narrative
A narrative (or story) is any report of connected events, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or in a sequence of (moving) pictures
narrare – to tell (late latin)
***’traditional’ forms***
literature
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
film
Man With a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov
painting – visual arts
Caspar David Friedrich – Wanderer…
*are these forms interactive?
***’new’ forms***
google.com
interactive
ɪntərˈaktɪv/
adjective
adjective: interactive
(of two people or things) influencing each other.
“fully sighted children in interactive play with others with defective vision”
allowing a two-way flow of information between a computer and a computer-user; responding to a user’s input.
“a fully interactive map of the area”
dictionary.com
adjective
1.
acting one upon or with the other.
2.
of or relating to a two-way system of electronic communications, as by means of television or computer:
interactive communications between families using two-way cable television.
3.
(of a computer program or system) interacting with a human user, often in a conversational way, to obtain data or commands and to give immediate results or updated information:
For many years airline reservations have been handled by interactive computer systems.
games
interactive art
interactive documentaries
hypertext
***Examples of new forms – Interactive narratives
Whale Hunt
http://thewhalehunt.org/
The Last Hunt
http://thelasthunt.nfb.ca/#/thelasthunt
Bear71
http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71
participatory/
Man With a Movie Camera remake
http://dziga.perrybard.net/
Today
http://number27.org/today-archive
Proteus – AntiGame?
Journey
http://www.herstorygame.com/
Temps Mort – ALex Verhaest
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin: Listening Post, Real-Time Data Responsive Environment 2001
Blast Theory
Can you See me?
***In Class Assignment
find an interactive narrative, share it with others