Author(s):
\nWill Luers, Hazel Smith and Roger Dean<\/p>\n
“novelling” is a recombinant digital novel that employs text, video and sound. It poses
\nquestions about the acts of reading and writing fiction, and inhabits the liminal space
\nbetween the two activities. The work is a generative system that algorithmically orders and
\nspatially arranges fragments of media (design elements, text, video and sound) in 6-minute
\ncycles. Every 30 seconds the interface changes, but the user may also click the screen at
\nany time to produce a change.
\nStraddling the lines between literature, cinema and music, “novelling” evokes the history of
\nthe novel (remixing and rewriting 19th and 20th century sources), but it also questions the
\nform’s basis in plot, character and words alone. “novelling” unfolds through suggested
\nnarrative connections between four characters. The characters, immersed in their isolated
\nlife-worlds, appear to be transported elsewhere by what they are reading. Are they reading
\nand thinking each other? How does the writing relate to the reading? Are the words on the
\nscreen versions or even drafts of the novel? Do the sounds come from a different interior
\nworld? The work is suggestive of novelistic spaces, spaces of interior reflection and exterior
\ngestures, intimacy and estrangement, gazing and being gazed at. The variable and
\ndeterministic system of selection and arrangement produces a fluid, ever-novel and potential
\nnarrative.<\/p>\n
Modality of presentation: Web based work
\nURL to work: http:\/\/novelling.newbinarypress.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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