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- Title
Where the Wild Things Are: Seeking Improvisation on the Open Web Platform.
- Authors
Armen, Haig; Maxwell, John; Pullinger, Kate
- Abstract
Teaching creativity in digital media comes with its challenges. Obvious questions arise: what is the most effective creative process? what tools should be used? what is the right format? As Maslow's Hammer reminds us, if you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail; perhaps the challenge is that of perception. In this article we reflect on an experimental digital fiction workshop that took place in the summer of 2014. The workshop aimed to explore the boundaries of digital fiction using Open Web technology. The article discusses how process and tools forge the pathways and ultimately shape our outcomes. As we work to establish fully digital workflows and widely-adopted tools for creating digital narratives, we inadvertently limit our possibilities and fall into producing the same formats and modes of interaction over and over. In this nascent form, digital fiction requires efforts aimed for the fringes, to explore the boundaries of medium and genre. Today's software authoring tools are designed for carefully composing and organizing content, not collaboratively improvising to create new forms of content, navigation and experience. Without a better understanding of the materiality of digital media gained through code proficiency and improvising on the form, we are limiting our ability to achieve more sophisticated forms of expression. The universe of improvisation is constantly being created; or rather, in each moment a new universe is created At any moment, an event may occur for no reason at all, with no relation at all to the preceding event In this universe each moment is an entelechy, with both its cause and its end contained in itself.[1]
- Subjects
HYPERTEXT fiction; WORLD Wide Web; FICTION; MULTIMEDIA systems; DIGITAL media
- Publication
Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1080-2711
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3998/3336451.0018.123