Harrigan; MIT Press 2004) (review). As an author of digital literature Noah Wardrip-Fruin has become well known for Gray Matters (together with Chris Spain, Kirstin Allio, and Michael Crumpton), a fiction embedded in images of a human body, and The Impermanence Agent (together with Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, and Duane Whitehurst). Both works were part of the Guggenheim Museum New York's 2001 "Brave New Word" program. More recent works of digital literature include Talking Cure and Screen. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Traveling Scholar at Brown University. Roberto Simanowski talked with him about disappearing, instrumental, fixed, and responsive text - about text-games, word pictures, critical technical practices, and the future of digital literature.