You will be making an interactive story that informed by nonlinearity, forking paths, multiple possibility, and/or data and dataveillance. In A2 we worked with our own metadata to tell a story; in A3, you are invited with work with a larger, or different, data set to construct a different, more complicated, or unexpected interactive narrative. You might work with images, text, databases, form elements, and some interactive javascript elements to generate a dynamic narrative that is built with data. Work with video is also possible.
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Formally...
1) Consider how interactivity can enable different kinds of narrative structures
2) Consider how randomness, or 'chance' operations can decenter authorship and add interesting elements to the composition of an interactive narrative.
Conceptually, some ideas for you...
1) Consider writing a speculative future: work with archival images or current images from the news to tell a different story about what is to come
2) Rework an existing well known science fiction: make it interactive and give it different endings
3) Consider dynamics of power in relation to surveillance, dataveillance, and sousveillance: who is watching and who is being watched in your story? How could you flip between points of view?
4) You may also continue to expand on your in class work relating to Jorge Luis Borges' Garden of Forking Paths.
Technically...
- You might try to implement functioning database elements using prewritten PHP and and MySQL
- You might try to implement prewritten javascript elements to add responsiveness (note the use of ids)
- You might utilize well formatted images, linked html pages, form elements and/ or grid elements to support your ideas
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You will be graded on
1) conceptual: unique, artistic approach to a problem
2) perceptual: ability of have your aesthetic/ creative process reflect your concepts (form reflects content)
3) technical: your ability to implement technical lessons into project
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