Locative Narrative and the Landscape

I found this article to be interesting although, like most of the other articles, still beyond my vocabulary. I liked Jeremy Hight's ideas, especially the idea of creating something that will never be finished, and how through a local narrative he was able to create a kind of scattered or non-linear narrative.

-max hull

The Story Engine - Erin Fitzgerald

The Story Engine sounds like a worthwhile project. On one hand, as an experiment, it would be interesting to watch the

narratives develop because of the controlled factors of participators and base story. It could be noted how different people interact

with each other, as well as to whatever the story in focus is. On the other hand, as a literary endeavor, the end result of a narrative

might be fun to read, or even present an entirely new way of reading and writing stories. It definitely breaks some of the confines

put on Wikipedia, because of the editing and control, and Coover's workshop, allowing several writers/artists to participate in one

narrative. The comparison to Game Theory is definitely topical, as the internet and online networking are playing such a large role

in society. As for ideas of defining the self and one's role in the world, I think it's hard to determine what effect this will have on

them without studying the process and end result of a narrative created by the Story Engine.

Sal Hamid

Response to Andrea Grover:Phantom Captain

I couldn't find any posts on the blog for this reading and I have no idea who was supposed to do the responses to the reading. Anyway, I thought the idea of crowd sourcing was pretty interesting. It kind of reminded me of how the little people tied up Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels, and about how even though they were so little their combined power was enough to incapacitate the giant. The sketches from swarmsketch were interesting, but some of them were just gobbledygook and hard to tell exactly what you were looking at unless you read the title.
This article reminded me about the kind of stuff they used to talk about on the cable channel called "Tech TV" before it became "G4TV" and their programming changed.