From linkmachinego:

“I know a lot of artists …like the art to be very, very simple, and leave the detail up to the mind of the reader, but what about leaving it in the mind of the writer and artist, and allow us to bring you into our world and let the reader visit what we’ve envisioned, a complete vision – something that is three dimensional and totally realized and will take you completely out of yourself.”

On Monday we have the good fortune to have Jessica Hammer visiting us here to talk about her work: “Six Principles: Toward a Theory of Interactive Narrative”, in which she discusses the counterpoint to the above view – shared authorship:

“The principle of shared authorship addresses the question of who is the author of an interactive story. A single author cannot create enough meaningful content to have a story that is both powerful and interactive, and artificial intelligence is not yet sophisticated enough to have truly computer-generated narratives. To incorporate the human ability to tell a story with the flexibility and interactivity of computer-generated stories, many people must participate in the authorship of the story. A group of users share the duties of authorship, creating a story that makes sense on a human level but is being created in real-time (rather than being authored in advance).”

Looking forward to it. Hopefully I’ll get some notes from her talk up here next week.

» “Six Principles: Toward a Theory of Interactive Narrative”