Synopses & Reviews
Juxtaposing the work of leading cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, against creative artists', this book attempts to accommodate to these vehicles of content and shows how classical narrative has been giving way to a new, more fragmentary culture of drama.
The New Screen Media proposes critical tools for discussing the inner design and immersive effects of the new media forms and their social, political and cultural contexts. Alongside a discussion of how these new stories relate to issues of identity and the body and restructured temporal and spatial models and interfaces, the book explores differing creative platforms such as the Internet, Media Installation, Interactive Broadcast, CD-ROM and Expanded Cinema. The artists, themselves exploring innovative solutions, critically examine their own practice, with a special focus on fiction-based forms of interaction.
This unique volume is presented with an accompanying DVD-ROM, featuring extracts from some of the groundbreaking works discussed by leading media theorists from Europe and the United States, including: Annika Blunck, Alex Butterworth, Sean Cubitt, Söke Dinkla, Jon Dovey, Timothy Druckrey, Malcolm Le Grice, Lev Manovich, Peter Weibel, Paul Willemen and John Wyver.
Made in conjunction with the ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, this unique addition of a DVD-ROM to the book provides a rich sampler of interactive work and videos by which to explore the experimental territory, where the cinematic and digital arts are converging in new forms of narrative. Carefully cross-referenced with the book, this compilation opens a comprehensive overview to a wider audience. The cross-platform DVD-ROM provides up to four gigabytes of detailed illustration and analysis of the work of artists and interactive filmmakers from around the world at the cutting-edge in creating and critiquing these new hybrid forms of interactive narrative.
Includes: Zoe Beloff, Michael Buckley, Luc Courchesne, Toni Dove, Ken Feingold, Chris Hales, Graham Harwood, George Legrady, Martin Rieser, Jill Scott, Bill Seaman, Jeffrey Shaw, Eku Wand, Grahame Weinbren and Andrea Zapp.
Synopsis
This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their own practice. The book proposes the use of new critical tools for discussing new media forms.
Synopsis
This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their own practice. The book proposes the use of new critical tools for discussing new media forms.
About the Author
Martin Rieser is an electronic artist, and writer, currently Senior Lecturer in New Media at the University of Bath Spa and has curated and exhibited internationally in this field since 1981. Andrea Zapp is a freelance lecturer, writer and electronic artist based in Manchester with a particular interest in the transformation of traditional media into digital networked environments.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface By Timothy Druckrey
Foreword
An Age of Narrative Chaos?
Structural Overview:
Cinema, Art and the Reinvention of Narrative
PART 1 ORIENTATIONS: HISTORY AND THEORY
Definitions
Sean Cubitt
Spreadsheets, Sitemaps and Search Engines: Why Narrative is Marginal to Multimedia and Networked Communication, and Why Marginality is More Vital than Universality
Paul Willemen
Reflections on Digital Imagery: Of Mice and Men
Origins
Söke Dinkla
The Art of Narrative--Towards the Floating Work of Art
Peter Weibel
Narrated Theory: Multiple Projection and Multiple Narration (Past and Future)
Annika Blunck
Towards Meaningful Spaces
Lev Manovich
Computerisation and Film LanguageConvergence
Andrea Zapp
net.drama:// myth/mimesis/mind_mapping/
Alex Butterworth and John Wyver
Interactive or Inhabited TV:Broadcasting for the 21st Century
Chris Hales
New Paradigms<>New Movies
Interactive Film and New Narrative Interfaces
Beyond Narrative?
Ken Feingold
The Interactive Art Gambit
Jon Dovey
Notes Toward a Hypertextual Narrative Theory
Martin Rieser
The Poetics of Interactivity: The Uncertainty Principle
Eku Wand
Interactive Storytelling: The Renaissance of Narration
Grahame Weinbren
Mastery (Sonic C'est Moi)
PART 2 EXPLORATIONS: A NEW PRACTICE
Restructuring Time
Jill Scott
Crossing and Collapsing Time: Re-constructing (Her) Historical and Ideological Film Narratives on a Transformed Stage
Toni Dove
The Space Between: Telepresence, Re-animation and the Re-casting of the Invisible Redefining Space
George Legrady
Intersecting the Virtual and the Real: Space in Interactive Media Installations
Malcolm Le Grice
Dream Time and Digital Media: Computers, Cinema and the Transformation of Authorship
Bill Seaman
Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Explorations of Digital Video in VirtualSpace Beyond the Screen
Luc Courchesne
The Construction of Experience: Turning Spectators into Visitors
Jeffrey Shaw
Movies after Film: The Digitally Expanded Cinema Merel Mirage
Emotions Encoded
The Personalised Interface
Zoe Beloff
An Erzatz of Life: The Dream Life of Technology
Michael Buckley
The Good Cook: A Vertical Axis versus a Horizontal Axis in Interactive Narrative Construction
Graham Harwood
Mongrel's National Heritage: Reporting the Experience