Jill Walker’s encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.
A thirst for interaction fuels Adrianne Wortzel’s response.
Lucy Suchman’s directive for talking things: “the creative elaboration of the particular indexical affordances of machine ‘speech.’”
Simon Penny adds object-context to the talking machines of Natalie Jeremijenko’s essay.
“Connect the n space to the 0 and understand that the lack of time due to information overflow is an illusion,” writes Victoria Vesna.
Stephanie Strickland calibrates n0time.
An autobiographical reflection by Warren Sack, prompted by two particular questions.
Rebecca Ross asks how observing a conversation might change it.
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Sidebar images from “Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics - Media-Element Field Explorations.”