Iowa Review Web: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing
Published by Jeremy Douglass August 2nd, 2006 in Researchers, Text Art, Publications.
The latest Iowa Review Web issue out this July is “Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing.”
In it I interiew Nick Montfort on his interactive fiction work Book and Volume. In addition to discussing tropes and themes in the work we also talk about aspects of craft including goals, timed events, atmospheric descriptions, and orienting new readers to the genre.
The issue has a lot to offer readers with an interest in digital text art, and the framing introduction by Scott Rhettberg does a great job of providing diverse historical examples. In addition to my modest contribution, the issue also features three other interviews, all with figures who should be familiar to WRT readers:
- Jane McGonigal and her ARG research and design [WRT search]
- Shelley Jackson and her tattoo fiction Skin [on WRT]
- Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas and their interactive drama Façade [on WRT]
If you haven’t read TIRW (including their back-catalog), check it out.
Congrats Jeremy. A very thoughtful, intelligent interrogation of the work.