My class project entails an investigation into the narrative potentials of new media, in all its philosophies, permutations and forms (electronic literature, hypertext, interactive fiction, blogs, games, args, narratology, ludology, et al), culminating in the creation of my own internet art/net.art/e-lit work work.

For now I’m just going to use this blogsite for project updates, but eventually the project will develop its own separate web domain.

Since the first 3 milestones for my project are mainly decision making steps, I’ve decided that the time between these milestones short. Once I start creating and building, the time between milestones becomes greater to allow for progress.

Timeline:
1. Sept 27th-Finalize plot for narrative/study different platforms for online narrative.

2. Oct 4th-Decide upon the form my narrative needs to take/what combination of online media/languages i will use to tell the story.

3. Oct. 11th-Begin to build the online project

4. Nov. 15th-Have made most of the final narrative and formal tweaks of the project and polish created content.

5. End of semester- Have final version of work completed.

Ongoing:
Study & practice javascript/PHP/MySQL/Flash
READ!

Bibliography & References (ever growing):

Nelson, Literary Machines
Murray, Hamlet on the Hollodeck
Bolter, Writing Space

Fruin, First person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality
Manovich, The Language of New Media

Anything by N. Katherine Hayles, What is E-lit? for starters….
Joseph Tabbi: Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Setting a Direction for the Electronic Literature Organization’s Directory

Mark Amerika and alt-x

http://eliterature.org/

Disrupting narratives at the Tate

Grand Text Auto