The New Screen Media : Cinema/Art/Narrative [With DVD Disk]

Notes on Contributors vi List of Artworks on the DVD-ROM xvi List of Illustrations xvii Acknowledgements xix Preface xxi Timothy Druckrey Foreword: An Age of Narrative Chaos? xxv Martin Rieser Andrea Zapp Structural Overview: Cinema, Art and the Reinvention of Narrative xxix PART ONE: ORIENTATIONS: HISTORY AND THEORY Definitions Spreadsheets, Sitemaps and Search Engines: Why Narrative is Marginal to Multimedia and Networked Communication, and Why Marginality is More Vital than Universality 3(11) Sean Cubitt Reflections on Digital Imagery: Of Mice and Men 14(13) Paul Willemen Origins The Art of Narrative - Towards the Floating Work of Art 27(15) Soke Dinkla Narrated Theory: Multiple Projection and Multiple Narration (Past and Future) 42(12) Peter Weibel Towards Meaningful Spaces 54(10) Annika Blunck Spatial Computerisation and Film Language 64(13) Lev Monovich Convergence net.drama:/myth/mimesis/mind_mapping/ 77(13) Andrea Zapp Interactive or Inhabited TV: Broadcasting for the Twenty-first Century 90(15) Alex Butterworth John Wyver New Paradigms <>New Movies: Interactive Film and New Narrative Interfaces 105(15) Chris Hales Beyond Narrative? The Interactive Art Gambit 120(15) Ken Feingold Notes Toward a Hypertextual Theory of Narrative 135(11) Jon Dovey The Poetics of Interactivity: The Uncertainty Principle 146(17) Martin Rieser Interactive Storytelling: The Renaissance of Narration 163(16) Eku Wand Mastery (Sonic C'est Moi) 179(16) Grahame Weinbren PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS: A NEW PRACTICE Restructuring Time Crossing and Collapsing Time: Re-constructing (Her)Historical and Ideological Film Narratives on a Transformed Stage 195(13) Jill Scott The Space Between: Telepresence, Re-animation and the Re-casting of the Invisible 208(13) Toni Dove Redefining Space Intersecting the Virtual and the Real: Space in Interactive Media Installations 221(6) George Legrady Virtual Reality - Tautological Oxymoron 227(10) Malcolm Le Grice Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Explorations of Digital Video in Virtual Space 237(19) Bill. Seaman Beyond the Screen The Construction of Experience: Turning Spectators into Visitors 256(12) Luc Courchesne Movies after Film - The Digitally Expanded Cinema 268(8) Jeffrey Show Emotions Encoded 276(11) Merel Mirage The Personalised Interface An Ersatz of Life: The Dream Life of Technology 287(10) Zoe Beloff The Good Cook: A Vertical Axis versus a Horizontal Axis in Interactive Narrative Construction 297(7) Michael Buckley Mongrel's National Heritage: Reporting the Experience 304(13) Graham Harwood Glossary 317(5) Bibliography 322(6) Index 328