juan freire: La narrativa no lineal e interactiva: un curso con Borges, Tarantino, Sterling y videojuegos

30 diciembre 2006

La narrativa no lineal e interactiva: un curso con Borges, Tarantino, Sterling y videojuegos

Vía Pablo Mancini descubro el curso Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice que se desarrolló en la primavera de este año en el MIT y cuyos contenidos han sido liberados en el MIT OpenCourseWare. Fue impartido por Beth Coleman del Convergence Culture Consortium y Comparative Media Studies program del MIT.

El curso explica la narrativa no lineal e interactiva (o sea, buena parte de la narrativa presente y, posiblemente, casi toda la narrativa futura) combinando a Borges con Bruce Sterling o Tarantino, e hibridando literatura, videojuegos o cine (algunos ejemplos de las fuentes de inspiración del curso en la sección de readings). Por supuesto, los alumnos aprenden las tendencias narrativas “narrando” dado que deben construir sus propias obras, lo que los obliga a entender y manejar los diferentes lenguajes y medios (desde escribir hasta grabar un video o explorar Second Life).

The contemporary understanding of communication and narrative is quickly shifting in a world where media is ubiquitous. This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. The "language of new media" is the thematic used in this course to discuss contemporary and historic forms of non-linear narrative. Writers on communication culture, gaming, television, digital aesthetics, contemporary art and film, as well as synchronic narrative will be addressed. The course is structured as a theory and practice class: students will produce short papers and a final media project. The focus is to develop critical tools to analyze contemporary media as well as a minimal level of practical implementation. We will look at writers including Borges, Julian Dibbell, Steven Johnson, Friedrich Kittler, Jan Murray, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, films by Quentin Tarantino and Chris Marker, and game culture platforms such as Second Life, LARPs and ARGs, and various MMOs.

La sección de assignments explica el trabajo colabortivo que deben desarrollar los alumnos y presenta diversos ejemplos de los resultados obtenidos:

Write a non-linear narrative.
Create a non-linear narrative using audio and/or visual material. Projects may be analogue, digital, architectural modeling, etc.
Write a game diary. Throughout the semester students are to keep a journal of group game play or group narrative construction..
Create a graph or chart that describes narrative structure in a video game or other non-linear format.
Final Media Project. Throughout the semester students will work in groups (2-3) on an ongoing game, narrative construction, or other form of non-linear or interactive construction. Forums such as Second Life, WoW, or work in the Cambridge Media Center are possibilities. Student may also come up with their own form of group activity that addresses the issues relevant to the class.

Pablo Mancini se pregunta por que en Argentina no hay cursos de este tipo, y de lo mismo me lamento yo para el caso español. Aunque también aquí existen algunos proyectos en esta línea como Wikinovela, “un proyecto de creación colectiva, multilingüe y no lineal, abierto al público, y desarrollado por la facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Deusto”. Se presentó por sus coordinadores Patricia Fernández Carrelo y Santiago Pérez Isasi en el III COngreso Online del Observatorio para la Cibersociedad (La Wikinovela: un proyecto de creación hipertextual, colectiva y multilingüe en internet), y también se analiza en profundidad en WRT: Writer Response Theory (vía networked_performance).

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The contemporary understanding of communication and narrative is quickly shifting in a world where media is ubiquitous. This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. The "language of new media" is the thematic used in this course to discuss contemporary and historic forms of non-linear narrative. Writers on communication culture, gaming, television, digital aesthetics, contemporary art and film, as well as synchronic narrative will be addressed. The course is structured as a theory and practice class: students will produce short papers and a final media project. The focus is to develop critical tools to analyze contemporary media as well as a minimal level of practical implementation. We will look at writers including Borges, Julian Dibbell, Steven Johnson, Friedrich Kittler, Jan Murray, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, films by Quentin Tarantino and Chris Marker, and game culture platforms such as Second Life, LARPs and ARGs, and various MMOs.

La sección de assignments explica el trabajo colabortivo que deben desarrollar los alumnos y presenta diversos ejemplos de los resultados obtenidos:

Write a non-linear narrative.
Create a non-linear narrative using audio and/or visual material. Projects may be analogue, digital, architectural modeling, etc.
Write a game diary. Throughout the semester students are to keep a journal of group game play or group narrative construction..
Create a graph or chart that describes narrative structure in a video game or other non-linear format.
Final Media Project. Throughout the semester students will work in groups (2-3) on an ongoing game, narrative construction, or other form of non-linear or interactive construction. Forums such as Second Life, WoW, or work in the Cambridge Media Center are possibilities. Student may also come up with their own form of group activity that addresses the issues relevant to the class.