[spectre] New Publication on Network and Narrative

[Andrea Zapp]

networked narrative environments
as imaginary spaces of being

edited by andrea zapp

Published by
Faculty of Art & Design, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
in collaboration with
Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, FACT, Liverpool

February 2004

ISBN 1 900756 24 2
144 pp., 30 b/w illustrations, size 120mm x 170mm, price £8.99

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Via various forms of audio-visual communications, from chat 
protocols, net and software art to online theatre and immersive 
telepresence, artists are using a wide range of technologies to 
explore the digital network as a narrative space. Human presence is 
increasingly subject to a constant flow of online contributions, 
material, and data. How does this reposition our collective 
understanding of the physical and the virtual, the real and the 
imaginary?

In this context the 'networked narrative environment' must be defined 
as an artistic modus operandi and experiment that reflects medial and 
social processes. The book documents exemplary and unique artistic 
research positions within a developing genre. It serves as a 
resourceful illustration of the cultural debate on narratives, 
networking, and media art.

Leading international artists, writers, and curators examine specific 
examples of public installations and dramatic spaces that are linked 
to the Internet with the aim to integrate the viewer into the 
artwork. Key artistic projects and initiatives reflect sophisticated 
and complex new models of audience participation, real-time 
experience, and production of content.

Content:

Introduction
Andrea Zapp

Network Aesthetics:
Strategies of Participation within Net.Art
Gloria Sutton

An Archaeology of Networked Art:
A Symptomatic Reading of The Messenger by Paul DeMarinis
Erkki Huhtamo

The Actual and the Imagined
Susan Collins

'A Fracture in Reality':
Networked Narratives as Imaginary Fields of Action
Andrea Zapp

The Emergence of User- and Performer-Determined Narratives in 
Telematic Environments
Paul Sermon

Adventures in Cyber-theatre (or the Actor's Fear of the Disembodied Audience)
Steve Dixon

Mediapoiesis, Autopoietic Compiling, and Code Critique in the 
Technological Narrative:
Narratives of the Code
Margarete Jahrmann

Plus Bibliography