posted by rob 3 on January 03, 19100 at 13:24:22:
what is the new narrative?
"Although Hamlet is not the first character to
reveal his thoughts on stage or to utter a
soliloguy, his particular expression of meditative
self-consciousness is both original and universal.
It represents a truth about human experience that
could not be told before."- from Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck In her book Murray is talking about how new media
can be expected to produce new narrative
structures in the same way books and film, as new
technologies, affected (effected?:) cultural
production. She tried (1997) to anticipate what
the new narrative might look like by examining
what we had so far at that time: avatars, MUDs,
games, simulations. It didn't get her too far but
far enough to give me a sense of virtigo. Its on my mind -- the new media -- as you know
Jack, facing yet again a shift in work strategy
(as if it were a strategy and not a reaction). Notwithstanding Murray's essentialism (the notion
that art always represents a truth about human
experience as opposed to behaviours in cultural
parentheses), isn't there a struggle in
Embryogenesis to wrest some new truth out of the
interface between science and art? And doesn't
that mirror, though in a slightly different medium
(the web being after all, involved, though not too
self-consciously) the struggle going on in new
media: looking for something in the technology,
frustrated by familiar narrative structures, yet
bending the rules and structures too, however
slightly...? I find myself searching backwards, as we are
taught, to your root directory: ~fatemaps (access
forbidden): searching for what? arithmetic
formulae? as if, if I could only find the
equation, I could be certain then of the
truthfulness of the product and proceed
untroubled, without contradictions, breathing
easily at last.
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