- Under the section of what Dr. Bush foresees, there are some future technological products listed such as the Cyclops Camera, Micorfilm, Vacoder, Thinking Machine and Memex. I’m especially fascinated by the depth of his description of Memex, “a memory storage device that can be mechanized to be consulted at an exceeding speed”. Do we see versions of the Memex tech in any current or future cinema screen? What are your thoughts on it enriching oral traditions and storytelling from memories
- Espen Aarseth writes this: “The cybertext reader is a player, a gambler; the cybertext is a game-world or world-game; it is possible to explore, get lost, and discover secret paths in these texts, not metaphorically, but through the topological structures of the textual machinery. This is not a difference between games and literature but rather between games and narratives. (p.3)” How do hyperlinked texts contribute to narratives and are we seeing a slow death of its utilization given how the time being spent on a webpage has reduced over the years?
- In her website, Marsha Kinder refers to Database narratives as narratives whose structure exposes the dual processes of selection and combination that lie at the heart of all stories and are crucial to language: the selection of particular narrative elements (characters, images, sounds, events, and settings) from a series of categories or databases, and the combination of these chosen elements to generate specific tales. Why is the audience not considered a part of the database narrative structure and how does the active inclusion of the role of a viewer of interactive narratives, change the dynamic between her/him and the storyteller?
Thu, October 10 2019 » Future Cinema