I stole this off of the following HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18552957&utm_term=comment I did not have a chance to look at the "things' themselves yet, but my intuition, when...
Imagine a love story told through interactive Gmail threads. Or a corporate heist as seen through the history of a Google Doc, where blinking cursors become characters and edits drive the plot. Or a tale where the main character goes mad, and the words themselves begin to seize control of the webpage as you scroll.
I did not have a chance to look at the "things' themselves yet, but my intuition, when reading this description, leads me to classify these as installations rather than literary texts. There might be a narrative, but installations have a narrative to them too, no? Nevertheless, this sounds interesting.
While I definitely think there is some cross-over between art installations and this concept of hyperliterature, that's not always the case. E.g. Several of the examples the author lists I...
While I definitely think there is some cross-over between art installations and this concept of hyperliterature, that's not always the case. E.g. Several of the examples the author lists I wouldn't consider art installations: Harmonia is simply interactive fiction Homestruck is a 4th wall breaking webcomic Hot Spot is a conventional narrative but interspersed with unique typography, colours and made to look like an SMS conversation
I stole this off of the following HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18552957&utm_term=comment
I did not have a chance to look at the "things' themselves yet, but my intuition, when reading this description, leads me to classify these as installations rather than literary texts. There might be a narrative, but installations have a narrative to them too, no? Nevertheless, this sounds interesting.
While I definitely think there is some cross-over between art installations and this concept of hyperliterature, that's not always the case. E.g. Several of the examples the author lists I wouldn't consider art installations: Harmonia is simply interactive fiction
Homestruck is a 4th wall breaking webcomic
Hot Spot is a conventional narrative but interspersed with unique typography, colours and made to look like an SMS conversation
p.s. Related Tildes topic about one of the examples the author lists: https://tildes.net/~misc/516/what_football_will_look_like_in_the_future