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Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Digital Imaginary
Part One: Database
Interviews
Connections And Coincidences In The End: Death In Seven Colors: A Conversation With David Clark
Emotional Proximity Through Inside The Distance: A Conversation With Sharon Daniel
Commentaries
Stuart Moulthrop: Now What: Sharon Daniel And David Clark On The Digital Imaginary.
Judith Aston: The Readerly And The Cinematic: Hybrid Reconfigurations Through
Digital Media Practice.
Part Two: Archive
Interviews
Pry As A Cinematic Novel: A Conversation With Samantha Gorman
The Generative Archive Of Encyclopedia: A Conversation With Håkan Jonson And Johannes Heldén.
Commentaries
Lisa Swanstrom: The Taxonomy Is Imprecise.
Geoffrey C. Bowker: Reading The Endless Archive
Part Three: Multimodality
Interviews
Authorship In Inanimate Alice and Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A Conversation With Kate Pullinger
The Metamorphoses Of Front As A Narrative Told Through Social Media Interface: A Conversation With Donna Leishman.
Commentaries
Anastasia Salter: Collaborative Voices: Kate Pullinger’s Digital Authorial Voice.
Mark C. Marino: What Holds Electronic Literature Together?
Metacommentaries
Illya Szilak: Do Cyborgs Dream Of Iphone Apps? The Body And Storytelling In The Digital Imaginary.
Nick Montfort: Computational Literary Practices And Processes And Imagination.
Afterword
Steve Tomasula: Haunting The Digital Imaginary.
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Roderick Coover is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA, and author or coauthor of numerous award-winning creative works featured in international arts venues, festivals and public institutions as well as scholarly works spanning fields of the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Résumé
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Over the past half century, computing has profoundly altered the ways stories are imagined and told. Immersive, narrative, and database technologies transform creative practices and hybrid spaces revealing and concealing the most fundamental acts of human invention: making stories.
The Digital Imaginary illuminates these changes by bringing leading North American and European writers, artists and scholars, like Sharon Daniel, Stuart Moulthrop, Nick Montfort, Kate Pullinger and Geof Bowker, to engage in discussion about how new forms and structures change the creative process. Through interviews, commentaries and meta-commentaries, this book brings fresh insight into the creative process from differing, disciplinary perspectives, provoking questions for makers and readers about meaning, interpretation and utterance. The Digital Imaginary will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including storymakers, educators, curators, critics, readers and artists, alike.
Préface
Leading creators and scholars raise provocative questions about emerging and hybrid narrative forms of digital arts and what these say about the creative imagination.
Texte suppl.
Digitality has erupted the ambit of narratives with which we invent and interpret our being in the world, as well as the forms in which these narratives are expressed and experienced. The Digital Imaginary is an invaluable and elucidative analysis of the current ‘state of this art’ by authors and artists who are thinking and working at its leading edge. Its penetrating case studies and conversations map best current practices and beguiling future possibilities.
