Part One: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Spatial Form
Electronic narratives exist in multidimensional space. The act of navigation in real time adds third and fourth dimensions to hypertext readings that cannot exist on the page.
Students will choose two out of a possible four narratives that use the architecture of the city to explore spatial themes. Physical navigation of these texts is made explicit in the urban 'rooms' that comprise these works.
How the spatial aesthetics and structure of these texts create immersive environments will be explored in detail, with parallels made between the medieval cathedral, the movie theatre, the holodeck from Star Trek and the collective anonymity of the urban sensory overload experience.