What is Interactive Narrative – Week 1

By: Vladimir |

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

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