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http://www.secrettechnology.com/simulator/simulator.html
Type text in the Simulator, and it gives you a "New Media" electronic literature version of the text!
Actually I have no idea whether I should be posting that link there. It was created by Jason Nelson of http://www.heliozoa.com , the New Media artist who gave our Writer's House talk tonight, and apparently he made it on the train here, and we're the first people to know about it. Also it requires flash, because apparently flash is the sum and total of New Media.
He said his inspiration for it was, and I quote, "I've been getting tired of doing everything with the mouse, so I've been experimenting with *new* types of interface, such as the keyboard."
Oh, you want me to try anyway? To me, the new art forms created by computers and the internet are not about Flash and multimedia. I've always found multimedia rather overrated, anyway. Combining text and sound and light and motion isn't new, people, hello.
The new arts are about the networking, about real-time publishing, the possibility of effectively infinite content, the interactivity, the supremacy of digital information (that is, text), and the possibility of approaching reality so closely the difference can't be seen with the naked eye.
What kind of things to me exemplify these new possibilities? Shared interactive storytelling. Things like this and this. Shared worlds and fanfic of fanfic and open source and livejournal and webcomics and RPGs that look real to outsiders. Infinite because they grow faster than any one person can consume them, art in the greatest sense of the world, always stretching the boundaries of possibility because we're too busy having fun to worry about possibility, but full of truth and unexpectedness and what's real even when it obviously isn't.
It isn't little "interactive" works that always seem so confining to me, because the illusion of 'choice' the interactivity gives you is so limited. A painting you can look at in different light, from different angles, stand upside down, look at it so closely your nose bumps the paint and the security guards yell at you. An electronic poem there are maybe a few dozen options, most of them fairly boring, and that's that; once you've figured out how it works, what more is there to do?
Art is not something put together in a proprietary program that will be obsolete in five years, which is clunky enough that even the creator has trouble getting his interface to behave properly, and only works on his home computer anyway. Art is not something thrown together as an excuse to ogle a girl in a coffeeshop, which is riddled with bad grammar and typos because the artist is to lazy to go back and fix them. (Yes, he actually said that. After telling a story about how he practiced his devastating sarcasm on the last people who complained about them.) The medium should be a away to explore the art, not the other way around.
Um. But the simulator thing was cool. Go play with the simulator. It told me I was born with extraordinary intelligence, but any gift I had was lost due to my inability to dodge in dodgeball.
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franthephoenix! We should start a "random frienders alliance." Although if you're friending everyone interested in fanfiction, writing, and Harry Potter you may be in for a long slog . . .
Type text in the Simulator, and it gives you a "New Media" electronic literature version of the text!
Actually I have no idea whether I should be posting that link there. It was created by Jason Nelson of http://www.heliozoa.com , the New Media artist who gave our Writer's House talk tonight, and apparently he made it on the train here, and we're the first people to know about it. Also it requires flash, because apparently flash is the sum and total of New Media.
He said his inspiration for it was, and I quote, "I've been getting tired of doing everything with the mouse, so I've been experimenting with *new* types of interface, such as the keyboard."
Oh, you want me to try anyway? To me, the new art forms created by computers and the internet are not about Flash and multimedia. I've always found multimedia rather overrated, anyway. Combining text and sound and light and motion isn't new, people, hello.
The new arts are about the networking, about real-time publishing, the possibility of effectively infinite content, the interactivity, the supremacy of digital information (that is, text), and the possibility of approaching reality so closely the difference can't be seen with the naked eye.
What kind of things to me exemplify these new possibilities? Shared interactive storytelling. Things like this and this. Shared worlds and fanfic of fanfic and open source and livejournal and webcomics and RPGs that look real to outsiders. Infinite because they grow faster than any one person can consume them, art in the greatest sense of the world, always stretching the boundaries of possibility because we're too busy having fun to worry about possibility, but full of truth and unexpectedness and what's real even when it obviously isn't.
It isn't little "interactive" works that always seem so confining to me, because the illusion of 'choice' the interactivity gives you is so limited. A painting you can look at in different light, from different angles, stand upside down, look at it so closely your nose bumps the paint and the security guards yell at you. An electronic poem there are maybe a few dozen options, most of them fairly boring, and that's that; once you've figured out how it works, what more is there to do?
Art is not something put together in a proprietary program that will be obsolete in five years, which is clunky enough that even the creator has trouble getting his interface to behave properly, and only works on his home computer anyway. Art is not something thrown together as an excuse to ogle a girl in a coffeeshop, which is riddled with bad grammar and typos because the artist is to lazy to go back and fix them. (Yes, he actually said that. After telling a story about how he practiced his devastating sarcasm on the last people who complained about them.) The medium should be a away to explore the art, not the other way around.
Um. But the simulator thing was cool. Go play with the simulator. It told me I was born with extraordinary intelligence, but any gift I had was lost due to my inability to dodge in dodgeball.
Also, welcome
franthephoenix! We should start a "random frienders alliance." Although if you're friending everyone interested in fanfiction, writing, and Harry Potter you may be in for a long slog . . .
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I didn't say it was *art*. Just that it was cool. Certainly as much fun as any of those annoying memegen things going around.
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Opera has a little thing on the address bar to disable noise-from-browser. I keep it off :P Did the simulator make noise? Sorry, I was in the computer lab since it had flash, and didn't have speakers. Poor
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Thanks!
Although if you're friending everyone interested in fanfiction, writing, and Harry Potter...
Nope, just random people. *g*