Ambient Stories in Practice and Research

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary experiences delivered through text, audio and sensor-based delivery offer distinctive new forms of reading and listening and lay the ground for a new poetics of situated writing practices.Exploring an experimental, practice-based approach to digital literary forms and its emerging poetics, this book critically examines the ecology of ambient literature from a range of perspectives, including researchers and practitioners working in the fields of digital writing, sonics, visual art, performance, literary studies, creative writing and computer science. Essays look towards the emerging field of ambient literature, drawing on contributors'' own background and interests, ranging from examining how embodiment, memory and architecture can provide an active approach to experiencing text in the city to looking at ambulatory arts and site-specific performances. From exploring engagements with ecological and climatic challenges through critical and creative cartographies to understanding the metaphorical work of ambient as a form embedded in the social, technological and literary. Also including several practice-based essays from writers, artists and practitioners on topics such as the use of data to write poetry and the position of the writer as maker, it combines practice-led approaches and interdisciplinary research, making it a valuable and varied contribution to the field of digital writing.>

Auteur
Amy Spencer was a post-doctoral research fellow in Ambient Literature at the University of the West of England, UK and is now post-doctoral research assistant at Bath Spa University, UK. She has a PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College where her thesis, Author, Reader, Text: Collaboration and the Networked Book, focused on collaborative authorship in digital literature. She also has an MA in English from King's College London. Amy is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and is the author of DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture.

Contenu

Introduction: Ambient Stories: Embodied, authored and unpredictable, Amy Spencer

1. Retrospect on the new epigraphy: Walking, reading and marking the city, Malcolm McCullough
2. Ambient writing in a terrain of threatened subjectivity: Unfolding codes, tainted models and holey spaces, Phil Smith
3. Ambient activism: Place, people and process, Donna Hancox
4. Dear Reader, can I borrow your body to tell a story?: On ambient interactional metalepsis, sylleptic readers and palimpsestuous embedded reading experiences of ambient stories, Agnieszka Przybyszewska
5. At the edges: A question of audience invisibility, disappearance and failure, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Lee Miller
6. Here. Now. Ours: Interrogating the use of situated augmented reality, Ben Gwalchmai
7. On writing instability: How ambient literature reconfigures the reader/ writer relationship in situated storytelling , Tom Abba
8. Persephone's Footsteps: Storymaking on foot, Claire Dean
9. Waveform: Writing across oceans, air and algorithms, Richard A Carter
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