Playing Toucher by Serge Bourchardon, Kevin Carpentier, and Stephanie Spenle, brought up a point that I hadn’t realized previous to playing it. When reading electronic literature, as opposed to reading physical literature, one part of the experience that is missing is the ability to physically touch what is being read. By playing this game, I was able to experience different…
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Life Lesson’s Learned Within Minutes
When first playing the game Gravitation, it did not occur to me that there could have been any resemblances to real life. After the second time playing it however, I began getting curious about different aspects of the game. Many parts of the game do not make complete sense unless there were to be an explanation or a reason for…
What is RSI, you ask?
Separation By: Annie Abrahams If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t have read the text that is shown before playing the piece of literature. These few sentences explain exactly what the purpose of the work is, and what the ending ends up revealing. With this aside, I found this piece of work very creative as well as…
My Mind Is Blown.
I decided to play “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein; (to be played with the Left Hand)” by David Clark. This was by far the most interesting work on electronic literature I have encountered yet. Everything about this was intriguing to me. When starting this piece of literature, you are instructed to use your left hand. At first, this meant nothing to…
“Passing” Through Life
My first attempt at playing Passage, by Rohrer, was extremely unsuccessful. The only thing that I did was move straight foreword, because I realized that moving backwards or up either didn’t serve a purpose, or didn’t do anything at all. After a few frustrating trials, I discovered that going ‘down’ was a possibility. Once I figured this out, multiple connections…
Tao- Funneling to a Detailed Point
When looking through the “Links” posted on the blog, I had a very difficult time picking one to read. Tao by Reiner Strasser and Alan Sondheim however, stood out to me. The first time I watched it, I didn’t understand what was meant by the slow moving video and the words beneath it. After watching it many times however, I…